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Abrams Announces Activity Book for Origami Jedi-Knights-in-Training

By John A. Sellers | 01/17/2013 @ 03:00PM

Just as the Star Wars empire has grown well beyond three films, Tom Angleberger's Origami Yoda series is set to expand, when Abrams's Amulet Books imprint releases Art2-D2's Guide to Folding and Doodling: An Origami Yoda Activity Book in March 26.
Cover Reveal: 'The Kicks: Saving the Team' by Alex Morgan

By Sally Lodge | 01/15/2013 @ 03:00PM

Here is a first look at the cover of Saving the Team, the kickoff title in a middle-grade series by Alex Morgan, member of the 2012 U.S. Women’s Olympic gold medal-winning soccer team, who joins the National Women’s Soccer League’s Portland Thorns this spring.
Galley Talk: 'Eleanor & Park'

| 01/10/2013 @ 03:00PM

Hannah Moushabeck, children's department director at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass., shares her impressions of Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell.
Nancy Farmer Returns with 'Scorpion' Sequel

By Shannon Maughan | 01/10/2013 @ 03:00PM

Dick Jackson, editor-at-large at Atheneum Books for Young Readers, has acquired The Lord of Opium by Nancy Farmer, the long-awaited sequel to Farmer's 2002 SF novel, The House of the Scorpion.
Serendipitous Discovery Leads to Timely Reissue at Albert Whitman

By Claire Kirch | 01/10/2013 @ 03:00PM

As the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address approaches, Albert Whitman & Company is marking the date by reissuing a picture book that lay forgotten in the company's archives for more than half a century.
Nate the Great Titles to Be Released as E-books

| 01/10/2013 @ 02:00PM

Random House is launching an e-book program timed to the 40th anniversary of the launch of Marjorie Weinman Sharmat's Nate the Great mystery series. Five books, including the first in the series, will be released on January 30; by the end of 2013, all 26 titles will be available in e-format.
Scholastic to Roll Out New Multi-Platform Series

By Sally Lodge | 01/10/2013 @ 09:00AM

Scholastic has announced the fall 2013 launch of Spirit Animals, the company's first multi-platform series in the fantasy genre. As with the publisher's 39 Clues and Infinity Ring series, the Spirit Animals books will be written by different authors and will be linked to a simultaneously released online game.
Big Online Push for New Gayle Forman Novel

By Sally Lodge | 01/03/2013 @ 03:00PM

Penguin Young Readers Group has set in motion a multifaceted social media marketing campaign to promote Gayle Forman's Just One Day.
Station to 'Station': The Rebirth of a Foreign Cult Classic

By Matia Burnett | 12/20/2012 @ 03:00PM

In January, Zest Books is releasing a new translation of Christiane Vera F.'s Zoo Station, which has been a sensation in Germany for 35 years.
New Wimpy Kid Crosses 1 Million Copies Sold

| 12/20/2012 @ 10:00AM

Book seven of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Third Wheel, has passed the million mark in physical copies sold, according to Nielsen BookScan. The book will end the year as the #6 bestselling book of the year, placing behind only the Fifty Shades trilogy, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.
Books of Wonder to Partner with City Bakery

By Judith Rosen | 12/18/2012 @ 03:00PM

After an Indiegogo fundraiser that raised $100,000 for New York City children's bookstore Books of Wonder, owner Peter Glassman announced the store is leasing its kitchen and bakery space to longtime neighbor City Bakery, which will open a pop-up store inside Books of Wonder possibly as early as this weekend.
Self-Published YA Author 'Crash'es into the Big League

| 12/13/2012 @ 03:00PM

HarperCollins has scooped up rights to self-published writer Nicole Williams's Crash trilogy, and will release the three books in paperback as well as in e-book form.
A Tribute to Picture-Book Pioneers Maud and Miska Petersham

By Judith Rosen | 12/13/2012 @ 03:00PM

This fall, 13-year-old WoodstockArts is looking to fulfill its mission "to shine a light on Woodstock, N.Y.," with a book on the life and work of Maud and Miska Petersham, leading picture book illustrators of the 1920s through the '50s.
Caroline Cooney's Janie Books Come to a Close

By Kit Alderdice | 12/13/2012 @ 03:00PM

More than two decades after publishing The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney concludes her Janie series with the fifth and final volume, Janie Face to Face.
Illustrator Proposes Marriage in His Children's Book Debut

By Alexis Burling | 12/11/2012 @ 03:00PM

On the acknowledgments page of Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Start, debut illustrator Sam Zuppardi popped the question to Jade Amers, his girlfriend of five years.
Young Staffer Recalls Gabrielle Giffords's Shooting in New Memoir

By Sally Lodge | 12/11/2012 @ 03:00PM

Daniel Hernandez, who interned for U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords when a gunman opened fire during a constituent event at a Tucson shopping center, tells his story in They Call Me a Hero: A Memoir of My Youth, written with Susan Goldman Rubin.

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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.