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Movie Alert: 'The Giver'
The film adaptation of "The Giver," Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning novel, opens on August 15 and stars Brenton Thwaites as Jonas, Jeff Bridges as the Giver, and Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder.
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Penguin and Jim Henson Company Team Up for Dark Crystal Project
Penguin Young Readers Group and the Jim Henson Company announced the winner of the Dark Crystal Author Quest, a writing competition to select the author of a new YA series set in the world of the 1982 fantasy film.
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Harlequin Teen Gears Up for 'Let's Get Lost'
"Let's Get Lost," a debut novel by Adi Alsaid that Harlequin rolls out in August with a 100,000-copy first printing and a six-figure marketing campaign.
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Rights Report: Week of July 7, 2014
New deals for Anna Banks, Marc Rosenthal, and Alice Schertle & Stephanie Yue.
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FarFaria Adds HarperCollins’ Titles, iPhone Support
FarFaria, a subscription app for iPad providing unlimited access to kids’ content for $3.99 a month, has inked a deal to offer 17 HarperCollins’ titles and has expanded support for the iPhone.
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Galley Talk: 'The Witch's Boy'
Johanna Albrecht, children's manager of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, N.C., talks about a September middle-grade novel that drew her in.
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Penguin Announces Subject of 100th 'Who Was…?' Bio
Steve Irwin, the late Australian wildlife expert, conservationist, and host of Animal Planet's "The Crocodile Hunter" TV show, will headline the 100th release in Grosset & Dunlap's Who Was…? series of biographies.
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Rights Report: Week of June 30, 2014
New deals for Josh Lacey & Garry Parsons, Elle Cosimano, and Meg Kassel.
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Rights Report: Week of June 23, 2014
New deals for Jocelyn Davies, Alan Gratz, Kevin Brooks, Monica Brown, and Stacey Kade.
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Lerner Launches 'Audisee eBooks with Audio'
Lerner officials say Audisee eBooks with Audio, offers "an engaging solution for reluctant and struggling readers, on-grade readers, auditory learners, and ELL/ESL students."
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Rights Report: Week of June 16, 2014
New deals for Brenna Yovanoff, Nisha Sharma, Jason Reynolds, Leila Howland, and Kevin Emerson.
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Adaptive Studios Revives Abandoned Content
Adaptive Studios is an unusual venture that looks to find abandoned intellectual property and revive it for production in a wide variety of media. The venture has launched Adaptive Books and released its first title this month.
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Tales from a Kind-of-Glam-Author Tour: Rachel Renée Russell Takes Dork Diaries on the Road
Rachel Renée Russell and her two daughters toured schools in the Midwest for their latest Dork Diaries adventure, "Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star."
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Florida Principal Axes Summer Reading Program Over Doctorow's 'Little Brother'
Cory Doctorow is the latest author to have his book pulled.
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Rights Report: Week of June 9, 2014
New deals for Adele Griffin & Mike Wu, e.H. Charlton-Trujillo, Gavriel Savit, and Suzanne Young.
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YA Anthology to Benefit Author Robison Wells
Some 30 YA writers who donated their contributions to the "Altered Perceptions," which was compiled in support of fellow author Robison Wells.
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A Final Pass for Charbonneau's Testing Trilogy
"Graduation Day," the conclusion to Joelle Charbonneau's The Testing trilogy, will be out June 17.
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Rights Report: Week of June 2, 2014
New deals for Wendy Higgins, Catherine Egan, Peter H. Reynolds, Jacqueline Davies, and Anna Staniszewski.
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BEA 2014: American History: Brought to You by Snoopy And the Peanuts Gang
Ever since Regnery launched its children’s publishing program three years ago, the publisher has been looking for a way to celebrate American history and American heroes in a way that would engage, inspire, and entertain young readers.
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BEA 2014: Myriad Thoughts on Dystopia
At the last BookCon panel of the day (4:15–5:15 p.m., in Room 1E07), Veronica Roth, bestselling author of the Divergent series, will moderate a discussion that asks, “Dystopia Futures: Are They Science Fact or Fiction?”
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