05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
Writer Sarah Moon came out as gay at 14 years old. The experience, she says, left her hungry for community – and for stories from others who’d gone through what she had. Moon says her idea for The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves grew from wanting to give today’s teens connections like the ones she’d found.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
Kristin Cashore's third novel, Bitterblue, hit bookstores May 1 and hit the New York Times list (at #2) two weeks later. The Times reviewer called it "thrillingly imagined and beautifully executed." "I read that sentence over a couple of times," Cashore admits.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
By now most people know the story of Stephen Colbert showing his picture book I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) to Maurice Sendak during their January interviews on the Colbert Report. But what was the genesis for the book?
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Coinciding with its 45th anniversary, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is now available as an e-book from all major retailers, priced at $9.99 for Kindle and Nook. The announcement was made May 15 by Don Weisberg, president, Penguin Young Readers Group.
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
Most counting books are content to stop at 10 or 20. You might even find one that goes up to 100. A new, large-format picture book from a husband-and-wife team has blown past the competition by taking readers up to 1,000,000 – and showing them exactly what that number looks like. But a project that ambitious is not without design and production challenges.
05/08/2012 @ 10:00AM
Over the past year, U.S. manga publisher Viz media has begun branching out in a new direction, releasing original graphic novels created just for them.
05/03/2012 @ 03:00PM
This week, a young chef/author receives a surprise visit from Rachael Ray; teens get a sneak peek at Julie Kagawa's new YA series; and author events with Laurisa White Reyes, Mariah Fredericks, and Allegra Kent and Emily Arnold McCully.
04/27/2012 @ 07:00PM
Lots to pick up at publishers’ booths this year: favorite authors like Rachel Cohn, David Levithan, and Libba Bray are exploring new genres; some popular series are drawing to a close; and stars of other media (incuding Hunger Games director Gary Ross) are trying their hands at fiction.
04/26/2012 @ 03:00PM
In 1992, Barbara Park introduced young readers to a headstrong, unpredictable kindergartner in Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. Twenty years and 29 books later, there are a total of 52 million Junie B. Jones books in print, and the series has been translated into 12 languages.
04/26/2012 @ 03:00PM
Audrey Vernick scored a hit when she appeared at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on April 12. As part of the hall's Sibling Day festivities, the author of Brothers at Bat: The True Story of An Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of baseball lovers. Vernick's book spotlights 12 Acerra brothers from Long Branch, N.J., who formed their own semi-professional baseball team in the 1930s.
The Roundup for Book News
Publishing news from across the Web
Flavorpill cites Gossip Girl, among others.
A new musical based on Jewish-cooking-themed children's books, including Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher and Beautiful Yetta.
With the growing availability of tools to modify organisms, a creature like the Hunger Games's Mockingjay is not an impossible fantasy.
J.K. Rowling's manuscript for the first Harry Potter novel will be exhibited at the British Library.
| 1 | Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan / Author |
| 2 | Insurgent Veronica Roth / Author |
| 3 | Bitterblue Kristin Cashore / Author, Ian Schoenherr / Illustrator |
| 4 | Invaders John Flanagan / Author |
| 5 | Divergent Veronica Roth / Author |
| 6 | The Lost Hero Rick Riordan / Author |
| 1 | Dinosaur Pet [With CD (Audio)] Neil Sedaka / Author, Marc Sedaka / Author, Tim Bowers / Illustrator |
| 2 | Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Eric Litwin / Author, James Dean / Illustrator |
| 3 | Duckling Gets a Cookie!? Mo Willems / Author, Mo Willems / Illustrator |
| 4 | Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site Sherri Duskey Rinker / Author, Tom Lichtenheld / Illustrator |
| 5 | Are You a Cow? Sandra Boynton / Author, Sandra Boynton / Illustrator |
| 6 | The LEGO Ideas Book Daniel Lipkowitz / Author, Sebastiaan Arts / Contribution by, Tim Goddard / Contribution by, Deborah Higdon / Contribution by, Barney Main / Contribution by, Duncan Titmarsh / Contribution by |
| 1 | Hunger Games Suzanne Collins / Author |
| 2 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney / Author |
| 3 | The Lorax Dr Seuss / Author |
| 4 | Big Nate Lincoln Peirce / Author |
| 5 | The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart / Author |
| 6 | The Kingdom Keepers Ridley Pearson / Author |
