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Children's Books for Spring: R
RANDOM HOUSE Seuss-isms for Success: Insider Tips on Economic Health from the Good Doctor and Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor ($7.99 each) by Dr. Seuss compile quotes from the author's canon. (All ages) Books Are for Reading ($8.99) by Suzy Becker is a “chew-toy book” for teething youngsters.
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Children's Books for Spring: D - G
DALMATIAN PRESS/PIGGY TOES PRESS Little Hands Love ($7.95), photos by Anthony Nex. Small hands are shown engaging in various activities. (All ages) 1-2-3 Count with Me! ($7.95) by Heather Rosas is a counting book that features flaps and a pop-up ending. (All ages) Red Riding Hood's Rainbow ($8.95) by Heather Rosas.
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Taking Steps into the Digital Future
E-books may date from the early 1970s, when Michael Hart launched Project Gutenberg, but the revolution in e-books for kids has only just begun. True, three novels from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series were library distributor Overdrive's three most downloaded e-books for 2008, but adult and children's digital books combined still make up a small percentage of book sales—less than 1% of ...
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Children's Books for Spring: A - C
ABBEVILLE KIDS Series Turn-the-Wheel by Peter Lawson introduces four board books with steering wheels ($5.95 each, boxed set $22.95, 3-up). ABRAMS Budgie & Boo ($15.95) by David McPhail tells of two gardeners—a bear and a bunny—who are best friends. (3-6) Chicken Butt! ($12.95) by Erica S.
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Children's Books for Spring: P
PARACLETE PRESS Paperback Praying in Color: Kids' Edition ($14.99) by Sybil MacBeth is an adaptation of this adult book about creative ways to pray. (7-12) PARRAGON BOOKS First Bible Stories for Boys and First Bible Stories for Girls ($TBA), illus. by Andrew Geeson and Sophie Keen, retell Old and New Testament tales.
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Children's Books for Spring: I - O
IMMEDIUM (Consortium, dist.) Chaff n' Skaffs: Mai and the Lost Moskivvy ($15.99) by Amanda Chin and Luke Feldman, illus. by Feldman. When a lost mosquito interrupts Mai's sleep, her friend Chaff suggests they escort it home. (4-8) You Might Be a Monster and Other Stories I Made Up ($15.99) by Atta Boy.
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Fall 2009 Sneak Previews
A sneak peek at the highlights from publishers' fall 2009 lists.
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New Imprints Stake a Claim
Lately, the word of the day in publishing has been “reduction,” be it in head counts or acquisitions. And while several children's imprints have been lost in recent months due to restructuring, retirements, etc., 2009 will see the arrival of a new children's publisher, Egmont USA (see “New Kid on the Block,” June 16, 2008), as well as a number of new imprints.
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Children's Books for Spring: H
HACHETTE/FAITHWORDS Paperback Series All About Us continues with Be Strong & Curvaceous and Who Made You a Princess? by Shelley Adina ($9.99 each, 12-up). And Miracle Girls adds Breaking Up Is Hard to Do by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt ($9.99, 12-up). HARPERCOLLINS Blueberry Girl ($17.99) by Neil Gaiman, illus.
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YA Book Sells to Disney; Pub Rights Pending
After Hollywood interest was brewing last week for Clete Smith's YA novel, Grandma's Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, Jody Hotchkiss of Hotchkiss & Associates has closed on a deal for film rights with Disney. The lit rights, being handled by Sterling Lord's George Nicholson, remain up for grabs.
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Scholastic Media Has Big Plans for Clifford
“It only takes a little…to BE BIG!” The motto for Scholastic Media’s new Clifford The Big Red Dog BE BIG! campaign delivers the message at the heart of this initiative: small actions based on Clifford’s Big Ideas—among them sharing, helping others, being responsible, playing fair and working together—can make the world a better place.
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HarperCollins Closes Bowen Press
On Tuesday, in response to rapidly declining sales and earnings, HarperCollins closed its Collins imprint and cut a rumored 60 positions. As part of the cutbacks, The Bowen Press, a children’s imprint that was set to launch this month, is closing, and publisher Brenda Bowen has left the company
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‘The Year We Disappeared’ to Appear on National TV
This Saturday, February 14, at 10 p.m., CBS News’s 48 Hours will air an investigation of the case chronicled in The Year We Disappeared (Bloomsbury, Aug. 2008), in which Cylin Busby and her father, John Busby, describe the chain of events that occurred 30 years ago when John, then a police officer in Falmouth, Mass., was shot in the face, and he and his family were forced into hiding.
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Q & A with K.L. Going
Children's Bookshelf spoke with K.L. Going about her new novel, King of the Screwups (Harcourt).
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Huzzahs for Humphrey
It’s not unusual for rodent characters to make it big in the world of children’s books. Currently, a humble hamster named Humphrey is riding his yellow hamster ball to popularity as star of a series of books by Betty G. Birney.
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Page to Screen: A 'Cookie Club' & a Gal's Canine Companion
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 2/9/2009
Picture Books Hello, Good-bye Arlene Alda . Tundra , $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88776-900-9 Alda (Here a Face, There a Face) attempts to enter a very crowded shelf with her photography book of opposites. For “push” and “pull,” she uses the example of a street crew trying to move a huge stone statue of Buddha; on the left side of the spread, they're shown exerting their w...
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Still Hungry After All These Years
Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 40 this spring, and Philomel is commemorating its birthday with the first-ever pop-up edition of this international bestseller.
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Q & A with Virginia Euwer Wolff
With the much anticipated release of This Full House, the final installment of the Make Lemonade trilogy, award-winning author Virginia Euwer Wolff spoke about creating the three books featuring LaVaughn, a teenage girl growing up in the projects, and Jolly, a young, single mother.
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Deluxe Young Adult Series Delivers
Dangerous gossip, star-crossed lovers, backstabbing friends, a notorious cad, an upstairs-downstairs romance. All are woven into Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe, set in 1899 Manhattan, which HarperCollins published in 2007.