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I Spy... a Series with Legs
Aimed at readers who like heroines that are more concerned about pulling off covert operations than pulling off the perfect outfit, the first two books in Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series have been steadily gaining fans for the past few years. This week, the third book, Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover, also starring teenage spy-in-training Cammie Morgan, went on sale with a 250,000-copy first printing.
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Browne Named Children's Laureate in U.K.
Anthony Browne has been appointed the sixth Children’s Laureate in the U.K. Browne, who won the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, is only the second illustrator chosen as Children’s Laureate. The two-year position recognizes the contribution an individual has made to children and reading.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/8/2009
This week's reviews include picture books from Arnold and Adrianne Lobel, Alison McGhee and Kathryn Lasky; new fiction from Kate Thompson, Andrew Clements and Francine Prose; not to mention a roundup of some gift books perfect for graduations, birthdays and other occasions.
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BookExpo America 2009: A Lively Children's Gathering
All eyes were looking ahead to fall, as children’s booksellers and publishers arrived in New York City last weekend for BookExpo America. The season’s biggest titles were on display, and a wide range of panels and events educated and entertained. Given the state of the economy, many had voiced concerns before BEA about what the mood and the turnout might be. In the aisles of the Javits Center, though, those worries didn’t seem to be borne out.
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BookExpo America 2009: Children's Books and Authors at the Show
Our photographers walked the aisles of the Javits Center last weekend, throughout the convention, capturing the sights, highlights and mood of the show. We’ve assembled dozens of pictures of authors, illustrators, booksellers, publishers, events and book signings for your perusal. Relive all the memories, or see what you missed!
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BookExpo America 2009: It’s All About the Teen
On Saturday afternoon during BEA, a group of six young adult specialists gathered for the panel called Teens Read Books—Teens Have Money—There Are a Lot of Teens: How to Get Them Into Your Store. Emily Pardo, former events and marketing coordinator at Books and Books in Miami, Fla., started the panel off by admitting that the best ideas for reaching out to teens usually don’t come from adults, but rather teens themselves.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/1/2009
This week's reviews include a new picture book from Neil Gaiman, fiction from Francesca Lia Block and Alex Sanchez, and a collection of summer board books for youngest readers.
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Hasbro Tweaks Global Publishing Strategy
Over the past six months, toy maker Hasbro has been reconfiguring its global publishing strategy, internally creating long-term story arcs to ensure continuity among the various facets of its entertainment and publishing programs worldwide. The first examples of the new strategy in action are the books being released in conjunction with Hasbro's summer films "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", to be released on June 24,
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BookExpo America 2009: Children’s Highlights for Fall
The children’s category is a bright spot in a flat industry these days, and plenty of forthcoming titles were generating buzz on the floor. Candlewick is printing 500,000 copies of Kate DiCamillo’s new novel, 'The Magician’s Elephant,' and she’ll go on a 10-city tour. 'Catching Fire' by Suzanne Collins, the followup to last fall’s 'The Hunger Games,' was a hot “get” at the show;
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Bowen to Join Greenburger Agency
Brenda Bowen, who left HarperCollins in February, is moving in a new direction, signing on as a literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, beginning July 6. Bowen will represent authors and illustrators of children’s books for all ages (preschool to teen) as well as graphic novels.
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‘Catching Fire’ Catches Fire
Cindy Dobrez is a popular woman. Why? The influential Holland, Mich., middle-school librarian, who has served on the Printz Award committee, is among the lucky few who last week received an advance readers' copy of Catching Fire—the highly anticipated second book in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy about teens forced to fight to the death on live TV.
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Geringer to Work with Egmont USA
Laura Geringer has partnered with Egmont USA, to selectively edit children's titles for the house on a nonexclusive basis.
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Q & A with Sandra Day O'Connor
Bookshelf spoke with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor about her new picture book, Finding Susie (Knopf).
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Chance Find Leads to New Lobel Picture Books
When a rare book dealer called Adrianne Lobel last September with news he’d found three small books handcrafted by her father, legendary author and illustrator Arnold Lobel, she wasn’t immediately sure how interested she was in acquiring them.
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A Very Scarry Summer
In celebration of what would be Richard Scarry’s 90th birthday, Sterling Publishing will be honoring the life and work of the beloved author and illustrator—who wrote and illustrated more than 300 books, and sold more than 200 million copies worldwide—with a 90-day promotion.
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New Line from Lerner
Lerner Publishing Group, which publishes children’s fiction and nonfiction for both the trade and for the school/library markets through its nine imprints, will launch a new brand of nonfiction titles for K-2 readers designed to appeal to schools and libraries: Lightning Bolt Books.
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Krieger to Retire from Aladdin
Ellen Krieger, v-p and associate publisher of Aladdin, will retire at the end of June.
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Harper Offers Teens Some Summer Chills
On the heels of last fall’s vampire-focused Pitch Black promotion and tour, HarperCollins is gathering a group of writers for a campaign that’s equally at home with the darker side of YA fiction: its Supernatural Summer promotion.
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Need a Summer Job? Promote a Book!
Authors Jake Halpern and Peter Kajawinski hit upon a novel way to get the word out about their new fantasy novel, Dormia (Houghton, May): a virtual summer “internship” for readers ages 11 to 17.
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R.L. Stine Visits Chinese Fans
Published in the U.S. by Scholastic, R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels have sold more than five million copies in China since 2002, when Jieli Publishing House launched the series there. Stine spent two weeks touring five cities across the country.
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