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Heavy Traffic, Upbeat Attitude for Publishers at Toy Fair
About 30 publishers exhibited at the 2012 New York International Toy Fair, which began on Sunday and concluded on Wednesday at the Javits Center. The aisles were full, with attendance up an estimated 4% to 34,000, and the mood positive, despite the fact that retail sales of toys and games in the U.S. fell 2% last year to $21.18 billion.
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Movie Alert: 'The Hunger Games'
Let the games begin. March 23 marks the premiere of perhaps the most highly anticipated film of the year: The Hunger Games, based on the first installment of Suzanne Collins's dystopian trilogy.
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Wicks Group Buys Bendon Publishing
New York private equity firm The Wicks Group has purchased a majority share in Bendon Publishing, a leading purveyor of coloring, activity, and other mass market book formats.
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TOC 2012: Children's Books Must Exist in Digital and Print
The "What Works Well Where? Considering Books for Children in Different Formats" session at TOC 2012 stressed the necessary coexistence of digital and traditional books for children, an opinion put forth by Junko Yokota, director of the Center for Teaching Through Children’s Books.
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Grant for Midlist Children's Book Authors Established
Author Jane Yolen and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators have created a new grant to honor midlist authors.
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Publishers See Strong Foot Traffic on Toy Fair's First Day
About 30 publishers are exhibiting at the 2012 New York International Toy Fair, which began yesterday at the Javits Center and continues through Wednesday.
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Skyreader, San Diego Zoo Bring Out New Wiggens Adventures
App developer Skyreader has signed an agreement with the San Diego Zoo that will bring three new e-book adventures starring Wiggens, the precocious Chocolate Labrador puppy, to the App Store beginning spring 2012.
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Gonzalez Moves to Macmillan as Part of Sales Reorg
Macmillan’s children’s reorganization got underway with the hiring of Jennifer Gonzalez to the newly created position of v-p of children’s sales.
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This Week in Children's Apps: February 9, 2012
This week in children's apps features Alphabet Adventure!, an interactive exploration of the alphabet including hundreds of images and sounds, and multiple narration voices speaking each letter and word.
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Buyers, Retailers Assess Industry at CBC Panel
Community was the buzzword for a diverse group of children's book professionals who gathered at the Scholastic auditorium this past Tuesday for the first in a three-part series sponsored by the Children’s Book Council.
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How to Navigate a Changing Business? Children's Agents Shed Some Light
From the growth of Amazon Publishing to the continued rise of e-books, the winds of change are sweeping through the publishing industry. But some things remain the same. That was the message delivered by a panel of three children's agents who spoke at Manhattan's Anthroposophical Society on February 7.
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Curious George Returns to Harvard Square
The Curious George store in Harvard Square Cambridge, Mass., will reopen on April 28, with a new name, new owners, and a different product mix, all dedicated to the mischievous monkey.
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Four Industry Veterans Lay Out Advice at SCBWI
Four longtime children’s publishing experts gave an optimistic but realistic view of the children’s book scene, circa 2012, at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Winter Conference in New York City.
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Ten Years Later, a Newbery Committee Reunites
A decade ago, a committee of 14 women and one man chose Linda Sue Park's A Single Shard for the 2002 Newbery Medal and then chose... to stick together; in the years since, they've become a tight-knit bunch.
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News from the North: February 2012
In a deal that saw two of Canada’s oldest publishing houses absorbed into Canada’s largest multinational, Tundra Books is now wholly owned by Random House of Canada. Read on for Penguin's Canadian Razorbill launch Kids Can Press's e-book initiative, and Orca Books getting political.
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Disney Publishing Launches 'unRequired Reading' Cover Contest
Readers with artistic aspirations can try their hand at designing a YA novel cover, in a Design-Your-Own Cover contest that Disney Publishing debuted on Facebook on January 16 as part of its two-year-old unRequired Reading promotional initiative to showcase its YA fiction program.
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Movie Alert: Dr. Seuss's The Lorax
Hold onto your Truffula tufts. Dr. Seuss's beloved, at times controversial classic book The Lorax springs into 3-D on March 2, the day that the author would have turned 108 years old.
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Licensing Hotline: February 2012
One of the strongest current licenses for Modern Publishing—which was acquired by Kappa Books last week—is the three-decade-old art brand, Lisa Frank.
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Dial Signs William Wegman for Publishing Program
After a hiatus of nearly seven years, artist and author William Wegman is returning to children's books.
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Obituary: Gerald Harrison
Gerald (Jerry) Harrison, former president of the children's book division of Random House, died on January 19. He was 83.
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