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95th Annual Children's Book Week Promotions Ramp Up
The 95th annual Children’s Book Week poster and bookmark have been revealed.
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Peanuts Gang Hits Sourcebooks' Digital Platform
Sourcebooks announced on February 27 that the Chicago-based publisher is adding the Peanuts gang to its Put Me in the Story digital platform, which allows parents to create personalized versions of children's books as an app or in print format.
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StoriesAlive Offers Interactive Children’s Stories
Launched in October 2013, StoriesAlive is an app and subscription service offering access to a library of multimedia-rich, interactive children's stories.
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Kirsten Hall Launches Agency
Agent Kirsten Hall is leaving London-based Bright Agency to form her own company, Catbird Productions, which will package books for publishers and operate as a boutique agency for debut children's book author/illustrators. Catbird Productions is based in New York City.
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'Books Matter' at SCIBA's Annual Children's Literacy Dinner
The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association topped itself this year with a record-breaking number of authors, booksellers, and librarians.
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"Why Did That Book Win?": A Children's Books Boston Discussion
One hundred children's booksellers, publishers, librarians, and students turned out for the second gathering of Children's Books Boston for a panel on literary awards.
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Indies First Returns This Spring with Storytime Day
Author Kate DiCamillo, the ABA, and the CBC are asking authors and illustrators to support indies by reading a story aloud at a bookstore on May 17.
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Children’s Books: A Shifting Market
PW examines the current state of children's publishing with a look at who's buying, what they're buying, where they're buying, and in what formats.
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Voices of Experience: Advice from Publishing Veterans
We asked industry folks for some words of wisdom they'd pass along to their just-starting-out-in-publishing selves.
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Points of Sale: Tips for Children's Booksellers
Strong children's departments and specialty stores are built book by book, category by category.
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What's Selling at Children's Book World
Reporting steady sales this winter, Eryca Sender, bookseller at Children's Book World in West Los Angeles, weighs in on a handful of especially strong sellers.
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Capstone Publishing Adds YA Imprint
Capstone Young Readers, Capstone Publishers Group's two-year-old trade publishing division, is launching its fifth imprint this fall, a YA imprint called Switch Press.
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First-Time Exhibitors Target Toy and Specialty Retailers at Toy Fair 2014
This year's New York International Toy Fair was characterized by steady traffic on the show floor, key customers roaming the aisles of the Javits Center, orders being written, and meetings being accomplished.
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Landoll Relaunches Into Coloring Category
Landoll, a former coloring and activity book powerhouse whose name disappeared from the market shortly after McGraw-Hill Education purchased the company, is relaunching.
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Children Are Welcome at the Angoulême Comics Festival
When comics fans invaded the town of Angoulême, France, two weeks ago for the Angoulême International Comics Festival, children were well represented. That's not surprising: Children's comics are big business in France.
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This Week in Children's Apps: February 13, 2014
This week in children's apps, we feature one app that allows kids to travel the world with an international adventurer, two apps that explore the world of the dinosaurs, and another that takes users for a ride with a very famous cat.
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Chronicle Launches Twirl Books Imprint
Chronicle Books has partnered with Paris-based Éditions Tourbillon to distribute Twirl Books, a new English-language list of interactive books and games for very young readers.
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Children's Book Challenges: An NYPL Panel on Censorship
An impassioned conversation about the censorship of children's literature in the U.S. took place during a panel called This Censorious World: Books for Children and Their Challenges.
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Improving Skills and Exploring New Themes: Children's Books at the Taipei International Book Fair
At the Taipei International Book Fair, children's publishers presented Taiwan as a market open to exploring new authors, imported titles, and innovative themes.
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DreamWorks Forms In-House Book Imprint
DreamWorks Animation is launching DreamWorks Press as an internal umbrella for digital and print books.



