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  • Consumer Shifts for Children's Books

    As e-books claim a growing portion of the overall sales of children's books, the higher penetration of the format in the market is also affecting the way children's books are discovered and bought.

  • Back in the Day: Industry Veterans Remember the Early Years

    We asked industry veterans in children's books to reflect on memorable events from their early days in publishing.

  • Princess K.I.M. Heads from Page to Stage

    After three decades as a children's book author and illustrator, Maryann Cocca-Leffler is adding dramatist, set designer, and producer to her list of accomplishments, as she attempts to take her play, Princess K.I.M. The Musical – based on her books series – to Broadway.

  • 'Spreading the Knowledge' at SCIBA'S Children's Literacy Dinner

    An exuberant group of children's booksellers, educators, authors, illustrators, and librarians gathered in Pasadena, Calif., for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association’s seventh annual Children's Literacy Dinner.

  • Duluth Children's Authors Celebrate Books with Beer

    In celebration of the second annual International Book Giving Day on February 14, Margi Preus, Chris Monroe and Lise Lunge-Larsen raised awareness for children's literacy while hoisting pints with about 30 patrons at Carmody Irish Pub & Brewery in Duluth, Minn.

  • This Week in Children's Apps: February 21, 2013

    This week in children's apps features Red in Bed, an app that lets players saturate the world with color. Also this week, A Troop Is a Group of Monkeys teaches players about collective nouns. Spatter & Spark is an interactive story that lets players create their own art. Finally, the latest apps in three bestselling series release: Dr. Seuss's Hunches in Bunches, The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores, and Little Critter's Me and My Puppy.

  • Candlewick to Launch Big Picture Press

    Candlewick Press, which began publishing the Ology series a decade ago, announced that it will be the U.S. publisher of a new imprint also from Templar, Big Picture Press, to debut this fall.

  • Indiana's Mudsock Books & Curiosity Closing

    Mudsock Books & Curiosity Shoppe, located in Fishers, Ind. an Indianapolis suburb, will close by mid-March.

  • With New Plan, APP Works to Win Back Customers

    After announcing it had discontinued sourcing paper from threatened Indonesian rainforests, a representative of Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper, the third-largest paper supplier in the world, was in New York last week to explain the policy to children’s book publishers.

  • Debut Author Makes Her 'Way' Through a Blizzard to Her Launch Party

    Despite the 28 inches of snow that fell in Cambridge, Mass., over the weekend, some three dozen fans turned out for the launch party celebrating Nicole Griffin's debut YA novel, The Whole Stupid Way We Are.

  • Movie Alert: 'Oz the Great and Powerful'

    Oz the Great and Powerful, a new adaptation based on L. Frank Baum's universe, premieres on March 8 and stars James Franco as Oscar Diggs, a Kansas magician with questionable morals who is whisked away to Oz when his hot air balloon is sucked into a cyclone.

  • In Brief: February 14

    This week, a debut novelist meets her superfans; another first-timer shows signs of nostalgia; and a third gets dolled up. Plus, a group of authors show their mysterious side; and a pair of literary amphibians have 'books for breakfast.'

  • Digital Kids Conference Focuses on Content Creation

    Computer and mobile device users view four billion videos on YouTube every day. That was one of the statistics used by Victor Lee, v-p digital marketing at Hasbro, to illustrate to attendees at the Digital Kids conference held earlier this week the type of competition they face in competing for children's time.

  • Little, Brown's NOVL Approach to Reaching Readers Online

    On Valentine's Day, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will officially launch NOVL, a new online hub for YA book fans.

  • Philly's African American Children's Book Fair Marks 21 Years

    Over 21 nationally known authors and illustrators, along with 2,500 people, attended the 21st Annual African American Children's Book Fair in Philadelphia.

  • Should Booksellers Enter the School Library Business?

    At last fall's regional trade shows, Mrs. Nelson's Toy and Book Shop and Turtleback Books each made the case that indies could and should offer a broader range of educational services aimed directly at school librarians, and subsequently took steps to make it happen.

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