05/18/2012 @ 10:00AM
Magic Town, the virtual children's picture book world featuring over 70 stories (with many more to come) from major publishers like Hachette and Simon & Schuster, has launched its Web site, with an app for the iPad and then the iPhone to follow soon.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
This year’s Children's Book Week, the nation's longest-running literacy initiative, kicked off celebrations on May 7 with the Children's Choice Book Awards in New York City. Over the next several days, bookstores and libraries across the U.S. hosted author readings, story times, theater productions, illustration demonstrations, and more.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
In response to Julie Bosman’s front-page New York Times article in October 2010, called “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children”, poet and business, educational, and self-help writer Linda Eve Diamond launched National Picture Book Week last May. Instead of holding a second National Picture Book Week this spring, she set up a new Web site that highlights the beauty of picture books to host a blog she began for National Picture Book Week.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
Candlewick plans to expand its MoshiMoshiKawaii publishing program, launched in 2011 with three search-and-find titles, with the addition of two smaller-format activity/search books in August of this year.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
Daniel Nayeri has been appointed to the newly created position of digital editorial director of the HMH Children's Book Group. PW caught up with Nayeri, who is finishing his job as editor at Clarion Books, an HMH imprint, to talk about his new post, which he starts on May 27.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
Because of the success of their recent Children's Book Week supplement, the San Francisco Book Review and Sacramento Book Review have announced they will include the popular child-reviewed feature every month, beginning with the next issue in June.
05/17/2012 @ 03:00PM
This week, an author-illustrator pair paid tribute to their artistic subject; a quintet of YA writers shared new work; a new novelist was in the Pink; another first-timer had an Enchanted evening; a third author held a Tinseltown-worthy premiere; and a bestselling writer entertained her biggest fans – her daughters.
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
Historian and critic Leonard S. Marcus remembers Maurice Sendak, who
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
Satellite radio listeners can now listen to interviews with favorite children’s book authors and illustrators on the airwaves. “The Book Report with JJK,” hosted by author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka, is a new semi-monthly segment aimed at kids 10 and under that will air during the Absolutely Mindy Show on Sirius XM’s KidsPlace Live channel (ch. 78).
05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
In our regular roundup of Canadian children's book news: HarperCollins Canada buys Key Porter’s backlist by poet Dennis Lee; Breakthrough Entertainment is developing a series of Margaret Atwood books for TV; Simply Read Books is delving into the app market; and First Book is branching out north of the border.
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Using comics books (like The Avengers) to get kids interested in reading.
In a "marriage made in lard," NYC children's bookstore Books of Wonder is playing host to the Baconery, which specializes in bacon-themed sweets.
After 24 years, the Banbury Cross Children's Bookshop in Wenham, Mass., will close its doors.
Worldcrunch.com asks: are today's children's books about Africa still racist?
| 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 |
