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In Brief: January 26
This week, Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman tour for Why We Broke Up; Chronicle hosts an art auction at ALA Midwinter; Grace Lin launches Dumpling Days; co-authors Silas House and Neela Vaswani head south for Wi7 and ALA; and a library event for Monica Carnesi's Little Dog Lost.
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In Brief: January 19
This week, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is named a cultural ambassador by the U.S. State Department; James Patterson speaks at Winter Institute 7; Robin LaFevers promotes her forthcoming book, Grave Mercy; Matt Tavares and Boston Red Sox players sign autographs to fight cancer; and Sunny Seki celebrates the Japanese New Year.
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A Witch's Brew of Early Chapter Books from S&S
Simon & Schuster is stirring up a witch's brew of books with the release of Heidi Heckelbeck, a chapter book series starring an eight-year-old witch whose appearance provides Junie B. Jones and Judy Moody fans with a new alternative.
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Q & A with Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson, winner of numerous awards including three Newbery Honors and the 2006 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement, talks about her latest novel, Beneath a Meth Moon.
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Hungry for More About the Hunger Games? A Q&A with Amandla Stenberg (aka Rue)
Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy ended in 2010, but it gets a new lease on life with the release of the big-screen version of the first novel on March 23. Eighth-grader Amandla Stenberg, 13, who portrays Rue, talked with PW about her role in the movie.
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New Life for 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind'
Just off press from Dial is a picture-book adaptation of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, teenager William Kamkwamba's remarkable story of bringing electricity and life-saving water to the famine and drought ravaged village of Wimbe, Malawi.
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Scholastic Announces the Return of Captain Underpants
After six years without appearing in a new adventure, Dav Pilkey’s indomitable Captain Underpants will be back in all his caped, alliterative glory next August when Scholastic will release Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers.
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Antarctic Press Wins Extension in Wimpy Kid Suit
Antarctic Press, the small manga publisher that was sued for copyright infringement by Wimpy Kid, Inc. over the sale of its parody of the popular children's series featuring zombies, was given more time to negotiate.
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Director Chris Columbus to Write Three-Book Middle-Grade Series
HarperCollins has announced it has preempted rights to a three-book middle-grade series by director Chris Columbus, to be called House of Secrets.
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Nick Bruel's Bad Kitty Hits Her Stride
Since making her debut in 2005 in Bad Kitty, Nick Bruel's feisty feline has caused additional trouble in two subsequent picture books, Poor Puppy and A Bad Kitty Christmas, and in four early chapter books, the success of which have helped boost the in-print tally of the Bad Kitty series to almost four million copies.
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Looking for John Green? Find Him on Tour
An abundance of fans will see Printz Award-winning author John Green on his 17-city tour for The Fault in Our Stars beginning Jan. 10) when the Looking for Alaska writer and his younger musician brother, Hank, will launch their three-week road trip.
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'The Pregnancy Project' Due as Book and TV Movie
The widespread attention that then 17-year-old high-school honor student Gaby Rodriguez received when she announced that she had feigned a pregnancy as an experiment for her senior project led to a book contract with Simon & Schuster, as well as a TV movie deal with Lifetime.
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B&N and Laurie Berkner Invite Kids to a 'Party Day'
Barnes & Noble has released its first original NOOK Kids Read and Play e-book for NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet: a musical day-at-the-beach adventure entitled Party Day by wildly popular children’s singer-songwriter Laurie Berkner.
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Wimpy Kid Wins Restraining Order Against Comics Parody
The Wimpy Kid was not so wimpy in a Massachusetts court Wednesday when the company won a temporary restraining order against Antarctic Press, publisher of two Wimpy Kid parody graphic novels.
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B&N Ships Green's 'Fault' Too Early
In a blog post on Wednesday, author John Green revealed that Barnes & Noble has accidentally shipped copies of his forthcoming YA novel, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton), a few weeks too early.
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Scholastic Unveils New Multi-Platform Series
Although the New York Times wanted to push it as the next Harry Potter, Scholastic's forthcoming multi-platform book series, Infinity Ring, is clearly the heir apparent to the publisher's more recent foray into transmedia storytelling, The 39 Clues.
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New Buzzboy Graphic Novel Out in Print, the Web, on iPad
Cartoonist John Gallagher, creator of the popular self-published kid’s comic Buzzboy, has released Buzzboy: Sidekicks Rule, a new graphic novel about the tween super sidekick, in three different formats this month.
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