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Wimpy Kid Partners with Walmart

| 08/02/2012 @ 12:00AM

In preparation for the latest theatrical release, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, on August 3, Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products has launched a national retail campaign with Walmart.
D&Q to Publish Tavi Gevinson’s ‘Rookie Yearbook One’ in September

by Calvin Reid | 08/01/2012 @ 12:00AM

Montreal graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly is teaming up with Tavi Gevinson, the talented teen founder of Rookie, a popular online magazine for teen girls, to publish Rookie Yearbook One, a new book collecting content from the magazine’s first year of publication.
Artemis Fowl Takes His Final Bow

By Sally Lodge | 07/26/2012 @ 03:00PM

Eleven years ago, Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl first introduced readers to the eponymous, 12-year-old criminal mastermind, and to fairy police captain Holly Short. On July 10, Disney-Hyperion released The Last Guardian, the eighth and final installment of the series.
Galley Talk: 'Safekeeping'

| 07/26/2012 @ 03:00PM

Carolyn Anbar, children's manager at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, N.J., talks up a novel she's especially looking forward to selling in September, when it pubs from Feiwel & Friends: Karen Hesse's Safekeeping.
New Reinhart Pop-Ups Feature Simpler Designs, Original Characters

By Sally Lodge | 07/26/2012 @ 03:00PM

On August 7, Random House’s Robin Corey Books will publish two 8x8 paperback pop-ups by Matthew Reinhart – A Princess Like Me: A Royal Pop-Up and Rumble! Roar! Dinosaurs!: A Prehistoric Pop-Up – featuring a variety of pop-ups, pull-tabs, and moving parts, and a $6.99 cover price.
Sourcebooks Launches Hear It Read It E-Books

By Carolyn Juris | 07/24/2012 @ 10:00AM

Sourcebooks has launched e-book editions of eight Hear It Read It Classics, which are abridged versions of stories, including King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and Peter Pan, which Sourcebooks published in 2008 in hardcover with an audio CD.
Scholastic Announces New 'Hunger Games' Numbers

| 07/19/2012 @ 03:00PM

The Hunger Games train keeps on rolling: Scholastic has just released updated figures for Suzanne Collins's bestselling trilogy: more than 50 million copies of the books are currently in print in the U.S. The books have been bestseller list staples since their release, with new readers being drawn to the books with the release of the Hunger Games feature film earlier this year. The books are available in 50 languages and 55 territories worldwide.
Brain Quest Celebrates 20 Years of Challenging Kids

By Sally Lodge | 07/19/2012 @ 03:00PM

For two decades, Brain Quest’s curriculum-based question-and-answer game has entertained kids – lots of them. Workman, which launched the line in 1992, reports sales of close to 37 million copies of Brain Quest editions for children at the pre-K through seventh grade levels.
Fictional Band Rocks Promotion for 'Reunited'

By Sally Lodge | 07/19/2012 @ 03:00PM

In debut novelist Hilary Weisman Graham's Reunited, three teenage girls embark on a road trip to attend a reunion concert of a band named Level3. In real life, Graham teamed up with Simon & Schuster and Curious City, a children’s book marketing firm, to send the fictional band on a promotional tour – sort of.
'Annoying Orange,' 'My Little Pony,' and More Kids' Comics at Comic-Con 2012

By Brigid Alverson | 07/19/2012 @ 02:00PM

In just one of the many children's comics announcements coming out of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International, Annoying Orange, the web video gone viral, is getting its own graphic novel—a 64-pager to be published by Papercutz, the home of the Ninjago, Geronimo Stilton, and Nancy Drew graphic novels.
Comic-Con: Yen Press to Publish Comics Adaptation of 'Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children'

By Calvin Reid | 07/14/2012 @ 09:00AM

At a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International, Hachette Book Group graphic novel imprint Yen Press announced plans to publish a graphic novel adaptation of Ransom Riggs's bestselling novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children in 2013.
Fans Control Cover Reveal for New Cassandra Clare Novel

By Sally Lodge | 07/12/2012 @ 03:00PM

Theatrical cover reveals have become common procedure in YA publishing, but Simon & Schuster put a, well, novel spin on its unveiling of the cover of Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Princess, the final Infernal Devices book: the reveal was controlled by fans. Many thousands of them.
What's Selling at Cavalier House Books

| 07/12/2012 @ 03:00PM

Good weather in Denham Springs, La., has helped boost customer traffic at Cavalier House Books this summer, and Michelle Cavalier, who owns the store with her husband John, sends word of several books that she’s especially pleased to be selling.
Book Retriever App Tracks Classroom and Home Libraries

By Judith Rosen | 07/12/2012 @ 03:00PM

St. Louis-based Classroom Library Co., a six-month old educational distributor and publisher, is already finding a niche through its Book Retriever app launched last month.
Gaiman Signs Multi-Book Deal with HarperCollins

| 07/11/2012 @ 10:00AM

Bestselling author Neil Gaiman has signed a multi-book deal with HarperCollins, agreeing to do three novels and two picture books. Kate Morgan Jackson, editor-in-chief of HC Children's Books, and Rosemary Brosnan, executive editor, negotiated the agreement with Gaiman's agent, Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.

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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.