Four Industry Veterans Lay Out Advice at SCBWI
Four longtime children’s publishing experts gave an optimistic but realistic view of the children’s book scene, circa 2012, at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Winter Conference in New York City. more...
Book News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
Coretta Scott King Award-winner Vaunda Micheaux Nelson offers a fiction-laced memoir of her great-uncle and his legendary Harlem bookstore in No Crystal Stair: A Novel in Documents, Based on the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller.
Industry News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
This week in children's apps features two Dr. Seuss apps, including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, the very first Dr. Seuss book ever published.
Authors
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
Children’s author Bill Wallace died on January 30 at his home in Chickasa, Okla., after a battle with cancer. He was 64.
Industry News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
Gerald (Jerry) Harrison, former president of the children's book division of Random House, died on January 19. He was 83.
Industry News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
After a hiatus of nearly seven years, artist and author William Wegman is returning to children's books.
Industry News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
One of the strongest current licenses for Modern Publishing—which was acquired by Kappa Books last week—is the three-decade-old art brand, Lisa Frank.
Book News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
Hold onto your Truffula tufts. Dr. Seuss's beloved, at times controversial classic book The Lorax springs into 3-D on March 2, the day that the author would have turned 108 years old.
Industry News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
Readers with artistic aspirations can try their hand at designing a YA novel cover, in a Design-Your-Own Cover contest that Disney Publishing debuted on Facebook on January 16 as part of its two-year-old unRequired Reading promotional initiative to showcase its YA fiction program.
Industry News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
In a deal that saw two of Canada’s oldest publishing houses absorbed into Canada’s largest multinational, Tundra Books is now wholly owned by Random House of Canada. Read on for Penguin's Canadian Razorbill launch Kids Can Press's e-book initiative, and Orca Books getting political.
Industry News
02/02/2012 @ 03:00PM
A decade ago, a committee of 14 women and one man chose Linda Sue Park's A Single Shard for the 2002 Newbery Medal and then chose... to stick together; in the years since, they've become a tight-knit bunch.
"Tales from the Slush Pile" is an original comic that follows the trials and tribulations of a children's book writer. Its creator, Ed Briant, has written and illustrated a number of picture books, including Paper Parade, Seven Stories, A Day at the Beach, Don't Look Now, and If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now. He is also the author of the YA novel Choppy Socky Blues.
The Roundup for Children's
Publishing news from across the Web
Many parents who are e-book enthusiasts themselves prefer print books for their children.
"We consider digital editions to be simply another format": Candlewick president and publisher Karen Lotz.
Author Michael Chabon says he had a particular reader in mind when he wrote his first picture book: his son Abe.
An Ontario man has hit legal red tape after illustrating a children's book set to the lyrics of David Bowie's classic song Space Oddity and distributing it virally.
| 1 | The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) Rick Riordan / Author |
| 2 | Clockwork Prince (Collector's) Cassandra Clare / Author |
| 3 | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs / Author |
| 4 | The Lost Hero Rick Riordan / Author |
| 5 | Crossed Ally Condie / Author |
| 6 | War Horse: (Movie Cover) Michael Morpurgo / Author |
| 1 | Elf on the Shelf Carol V Aebersold / Author |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | If You Give a Dog a Donut Laura Joffe Numeroff / Author, Felicia Bond / Illustrator |
| 4 | LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary Simon Beecroft / Author, Jeremy Beckett / Consultant |
| 5 | Llama Llama Holiday Drama Anna Dewdney / Author |
| 6 | Home for Christmas Jan Brett / Author |
| 1 | Hunger Games Suzanne Collins / Author |
| 2 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney / Author |
| 3 | Inheritance Cycle Christopher Paolini / Author |
| 4 | Magic Tree House Osborne, Mary Pope / |
| 5 | Witch & Wizard James Patterson & Ned Rust / |
| 6 | Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard / Author |
