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Global Kids Connect 2017: Publishers Tackle Hot Topics
Four top children’s book publishers and agents closed out this year's GKC conference with a discussion of global trends.
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Global Kids Connect 2017: 'Breaking Through the Clutter' with Attention-Grabbing Content
Publishing experts spoke about standing out in a crowded marketplace at the third annual Global Kids Connect conference, held in New York City on December 4.
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Rights Report: Week of December 11, 2017
New deals this week for Phoebe North, John Rocco, Sandra Boynton, Eoin Colfer, Isabel Quintero, and more.
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The Next Wave of Children’s Bookstores
The number of independent bookstores in the U.S. has risen 35% since 2009, and children’s specialty stores have contributed to the increase, with new outlets popping up and establishes stores finding buyers.
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Holiday Sales Season Starts for Children's Booksellers
For booksellers, the holidays really are “the most wonderful time of the year,” and those surveyed by PW are sanguine about the start of the official holiday shopping season.
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Global Kids Connect 2017: Publishing Professionals Talk International Growth
Foreign rights experts gathered during this week's GKC conference for a discussion of some of the areas of recent growth within the children's market.
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Global Kids Connect 2017: Sales, Stats, and Hot Topics
During the third annual GKC conference, Kristen McLean of NPD Book shared sales figures, consumer trends, and market insights for children’s publishers.
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Global Kids Connect 2017 Brings Data, Diversity to the Stage
At the third annual Global Kids Connect conference, held Monday in New York City, children's publishing luminaries discussed hot topics in the kids' sector, in GKC's first afternoon-only event.
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Wimpy Kid #12 Is International Bestseller
The newest title in Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, 'The Getaway,' has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.
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Curious George Store to Stay Put in Harvard Square
The World’s Only Curious George Store will be included in the redevelopment of its current Cambridge, Mass. location, and will not have to move.
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Rights Report: Week of December 4, 2017
New deals this week for Stone, Mitchell, Baptiste, and more.
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Children's Job Moves: November 2017
New Job Announcements in children’s publishing for November 2017.
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All of Our Stars
In our fifth Children’s Starred Reviews Annual, you’ll find nearly 400 reviews of books for kids and teens published in 2017 that received a star from PW, plus interviews with some of today’s top authors and illustrators, and more.
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Backlist Discoveries
We asked publishers to tell us about highly touted books for young readers, published in previous years, that they had finally read and loved in 2017.
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On Tour with Marissa Meyer
See highlights from Meyer's nine-city tour in celebration of 'Renegades,' first in her new YA duology.
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In Brief: November 30, 2017
This week, Obama White House photographer Pete Souza visits a D.C.-area school; the Gingerbread Man is on the loose; and authors show up for a National Press Club Journalism Institute fundraiser.
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New Kids' and YA Books: Week of December 4, 2017
Hitting shelves next week are a pop-up picture book ode to love, a list of things more fun with friends and family, and a YA novel about a tenuous friendship with a private school mean girl.
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The 2017 Shanghai Children's Book Fair in Photos
We’ve rounded up a selection of photo highlights from the fifth China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair, which wrapped up earlier this month.
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Rights Report: Week of November 27, 2017
New deals this week for Lim, Shepherd, Uss, and more.
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Global Kids Connect 2017 Preview
A look at what's in store for the third annual GKC conference on December 4, which will bring together industry professionals to discuss international trends in children’s publishing.



