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Judy Moody and Hank Zipzer Look to a Younger Audience
Two popular children's book characters will soon star in a new series aimed at younger readers.
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Rights Report: Week of December 9, 2013
New deals for Susan Nielsen, Aimee Carter, Mike A. Lancaster, Kate Klimo, and others.
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African-American Interest Young Readers' Titles 2013–2014
A selective list of African-American interest books for young readers publishing between September 2013 and March 2014.
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Galley Talk: The Country Bookshop
Angie Tally, children's manager at the Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, N.C., is eager to introduce three YA novels to customers in the new year.
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Rights Report: Week of December 2, 2013
New deals for Brian Anderson, Lauren Morrill and others.
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Fox Chapel Rushes 'Rubber Band Jewelry'
The independent publisher went from conception to publication in just seven weeks on Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry, written by Colleen Dorsey, a Fox Chapel employee.
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You're a Good Citizen, Charlie Brown
Regnery's children's publishing program has acquired a five-year license with Peanuts Worldwide, and will feature Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang in books about American history, heroes, government, and civics.
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Rights Report: Week of November 25, 2013
New deals for Ken Liu, Elaine Dimopoulos and Jonah Winter & Shane Evans.
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Rights Report: Week of November 19, 2013
New deals for Julianne Moore, Gayle Forman, Matthew Cordell, Christina Lauren, Georg Rauch and others.
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Ransom Riggs Returns to Miss Peregrine's Home with 'Hollow City'
The eccentric, often downright creepy, inhabitants of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children return in Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children, due January 14 from Quirk Books.
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Could a Small Press in New England Have One of This Year's Christmas Favorites?
Last month 10-year-old Bunker Hill Publishing released what could turn out to be one of its biggest books to date: Robert Sullivan's A Child's Christmas in New England, illustrated by Glenn Wolff.
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Movie Alert: 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'
The epic journey continues for a furry-footed hero, a wizard, and a posse of dwarves when The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens in theaters on December 13.
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Eighth Wimpy Kid Sells Over 1M In Its First Week
The newest title in Jeff Kinney's wildly popular Wimpy Kid series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, had an extremely strong first week, moving 1.3 millions copies worldwide, in all formats.
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'Good Night, Gorilla' Turns 20
Putnam is marking the 20th anniversary of Peggy Rathmann's Good Night, Gorilla with a new hardcover edition.
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Rights Report: Week of November 11, 2013
New deals for Stephen Pastis, Nicola Yoon, Elizabeth Eulberg, Donna Freitas, Rowboat Watkins, and others.
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PW's Best Children's Books of 2013
Selecting just 50 titles from the thousands of books published for children and teens in a given year is always a painful undertaking, and this year was no different.
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Movie Alert: 'Catching Fire'
Fans – and box-office bean-counters – are gearing up for the November 22 release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
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'Mouseheart' Carries High Hopes for a Little Hero
A brave mouse battles tribes of rats in Mouseheart, an animal fantasy series written by Lisa Fielder and with illustrations by Vivienne To.
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Santa Claus Is Coming to (Almost Every) Town, Thanks to Sourcebooks
Sourcebooks's plans for its Santa Is Coming series may be its most ambitious yet.
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Rights Report: Week of November 4, 2013
New deals for Stan Lee, Chris Barton, Faith Erin Hicks, Rafael López & Margarita Engle, and others.



