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Musical Authors Include Bookstores on Tour
On September 9, Trout Fishing in America musicians — Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet — kicked off a bookstore and concert tour extending through the rest of 2011 for their newly released children’s storybook and music CD package, Chicken Joe Forgets Something Important, a follow-up to their 2009 release, My Name Is Chicken Joe.
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Pair of Celebrity Books Out This Month from Celebra
Two familiar media personalities, TV host and actor Mario Lopez and celebrity blogger Hilton Perez, are publishing picture books this month with Penguin’s Celebra Children’s Books.
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In New Series from Balzer + Bray, Everything Goes
Cars, trucks, buses, trains, trolleys, motorcycles, and bikes are in colorful motion in Everything Goes on Land, the kick-off title in Brian Biggs's Everything Goes series from HarperCollins's Balzer + Bray imprint.
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'Dork Diaries' Eyes New Chapter: Music
Rachel Renée Russell’s middle-grade Dork Diaries novels are bestsellers both in the U.S. and abroad, but can the series become a chart-topper in the music world, too? On September 20, Russell will release Dork Diaries The Music: Pop Star, a music album that retails for $2.97 and will be available through retailers including Amazon and iTunes.
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Minn. Historical Society Expands Children's Line and Apps
The Minnesota Historical Society Press/Borealis Books is expanding offerings of children's titles. The press is also committed to developing iPad apps in conjunction with its books for children and families.
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Philippa Gregory to Pen YA Series for S&S
Philippa Gregory is trying her hand in the young adult market. The bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl, among other titles, has closed a world rights, four-book deal with Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing for a historical romance series.
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In Brief: September 8
This week, a ghoulish party for the picture book Zombie in Love; author Cinda Williams Chima visits Dragon*Con in Atlanta; and Ashlee Fletcher launches My Dog, My Cat.
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Licensing Hotline: September 2011
Scholastic has rushed out its first Power Rangers: Samurai reader, which it is publishing under license from Saban Brands. The full program of readers, 8x8s, sticker books and handbooks will launch in January 2012 with the release of five more titles.
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Penguin Young Readers Debuts Expanded Line of Enhanced E-books
The Penguin Young Readers Group is expanding its line of enhanced e-books and releasing a series of apps based on bestselling picture books as Skippyjon Jones and Ladybug Girl and on classic works like The Night Before Christmas and Peter Rabbit.
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Rights Report: August 25
Joy Peskin at Viking Children’s Books has bought world rights to Beside Me, a YA novel by Isabel Gillies, author of the bestselling memoir Happens Every Day.
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In Brief: August 25
This week: Al Roker picks Brian Selznick's 'Wonderstruck' for his book club; supermodel Tyra Banks gets ready for her YA debut, 'Modelland'; Disney makes a big First Book donation; and author events around the country with Tom Angleberger, Carmen Agra Deedy, and Joyce Raskin.
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Theodore Boone's Road Trip to Kick Off in Atlanta
Penguin will launch a 17-city bus tour for John Grisham’s Theodore Boone series at the Decatur Book Festival on September 2. Between Atlanta and Sarasota, the 17-city tour will play at a number of booksellers, including Page & Pallette in Fairhope, Ala. and Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, Ky. and Cincinnati, as well as unexpected venues like the local courthouse in Oxford, Miss.
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Finding Waldo on the Cape
Who knew that skinny, bespectacled Waldo would enjoy a Massachusetts summer vacation as much as the First Family? And like President Obama, he's not always easy to spot.
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What's Selling at Blue Willow Bookshop
From Houston, Valerie Koehler, owner of Blue Willow Bookshop, sends word of what's hot at her store this summer.
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Regionals 2011: Children's Galleys to Grab
Publishers are positioning their lead fall children’s titles—and upcoming spring books—to take full advantage of the season’s regional gatherings.
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First Printing of Three Million for New Percy Jackson Book
Disney Worldwide Publishing announced that The Son of Neptune, the second installment in Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus series, will have a three-million-copy first printing, the largest in the company's history.
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'Julie of the Wolves' Released as Open Road E-book
Open Road Integrated Media has announced plans to release Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves as an e-book, along with 11 more of the author's titles, which were originally published between 1948 and 1985.
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What's Selling at Northtown Books
Monika Zerzan, children's buyer at Northtown Books in Arcata, Calif., weighs in on what books are selling well at her store this summer.
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In Brief: August 18
This week, four YA authors visit Once Upon a Time in Montrose, Calif.; the annual East Hampton Library Children's Fair; celebrating the one-year anniversary of Tinman Children's Bookstore in Spokane; and a book launch at Monkey See, Monkey Do Children's Bookstore in Clarence, N.Y.
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Egmont USA Gives YA Novel Its Biggest Launch to Date
Due from Egmont USA on September 6, Ilsa J. Bick's Ashes, a post-apocalyptic survival story for teens, will be released with the most extensive marketing push in the imprint's two-year history.
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