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Film Deal, Higher Print Runs for '39 Clues'
Months before Scholastic’s multimedia publishing program, The 39 Clues, launches, anticipation isn’t the only thing building. The print run for the first book, The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan, has doubled from 250,000 to 500,000. And DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg have acquired film rights for the entire series in a deal with Scholastic Media.
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No Sale for All for Kids Books & Music
Chauni Haslet was unable to find a buyer for All for Kids Books & Music and will retire at the end of the month.
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Rediscovering Waldo
Martin Handford's Where's Waldo? turns 21 this fall, and is celebrating with two new books, an online presence and merchandise for the 20-somethings who grew up with the character. Candlewick Press released the sixth Waldo original, The Great Picture Hunt, in 2006, followed by paperbacks of the first five titles.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Ten Tiny Babies Karen Katz . S&S/McElderry , $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3546-9 Kicking off with “1 tiny baby starts to run” and ending with 10 sleeping babies tucked into their cribs, Katz (Princess Baby) once again puts her kewpie doll crew through their paces, this time enumerating all the fun things that babies do, from toe wriggling and noisemaking to eati...
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Spring Flying Starts
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Stephenie Meyer… in Concert?
Little, Brown will promote the August 2 release of Breaking Dawn, fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling Twilight Saga, with a four-city concert tour, featuring a musical performance by Justin Furstenfeld of the group Blue October.
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Lisa Holton Announces New Venture, Teams with HarperCollins
The former president of Scholastic Trade Publishing has announced her new business: Fourth Story Media, a “studio” that integrates books and the Internet to develop children’s properties.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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Kids & Reading By the Numbers
90: % of children ages 5—17 who believe they “need to be a strong reader to get into a good college” 81: % of parents who rank reading among the top three important skills for their child 82: % of parents who wish their child engaged in more pleasure reading 80: % of children ages 5—8 who believe reading for fun is “extremely or very important” 56: % of child...
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New Kid on the Block
Last month, the Denmark-based media group Egmont celebrated its 130th birthday. Though it has a well-established name and presence in Europe, producing magazines, books and television shows in more than 30 countries, it's practically unknown in the U.S. The company is working to change that with the launch of Egmont USA, a children's book publisher that will be a division of British children's ...
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Scholastic Report: Kids Still Read for Fun—Teens, Less So
A new report released by Scholastic corroborates the findings of the company’s 2006 report on children’s reading habits, finding that pleasure reading in children begins to decline at age eight and continues to do so into the teen years.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
This week on the Web: the voices of undocumented America; how gardens and math explain the world; an idiot girl, a pastor's daughter and two unlikely Hollywood stars reveal all (to varying degrees); family recipes for including, not deceiving, your loved ones; and two new novels from Harry "When Does He Sleep?" Turtledove. Plus: the new Patricia Cornwell and a roundup of children's titles.
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'The Hunger Games': A Dark Horse Breaks Out
Though much attention this fall will likely be lavished on two hotly anticipated YA titles, Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn and Christopher Paolini's Brisingr, there's always room for a breakout—a book with lesser expectations that nonetheless takes off. From all indications, a prime candidate is Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, first in a new trilogy...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/9/2008
Picture Books Batman: The Story of the Dark Knight Ralph Cosentino . Viking , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-670-06255-3 While this introduction to Batman pays plenty of homage to the original comic’s noirish aesthetics, Cosentino (The Marvelous Misadventures of Fun-Boy) makes two astute concessions to the sensibilities of his target audience.
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Q & A with Susan Beth Pfeffer
With the release of her 75th novel, the dead & the gone (Harcourt), just a few days away, Susan Beth Pfeffer spoke with Bookshelf about her companion survival novels that trace how two families endure a global disaster.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/2/2008
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Lerner Publishes Holocaust Tale
Angel Girl by Laurie Friedman, illustrated by Ofra Amit (Carolrhoda, Sept.), is based on a real-life story: a boy in a German concentration camp was given food by a girl outside the fence each day; 10 years after the war ended, they met on a blind date in New York City, and have been married for 50 years.
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Trenton Lee Stewart's 'Mysterious' Path to Success
Trenton Lee Stewart’s debut children’s novel, The Mysterious Benedict Society, arrived on bookshelves last fall to critical praise, and it’s been selling steadily ever since.
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News Briefs: Weisberg to Head Penguin Kids
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 5/19/2008
This week: deep inside Abu Ghraib, fundamentalist politics, libertarian revolt, the inventing life, and paté. Plus: sentiment and the sportscaster; a sexual hobbyist tells all, again; healthy eating tips from a popular, underqualified web personality; and two short story collections for the young adults.
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