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Hope for the Holidays: A Bookseller Survey
Despite the difficult economic climate, children’s booksellers nationwide expressed cautious confidence in the upcoming holiday sales season in our pre-holiday survey, though they were less certain about the prospects for early 2009. And several felt that children’s books, as a category, might fare better than adult.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books Do You Love Me? Joost Elffers and Curious Pictures . HarperCollins/Bowen , $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-166799-2 Elffers (Food Play) teams up with Curious Pictures, producer of such TV shows as Little Einsteins, to introduce Snuzzles. Amorphous and solid-colored, the Snuzzles look a lot like rubber squeak toys, with their heads defined only by protrusions for noses and ears and ...
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On Tour with Dave and Ridley
Science Fair, the seventh collaboration between Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, pubbed with a 250,000-copy first printing. The pair then embarked on an eight-city tour over 10 days, including a visit to Good Morning America.
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Q & A with Ellen Klages
TheGreen Glass Sea, winner of the 2007 Scott O’Dell Award, tells the story of the creation of the first atomic bomb through the eyes of Suze and Dewey, two children of scientists working on the project. Bookshelf spoke with Ellen Klages about her sequel, White Sands, Red Menace (Viking), set in Alamogordo, N.M, after the war.
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Peachy Performance for a YA Series
Three very different teens forge a friendship one summer while working in a Georgia peach orchard in Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Peaches, published in 2005 by HarperTeen. The girls were reunited in 2006’s Secret of Peaches and meet once again in Love and Peaches, which was released this week with an initial print run of 100,000 copies.
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Letter from London
Children's publishing news from London for October 2008.
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An Encore for Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers’s Dance Sequence, six novels with shared themes (though not characters) debuted 30 years ago with the publication of Breaktime. This month, Amulet Books is releasing paperback reissues of this young adult novel, as well as the second installment, Dance on My Grave. The publisher will reissue the third and fourth books, Now I Know and The Toll Bridge, in spring 2009.
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Children's Book Reviews
Picture Books I Got Two Dogs John Lithgow , illus. by Robert Neubecker. Simon & Schuster , $17.99 (32p with CD) ISBN 978-1-4169-5881-9 Lithgow’s (I’m a Manatee) singing tribute to a couple of canine ne’er-do-wells named Fanny and Blue strives for the kind of goofy, bouncy simplicity of Burl Ives’s classic Little White Duck album.
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Lauren Thomas
You won't find Dora the Explorer at Ladels Children's Book Boutique, though you will find Fancy Nancy. That's because, owner Lauren Thomas says, Dora the Explorer books are spun off from the television cartoon series, created primarily by corporate marketers to make money. And Fancy Nancy, despite the games, the dolls, the accessories, “speaks to the child.
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Lemony Snicket Redux
The Baudelaire orphans' sad story may be over but, like a post-apocalyptic cockroach, Lemony Snicket persists—to the great delight of booksellers, children, HarperCollins and Daniel Handler himself. “I miss them,” Handler admits of Violet, Klaus and Sunny, whose adventures concluded in 2006 with The End—60 million copies from his Unfortunate Events series have sold world...
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Licensing Hotline: October 2008
A compilation of recent licensing news.
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Children’s Books Top the Bill at SCIBA
A recap of the children's events and authors at the annual Southern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show.
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Reflections on a First Trip to Frankfurt
A children's book editor attends her first Frankfurt Book Fair, and shares her impressions.
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Harper Vamps Up a Teen Promotion
With Halloween fast approaching, HarperTeen has embarked on a suitably eerie promotion for three of its authors with vampire-themed novels. Pitch Black is an online/offline campaign that involves a content-heavy Web site, a sweepstakes giveaway and a five-city author tour for authors Ellen Schreiber (the Vampire Kisses series), Nancy A. Collins (the Vamps series) and Claudia Gray (Evernight).
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Seo Stepping Down at S&S
Ginee Seo, v-p and editorial director of Ginee Seo Books, an imprint of Atheneum Books for Young Readers at Simon & Schuster, has resigned from her position with the publisher, according to an internal memo sent earlier this week by Atheneum v-p and publisher Emma Dryden.
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Movie Alert: 'Twilight'
The film based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling novel Twilight will premiere on November 21.
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Bad News - Gerbils Dead
A children's book editor attends the Frankfurt Book Fair, and receives an email from her husband.
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Poetry Book Has Readers Feeling the Beat
Hip Hop Speaks to Children (Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, Oct.), a collection of 51 songs and poems edited by Nikki Giovanni, isn’t only turning children on to poetry; the book and its companion audio CD is resonating with adults, too.
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'Nerd' Night in NYC
Author John Green kicked off his national tour for Paper Towns (Dutton) last Thursday evening at the Barnes & Noble in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood.
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Q & A with Zoë B. Alley and R.W. Alley
Bookshelf spoke with R.W. Alley and Zoë B. Alleyabout their new picture book, There’s a Wolf at the Door (Roaring Brook/Porter).
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