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  • Kelly Link Brings YA Collection to Viking

    Acclaimed literary fantasist and publisher of her own work signs deal with Viking for children’s book

  • New Pottermania Titles Exclusive to Borders

    Borders is selling two exclusive, original Harry Potter-related titles as part of its promotion for the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

  • Children's Book Reviews: Week of 4/16/2007

  • Licensing Hotline: April 2007

  • Danger Was Their Game

    The Dangerous Book for Boys may hit on two cultural taboos—sexism and endangering children—but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a U.K. bestseller. Co-author Conn Iggulden talks about his nostalgia for the good old days, when boys raced go-carts and hunted rabbits.

  • In Celebration of Poetry

    Children's poetry has been getting more exposure recently, making headlines at the end of last year when Jack Prelutsky was named the first-ever Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.

  • Children’s Paperback Backlist

  • Chronicle Names Children’s Publishing Director

  • Audio Renaissance Launches Children's Division

    Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck, makes its debut April 3 with the release of The One and Only Shrek!

  • London vs. Bologna, 2007

    This year, due to scheduling issues, the London Book Fair will be held just a week before the Bologna Fair, causing problems for children's publishers who have in the past attended both.

  • Kids’ Comics on the Rise @ New York Comic Con

    With Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese winning the 2007 Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature and Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto, Volume 7 getting a Quill Award last fall for graphic novels, coupled with recent announcements like Scholastic's, that it will release lesson plans for its graphic novels starting this spring, it's clear that the market for graphic novels for kids is expanding rapidly.

  • Are Picture Books Back?

    In 2005, when a beleaguered picture-book market had many publishers cutting their lists in half, Chip Gibson, president of Random House Books for Young Readers, took bold action, launching a new imprint devoted solely to picture books.

  • Way Cool: Marketing and the Internet

    It's a typical weekday after school. Do you know where more than 21 million teenagers are?

  • The Young and the Graphic Novel

    When it comes to graphic books for kids, it's no longer just manga.

  • Movie Alert

    Meet the Robinsons, an animated film that is loosely based on William Joyce's 1993 picture book A Day with Wilbur Robinson, will be released by Disney on March 30.

  • From Sparkles to Sales, Nancy Is Fancy Indeed

    She's an exuberant young lady with a fondness for all things fancy—and a book character whom readers certainly fancy.

  • Chooseco Embarks on Its Own Adventure

    Placing young readers smack-dab at the center of the action—and in control of the plot twists, the Choose Your Own Adventure series found an eager audience when Bantam launched the first of these paperbacks back in 1979.

  • Licensing Hotline: January 2007

  • Licensing Hotline: October 2006

  • Two Decades of Fun and Learning on the Magic School Bus

    It's been quite a ride for wacky science teacher Ms. Frizzle and her students, who have been enthusiastic passengers on the soaring Magic School Bus for two decades. Launched in 1986, this spirited science series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen encompasses 131 titles over a variety of formats and has sold more than 58 million copies.

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