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This Week in Children's Apps: November 10, 2011
This week in children's apps features Mysterious Benedict Society, an app for kids and adults meant to test your wits. Also, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: Things About Me, tells the tale of the shell with feet that lives in a piece of bread. Next, there's Tacky the Emperor, the story of the penguin without a fashion sense, who makes quite the impression when the emperor comes to visit. Finally, there's A Duck in New York City, which follows a prairie duck coming to the big city.
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JibJab Jumps to iPad
JibJab Media, which made its first splash on the digital landscape with animated political satires, including the 2004 video spoofing George W. Bush and John Kerry, has launched a reading iPad app for kids called JibJab Jr. Books.
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PW Best Books 2011: Children's Books
We've assembled our list of the very best books published for children and teens in 2011. Did your favorites make the cut? Click through to see our selections for the year's best picture books, fiction, and nonfiction.
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Halloween 2011: Children's Publishers Celebrate in Style
Children's books and Halloween go hand in hand, and every year publishers across the country let loose and break out their most creative costumes. Here's our annual photo-tour of all the scariest, silliest, most literary, and most original costumes.
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Willow Bookshop Sponsors Day-Long Tween Fest
Following the success of the TeenBookCon it sponsored in Houston in April, Blue Willow Bookshop helped launch a similar event in conjunction with school librarians for area tweens, the inaugural Tweens Read Book Festival.
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Movie Alert: 'Hugo'
As Brian Selznick continues to stir up excitement in the book world for Wonderstruck, another high-voltage event is on the horizon" Hugo, the film adaptation of Selznick's Caldecott-winning The Invention of Hugo Cabret, opens in theatres on November 23.
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Creative Marketing Strategies for Tight Times: An ABPA Panel
Personality, perseverance, and product positioning might be just the prescription for successfully marketing children's books during these tough economic times. That was the message offered at a November 1 brown bag session sponsored by the American Book Producers Association.
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NCIBA: A Happy Affair for Children's Booksellers
The drone of police helicopters and raucous chants of nearby Occupy Oakland protesters could not diminish the excitement and positive focus of children's booksellers at the 2011 Northern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show.
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What's Selling at Tuesday Books
Of her "many, many favorites" of the season, Beth Phelps, co-owner of Tuesday Books in Williamston, Mich., chose a few books that she and her colleagues are especially pleased to be selling this fall.
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Annick Press Experiments with White Board Book Trailers
Toronto-based Annick Press has unveiled 12 book trailers for interactive white boards that it hopes will combine effective marketing with a useful teaching resource.
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Elise Howard Moves to Algonquin to Start List
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based publisher Algonquin Books is launching a line of books for YA and middle-grade audiences, and has hired Elise Howard from HarperCollins to spearhead it.
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Picture Book Time
Inadvertently reporter Julie Bosman gave picture books a big boost last fall when she wrote a front-page story for the New York Times that said picture books were "no longer a staple." Not only is the category very much alive, as a subsequent PW story pointed out, but since then a number of authors and publishers have gone out of their way to draw parents' attention to picture books.
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Not Just Your Parents' NPR
Kids who have spent countless hours listening to NPR’s All Things Considered because their parents tune in can now prick up their ears for a new segment designed just for them: NPR's Back-Seat Book Club, aimed at readers 9-14 that launches this month with The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
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This Week in Children's Apps: October 27, 2011
This week in children's apps features Don't Let the Pigeon Run This App!, which lets players create their own Pigeon stories with the help of three-time Caldecott Honor artist Mo Willems. Curly Hair, Straight Hair, a story with a bilingual narrative. Five Little Pumpkins lets the spooky creatures out in a creepy and fun fall tale. Barnyard Dance puts players in control of a group of animals that can't stop dancing. Finally, Elmer and the Lost Teddy lets players follow Elmer's rescue of Baby Elephant's lost teddy bear before bed.
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Mac Barnett Spearheads 'A Picture Book Manifesto'
"Proclamation: We are tired of hearing the picture book is in trouble, and tired of pretending it is not." So opens "A Picture Book Manifesto," written by Mac Barnett and signed by him and 21 other picture book creators.
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Killick Named Associate Publisher of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Jon Yaged, who took over as president of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group at the start of 2011, has rounded out his management team, appointing Angus Killick v-p and associate publisher.
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CPSC Issues Final CPSIA Testing and Certification Rules
Last Thursday, October 20, the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to approve the final testing and certification rules under the Consumer Product Safety Information Act of 2008.
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The Mighty Mom Bloggers
Earlier this month, S&S rolled out a red carpet for 29 influential writers. If they had business cards, they did not say The New York Times. Instead, these scribes came from publications with names like glamamom.com and mommypoppins.com. Meet the new word-of-mouth publishing powerhouses: mom bloggers who share their online personal journals about motherhood.
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Lauren Myracle and the NBA: Rounding Up the Coverage
First Lauren Myracle was a National Book Award nominee. Then she wasn't. Then she was again. This past Monday, Myracle ended the story by withdrawing her name from nomination, which set off yet another wave of national media attention. We’ve pulled together some of the coverage to make it easier to get a fuller picture.
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This Week in Children's Apps: October 20, 2011
This week in children's apps features two spooky tales. Ghost House follows Charlie O'Dell, a boy who gets on his favorite TV show, only to find out that he doesn't know what his show is really like. Tacky Goes to Camp is about Tacky and his penguin friends having fun at camp, until something pays them a visit in the night.
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