Month: February 2015
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Pharrell Williams, Grammy Award-Winning Artist, to Publish Four Picture Books With Penguin Young Readers Group
New York, NY – Grammy Award-winner Pharrell Williams will bring his beloved song ‘Happy’ to the youngest of readers in a new picture book featuring photographs of children across cultures celebrating …
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How to Encourage Kids to Read
When you spot your kid huddled over a book, you can snap a photo and share it online with the hashtag #CatchThemReading. The weekly family discussion…takes reading out of the …
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John Green Praises Booksellers
Recalling his first author tour 10 years ago for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, John Green insisted that everything he learned about the publishing industry he learned from independent …
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Katie Finn Has Written a ‘Broken Hearts’ Short Story
Readers will be able to glean “history and insight on how Gemma’s former best friend, Hallie dealt with the fallout.” Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing …
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2015 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Winners Announced
Deborah Pope, Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation said of the award program: The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award celebrates and inspires exceptional new writers and illustrators, who …
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Lauren Oliver to Adapt Her YA Novel ‘Panic’ for Film
Universal picked up the rights in a bidding war in 2013 in advance of [Panic‘s] spring 2014 release from Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book was a hot property …
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Scholastic Readies ‘Spook-tacular’ Licensing Program for First-Ever Goosebumps™ Movie
New York, NY – Scholastic, global children’s publishing, education and media company, is celebrating the October 16, 2015 release of the Goosebumps™ motion picture, based on the beloved Scholastic book series by …
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Simon Pulse to Publish New Trilogy By ‘New York Times’ Bestselling Author Scott Westerfeld And Award-Winning Co-Authors Margo Lanagan And Deborah Biancotti
New York, NY – Simon Pulse announced today that it will publish a new trilogy by Scott Westerfeld, the New York Times bestselling author of Afterworlds and the internationally bestselling Uglies series, and award-winning co-authors …
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2015 Bank Street Children’s Book Committee Awards Revealed
2015 Josette Frank Award For Older Readers I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA) For Younger Readers Rain Reign by Ann …
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Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture Grant
Applications and eligibility details can be found at www.talkstorytogether.org/grants. Application Deadline: Friday, February 13, 2015Grant Amount: $600Grant Period: May 1, 2015 – November 30, 2015 For more information, please contact:Lessa Pelayo-Lozada, APALA Co-Chair: lessalozada[@]gmail.comLiana …
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Happy Birthday, E.L. Konigsburg!
Konigsburg went on to win two Newbery Medals for her work. In 1968, she won for her popular novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and in 1997 …
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Pam Muñoz Ryan On The Creative Process Behind ‘Echo’
So I had these three main stories, but I didn’t want it to be just episodic – I wanted there to be a richer thread to bring them together. And …
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‘I Am Malala’ Audiobook Wins Grammy Award
The Grammy represents the latest in a slew of honors the teenaged Malala has earned since surviving an attack in which she was shot in the head by a Taliban …
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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers to Publish Picture Book Based On YouTube Sensation, Tiny Hamster
Tiny Hamster Is a Giant Monster will have a photographic treatment and feature images from the video. When Tiny Hamster accidentally eats some mad scientist goo, he turns into a giant, …
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HarperCollins to Publish Three E.B. White Novels as eBooks
The publishing industry has long debated whether e-books expand the overall market or simply shift the market away from paper, for which sales have been flat at best over the …
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Remembering George McHugh Nicholson
Nicholson made a major breakthrough when he secured paperback rights to E.B. White’s classics Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. Publishers took notice and soon launched their own paperback imprints. Before ultimately joining Sterling Lord …
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Random House Children’s Books Acquires New Middle-Grade Series by Bestselling Author Raymond Arroyo
With five bestsellers to his credit, Arroyo hosts The World Over Live, a weekly international news magazine seen on EWTN, Eternal Word Television Network, in 250 million homes globally and nearly 300 …
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‘This One Summer’ Becomes the First Graphic Novel to Win a Caldecott Honor
The book also received a Printz Honor this year, and is the second graphic novel to do so since Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese won the award in 2006. …
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Free Comic Book Day Kicks Off 96th Annual Children’s Book Week Celebration!
Comics industry leaders Diamond Comic Distributors and Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) are partnering with Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council to bring greater focus to …
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‘Day of Diversity’ Action Points
Some of the action points include donating books to an under-resourced school; buying and reading books by diverse authors and featuring diverse characters; and partnering with local organizations to distribute books to …
