Bestseller Stat Shot: Top Five Bestselling Children's, YTD
| Title | YTD unit sales |
|---|---|
| The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney | 452,601 |
| Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss | 325,906 |
| Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss | 284,840 |
| One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss | 239,413 |
| The Fault in Our Stars by John Green | 226,380 |
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Tip Sheet
Álvaro Enrigue, author of Hypothermia (Dalkey Archive), a collection of stories loosely based on Dante’s Inferno, picks 10 books based on other books.
Children’s Bookshelf
Charlie Joe Jackson, arguably the most famous book character to hate reading, stars in a summer reading initiative.
Cooking the Books
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Kids who go to the local kids’ bookstore grow up, and sometimes they come back to say how important the store was to them.
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Podcasts
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Bestselling author Holly Black talks about her new YA book, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, and her efforts to tackle the vampire novel. publishersweekly.com/blackkidscast More to Come The More to Come crew previews San Diego Comic-Con, discusses the results from PW’s annual comics retailers survey, and more. Subscribe to our podcasts in iTunes, or listen at
Authors
Clifton Leaf, author of The Truth in Small Doses (Simon & Schuster), diagnoses some of the ills in the war on cancer and what can be done to fix them. PEN Short Fiction Award–winner Peter von Ziegesar talks about his new book, The Looking Glass Brothers (St. Martin’s), and about his relationship with his homeless younger stepbrother.
Events
Going to Comic-Con? PW’s comics reviews editor Heidi MacDonald is appearing on several panels at San Diego Comic-Con—among them, “How to Get News Coverage for Small Press Publishers,” on July 18 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 8, and the “8th Annual All Stars Podcasters Panel” on July 18 at 4 p.m. in Room 28DE. And if you can’t make the show, we’ll be doing daily podcast recaps here starting July 19.
Webcasts
Join us for a live webcast on August 1: Serving Up the Next Hot Cookbook, moderated by PW senior reviews editor Mark Rotella and featuring panelists from Robert Rose Inc., Harvard Common Press, and Parragon. publishersweekly.com/webcasts
PW Radio
The Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon, author of Crafting Calm (Viva Editions), talks about finding inner peace and serenity through handicraft. Plus PW religion editor Marcia Z. Nelson reports on the Christian Publishing Expo. Also this week, catch a special edition of PW Radio about the Apple price-fixing verdict, with PW senior writer Andrew Richard Albanese, author of The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon, and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-book Business Overnight.
We’ve updated The Battle of $9.99—the definitive account of the Apple e-book price-fixing case—since the verdict was handed down, with new information and analysis about what’s in store for Apple and the industry. It’s available now. publishersweekly.com/shop
