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Global Kids Connect: A Further Look at Issues and Trends for Children’s Publishers
The second annual Global Kids Connect conference, held on December 8 in New York, brought together members of the book industry to discuss the future of global children’s publishing.
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Distributing E-books, and the Success of Pottermore, in China
Chinese readers have been fascinated with Harry Potter ever since Beijing-based People’s Literature Publishing House started translating the series in 2000 and went on to sell more than 18 million copies.
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Rights Report: Week of December 12, 2016
New deals this week for B.J. Novak, Lisa Brown, Jeff Mack, and many others.
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Screen-Free Week to Partner with Children’s Book Week
Unplug the TV and open a book. That’s the directive at the core of a new partnership between Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood and Every Child a Reader.
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Children’s Booksellers Get ‘Fantastic’ Start to the 2016 Holiday Selling Season
In an informal survey of more than two dozen bookstores around the country, booksellers told PW about which books have been selling well for them so far this holiday season.,
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Penguin and CBC Launch Award Honoring Anna Dewdney
To commemorate the rich picture-book legacy of Anna Dewdney, Penguin Young Readers, Children’s Book Council, and Every Child a Reader have partnered to establish a prize in honor of the late author and illustrator.
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In Brief: December 8, 2016
This week, Chris Van Allsburg and Peter H. Reynolds exchange Christmas gifts; Joel ben Izzy tips his hat to fans; Caren Stelson enjoys a musical book signing; and Matthew J. Kirby goes to Paris.
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Global Kids Connect Surveys China, Latin America and Brexit
Organized by PW and the Bologna Children's Book Fair, the Global Kids Connect conference examined a booming Chinese kids' book marketplace, a renewed rights market in Spain and Latin America, and currency exchange issues after Brexit.
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Introducing the Expanded Children’s Book Week 2017
Every Child a Reader, the charitable arm of the Children’s Book Council, has announced its plan to enhance Children’s Book Week, the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country, launched in 1919.
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Rights Report: Week of December 5, 2016
New deals for Erin Bowman, Joy McCullough, Atia Abawi, R.L. Stine, Marc Brown, and more.
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Four Questions for Elizabeth Bluemle and Josie Leavitt
On Small Business Saturday, Josie Leavitt and Elizabeth Bluemle celebrated the 20th anniversary of The Flying Pig Bookstore.
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Penny Candy Books: A Mission Becomes a Moral Directive
A year ago, two published poets who met as graduate students – Chad Reynolds and Alexis Orgera, – launched children's publisher Penny Candy Books to, they declared, “make a difference."
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In Brief: December 1, 2016
This week, Andrea Davis Pinkney celebrates her new book and Ezra Jack Keats; a singer who inspired a classic song – and now book – returns to the stage; John Coy lives the Gap Life; and author Carol Weston goes all out for Small Business Saturday.
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2017 Sendak Fellows Announced
The 2017 Sendak Fellows were announced on December 1; the program offers artists a four-week retreat at a farm formerly owned by Maurice Sendak, in addition to a prize of $5,000.
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Macmillan Children’s Publishing Expands E-book Lending
Macmillan Children's Publishing Group will now offer all frontlist e-books for library lending on the same day they go on sale in the retail market.
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The Booming Rights Scene for Children's Books in China
China’s children's book market is on a roll, and there is no stopping the momentum any time soon. That was the consensus of those visiting the recent China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair.
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S&S Children's Hires Jason Wells, Expands Publicity and Marketing
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division has named Jason Wells to the newly created role of v-p of marketing and publicity, effective December 7, the first in a number of planned hires.
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Chalking Up Another Successful Shanghai Children's Book Fair
The mood at the three-day China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair was upbeat and positive, driven by the vast (and content-hungry) market of 370 million Chinese children below the age of 18.
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Eight Trends from the Shanghai Book Fair
Here are the top trends that overseas exhibitors reported seeing at the Shanghai International Children's Book Fair and for the Chinese book market in general.



