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39 Clues for Christmas
Scholastic is launching an original e-book, The 39 Clues: Cahill Files: Silent Night, on Christmas Day, following greater-than-expected sales of The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire, a series of original e-books released last Christmas season.
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'Reach'-ing Ally Condie Fans, Online and in Person
When author Ally Condie hosted a chat on Twitter on September 25, her fans were eager to hear about the final book in her bestselling Matched trilogy.
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Middle-Grade Authors Go Back to School with the Class Act Tour
A little competition can be healthy, as HarperCollins proved on its Class Acts tour, the publisher's first middle grade group tour, which visited schools and bookstores in 11 national markets and pitted a dozen authors against one another in friendly competitions.
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Scholastic Releases Baby-sitters Club E-books with Classic Covers
Ann M. Martin's bestselling middle-grade series from the 1980s, The Baby-sitters Club, will gain a new incarnation on December 1, when Scholastic publishes e-book versions of the series' first 20 titles with original covers by Hodges Soileau.
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'Steam Train, Dream Train': The Evolution of a Cover
Author Sherri Duskey Rinker and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld's second collaboration, Steam Train, Dream Train (after Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site), features animals riding the rails at nighttime. We reveal the cover, and the process behind it, here.
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Launching 'Days of Blood & Starlight' with Days of Touring & Online Promotion
On Election Day, Little, Brown released Days of Blood & Starlight, Laini Taylor's sequel to Daughter of Smoke & Bone, while the author began a seven-city tour.
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Cozy Board Book Classics in 12 Words
Bored by board books – color primers, shapes, and numbers – which they read with their young children, twin brothers Jack and Holman Wang decided to create their own series for children and adults by distilling adult classics like Moby Dick and Pride and Prejudice into 12 words and images to launch Cozy Classics.
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Jeff Kinney Heads West (Midwest, That Is)
Unlike his previous tours, Jeff Kinney is heading to the Midwest for The Third Wheel, the seventh book in his bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
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Dork Diaries Hit the Road in Texas
To celebrate the release of Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All, author Rachel Renée Russell, along with her daughters, Nikki and Erin, spent last week traveling around Texas for Russell's first major book tour.
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Solving a Halloween Mystery with R.L. Stine
What better way to celebrate Halloween than spending the day with Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine?
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Putnam Rolls Out Cover of Yancey's 'The 5th Wave'
Rick Yancey's sci-fi thriller, The 5th Wave, whose cover is revealed here, is due from Putnam next May and the first in a trilogy.
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The Face on the E-Book: A Janie Electronic Sampler
Caroline B. Cooney's bestselling thriller series, which began back in 1990 with The Face on the Milk Carton, is set to come to an end with the arrival of the fifth and final book, Janie Face to Face, in January 2013.
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The 39 Clues Launches 'Unstoppable' New Story Arc
The final novel in The 39 Clues series, David Baldacci's Day of Doom is due March 5. And 2013 will also bring the debut book of a new, four-installment story arc, The 39 Clues: Unstoppable, which starts in the fall with a still untitled novel by Jude Watson.
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Bullying Resources: A Selected Listing
Publishers address bullying in books aimed at almost every age and reading level, from picture books to young adult novels.
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Random, Harlequin Launch Anti-Bullying Campaigns
Tying in with National Bullying Prevention Month, Random House Children’s Books and Harlequin Teen have rolled out major campaigns in support of two recent books that explore the theme of bullying.
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