Scholastic celebrated 10 years of its Graphix kids' comics imprint, bestselling author Raina Telgemeier announced a new book, and Rep. John Lewis led a reenactment of his 1965 march in Selma, Ala. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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 at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A picture book illustrator from Belfast, PJ Lynch, has been named as Ireland's new children’s laureate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Toronto Comics Arts Festival highlights included packed panels on diversity, and guest artists that included Brian K. Vaughan, MariNaomi, Spike Trotman, Raina Telgemeier, and Marguerite Abouet. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The police are re-appealing for information regarding the missing children’s author Helen Bailey, who was last seen in Royston in April. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If there’s one characteristic that fans of Sarah Maas’s Throne of Glass series, Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series, and Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone series share, it’s this: they can’t read each installment fast enough. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When it comes to filling their worlds with characters positioned along the spectrum of good and evil, Veronica Roth, Melissa de la Cruz, Lauren Oliver, and relative newcomer Sabaa Tahir have it down. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Children’s authors will be front and center on the Uptown Stage today, when back-to-back kids’ programming takes place. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BEA Children's Book & Authors Breakfast was a moving testament to the power of books, as four children's book authors spoke of the impact of reading books upon their own lives and the importance of books in all children's lives. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the Thursday morning panel called Current Trends in YA, author Daniel Kraus rattled off a few crops of recent strains he’s observed, including books about “body parts, agoraphobia, and strange disease books.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scottish Book Trust is replacing its annual Children’s Book Awards with two new prizes; the Bookbug Picture Book Prize and the Scottish Teenage Book Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A select handful of children’s book editors have arrived at BEA eager to spread word of forthcoming first novels for which they have have high expectations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber Children’s has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to a middle-grade adventure involving zebra unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and polar bears by Alex Bell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two mainstays of children’s publishing have teamed up to create a picture book, "In Plain Sight" (Roaring Brook, Sept.). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s the groundbreaking comic whose characters have aged along with its readers – and Neil Gaiman is a huge fanAt the turn of the 1980s, if you wanted to read comics, you were pretty much confined to Spider-Man, Superman and their Spandexed stablemates at Marvel and DC. The underground comic... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2016 Shanghai Children's Book Fair is issuing calls for applications to its Visiting International Publishers program, children's illustrated books awards and more. The post Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair Announces 2016 Details appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The writer Jane Smiley, center, at a reading of her book “Twenty Yawns” at Bank Street Bookstore in Manhattan last month. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2016-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Children’s UK will publish the next novel by YA author Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe, in October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Linn, who was director of the Chicago Distribution Center, has left the organization. The CDC, a division of the University of Chicago Press, provides warehousing and fulfillment services for approximately 100 presses. A search for a new director is underway. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK-based authors Jeff Norton and Siobhan Curham told delegates at this year’s Sharjah Children's Reading Festival that more books from other cultures need to be translated for Western readers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House Children’s is taking over the children’s section of the OnBlackheath Festival with "Puffin World of Stories", an immersive story space for children under 12. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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