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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/11/2009
Appearing in this week's reviews: dinosaur/truck hybrids, a magical box, musically-inclined swamp animals, aliens with an appetite for people, a teen trying to hide his superpowers, re-imagined classic Greek myths, a round-up of concept books and more.
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Little, Brown Announces Twilight Publishing Schedule
More titles set for the mega-selling Twilight books.
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Alloy to Adapt "Private" for Web TV Series
Alloy Entertainment, which created and produced Gossip Girl, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and other hits, is producing and financing its first online entertainment program and web series, based on its bestselling book series Private. The series will debut on Alloy Media + Marketing’s Teen.com network.
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Emily the Strange: From Fashion to Fiction
On June 2, HarperCollins’ HarperTeen imprint will release Emily the Strange: The Lost Days, the first in a series of four novels starring Emily, a quirky, independent 13-year-old who got her start 15 years ago as a design on a line of t-shirts and skateboards.
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PEN World Voices: The Evolution Revolution
Two hundred years after Charles Darwin began a discussion of human evolution, people are still talking. The discussion, and specifically the issue of teaching evolution to children, continued Sunday at a PEN World Voices panel held at powerHouse Books in Brooklyn. Entitled, “Evolution for Children: The Fight Goes On,” the panel brought together authors Vicky Cobb, Tijs Goldschmidt, Deborah Heiligman and Mary Ann Hoberman.
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BookExpo America 2009: BEA Children's Checklist: What to See and Where to Be Seen
This year’s BookExpo America convention, being held in New York City at the end of this month, will feature a host of programs and events for those interested in children’s books. In addition to our previous roundup of activities and our extensive listing of Galleys to Grab at the show, here are a few more tidbits to know about.
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PEN World Voices: Discussing Kids and Reading, Online and on Page
Whether picture books are “exempt” from the digital questions facing the publishing industry, and the perennial issue of how best to engage kids in reading, were just a few of the topics discussed during “The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children’s Books to Create a Love of Reading”at the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival.
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Surprises About Men: Unexpected Lessons from the Other Side
Garret Freymann-Weyr's novel After the Moment, about a teenager haunted by a past relationship and the events that drove them apart, comes out this month from Houghton Mifflin. I didn’t set out to write a book from a young man’s point of view, but once Leigh’s story began forming in my mind and on the page, I knew I had some work to do.
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Q & A with Jenny Han
Bookshelf spoke with Jenny Han about her new novel, The Summer I Turned Pretty (S&S, May).
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PEN World Voices: When I Grow Up…
Shaun Tan was a small kid who compensated for his short stature by aspiring to be the best artist in school. Mariken Jongman was a shy girl who had only an imaginary friend to keep her company. Neil Gaiman was an energetic mischief-maker who excelled at the school subjects that interested him, and failed miserably at those which did not. Though they came from different backgrounds and had vastly different childhoods, they all grew up to become celebrated children’s book authors.
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Craig Virden Dies
Craig Virden, former head of children’s books at Random House, died Wednesday morning of a pulmonary embolism. He was 56.
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In S&S Kids Reorg, New Roles for Chanda, Anastas; Dryden to Leave
In a reorganization in the Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing division, Justin Chanda will take over day-to-day reponsibilities of the Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry imprints; v-p and publisher Emma Dryden, who had been in charge of those imprints, is leaving the company. Other changes include the departures of Frank Totaro and Kevin Lewis, and the promotion of Mara Anastas.
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PW's Review of "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series comes to a close with the release of The Last Olympian, which goes on sale today and has a 1.2-million copy first printing. The PW review follows.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 5/4/2009
Among this week's reviews: the latest picture books from Vera B. Williams and Jane Yolen, debut novels from Hallie Durand and Jacqueline Kelley, and a round-up of titles commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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Children's Sales to Stay Soft
Areport from Publishers Weekly and the Institute for Publishing Research projects soft sales for children's books through the end of 2012, with the lowest numbers in the five-year span expected for 2009. According to the new PW/IPR Book Sales Index, total children's trade sales totaled $3.16 billion in 2008; that number will dip to $3.
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Pannell Awards Announced
The 2009 Pannell Awards have been announced. In the children's specialty category, the winner is Mrs. Nelson’s Toy and Book Shop in LaVerne, Calif. In the general bookstore category, the winner is Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, with honorable mention going to That Bookstore in Blytheville, in Blytheville, Ark.
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Capstone Teaches How to Get Stimulus Funding
Capstone Publishers, a Mankato, Minn.-based library market publisher, offered an audience of school library professionals a Web-based seminar on how to organize to get funding for their libraries from the stimulus plan.
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Kids' Authors in Abundance at L.A. Festival
From all reports, last weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was a rousing success. Children’s authors met their fans and signed thousands of books.
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‘The Sorceress’ Heats Up with Marketing Muscle
The “Summer of the Sorceress” campaign, which heralds the arrival of The Sorceress, third book in Michael Scott’s bestselling Immortal Secrets of Nicholas Flamel fantasy series, kicked off last weekend with RHCB’s first-ever PDF/e-book giveaway.
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Q & A with Gayle Forman
Bookshelf spoke with Gayle Forman about her new novel, If I Stay (Dutton).
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