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Fox Chapel Rushes 'Rubber Band Jewelry'
The independent publisher went from conception to publication in just seven weeks on Totally Awesome Rubber Band Jewelry, written by Colleen Dorsey, a Fox Chapel employee.
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You're a Good Citizen, Charlie Brown
Regnery's children's publishing program has acquired a five-year license with Peanuts Worldwide, and will feature Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang in books about American history, heroes, government, and civics.
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Rights Report: Week of November 25, 2013
New deals for Ken Liu, Elaine Dimopoulos and Jonah Winter & Shane Evans.
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Rights Report: Week of November 19, 2013
New deals for Julianne Moore, Gayle Forman, Matthew Cordell, Christina Lauren, Georg Rauch and others.
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Ransom Riggs Returns to Miss Peregrine's Home with 'Hollow City'
The eccentric, often downright creepy, inhabitants of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children return in Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children, due January 14 from Quirk Books.
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Could a Small Press in New England Have One of This Year's Christmas Favorites?
Last month 10-year-old Bunker Hill Publishing released what could turn out to be one of its biggest books to date: Robert Sullivan's A Child's Christmas in New England, illustrated by Glenn Wolff.
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Movie Alert: 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'
The epic journey continues for a furry-footed hero, a wizard, and a posse of dwarves when The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens in theaters on December 13.
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Eighth Wimpy Kid Sells Over 1M In Its First Week
The newest title in Jeff Kinney's wildly popular Wimpy Kid series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, had an extremely strong first week, moving 1.3 millions copies worldwide, in all formats.
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'Good Night, Gorilla' Turns 20
Putnam is marking the 20th anniversary of Peggy Rathmann's Good Night, Gorilla with a new hardcover edition.
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Rights Report: Week of November 11, 2013
New deals for Stephen Pastis, Nicola Yoon, Elizabeth Eulberg, Donna Freitas, Rowboat Watkins, and others.
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PW's Best Children's Books of 2013
Selecting just 50 titles from the thousands of books published for children and teens in a given year is always a painful undertaking, and this year was no different.
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Movie Alert: 'Catching Fire'
Fans – and box-office bean-counters – are gearing up for the November 22 release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
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'Mouseheart' Carries High Hopes for a Little Hero
A brave mouse battles tribes of rats in Mouseheart, an animal fantasy series written by Lisa Fielder and with illustrations by Vivienne To.
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Santa Claus Is Coming to (Almost Every) Town, Thanks to Sourcebooks
Sourcebooks's plans for its Santa Is Coming series may be its most ambitious yet.
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Rights Report: Week of November 4, 2013
New deals for Stan Lee, Chris Barton, Faith Erin Hicks, Rafael López & Margarita Engle, and others.
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Neal Shusterman's 'Unwind' Characters Come to Life on Twitter
It's not uncommon for authors to promote their books through social media. But when fictional characters start pitching in to get the word out about the book they're in – unbeknownst to their author? Now, that's a different PR campaign altogether.
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Knock Knock Publishes Its First Picture Book
Monsters, genies, rabbits, and skeletons are among the images concealed in Hide & Eek!: A Hold-Up-to-the-Light Mystery Book, the debut picture book from Knock Knock.
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Fans Pitch in to Publish 'Yankee Miracles' Adaptation
No fewer than five hardcore Yankees devotees are involved in creating The Boss & the Batboy, a young readers' version of Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers, by Ray Negron and Sally Cook.
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Movie Alert: 'The Book Thief'
Director Brian Percival took on the challenge of developing Markus Zusak's bestselling The Book Thief for the big screen.
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Rights Report: Week of October 28, 2013
New deals for Susan Vaught, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Annie Barrows, and others.