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Spring 2006 Flying Starts
Profiles of six authors making their children's book debuts this spring.
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'Cathy' Causes Foreign Frenzy for Running Press
Although Cathy's Book may not, as its press materials note, be the start of a new genre in YA fiction, it's a pretty inventive take on the category.
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Moving On Up: Warriors
The Warriors cat-centric fantasy series by Erin Hunter (HarperCollins) has quietly crept onto bestseller lists via grassroots fan support on the Internet.
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Children’s Bookshelf talks with Julie Just
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Spring 2005 Flying Starts
Teens already rule at the multiplex and the music store. Now, more than ever, they're also showing their clout at the bookstore.
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Movie Alert: Don't Miss Don't Move
Here's the hopeful Hollywood hook for Don't Move, which opened last Friday, October 11, in a few arthouse theaters here: in the movie, Penelope Cruz is beautiful and gives the best performance of her career--despite being made up haggard, despite having been raped by the lead, despite not speaking in English.
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Movie Alert: Odd Girl Out Back In Spotlight
Odd Girl Out will be the center of attention on Monday, April 4, at 9 p.m., when Lifetime Television airs its original movie based on the 2002 bestseller by Rachel Simmons.
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Fall 2004 Flying Starts
Five acclaimed fall children's book debuts.
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Spring 2004 Flying Starts
Five authors and artists who made noteworthy debuts this spring.
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Spring 2003 Flying Starts
Six first-time children's authors and illustrators talk about their road to publication
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Licensing Hotline: February 2003
HarperEntertainment will publish a series of Beginner Reader Books, starting in May, based on the toy brand Li'l Pet Hospital, created by Kenn Viselman presents....
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Licensing Hotline: October 2002
Viacom Consumer Products is extending several of its African-American television series into books. "[Viacom subsidiary] Paramount is the single largest supplier of African-American TV programming," said Risa Kessler, Viacom's publishing representative. "We've all been spending a lot of time on the African-American properties, thinking about the right way to merchandise them.
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Licensing Hotline: October 2002
This month TokyoPop is releasing a graphic novel based on the Disney/Pixar film Monsters, Inc....
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Licensing Hotline: August 2002
Big Idea Productions, licensor of VeggieTales and other values-based video series, is launching a book program with Zondervan's Zonderkidz imprint. The publisher will introduce 10 titles in 2002, including five tied to Big Idea's first film, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, and 20 more in 2003. Other properties included in the agreement are LarryBoy, 3-2-1 Penguins! and The Great Cheese Squeeze: A...
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Spring 2002 Flying Starts
Four first-time children's book authors and illustrators talk about their road to publication
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Licensing Hotline: March 2002
HarperCollins is publishing six beginning readers and one picture book tied to Sony Pictures' Harold and the Purple Crayon TV series on HBO, starting with a Festival reader last December and another last month. Harper's backlist includes the Crockett Johnson book on which the show is based.... Fisher-Price renewed its licensing agreement with Reader's Digest Children's Publishing, a partn...
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Fall 2001 Flying Starts
Six first-time children's authors and illustrators talk about their fall debuts
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Licensing Hotline: October 2001
Random House and Merrymakers plan to mark the November publication of Barbara Parks's Junie B., First Grader (at last!), the series' first hardcover, with a shoelace giveaway.
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Licensing Hotline: August 2001
British author Sally Hunter's Humphrey's Corner, published in June in the U.S. by Henry Holt, is already expanding into nonbook categories through licensing.
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Licensing Hotline: July 2001
Disney Publishing Worldwide has signed a deal with the Baby Einstein Company for a series of books based on Baby Einstein's interactive videos for infants. The first seven titles—board books, tabbed board books and a picture-book/CD package—will be released this fall. This is just the latest recent example of a publisher creating licensed titles tying in with direct-to-video prod...
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