Writer says they had not realised they should speak up about the title when the book was first published, but it will henceforth take the heroine’s female nameAlex Gino’s award-winning children’s novel about a trans girl, George, is being renamed Melissa, after Gino and publisher Scholastic said they made a mistake in titling it with a name “the main character does not like or want to use for herself”.Published in 2015, the novel follows the story of trans fourth grader Melissa, who is seen by everyone as a boy named George, but who decides to reveal who she really is by playing the role of Charlotte in her class play, Charlotte’s Web. It won the American novelist, whose pronouns are they and them, literary prizes including the Children’s Stonewall award, the Lambda literary award, and a Children’s Choice book award. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2021-11-02 14:38:09 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#award-winning children
#publisher scholastic
#main character
#american novelist
#scholastic
Comedy and “new adult” will be among the hot trends for 2013, according to children... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hot trends
One out of every seven young people has never been to a bookshop, according to new research by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Children's publishers' digital Christmas strategies are already being unwrapped, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The largest children’s library in Mexico—Biblioteca BS-IBBY México—in Mexico City boasts some 25,000 titles, of which more than 3,000 are in digital format. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#largest children
#digital format
Ellen Holgate is to join Bloomsbury Children's Books as editorial director for fiction in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ellen holgate
Simon & Schuster Children’s Books is predicting this Christmas and Boxing Day will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ss children
#international sales
#boxing day
"Kids are really up against time. Carefree childhoods are nonexistent. People read what I tell them to," says bookseller Francine Lucidon, owner of The Voracious Reader. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#people read
#voracious reader
The owners of the Big Green Bookshop are to open a second premises in Brookmans Park,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#open children
The Seven Stories museum in Newcastle upon Tyne has changed its name to the National Centre for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#national centre
Walker Books UK has acquired world rights in two more titles in the range of graphic novels based... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, published by Walker, has won the 2012 Guardian... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#fiction prize
The recommendations of friends was the top driver behind children's discovery of new titles,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book buyers
Hodder Children's Books has acquired a new series by The Winter Trilogy author Ruth Warburton... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hodder children
Since this spring, a German publisher has been tackling a monster of a new challenge. "He lives in newspapers in the printing plant," explains Eva Fauth, one of his creators. "He sleeps in newspapers, and he eats all the newspapers becaus ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#german children
#german publisher
Egmont, Simon & Schuster and Templar Publishing have all landed two titles on the W H Smith... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#simon schuster
#templar publishing
Author J K Rowling has said she will "very likely" write a children's story next,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Bloomsbury Publishing has appointed Phil Earle to the newly created role of children's sales... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bloomsbury publishing
A new survey found that more than 70 percent of parents still prefer print books to the iPad when it comes to reading to children. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#survey found
HarperCollins Children's Books has acquired an illustrated young fiction series, Monster and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#harpercollins children