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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 12/3/2007
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'Twas the Day After Christmas…
While traditional wisdom says it's the days leading up to Christmas that count most for publishers and booksellers, some children's book people think otherwise. The week after Christmas, according to Joan de Mayo, senior v-p, director of sales for Random House Children's Books, is now a “prime time to release big books.
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Pullman's Controversial Compass Sails into Theaters
New Line Cinema’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel The Golden Compass had its world premiere in London Tuesday night and has already received a four-star review from The Guardian. The author and director have been under fire over the controversial religious content in Pullman’s books as well as the celluloid interpretation, which debuts here on December 7.
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Children's Books: Week of 11/23/2007
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Kaplan Early Learning Buys Gryphon House
Kaplan Early Learning Company has acquired Gryphon House, a purchase that unites two leaders in publishing for the early childhood edcuation market.
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Alloy Makes a Go of It in Hollywood
Anyone who's been watching The CW this fall is intimately familiar with the tangled lives of a certain upper-crust group of New York City teenagers. But the penthouse-living, private-school-attending, alcohol-swilling high schoolers portrayed on Gossip Girl were already popular with America's teens, thanks to the bestselling book series of the same name that Alloy Entertainment created.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 11/19/2007
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Toon Books: Comics for Kids
Françoise Mouly, New Yorker art director and wife of acclaimed cartoonist Art Spiegelman, announced plans to launch a new line of book format comics called Toon Books, aimed at readers ages four and up.
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Moving On Up: Pinkalicious
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Lookybook Site to Promote Picture Books
A California-based startup company unveils Lookybook, an interactive book community Web site that enables people to browse through hundreds of picture books and post comments about them before deciding whether to purchase the book on Amazon.
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RDR Books Agrees to Delay Potter Title
On November 8, RDR Books proposed an order to the New York Federal Court agreeing to temporarily withhold publication of its planned title The Harry Potter Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark. Judge Robert Patterson accepted the order to delay publication of the book until he can determine the merits of a lawsuit filed on October 31 by Potter author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. which claims that the Lexicon violates Rowling’s copyright.
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It Takes a Village to Finish a Trilogy
To conclude the trilogy she began with 2003's A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray required coffee, chocolate, a coterie of writing buddies coaxing her on, a few all-nighters, and an “intervention” by her publisher to overcome a pernicious case of writer's block. “I can honestly say I've never worked so hard on anything in my life.
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 11/12/2007
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Children’s Book Reviews: Week of 11/5/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/29/2007
Picture Books Out Came the Sun: A Day in Nursery Rhymes Heather Collins . Kids Can , $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55337-881-5 Collins arranges 45 mostly familiar nursery rhymes in a sun-up to sundown romp starring a multi-species stuffed animal family, who made similar appearances in her Traditional Fairy Tales series of board books.
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Six Authors, and Colin Farrell, Click at Borders
Click turned out to be an apt title for a new children’s novel, as several of the book’s contributors found themselves in the middle of a photographer feeding frenzy this past Monday, thanks to film star Colin Farrell.
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The Book That Takes Off Running
Over the years, innovative advances in children's book publishing—books that light up, books that talk, books for the bathtub—have become almost commonplace. But this December, Workman will offer a new twist on how to show and tell with Gallop! by Rufus Butler Seder, a paper-over-board children's title that utilizes a trademarked, patented technology called Scanimation to seemingly ...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 10/22/2007
Christmas Books We Three Kings Gennady Spirin . S&S/Atheneum , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-82114-1 Opulence befitting royalty characterizes Spirin's (The Tale of the Firebird) lush, jewel-hued watercolor-and-colored-pencil interpretation of the beloved carol about the three wise men (and their extensive entourages) who traverse afar.
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Disney Heads to White Plains
Employees of Disney Publishing Worldwide have started to make the move from their current offices in New York to a new location in White Plains. The editorial teams of Disney Press, Hyperion Books for Children and Disney Editions will remain in Manhattan.
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The Great Read Draws Thousands
to ColumbiaYou’d expect thousands of readers to throng the quad at New York City’s Columbia University on a beautiful October day, but you might not expect those readers to be under the age of eight. That’s just what occurred Sunday, however, as parents and small children--and authors such as Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton--flocked to Columbia, lured by the New York Times Great Children’s Read.
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