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Barron’s Scores with ‘Museum’
Barron's novelization of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is the top seller this week for the reference and educational publisher.
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Phoenix Books Launches Children's Line
California publisher Phoenix Books is launching a children’s division. The first book, published under the already existing Dove imprint, will be released in September, with Carl Reiner’s Tell Me Another Scary Story... But Not Too Scary! The line will also include a series for tweens called I (heart)..., about celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Robert Pattinson, Selena Gomez and the Jonas Brothers.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/25/2009
Among this week's reviews are picture books from George McClements, Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Bob Barner; novels from Susane Colasanti, Adam Rapp and Blake Nelson; and an Iraq war memoir from a young soldier.
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Amulet Announces 'Wimpy Kid' Contest Winner
Amulet Books has announced the winner of its Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Comic contest. The winner, chosen by Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney, is Thomas Kaili Fields, age 13, of Cathedral Grade School in Belleville, Ill.
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Arabic-Language Children’s Prize to Launch
Arabic-language children’s publishers have a new book prize: the Etisalat Award for Arab Children’s literature, which promises one million dirham ($270,000) to the best Arab children’s book of the year. The award will be presented for the first time during the annual Sharjah World Book Fair this November.
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Visiting Bookstores Virtually
Two Random House Children’s Books authors have recently embarked on national book tours—without hitting the road. Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl, Knopf) and Libba Bray (The Sweet Far Thing, Delacorte) are promoting the recent paperback editions of their bestselling novels with virtual bookstore “appearances” to launch the Dial Into Summer program.
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Meeting Rick Riordan: Claire and Rachel’s Excellent Adventure
PW’s Midwest correspondent takes her daughter on a road trip to meet Percy Jackson creator Rick Riordan.
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Q & A with Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Bookshelf spoke with children's author Amy Krouse Rosenthal about her four spring picture books.
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Hitching a ‘Ride’ with Sarah Dessen
For many teen girls, it just wouldn’t be summer without a new Sarah Dessen novel to kick back with. Happily, the bestselling author—whose books have combined sales of over four million copies—won’t be disappointing any of her fans this year. Her latest, Along for the Ride (Viking), goes on sale June 16 with a 250,000-copy first printing.
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Knopf to Publish ‘Eragon’ Novelty Book
This fall, Knopf Books for Young Readers will publish Christopher Paolini’s Eragon’s Guide to Alagaësia, a novelty gift book tie-in to the author’s bestselling Inheritance cycle novels.
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Remembering Craig Virden
Craig Virden, who headed the children’s division of Bantam Doubleday Dell and then the combined Random House children’s group, died suddenly on May 6, at the age of 56. Here, colleagues, friends and authors pay tribute to his literary acumen, his warmth and generosity, and his joie de vivre.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/18/2009
This week's reviews include novels by Robert B. Parker, James Rollins, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, and Jake Wizner, along with round-ups of new pop-up books and picture book sequels.
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Josalyn Moran to Run Chronicle Children's Division
Josalyn Moran, who has been v-p of children’s books at Barnes & Noble for the past nine years, will oversee and spearhead the growth of the company’s children’s publishing program, encompassing books and other formats.
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Lerner Celebrates 50 Years with Big Bash
Claire Kirch, PW’s midwest correspondent, attended Lerner’s 50th anniversary celebration last Wednesday.
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Schroder to Leave Candlewick
Candlewick Press continues to realign its sales and marketing areas and will bring its digital development and theatrical/marketing liaison work in-house. As a result, Friday will be the last day for Charlie Schroder, who has worked with Candlewick on licensing and development for the past three years.
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Q & A with Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker’s bestselling novels about his iconic Boston private investigator Spenser have sold millions of copies worldwide. The author moves back in time in Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel, which stars this character as a 14-year-old living in a small western town with his father and two uncles, due this month from Philomel with a 150,000-copy first printing.
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The Cat in the Hat Heads to TV
In fall 2010, PBS Kids will debut The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, the first animated TV series based on a Dr. Seuss character. Inspired by the nonfiction Beginner Books series The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library, the show will focus on natural science and will complement PBS’s other science-themed preschool programming.
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McElderry to Publish ‘A Little Princess’ Sequel
News is just in from Margaret K. McElderry Books that the house has acquired the rights to publish Wishing for Tomorrow, a sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1905 classic, A Little Princess., to be written by British author Hilary McKay. McElderry Books will release the novel in January 2010.
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Eden Ross Lipson Dies
Eden Ross Lipson, forner children’s books editor of the New York Times, and a tireless champion of children's books and literacy, died of complications from pancreatic cancer on Tuesday, at the age of 66. She had been an editor at the New York Times Book Review for 31 years, and had served as the children’s editor from 1984 until retiring in 2005.
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Simon & Schuster Prepares for Last Book in Pendragon Series
S&S's children's division is gearing up for a multi-platform publicity and marketing campaign to coincide with the release of the 10th and final book in D.J. MacHale’s bestselling Pendragon series, The Soldiers of Halla, which goes on sale today.
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