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Children's Booksellers Off to a Strong Start for Holiday Selling Season
Black Friday weekend – and the holiday selling season – got off to a strong start for many children's specialty booksellers PW spoke with as part of an informal survey of two dozen booksellers.
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Madeleine L'Engle's Beloved Writing Spot Named Literary Landmark
On November 29 the Diocesan House of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on New York City's Upper West Side was dedicated as a Literary Landmark, in honor of the nearly four decades that Madeleine L'Engle wrote and worked in its library.
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KidLit Cares Sandy Relief Auction Concludes
All the winning bids have been donated, and the grand total of funds raised during two rounds of auctions for the KidLit Cares Superstorm Sandy Relief Effort came to $60,038, which has been given to Red Cross Sandy Relief.
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Core Values: ALA Preview 2013
The Common Core standards have been a hot topic of discussion throughout 2012 – a topic that will get even hotter in 2013. PW talks to AASL president Sue Ballard and ALA's Gillian Engberg.
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HMH and First Book Partner for 'Polar Express' Campaign
Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express will land in the hands of thousands of children thanks to a social media-based initiative launched by HMH Children's Book Group in partnership with the nonprofit literacy organization First Book.
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Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day on Saturday
This Saturday marks the third annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, to encourage other parents to share the joy of being in a bookstore with their children.
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In Brief: November 29
This week, the Obama family supports Small Business Saturday; Ivy and Bean come to life; Little, Brown gets color-coordinated; Andrea Cremer sees the light; an author is ambushed by his would-be nemesis; and a U.S. author learns how "swede" meeting fans can be.
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This Week in Children's Apps: November 29, 2012
This week in apps features the choose-your-own-story Pirates, an app that puts the player in control of the story.
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Books of Wonder Fundraising Update
Late last month, New York City children's bookselling mainstay Books of Wonder turned to Indiegogo to raise $100,000 toward the financial cushion it needs to stay in business and it looks like it could meet its fundraising goal.
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Taking the Pre-Holiday Temperature: Boston Store Checks
Earlier this month, John Mendelson of Candlewick Press let PW tag along on store check visits to an indie bookstore, three chain stores, and a price club in the Greater Boston area.
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Macmillan's Priddy Books Debuts Early Learning Apps
Priddy Books, an imprint of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, is releasing Play and Learn with Wallace, a series of children’s early learning apps for the iPad.
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Eric Carle Museum Celebrates Its First Decade
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., kicked off a year-long celebration of its 10th anniversary earlier this month with a weekend of events around the opening of Iconic Images: Ten Years of Collecting.
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Industry Insiders Talk Young Adult Blockbusters
A recent panel called "Pop Culture Publishing: Young Adult Megahits" examined the way in which blockbuster children's books like Harry Potter and Twilight have changed the industry.
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Charleston's YALLFest Grows Its Audience
The second annual YALLFest in Charleston, S.C., held on November 10, brought together 47 authors – and their readers – for the largest festival in the South specifically devoted to young adult literature.
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YA and Middle Grade Authors Hold Auction for Victims of Sandy
In just two and a half weeks author Kieran Scott has received commitments from more than 170 young adult and middle-grade authors for a YA for NJ benefit auction, hosted by eBay Giving Works, to fill the coffers of the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.
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In Brief: November 20
This month, a group at NCTE thinks pink; a Scandinavian writer meets young U.S. fans; and a first-time author climbs to the "surface."
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Sourcebooks Releases Picture Book App
Sourcebooks is launching an app for the iPad allowing consumers to fully integrate a child's name and image into an interactive picture book.
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From Screen to Book: Candlewick's First Picture Book Symposium
As part of its year-long, 20th anniversary celebration of picture books, Candlewick Press in Somerville, Mass., went back to Cambridge, where its offices were originally located – to hold its first picture book symposium at the Cambridge Public Library on November 10.
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KidLit Cares Sandy Relief: An Update
Round One of the auction for the KidLit Cares Superstorm Sandy Relief Effort, headed up by author Kate Messner and bolstered by the children's book community, has ended – and has raised a total of $36,756 for the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
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