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Balzer and Bray to Launch New Children’s Imprint at HC

By Rachel Deahl | 04/09/2008 @ 07:27PM

Top Hyperion publishing execs Donna Bray and Alessandra Balzer are leaving the company to launch their own imprint at HarperCollins. Balzer & Bray is expected to release its first list in fall 2009.
Children's Book Reviews

| 04/07/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable Revisited Nikki Giovanni , illus. by Chris Raschka. Candlewick , $16.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3021-8 “Every year the same thing happens. The Grasshoppers sing, the Ants work in rhythm, the crops come up smoothly, and when winter comes, the Ants turn their backs.
Licensing Hotline: April 2008

By Karen Raugust | 04/03/2008 @ 10:00AM

There’s lots of licensing news to report, some of it from last month’s Toy Fair, including word on new Clone Wars tie-ins, Uglydolls books from Random House and Yo Gabba Gabba titles from Simon & Schuster. Also news about Kim Parker, Thunderbirds and Playhouse Disney, along with a sheaf of briefs.
Riordan Talks Up Clues in Bologna

By Diane Roback | 04/02/2008 @ 11:20AM

Bestselling author Rick Riordan was brought to Bologna by Scholastic to introduce The 39 Clues series, a multi-platform middle-grade adventure series, which launches this September. Hyperion also announced a million-copy print run for the fourth Percy Jackson book, The Battle of the Labyrinth, as well as two new series from the author.
At 50, MadLibs Continues to ( verb )

by Sally Lodge | 03/31/2008 @ 06:00AM

What began as nothing more than a party game for adults has, over time, become a household name and a publishing sensation. For 50 years, kids and adults have mined their imaginations, throwing out nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs to fill in the blanks and create wacky Mad Libs stories. Self-published by Leonard Stern and Roger Price in 1958, the original Mad Libs has spawned 71 subsequent ...
Children's Book Reviews

| 03/31/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books What to Do About Alice? Barbara Kerley , illus. by Edwin Fotheringham. Scholastic , $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-92231-9 It’s hard to imagine a picture book biography that could better suit its subject than this high-energy volume serves young Alice Roosevelt. Kerley (The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins) knows just how to introduce her to contemporary readers: “Theod...
Julie Andrews Moves Children's Line to Little, Brown

By Rachel Deahl | 03/28/2008 @ 02:00PM

Julie Andrews has relocated her children's publishing venture, the Julie Andrews Collection, from HarperCollins to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The first title LBBYR is set to release from the Collection is due in fall 2009.
Audible Gets Into Children’s Market

By Rachel Deahl | 03/28/2008 @ 02:00PM

Expanding into downloadable children's audio, Audible is launching a companion site to its flasghip, AudibleKids.com. The site, which goes live on Monday, will feature community aspects and nearly 4,000 titles; offerings will vary, from early reader titles to YA books.
Roaring Brook’s Web Wonder

By Shannon Maughan | 03/28/2008 @ 02:00PM

One of the hottest things on the Internet right now is a one minute 20 second video of someone flipping through a children’s book. Pretty heady stuff in the age of Britney Spears and Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel. The bookish star of the clip is ABC3D (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter), a pop-up by French artist Marion Bataille.
Children’s Book Week Springs into New Territory

By John A. Sellers, Children's Bookshelf | 03/27/2008 @ 06:00AM

For the first time in its 88-year history, Children’s Book Week moves from its traditional home in November to early May this year.
Q&A with Philip Pullman

By Donna Freitas, Children's Bookshelf | 03/27/2008 @ 06:00AM

Children's Bookshelf spoke with Philip Pullman about his new novel, Once Upon a Time in the North (Knopf).
Sweet Valley High: Back in Session

By Sally Lodge, Children's Bookshelf | 03/27/2008 @ 04:00AM

In 1983, Bantam published the first of Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High novels, starring a pair of twins: sweet, studious Elizabeth and scheming, snobby Jessica. Sales of the 156 novels in the series reached 60 million copies. Now Random House Children’s Books is introducing these teenage twins to a new generation of readers.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 3/24/2008

| 03/21/2008 @ 06:00AM
Letter from London

By Julia Eccleshare, Children's Bookshelf | 03/20/2008 @ 04:00AM

A roundup of British publishing news, including changes at Scholastic, awards for Templar, and a survey showing that kids are growing up faster than ever.
Children's Book Reviews

| 03/17/2008 @ 06:00AM

Picture Books Cool Daddy Rat Kristyn Crow , illus. by Mike Lester. Putnam , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-24375-2 Debut author Crow’s hip ode to jazz (and scat in particular) will sweep up its audience in its catchy beat as kinetic cartoon art adds verve and wit. Blue-gray rats with bulbous snouts and ever-expressive eyes star in the animals-only tale.
‘Pigeon’ Fans Want An... Answer

By John A. Sellers, Children's Bookshelf | 03/13/2008 @ 06:00AM

How high can Pigeon fly? Hyperion hopes that the arrival of the latest addition to Mo Willems’s picture book series next month will only add to Pigeon’s mischievous appeal. The new book, which boasts a 250,000-copy first printing, is currently referred to as The Pigeon Wants A...; the full title will not be revealed until the book’s April 1 pub date.
Mélanie Watt and Scaredy Squirrel Flying High

By Sally Lodge, Children's Bookshelf | 03/13/2008 @ 06:00AM

One of Kids Can Press’s bestselling authors, Mélanie Watt, clearly struck a resonant chord with kids when she created the character of Scaredy Squirrel, who initially refuses to leave his nut tree for fear of encountering green Martians, killer bees and ferocious sharks. Published in January 2006, Scaredy Squirrel spawned a spring 2007 sequel, Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, which together have sold 70,000 copies and have been published in eight languages.
Q&A with 'Hotlanta' Authors

By Kate Pavao, Children's Bookshelf | 03/05/2008 @ 07:00AM

Children's Bookshelf spoke with Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller, co-authors of
Hotlanta (Scholastic/Point, Apr.), first in a three-book series about two affluent African-American teens, and the mystery they get embroiled in.
Children's Book Reviews: Week of 3/3/2008

| 02/29/2008 @ 07:00AM

Picture Books Minutka: The Bilingual Dog/ La Perra Bilingüe Anna Mycek-Wodecki , trans. from the Spanish by Diana Abt. Milet (IPG, dist.), $9.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-84059-509-3 Minutka, a tiny spotted dog, dances about the gray pages of this small, black-and-white square book, chatting about herself in English and Spanish: “Look at me!” read the words at the top of the page; &...
'Little Vampire' Rises Again

By John Sellers, Children's Bookshelf | 02/28/2008 @ 07:00AM

Mark Siegel, editorial director at Roaring Brook’s First Second imprint, hopes that resurrecting a series by French comic book creator Joann Sfar can help the author find the same popularity here that he does abroad. This April, the imprint will release Little Vampire, a compilation of three graphic novels by Sfar, the first two of which had been published individually by Simon & Schuster five years ago.

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PW KidsCast: A Conversation with Dan Gemeinhart
Dan Gemeinhart spoke with PW KidsCast about his new middle grade novel, ‘Coyote Lost and Found,’ the follow up to ‘The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise,’ and returning to his beloved characters.