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Walter Dean Myers To Chair Children's Art Auction at BEA
Walter Dean Myers will serve as the honorary chair of the annual children's art auction at BEA in an effort to raise funds to support the free speech rights of kids.
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OverDrive Postpones Pottermore E-Books for Libraries
OverDrive officials this week said that they have “temporarily suspended” pre-sales and displays of Harry Potter eBooks and digital audiobooks for library lending.
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Day One in Bologna: First-Timers and Vets Weigh In
One day into the 49th annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the mood was upbeat but realistic, with the strongest interest in the robust fiction category, and even a few positive signs for the comparatively flat picture book market.
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Guus Kuijer Winner of 2012 Lindgren Award
Dutch author Guus Kuijer is the 10th winner of the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The announcement came Tuesday afternoon at the Bologna Book Fair, in a broadcast direct from Sweden that aired online and to a packed crowd at the Illustrator’s Café. Kuijer was selected from 184 candidates from 66 countries.
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María Teresa Andruetto, Peter Sís Win Hans Christian Andersen Awards
The International Board on Books for Young People announced the winners of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards from the Bologna Book Fair on Monday. María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina has won the 2012 Author Award, and Peter Sís from the Czech Republic has won the 2012 Illustrator Award.
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TOC Bologna: Digital Kids' Publishers Try to Chart the Path Ahead
On the eve of the 49th annual Bologna Children’s Book Fair, an international crowd of just under 400 turned out for the second Tools of Change Bologna, an espresso-fueled daylong conference held Sunday at the Palazzo dei Congressi, on the fairgrounds.
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Nickelodeon Heads to Random House
Random House Children’s Books will become the primary publisher for Nickelodeon, taking over all trade publishing formats from longtime licensee Simon & Schuster as of January 1, 2013.
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Facts and Figures 2011: In Children's, 'Hunger Games' Rule
With the release of the movie version of The Hunger Games, Panem fever is everywhere. But the enthusiasm for this trilogy has been building for some time. Last year, fans bought a total of 9.2 million Hunger Games books (6.4 million print copies, 2.8 million e-books), up from 4.3 million total in 2010. E-book sales were just 430,000 in 2010, making for a 550% gain in just one year.
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Kate Klimo Stepping Down as RH/Golden Books V-P
Effective March 31, Random House/Golden Books Young Readers Group v-p and publisher Kate Klimo will leave her position.
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This Week in Children's Apps: March 15, 2012
This week in children's apps features My A-Z, an app for building reading and writing skills, with the added ability to create your own alphabet cards, complete with audio. Also out this week is Planes - Byron Barton, which shows children all the different ways we interact with planes.
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News from the North: March 2012
Two of Canada's children's publishers recently brought in fresh talent at the top. Karen Boersma is the newly appointed publisher at Owlkids Books, and Sheila Barry is now co-publisher at Groundwood Books. We spoke with each of them about the joys and challenges of making a big move mid-career.
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NBCC Turns the Spotlight on YA
No—the National Book Critics Circle still doesn’t offer an award in the Young Adult category, but literature for teens was the focus of a recent panel discussion at the New School in New York City. The panel was part of the NBCC Award events, which culminated in the awards ceremony that evening.
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Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards Finalists Announced
The ABA has named its finalists in the 2012 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, which honor, in the association’s words, “the types of books that indie booksellers champion best.”
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Reading Rainbow Gets an App
RRKidz, who helped to relaunch the Reading Rainbow television series, has partnered with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Holiday House, and Charlesbridge Publishing for a Reading Rainbow app, set to launch this spring.
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Sigler to Publish YA Books Through Diversion Books
Scott Sigler will publish his Galactic Football League series as paperbacks through Diversion Books, the affiliate company of Waxman Literary Agency, where he is represented for his adult fiction by Byrd Leavell. Perseus will distribute the titles.
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Annick Partners with Open Road for E-books
In a new partnership, Open Road Digital Media and Annick Press will release e-book versions of 34 of the Toronto-based publisher’s most successful titles: 20 Robert Munsch books, all 10 volumes of Roslyn Schwartz’s Mole Sisters series, plus four additional picture books.
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Children's Institute Slated for BEA
As reported last month, BookExpo America, in conjunction with the ABC Group at the American Booksellers Association, is introducing its first children's day for children's booksellers.
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'Catching Fire' Shipping Error Angers N.E. Booksellers
Every year booksellers' resentment against Scholastic Book Fair paperbacks, which they are unable to sell, flares up during book-fair season. This week the flames were fanned a little higher when copies of Scholastic Book Fairs' paperback edition of Catching Fire were accidentally shipped to big box stores in New England.
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Children's Illustrator Kickstarts an Arts Center
Award-winning children’s book illustrator R. Gregory Christie launched a Kickstarter campaign this month for a children’s bookstore and arts literacy center concept he’s opening in Decatur, Ga.
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What's Selling at Reading Frenzy BookShop
At Reading Frenzy BookShop in Zimmerman, Minn., owner Sheri Olson talks about her success with a quartet of titles across several genres.
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