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Disney Launches First Language Learning App
Disney Publishing Worldwide has launched its first language learning product, Learn Chinese: Toy Story 3. The app will be available in the U.S., China, Australia, and 25 additional countries throughout Europe and Asia.
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Scholastic Launches Storia, a New Digital Platform
After more than 18 months of development, Scholastic has begun beta tests for Storia, its proprietary e-book platform for selling and distributing its trade titles as well as digital editions of titles from other children’s houses. The beta test features 1,300 titles with the vast majority published by Scholastic
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Bologna Briefcase: What the Agents Are Bringing
"Modern Family meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “Heathers meets The Craft,” and “Titanic in outer space” are just some of the intriguing-sounding projects that will be on offer later this month at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. We asked some American agents to tell us about two projects they have high hopes for.
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Figment Acquires Inkpop from HarperCollins
Figment, the online writing community for teens and young adults, has purchased Inkpop, a similar HarperCollins initiative.
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This Week in Children's Apps: March 1, 2012
This week in children's apps features a pair of Dr. Seuss apps: The Lorax and Oh Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur?
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Points of Sale: Tips for Children’s Booksellers
This column grew from first-hand experience that many of the best bookselling ideas come from other booksellers. Each tip offers an inventive way to solve problems that you may not have even been aware of: like making series stand out.
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Penguin Launches Richelle Mead Community-Based App
Bestselling author Richelle Mead will get her own app, The World of Richelle Mead, launching March 2 from Penguin.
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iStoryTime Releases First Wee Sing App
iStoryTime and Wee Sing have announced their first education app, called Wee Sing & Learn ABC.
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Go, Reader, Go!: Read Across America 2012
March 2 is the debut for the film version of The Lorax, the date Dr. Seuss would have turned 108, and the 15th annual Read Across America Day – a recipe for, as Theodor Geisel might say, "biggering" the number of bookworms in the United States.
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Owlkids Books Names Karen Boersma Publisher
Owlkids Books has announced that, as of March 5, it will have a new publisher to develop its growing books division: Karen Boersma. Boersma has been v-p and publisher of Kids Can Press for the last 14 years.
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Obituary: Atha Tehon
Award-winning children’s book designer and art director Atha Tehon died on February 15, at the age of 86. As art director at Dial Books for Young Readers for 32 years, and as a freelance designer for Farrar, Straus and Giroux, she worked with many of the top authors and artists in the business, including Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Jerry Pinkney, and Stephen Kellogg.
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BEA Finalizes Lineup for Children's Breakfast
BookExpo America has announced that Glee's Chris Colfer, author of the forthcoming The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell (Little, Brown), will serve as emcee for the BEA convention's Children’s Book and Author Breakfast.
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HarperCollins Plans Middle Grade Group Tour for Fall
Nine middle-grade authors will vie to win "Best in Class" this fall, when HarperCollins sends them out on its Class Acts tour to schools and bookstores across the country.
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Optimistic Toy Fair Crowds Face 'Augmented Reality'
The approximately 30 publishers exhibiting at the 2012 New York International Toy Fair, held at the Javits Center from February 11-15, saw full aisles and strong orders for the first time in several years.
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Fourth Story Media's Lisa Holton Joins Callaway Digital Arts
Callaway Digital Arts announced that Lisa Holton, founder of children’s digital media producer Fourth Story Media and former president of Scholastic trade publishing, has been named v-p of content development.
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S&S Children's Makes Shifts in Marketing
The following moves were made at Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing: Lucille Rettino has been promoted to v-p, director of marketing. Elke Villa has been named associate marketing director.
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Are Teens Embracing E-books?
A recent PubTrak survey from R.R. Bowker indicated that teens remain reluctant when it comes to e-books. Accustomed to social media, they find that electronic stories have “too many restrictions,” according to the report. But many industry players—agents, booksellers, publishers, and authors—are saying just the opposite: digital sales are booming for YA fiction.
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Open Road Denies 'Wolves' Infringement Charges
Open Road Integrated Media denied charges made by HarperCollins that it infringed HC’s copyright when it published an e-book edition of Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves, but in a twist George has asked to be made part of Open Road’s case.
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This Week in Children's Apps: February 16, 2012
This week in children's apps features The Prisoner of Carrot Castle, a story about a boy's dislike of vegetables, Stephen Huneck PuzzleSpace, and Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping.
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