Jacqueline Woodson hooked me with her kid lit. Her new adult novel is even more powerful.

With ‘Red at the Bone,’ Woodson extends her range and grabs us with a story that balances pain and hope. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-19 15:00:00 UTC ]
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The Stars of These Young Adult Books Swear, Struggle, And Generally Act Like Real Teens

New middle-grade and YA publisher In This Together Media aims to offer stories with more diverse and realistic representations of kids, especially girls.In the new novel Aspen by Rebekah Crane, the teenage title character is an awkward, artsy kid who gets into a car accident that kills the most... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' author Jeff Kinney says he will open a bookstore

Jeff Kinney says he plans to open a bookstore in his town of Plainville, Mass., aimed at breaking even within five years. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Minecraft helps to build sales of kids' non-fiction in Q1

This year is set to be a strong one for children’s non-fiction, with retailers reporting... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Seeks Patent for Tech to Let Kids on Its Network (Legally)

Facebook restricts users to those over the age of 13, but anyone who's talked to a tween lately knows how effective that is.But now it appears Facebook wants to create a way for young people to go legit on the network -- and still comply with the law.In a patent application filed in November of... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2014: The Kids Take Over Uptown Stage

For the second year in a row, children’s authors will grab the spotlight for an entire day at BEA. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2014: Big Debuts and Breakouts Dominate Adult Buzz Panel

Kicking off this year’s BookExpo, the Adult Editors Buzz Panel featured a number of bold-face names, and a few titles which have already drawn attention for landing their authors major advances. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Offers Kids' E-books via Epic!

HarperCollins continues its support for subscription ebook services in a deal with Epic!, a children’s subscription service, adding 1,000 backlist kids’ ebook titles to the company's library. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chinese Company Buys PIL's Kids' Unit

Chinese publisher and printer Phoenix Media has agreed to acquire the children's publishing unit of Lincolnwood, Ill.-based Publications International Ltd. (PIL) for $80 million. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Religion Update Spring 2014: Love and Marriage, and Kids, and Books, Go Together

The topics of marriage and raising children are both evergreen and ever new for first-timers,” says Philis Boultinghouse, senior editor at Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BEA 2014: Adult Galleys to Grab

It’s BEA time again, and we can’t wait—for all of it: the tote bags, the crowds snaking through the aisles for James Patterson’s latest, the cafeteria food, the bathroom lines, the name tags, the debut authors dizzy with success, and, most of all, the coveted galleys. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orwell shortlist reflects "continuing power" of political history

The shortlist for this year’s Orwell Prize for books includes Alan Johnson’s This Boy... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NEA Awards $1.4 Million in Lit Grants

The National Endowment for the Arts plans to award $1.42 million to 56 U.S. literature nonprofits. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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FarFaria App Offers kids’ Stories for $3.99 Per Month

Offering a colorful and fanciful interface with more than 600 digital stories for kids, FarFaria is a subscription app for the iPad, providing unlimited access to its content for $3.99 a month. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate confirms Brand kids' books buy

Canongate has confirmed it is the publisher for a series of children's books by controversial... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Video Advertising Goes Global With French Power Merger

Two major players in online video advertising, Ebuzzing and Teads, are merging to create a new company with plans to list on the NASDAQ in 2015.Both companies are French, and have separately been developing "outstream" video advertising allowing the distribution of video advertising outside of... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Wimpy Kid book set for November

The next book in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid series will be released on 5th November 2014. A... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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NCAC, ACLU Join Fray in So. Carolina Lit Controversy

The National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Civil Liberties Union have joined together to urge the South Carolina state senate's finance committee to retain state funding of two university reading programs under fire for assigning controversial books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Keith Richards to write kids book

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards teams up with his artist daughter to write a picture book inspired by his own granddad teaching him to play the guitar. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tony Robinson wins kids' book prize

Weird World of Wonders: World War II wins Tony Robinson a Blue Peter Book Award, as World Book Day organisers reveal the top 50 life-changing teen reads. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones sleepover for Jacqueline Wilson fans

Children’s author Jacqueline Wilson will read from her new book Paws and Whiskers (... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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