Browse archive by date:
  • Licensing Hotline: February 2008

    Licensing activity surrounding Simon & Schuster’s Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys properties has expanded in the last year or so, moving beyond nostalgic products for adults to more tween- and teen-targeted categories, especially electronics.

  • Wild Things All Over

    One of the more significant and highly anticipated literary collaborations of recent years isn't even a book—it's a movie. Where the Wild Things Are, based on Maurice Sendak's classic picture book, is slated for major motion picture release in mid-2009. The collaborators on the screenplay are director Spike Jonze and author Dave Eggers, though the pair consulted with Sendak throughout the...

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/4/2008

  • S&S Rejoins Children’s Book Council

    Turning what might have been a divorce into a brief trial separation, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing has rejoined the Children’s Book Council after pulling out of the organization last February.

  • Selznick and Schlitz Discuss Their Award-Winning Books

    An interview with Brian Selznick, winner of the 2008 Caldecott Medal, and with Laura Amy Schlitz, winner of the 2008 Newbery Medal.

  • Moving On Up: Spy High

    Cammie Morgan, who attends boarding school cum spy-training center Gallagher Academy, made her butt-kicking debut in I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter. Cammie’s second adventure, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy bowed last October. To date, combined sales of both books have topped 300,000 copies.

  • Knopf Announces Title, New Pub Date for Paolini’s Latest

    Knopf Books for Young Readers has revealed the name and cover of the third title in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance series. The book, Brisingr, will have a first printing of 2.5 million, the largest initial print run to date for the Random House Children’s Books division.

  • Booksellers React to Top Children’s Prizes

    The results are in, and this year’s roster of American Library Association awards yielded a number of surprises. Children’s booksellers shared their thoughts on the winners named in Monday’s Newbery, Caldecott and Printz announcements.

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 1/14/2008

  • Ditlow Joins Brilliance

    Tim Ditlow, former publisher of Listening Library and publisher at large for Random House Audio, has joined Grand Haven, Mich.-based Brilliance Audio.

  • Children’s Book Reviews

    Picture Books Monkey and Me Emily Gravett . Simon & Schuster , $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4169-5457-6 With a lot of imagination and some creative contortions, a little girl pretends that she and her adored stuffed monkey fit right in with tribes of penguins, kangaroos, bats, elephants and... monkeys.

  • Scieszka Named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature

    Jon Scieszka, author of such bestselling picture books as The Stinky Cheese Man and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, has been named the country’s first national ambassador for children’s books.

  • Children's Books Reviews: Week of 12/24/2007

  • Ottaviano Gets Her Own Imprint at Holt

    Christy Ottaviano, formerly executive editor of Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, has been given her own eponymous imprint at the house.

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 12/17/2007

  • Handmade Rowling Book Fetches Record Price

    The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a handwritten and illustrated book by J.K. Rowling, has been sold for a record-breaking £1,950,000 at auction in London.

  • 'Girl' Gets a Makeover

    Simon Pulse is hoping that a reissue of Blake Nelson's Girl, a 1994 adult trade title, can make a splash with today’s teens.

  • S&S Kids' Unit Adds Beacon Street Series

    Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing is adding the Beacon Street Girls series, produced by B*tween Productions, to its lineup beginning January 1.

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 12/10/07

  • Can Children's Specialty Bookstores Survive?

    The surprise closing of 23-year-old A Likely Story Children's Bookstore in Alexandria, Va., which shut its doors for the last time on the day before Thanksgiving, calls into question the viability of children's-only bookstores. But despite a whittling down from 750 stores in the early '90s to less than a quarter of that today, closings have leveled off in recent years—less than a handful ...

X
Stay ahead with
Tip Sheet!
Free newsletter: the hottest new books, features and more
X
X
Email Address

Password

Log In Forgot Password

Premium online access is only available to PW subscribers. If you have an active subscription and need to set up or change your password, please click here.

New to PW? To set up immediate access, click here.

NOTE: If you had a previous PW subscription, click here to reactivate your immediate access. PW site license members have access to PW’s subscriber-only website content. If working at an office location and you are not "logged in", simply close and relaunch your preferred browser. For off-site access, click here. To find out more about PW’s site license subscription options, please email Mike Popalardo at: mike@nextstepsmarketing.com.

To subscribe: click here.