Year: 2013
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Disney Develops New Mo Willems Game App
Users will encounter characters from the Mo Willems’ picture book worlds while exploring this app. This app has games and activities for dancing, drawing, taking photos, designing monsters, and driving …
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ESPN Personality & Award-Winning Author Howard Bryant to Publish Non-Fiction Children’s Book Sport Series with Penguin Young Readers Group
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY – July 22, 2013 – Howard Bryant, senior writer, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, and sports correspondent for National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, will publish three …
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Beth Revis Contributes a Recipe for a Cookbook
“The recipes in this cookbook cover everything from snacks to main courses, and they show a wide variety of skills, ingredients, and more. My recipe is what I call ‘healthy …
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The Aftermath of Maureen Johnson’s Coverflip Challenge
“Coverflip’s ultimate goal is to show that books have no gender. Let’s stop pre-determining what’s for boys and what’s for girls. And it aims to do this by playing around …
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e.E. Charlton-Trujillo Embarks on the At-Risk Book Tour
Candlewick Press released the book in March 2013. The author is blogging and filming about her tour stop experiences; this content will later form the basis for a documentary tentatively …
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Shaun Tan Has a New Book In-the-Works
Tan has also been developing an app version of this book. The book is reportedly coming out on in November 2013. more at A Fuse #8 Production blog▸▸
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Clarion Books to Publish New David Wiesner Picture Book
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, will release it in the Spring 2015 season. Publisher Dinah Stevenson will edit this manuscript. more at the …
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2013 Phyllis Wheatley Book Awards Finalists Announced
more at the Harlem Book Fair website▸▸ more at Eventbrite.com▸▸ Finalists in the Young Readers Category Tea Cakes for Tosh written by Kelly Starling Lyons & illustrated by E. B. …
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NPR Profiles Scholastic
“Chances are you have had contact with Scholastic Publishing at some point in your life: You might have read their magazines in school, or bought a book at one of …
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Marc Simont Has Passed On
“When his roommate, Robert McCloskey, wanted to study ducklings for his next book, Marc Simont let him adopt a whole group of them. McCloskey followed them around their small Cambridge …
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The NCFL & The Joan Ganz Cooney Center Has Formed The Aprendiendo Juntos Council
In an interview with School Library Journal, Dr. Michael H. Levine of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center shared his thoughts on this new venture: “Hispanic-Latino families are pioneers in adapting …
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This Week on Girls Scouts’ The Studio: Caldecott Honor Winner Peter Brown
“A career in the arts is not easy. But it is so rewarding. My advice is to give yourself the best possible chance of succeeding, and the only way to …
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John Green Fan Creates a Nerdfighter Documentary
“By the end of April I had two videographers (Kayla Sprayue and Paul Weller) and a faculty advisor (Sonny Wingler) on board! I created a website and social media pages. …
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Andrea Davis Pinkney & Shane Evans to Collaborate on a Middle Grade Novel
The story is about “a young refugee [who] finds hope and inspiration in learning to write and expressing herself through art. The middle-grade title was inspired by true events in …
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Shelley Diaz: How I Got into Publishing
Guest post by associate editor at School Library JournalRead more »I decided I wanted to work in children’s publishing in sixth grade. I had devoured all of the Anne of Green Gables books by this time, and I was convinced that I could be the Dominican Lucy Maud Montgomery. I kept writing through middle school and high school, and pondered over different career paths (should I be a literary agent, an editor?), and even momentarily thought about being a cultural anthropologist instead.
The fact remained: I was fascinated by stories—all people’s stories.
I declared my English Lit/Latino Studies double-major freshman year at Columbia University, and was lucky enough to snag an editorial internship with Dell Publishing (a crossword puzzle publisher) through my Hispanic Scholarship Fund mentor. That summer internship cemented my desire to work in publishing, while at the same time reinforced the fact that it had to be with work that I cared about (crossword puzzles, were just not that interesting), and at a place that gave me the opportunity to advocate for diverse literature. -
Kiera Cass Announces a New Selection Novella Entitled The Guard
HarperCollins plans to also publish The Selection Stories in print format on the same date. This book will contain The Prince (a novella released back in March 5, 2013), The …
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Shannon Messenger Pens a New Novel Called ‘Let the Storms Break’
“Vane Weston is haunted. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. By the lies he’s told to cover for her disappearance. By the treacherous winds that slip into …
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Nominations Open for the 2013 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK – Nominations opened at American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago for the 2013 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My …
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Filming is Under Way for ‘The Maze Runner’ Movie Adaptation
Wes Ball is serving as the director for this project. Dylan O’Brien is the actor portraying lead protagonist, Thomas. Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, published James …
