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Amazon Publishing Expands into Children's Books
In an aggressive expansion into children's publishing, Amazon has acquired over 450 children's titles originally published by Marshall Cavendish. Margery Cuyler, current publisher of Marshall Children's Books, said she will remain in her position and that her staff "remains intact."
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Authors Guild Hosting Talk With Katherine Paterson
The Authors Guild, as part of its new interview series with authors, is hosting a call with children's book author Katherine Paterson this evening at 7 p.m. EST.
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Fancy Nancy Headlines Holiday App Promotion
"Unwrap an App for the Holidays" heralds a new promotion from HarperCollins, which features the Fancy Nancy Dress Up app as its lead offering.
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Saturday Is 'Take Your Child to a Bookstore' Day
This Saturday marks the second annual kids’ bookstore day. After the event launched in November 2010, now more than 250 bookstores in 45 states, Canada, England, and Australia are participating.
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Children's Booksellers Report on Black Friday Weekend
Over Black Friday weekend, the official kickoff for the holiday bookselling season, children's series continued to sell briskly, including Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Suzanne Collins Hunger Games trilogy, Christopher Paolini's Inheritance,' and Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series.
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CBC Rings in the Holidays with an Online Art Auction
This holiday season, aficionados of children’s book illustration can bid on pieces of art from the Children’s Book Council’s historic collection, which includes original artwork created by illustrators to celebrate Children’s Book Week since its inception in 1919.
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This Week in Children's Apps: December 1, 2011
This week in children's apps features a number of holiday-themed apps, including Jan Brett's The Night Before Christmas, Arthur Christmas Movie Storybook, and The Berenstain Bears Trim the Tree.
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You CAN Go Home Again
Thanks to the renown of co-owner Ann Patchett, Parnassus Books is probably the most celebrated new bookstore in America. The grand opening was less than two weeks ago and already the store has sold through half its opening stock of books.
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Kane Miller, Demibooks Team Up for New Imprint
Technology company Demibooks has partnered with publisher Kane Miller to form a new children's book imprint called InkPad Press.
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Fast-Growing French Publisher to Make U.S. Debut
In the past five years, Gauthier Auzou has transformed his parents’ relatively stolid Parisian book publishing house, Éditions Auzou, from a reference book publisher for the door-to-door market into a trade house with a strong children’s list.
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National Book Awards 2011: The Finalists in Their Finery
The National Book Awards dinner is a gala affair, and while there can only be one winner, it's a huge event for all of the finalists. Our photographer caught up with each of the finalists in the Young People's Literature category last night.
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Looking at the Big Picture: Illustrators Discuss the Art of Visual Storytelling
In the beginning was the picture. That was the thought-provoking message delivered to an audience of illustrators, librarians, and industry professionals who gathered for a November 14 event, "Reading Pictures: The Artist's Voice and Vocabulary in Picture Books."
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Moomintrolls Move to Tablets
Finland's WSOY, master publisher of Tove Jansson's Moomin books for more than 60 years, is collaborating with Finnish e-book and mobile game publisher Fudeco Games Oy to bring the classic Moomin characters to e-books.
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This Week in Children's Apps: November 17, 2011
This week in children's apps features the first in Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat Learning Library app series, There's No Place Like Space!: All About Our Solar System, which takes players on a tour of the solar system with the Cat in the Hat.
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Rio Chico Offers Books with Southwest Flavor
Tucson-based Rio Nuevo Publishers recently launched Rio Chico Books for Children, an imprint specializing in picture books with American Southwestern or Western locales and themes.
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Auction Celebrates Carle's New Book, Boosts Arts Education
Finding original art by prominent illustrators at affordable prices is not always easy, but this month, works by Eric Carle, Mo Willems, Leo and Diane Dillon, and over a dozen other picture book artists are up for bid at the Blue Horse Charity Auction.
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First Book Clicks with Social Media
First Book, the Washington, D.C.-based organization that provides new books to children in need, has teamed up with Random House Children’s Books to raise awareness—and book donations—via social media.
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New Series Expand Saddleback's Offerings
Saddleback Educational Publishing has been growing its list significantly, focusing on fiction series with content and covers suitable for middle-grade and YA readers, yet written at elementary-grade reading levels.
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uTales Makes the Case for a Community-Based App Space
uTales, the online world of picture books for children, does things a little differently. Instead of getting titles into the app sphere on an app-by-app basis, Swedish-based uTales runs its operations under an umbrella of community.
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Decatur Bookshop's Community Read Program Captivates Atlanta
Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, Ga., has a hit on its hands with Greater Atlanta’s first one-city-one-book program featuring The Phantom Tollbooth.
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