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Penguin Heads for the Sea with the Octonauts
Penguin Young Readers Group's Grosset & Dunlap imprint has acquired the North American publishing rights to "Octonauts," a daily TV series which features educational themes about marine biology.
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Moving on Up: Minecraft
Scholastic, with its publication of the official game guides – "Minecraft: Essential Handbook" last December and "Minecraft: Redstone Handbook" in March – has found the building blocks of a bestselling run.
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Rights Report: Week of April 14, 2014
New deals for Mike Lupica, Lauren Hillebrand, James Preller, Haifaa al Mansour, Eric Colossal, and Winifred Conkling.
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FarFaria App Offers kids’ Stories for $3.99 Per Month
Offering a colorful and fanciful interface with more than 600 digital stories for kids, FarFaria is a subscription app for the iPad, providing unlimited access to its content for $3.99 a month.
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Klassen's 'Hat' Books Hit One-Million Mark
Just two and a half years after his solo children's book debut, Jon Klassen's "I Want My Hat Back" and "This Is Not My Hat," have reached a combined worldwide in-print tally of one million copies.
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Atheneum Debuts New Cronin-Cornell Series
The four fuzzy little chicks Doreen Cronin introduced in "The Trouble with Chickens" now have their own series, The Chikcen Squad, which launches in April with "The First Misadventure."
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Galley Talk: 'Say What You Will'
At Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo, Wash., bookseller Madison Butler is looking forward to selling "Say What You Will," Cammie McGovern's debut YA novel, which HarperTeen will release in June.
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Rights Report: Week of April 7, 2014
New deals for Tricia Springstubb, Tamara Ellis-Smith, and Bob Staake.
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Megan McCafferty Offers Readers the Chance to 'Ask! Authors! Anything!'
A new monthly Q&A series hosted on Google Hangout gives fans a chance to connect with some of YA literature's star authors.
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The Long 'Tail': Liz Kessler's Emily Windsnap Celebrates 10 Years
In the past decade, Liz Kessler's Emily Windsnap series – five books so far – has reeled in more than 2.6 million copies in total sales of all print and e-book editions.
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Rights Report: Week of March 31, 2014
New deals for Kent Davis, Rosamund Hodge, Liz Garton Scanlon & Audrey Vernick.
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Abrams Launches First Annual Wimpy Kid Month
The publisher launches Wimpy Kid Month this April, a month-long celebration of Jeff Kinney's wildly popular series, which will become an annual event.
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Kobo Inks Deals with Nickelodeon, Blue Apple Books
In separate announcements, Nickelodeon Publishing and Blue Apple Books reached agreements to make their children’s titles available for sale through e-book retailer Kobo.
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How Sweet It Is: The 50th Anniversary of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'
Beginning April 1, Penguin will kick off a year-long celebration for the 50th anniversary of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with a host of initiatives in bookstores and schools as well as online.
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Abrams Revives Chris Raschka's Thingy Things
On April 8, Abrams Appleseed will re-launch Chris Raschka's Thingy Things with previously unpublished titles in the picture book series.
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Rights Report: Week of March 24, 2014
New deals for Carol Riggs, Cindy Jensono-Elliott and Christy Hale.
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Jean Craighead George's Children Complete Her Final Novel
In April, Dial Books for Young Readers will publish 'Ice Whale,' Newbery Medalist Jean Craighead George's final novel, completed by her children following her death in 2012.
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Meet the Artist! Series Introduces Princeton Architectural Press to Children's Market
Princeton Architectural Press's new Meet the Artist! series of interactive paper-over-board books debuts this month with 'Alexander Calder' and 'Pablo Picasso.'
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Wimpy Kid #9 Set to Arrive in November
The Heffleys are hitting the road in the ninth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, just announced by Abrams.
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Re-Opening the Book on 'Daughter of Smoke & Bone'
Hoping to build buzz for the concluding volume of Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, Little, Brown has launched an online reading initiative.