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Random House Acquires Novel by Teen Wattpad Star

By Sally Lodge | 04/03/2013 @ 09:30AM

Delacorte Press will publish e-book and print editions of The Kissing Booth, a debut book by Beth Reekles, a 17-year-old from Wales. The novel first appeared to high acclaim on Wattpad.
'The Little Prince' Turns 70

By Sally Lodge | 04/02/2013 @ 03:00PM

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of The Little Prince, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is bringing out three new editions of the book: an anniversary gift set, a young adult paperback, and a graphic novel adaptation.
Rights Report: Week of March 25, 2013

| 03/28/2013 @ 12:00PM

New deals for Ally Condie, Katherine Applegate and Wendy McClure.
What's Selling at Tree House Books

| 03/28/2013 @ 12:00PM

As signs of spring emerge in Ashland, Ore., Jane Almquist, who for three years has co-owned Tree House Books with her husband, Dirk Price, talks about some of the books that are selling well for them this season.
Peachtree Launches Early Chapter Series

By Sally Lodge | 03/28/2013 @ 12:00PM

A beret-wearing dog named Claude accidentally foils a robbery in Claude in the City, the debut entry in an early chapter book series written and illustrated by Alex T. Smith.
YouTube's Annoying Orange Is Headed to Bookshelves

By Karen Raugust | 03/28/2013 @ 12:00PM

HarperCollins Children's Books has secured the rights to The Collective's Annoying Orange property for a series of joke and storybooks, beginning with Annoying Orange: How to Be Annoying this fall.
Little Critter Expands E-Book Presence

By Karen Raugust | 03/28/2013 @ 12:00PM

On March 21, Mercer Mayer, creator of the Little Critters series, launched two new apps with Silver Dolphin Books.
This Week in Children's Apps: March 28, 2013

| 03/28/2013 @ 12:00PM

This week in children's apps features the newest Dr. Seuss app, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories. Also this week is Hansel & Gretel, featuring digital hand-drawn artwork and 2D animations. Julianne Moore's Freckleface Strawberry Monster Maker is the first app from the series. Finally, Over in the Jungle lets players search through the rainforest and discover the animals within.
Abrams Announces Wimpy Kid #8

| 03/25/2013 @ 11:00AM

At the Bologna Children's Book Fair on Monday, Abrams announced the November publication of the (as-yet-untitled) eighth book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.
Unseen Sendak on Display

By Sue Corbett | 03/25/2013 @ 10:00AM

One day in the late 1960s, Maurice Sendak entered Justin Schiller’s Antiquarian Book Center in Rockefeller Center’s subterranean shopping arcade, wanting to see Schiller’s collection of 19th-century pop-up books by the German artist Lothar Meggendorfer.
Frederator Hires David Wilk To Run New E-book Unit

By Calvin Reid | 03/25/2013 @ 12:00AM

Animation house Frederator is launching Frederator Books, a digital publishing imprint with plans to release 100 digital titles in 2013 and brought in publishing and distribution veteran David Wilk to direct the line of Kids illustrated e-books.
Trajectory Inks e-Book Deals with Chinese Publishers at Bologna Book Fair

By Calvin Reid | 03/25/2013 @ 12:00AM

Trajectory announced partnerships with China’s People’s Education Press and Xiamen Bluebird Cartoon Company and in a separate deal released a One World Kids App and will publish Sally Discovers New York, a new digital picture book in the late Stephen Huneck’s kids’ series about a black Labrador retriever.
First Look: 'All the Truth That's in Me'

By Shannon Maughan | 03/21/2013 @ 03:00PM

Author Julie Berry's forthcoming book All the Truth That’s in Me, her first YA effort, features a girl who cannot speak. The title has generated so much in-house enthusiasm, its publisher is eager to get the word out.
New Guide Helps Kids Coping with Parental Illness

By Sally Lodge | 03/21/2013 @ 03:00PM

My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks, by father-daughter team Marc and Maya Silver, draws on their family's experience and includes advice from medical professionals and stories of teens whose lives have been touched by cancer.
Rights Report: Week of March 18, 2013

| 03/21/2013 @ 02:00PM

New deals for Michael Hague, Wendy Shang and Shelby Bach.
Chicago Board of Education Defends 'Persepolis' Ban

By Claire Kirch | 03/21/2013 @ 12:00AM

In a letter sent to free speech advocates yesterday, a lawyer for the Chicago Board of Education defended the restrictions on students' access to Persepolis.
Old Meets New in 'Going Vintage' Campaign

By Sally Lodge | 03/19/2013 @ 12:00PM

To spread pre-pub word of her new YA novel, author Lindsey Leavitt solicited friends and colleagues to send photos of their grandparents, parents, or themselves dressed in vintage garb, and is posting them on Tumblr.
Protests Continue Over 'Persepolis' Ban

By Claire Kirch | 03/19/2013 @ 10:00AM

The controversy over the Chicago Public Schools restricting access to Marjane Satrapi’s memoir continues to roil the nation’s third largest school district.
Chicago Schools Restrict Access to 'Persepolis'

By Claire Kirch | 03/15/2013 @ 12:00AM

Chicago Public Schools is under fire for pulling from classrooms Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s coming-of-age memoir of her youth in Iran.

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PW KidsCast: A Conversation with Dan Gemeinhart
Dan Gemeinhart spoke with PW KidsCast about his new middle grade novel, ‘Coyote Lost and Found,’ the follow up to ‘The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise,’ and returning to his beloved characters.