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Children's Book Reissues: September and October 2016
Here we offer a roundup of some noteworthy children's books that are making their way back into print this fall.
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Rights Report: Week of September 26, 2016
New deals for Jason Reynolds, Danielle Paige, Miriam McNamara, Sara Holland, Winifred Conkling, and Linda Skeer.
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New Kids' and YA Books: Week of September 26, 2016
Hitting shelves next week are a picture book about penguins with problems, a middle grade novel in the vein of Chaucer, and a new dystopian YA from a bestselling author.
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Galley Talk: 'History Is All You Left Me'
Amy Cherrix, children's buyer at Malaprop's Bookstore and Café in Asheville, N.C., looks forward to steering teen readers toward 'History Is All You Left Me' by Adam Silvera, due from Soho Teen in January.
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Rights Report: Week of September 19, 2016
New deals for Bernie Sanders, Mayim Bialik, Sophie Blackall, Jacob Grant, and Barbara Dee.
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On His 90th Birthday, Winnie-the-Pooh Finds a New Friend
One snowy day, Winnie-the-Pooh meets a penguin in the snow-encrusted Hundred Acre Wood, and his circle of friends expands.
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Kids' Book for 'Rebel Girls' Tops $1M in Crowdfunding
This month 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls,' with stories about 100 famous women from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and 100 original pieces of art by artists around the world, broke another crowdfunding record.
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'Story Thieves' Captures Readers
Who hasn't fantasized about becoming a character in their favorite book? Author James Riley has turned that idea into a bit of wish fulfillment by creating the briskly selling Story Thieves series.
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New Kids' and YA Books: Week of September 15, 2016
Hitting shelves next week are a new work from actor and children's author Jamie Lee Curtis; a middle grade novel from a Newbery Medalist about contemporary families; and a retelling of a classic Russian fairy tale with a Brooklyn milieu.
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Path to Publication: 'The Hawkweed Prophecy'
Londoner Irena Brignull's 'The Hawkweed Prophecy,' a novel about two teenagers – one a witch, one not – that blends fantasy and feminist thought, has been a long time coming.
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'Dark Horses' Marks a Departure for Cecily von Ziegesar
Author of the internationally bestselling Gossip Girl series, Cecily von Ziegesar moves onto new turf in 'Dark Horses.'
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Bringing It 'Home': Chris Raschka Completes Vera Williams's Final Book
It's a story that gives the notion of collaboration unusual resonance. Chris Raschka collaborated with Vera B. Williams in a particularly heartwarming way on the late Williams's final picture book, 'Home at Last.'
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Rights Report: Week of September 12, 2016
New deals for Temple Grandin, Shaun Hutchinson, Lou Anders, Sarah Beth Durst, Tracy Barrett, and Tricia Tusa.
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Adam Shaughnessy Brings His Storytelling Skills to the Page
In Adam Shaughnessy's debut middle-grade novel, 'The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB,' two kids are recruited into the Fantasy Investigation Bureau to help rescue their town from invading Viking gods and giants.
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'This Is America' Compiles Miroslav Sasek's U.S. Guides
From the Golden Gate Bridge to a Texas rodeo to Cape Canaveral to the Statue of Liberty, a new picture book from Universe Publishing revisits some of the landmarks spotlighted in Miroslav Sasek's many whimsical travel guides to American sites.
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New Kids' and YA Books: Week of September 12, 2016
Hitting shelves next week are a picture book featuring a tiny tyrant, a middle grade graphic novel about two sisters confronting mortality on the Day of the Dead, and a YA novel set in a world where one night of lawlessness is followed by a memory erasure.
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Rights Report: Week of September 5, 2016
New deals for Olivia Cole, Ammi-Joan Paquette, and Mike Cavallaro.
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New Kids' and YA Books: Week of September 5, 2016
Hitting shelves next week are a picture book following two children through a world of stories, a middle grade graphic novel featuring two unlikely friends battling mutant foes, and a YA novel in which a teen struggles for popularity with a group of rumored witches.
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Rights Report: Week of August 29, 2016
New deals for Edith Pattou, Sharon Biggs Waller, Jeffrey Michael Ruby, Beth Ferry, and Eric and Terry Fan.
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Scholastic Releases 'Fantastic Beasts' Cover Design
Scholastic has released the cover design for 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay' by J.K. Rowling, along with additional covers from Scholastic’s 'Fantastic Beasts' movie tie-ins.