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Children’s Book Week 2012: In Pictures and by the Numbers
This year’s Children's Book Week, the nation's longest-running literacy initiative, kicked off celebrations on May 7 with the Children's Choice Book Awards in New York City. Over the next several days, bookstores and libraries across the U.S. hosted author readings, story times, theater productions, illustration demonstrations, and more.
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In Brief: May 10
This week, S.E. Hinton visits the East Coast; James Patterson reveals his newest character; Mary Pope Osborne donates a trove of books; Sujean Rim meets little Birdies; Charlesbridge Publishing Mounts an Art Exhibit; and a wrestler-turned-author launches a new series.
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Children’s Book Sales Stay Strong in February
Don’t sound the death knell for print just yet. The Monthly StatShot just released by the Association of American Publishers showed solid growth for children’s hardcover and paperback sales in February 2012 over the same period last year.
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This Week in Children's Apps: May 10, 2012
This week in children's apps features My Mom's the Best, an app that takes players through the animal kingdom and shows how baby animals of all shapes and sizes love their moms.
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Karen Nelson Hoyle Receives 2012 Kerlan Award
Approximately 200 children's book authors, illustrators, and librarians from all over Minnesota braved the rain and cold last Saturday afternoon to gather at Willard Hall, on the University of Minnesota's main campus in Minneapolis, to honor the 2012 Kerlan Award recipient, professor emerita Karen Nelson Hoyle.
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The 2012 Children's Choice Book Awards: Photos from the Gala
This past Monday night the children’s book industry turned out in its finery for the Children’s Choice Book Awards, this year voted on by more than 900,000 children. The gala event also served as a kick-off to the 93rd annual Children’s Book Week. Join us on a photo-essay recapping the evening’s festivities.
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Notes from the North: May
In our regular roundup of Canadian children's book news: HarperCollins Canada buys Key Porter’s backlist by poet Dennis Lee; Breakthrough Entertainment is developing a series of Margaret Atwood books for TV; Simply Read Books is delving into the app market; and First Book is branching out north of the border.
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Tune In to Kids' Books on Sirius XM Radio
Satellite radio listeners can now listen to interviews with favorite children’s book authors and illustrators on the airwaves. “The Book Report with JJK,” hosted by author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka, is a new semi-monthly segment aimed at kids 10 and under that will air during the Absolutely Mindy Show on Sirius XM’s KidsPlace Live channel (ch. 78).
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Maurice Sendak: An Appreciation
Historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus remembers Maurice Sendak, who
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Harry Potter Joining Kindle's Lending Library
Amazon has purchased an exclusive license from Pottermore to loan all seven Harry Potter the titles as e-books through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
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BEA Children's Art Auction to Feature Live Bidding
Honorary chairman Walter Dean Myers and his son will share auctioneer duties for BEA's Children's Art Auction. Live bidding will be opened for several rare items.
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Mitchard to Launch YA Imprint for F+W
F+W Media has tapped bestselling novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard to head a new young adult imprint for the publisher called Merit Press Books.
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Kinney, Selznick Win Top Prizes at Children's Choice Awards
The fifth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards were awarded Monday evening at a charity gala in New York City, kicking off the 93rd annual Children’s Book Week. Jarrett J. Krosoczka hosted the event, at which Jeff Kinney was named Author of the Year, and Brian Selznick named Illustrator of the Year.
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Spaces Left for the Children's Institute at BEA
The American Booksellers Association is extending registration to May 11 for its one-day Children’s Institute, to be held on Wednesday June 6 at BEA.
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Points of Sale: Pages of Promise
Lemuria Books in Jackson, Miss., has found a way to connect with the community and promote literacy by partnering with the United Way for its Pages of Promise Book Drive to give every student in grades K-12 in the Jackson school system—where 80% of the kids live on or below the poverty line—a book for summer reading.
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Kids Connect on Poptropica
The Poptropica virtual world for kids, created by Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, to promote storytelling with islands based on books like the Magic Tree House and Choose Your Own Adventure, added a social networking component earlier this week.
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Middle-Grade Authors Hit the Road – and Take Center Stage
Four authors of middle-grade series – Jacqueline West, C. Alexander London, Adam Gidwitz, and E.J. Altbacker – managed to avoided meeting the terrible (imaginary) fates with which they were threatened during April's Endangered Authors! school tour, coordinated by Penguin Young Readers Group.
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The Changing Face of Books-Plus
It ain’t easy being book-plus. According to Jim Becker, president and publisher of the Seattle-based book producing company becker&mayer!, changes on the manufacturing front, high production costs, and safety testing restrictions are some of the numerous hurdles facing book-plus products today.
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HMH Partners with B&N on Digital Bundles for Schools
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will provide age-appropriate digital content for grades K-12 that has been pre-loaded for classrooms on NOOK Readers.
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Zondervan Signs Tutu for New Children's Book
Zondervan has signed Nobel Peace Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu to collaborate with bestselling author and illustrator Nancy Tillman to produce a picture book telling the creation story from Tutu’s Children of God Storybook Bible, which he published with Zondervan in 2010. Tillman will illustrate Tutu’s narrative. Zondervan holds world rights and plans to release the book in spring 2014.
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