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Children’s Bookstore Makes the Shortlist for PW Bookstore of the Year
For the first time in the nearly 25-year history of the PW Bookstore of the Year Awards, a children’s only bookstore, Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, was named one of five finalists.
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Children's Job Moves: January 2017
New job announcements in children's publishing for January 2017.
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New Scholastic Report Highlights Diversity, Choice, and Reading Aloud
Scholastic has released the sixth edition of its Kids & Family Reading Report, the company’s biannual survey of kids 6–17 and their parents regarding their attitudes and behaviors around reading.
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Booksellers Rethink Ways to Promote Children's Nonfiction
How children's booksellers are creating successful nonfiction sections.
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Do Young Adult Adaptations Work?
While many works of nonfiction are resonating with children these days, the bookseller jury is still out on young readers’ adaptations of bestselling adult books.
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Fourth Annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day Gets Underway
Multicultural Children’s Book Day will take place on Friday, January 27.
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Gene Yang's ‘Reading Without Walls' to Debut in April
Launched as a pilot program last year, Reading Without Walls is an effort by cartoonist and reading ambassador Gene Luen Yang to encourage young people to read books outside of their personal experience.
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Bay Area Bloggers Brunch: A Photo Essay
On January 14, Books Inc. Santa Clara hosted the first-ever Bay Area Book BFFs: Authors <3 Bloggers Brunch, a chance for local authors and bloggers to mix and mingle.
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Rights Report: Week of January 23, 2017
New deals this week for Jay Coles, Julie Fogliano, and Michael J. Rosen.
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In Brief: January 26, 2017
This week, marchers from the children’s book world put a kid lit-inspired spin on protest marches, Kwame Alexander met with fellow authors at ALA; and Peachtree Publishers celebrated a milestone.
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When They Got the Call: PW Speaks with the 2017 Newbery and Caldecott Winners
PW spoke with this year's Caldecott and Newbery Medal winners about what they were doing when the committee called with the good news.
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Barnhill, Steptoe, 'March: Book Three' Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Kelly Barnhill won the Newbery Medal for 'The Girl Who Drank the Moon,' Javaka Steptoe won the Caldecott Medal for 'Radiant Child,' and John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell won the Printz Award for 'March: Book Three.'
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PRH, S&S Sue Moppet Books’ KinderGuides for Infringement
Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster have joined with the estates of four prominent authors to file a lawsuit against Moppet Books.
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Rights Report: Week of January 16, 2017
News deals this week for E Lockhart, Simon Van Booy, and Adi Alsaid.
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Children’s Book Week Poster Revealed
Children’s book illustrator Christian Robinson has designed the official poster for the 98th Children’s Book Week, which will take place this year May 1 to 7.
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In Brief: January 19, 2017
This week, D.C. kids get the Dork Diaries treatment; Adam Silvera welcomes a special guest to his book release; Ruby Shamir celebrates America’s past First Ladies; Jerry Spinelli is on the radio; and a publishing staffer passes a milestone.
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Onder Named Publisher at HMH Books for Young Readers
Catherine Onder, formerly editorial director at Bloomsbury Children’s Books, will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers as senior v-p and publisher on Feb. 6.
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Cheryl Klein Named Editorial Director at Lee & Low Books
Klein, formerly executive editor at Scholastic, will join the company March 1, marking a major change in the leadership of its editorial department.
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In Rare Move, French Children’s Exec Resigns After Labor Unrest
Béatrice Decroix is resigning her position as the editorial director of La Martinière Youth/Le Seuil Jeunesse children’s division in France as of February 15.
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New Kids’ and YA Books: Week of January 16, 2017
Hitting shelves next week are a wordless picture book investigating the heights of a trampoline jump, a middle grade novel about a girl and her father’s taco truck, and the newest work from a bestselling YA author.



