The University of East London is launching a new literary fiction prize for young adults, the CityLife Prize for Fiction for Young Writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Good news for people who like funny dogs, sexy NFL quarterbacks and innovations pertaining to macaroni and cheese. Online publisher Defy Media, which attracts millions of young adults and teenagers to such goofy information, announced last week that it picked up $70 million from investors. And... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winning book at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults has been criticised for endorsing New Zealand's participation in World War I and "glorifying" the killing of Germans. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
There are six creative Wellingtonians among the finalists of the 2016 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, announced on Wednesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
An abridged version of Dan Brown's best-selling book The Da Vinci Code is to be published for young adults, his publisher announces. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adult readership is down 4% from 2013, with 72% of American adults having read a book in the past year according to a new Pew survey. Young adults, meanwhile, were revealed as the nation's most avid readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A novel with an anti-whaling message has taken the title of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last month the finalists for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults were announced. Now we want to test little bookworms on what they know about New Zealand books for kids and their authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The young writer of a real-life The Fault in Our Stars isn't alive to see her book make the finals of the country's top awards â but her parents could not be prouder. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
In popular genres such as sci-fi and fantasy, fan fiction based on the Wattpad model could easily disrupt the publishing industryFor a few years in the mid 2000s, I was the young librarian who got sent to schools to convince kids they really did want to read books. The truth of my experience was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kampmann & Company has acquired Spencer Hill Press. Located in New Hampshire, Spencer Hill was founded in 2010 as a publisher of fiction for young adults and has since added titles in the adult, new adult and middle grade fiction categories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Young adults dominate the Arabic book market, but publishers are acutely sensitive to the slightest challenge to conservative etiquetteThe boom in young adult fiction has left the Arab publishing world playing catch-up, as authors try to compete with Twilight and The Hunger Games without... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roger Rosen has acquired Enslow Publishing, which does nonfiction titles for children and young adults in subjects that range from biography to science and technology. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Is it really true that boys want to read books about boys, written by men? Or is this narcissism and sexism of the saddest, most damaging kind? Night School author CJ Daugherty makes the case that books should be gender free. What do you think? Join the discussion on Twitter @GdnChildrensBks, on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
When I penned the book, I was angry and alienated. Today I realize that violence can't be used to prevent violenceForty-four years ago this month, in December 1969, I quit my job as a manager of a bookstore in New York City's Greenwich Village and began to write the Anarchist Cookbook. My... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gris Grimly punks up the 'Frankenstein' crew in his illustrated book, while Alison Croggon modernizes 'Wuthering Heights' in her YA novel 'Black Spring.'Those thoroughly satiated with beach days and summer blonds can seek refuge of a darker sort in two new novels for young adults in which... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stephen Colbert's latest release – a picture book aimed at young adults and up – follows a pole as it searches for the perfect job. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Figment is a website that gives teenagers and young adults a forum for posting their work and giving advice to others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 23/11/2011 - 08:00 Usborne has acquired a new crime series for young adults by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Chris Ould. Fiction director Rebecca Hill bought world rights, all languages, from Stephanie Thwaites of Curtis Brown. The first book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 12:40 Michael Morpurgo has won the Red House Children's Book Award 2011 for Shadow (HarperCollinsChildren's Books) becoming the only author to win the award three times. Angela McAllister and Alison Edgson's Yuck! That's not a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]