Month: July 2014
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Amanda Hocking Writing New Young Adult Series
The story stars a character named Bryn Aven, a tracker and an outcast. Macmillan will release the first book on January 06, 2015. (Entertainment Weekly)
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Educational Psychologist Recommends That Adults Read YA
“Just as there are good and bad adult novels, there are good and bad YA novels. To snidely pan the entire YA genre as being an embarrassment for any adult …
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‘Looking For Alaska’ Challenged in Wisconsin, Second Challenge to a John Green Book This Summer
NEW YORK, NY — Kids’ Right to Read Project and other organizations have expressed concern about a request for a district-wide ban on John Green’s award-winning novel Looking For Alaska in Waukesha, Wisconsin …
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Penguin Group Announces Mad Libs Pop-Up Booth at Comic-Con International San Diego
New York, NY — Penguin Young Readers Group announced today that the classic fill-in-the-blank word game Mad Libs will exhibit for the first time ever at Comic-Con® International: San Diego. The pop-up booth …
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Kid Lit City: A New York Itinerary
“For kids—and writers of kids’ books—New York City is magic. The sights and streets of NYC have been inspiring literary folk from the time of Herman Melville, but as much …
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“Steig’s Books are Like Perfect Smooth Stones”: Jon Klassen on His Hero
“Most of the time, when you find someone whose work you admire so much, the impulse is to try to parse it, to find some seams, to open them up …
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Bookopolis Launches 1,000 Minute Summer-Reading Challenge
’20 minutes is pretty standard for a daily reading assignment for elementary school students around the US. Check out this great graphic displaying the cumulative effect of reading 20 minutes a …
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Lee Peters Named Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing for Scholastic Education
NEW YORK, NY – Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced the appointment of Lee Peters as Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing for Scholastic Education. …
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US and International Organizations Protest Singapore National Library Board’s Decision to Pulp Children’s Books Over LGBT Content
NEW YORK, NY — The National Coalition Against Censorship (USA) has been joined by freeDimensional and PEN International in issuing a statement ( read online ) opposing the decision of the Singapore National Library Board to remove and pulp three children’s books:And …
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Curious George: Your New NYC Ambassador
“Since the ambassador program launched in 2009, family visitation has grown by 26.5 percent. NYC & Company says that’s about 30.8 percent of the total number of city visitors.” (Yahoo.com)
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Hans Christian Andersen: Not-Your-Fairy-Tale Houseguest
Five weeks is a long time for even the most charming of guests, but Andersen had a habit of riling his hosts. While he stayed with the family, he was …
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Rainbow Rowell to Read Her Own ‘Harry Potter’ Fan Fiction at LeakyCon
The story is set in the future and it features Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy as a couple raising children together. For Rowell, it’s about the two boys “dealing with …
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David Levithan to Pen ‘Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story’
Readers will soon get all the details about Tiny’s theatrical creation in David Levithan’s forthcoming project, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story. The book itself will be written in …
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Scholastic to Launch Tombquest, A New Multi-Platform Action Adventure Series, in February 2015
New York, NY – Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company and the pioneering publisher of the bestselling multi-platform properties The 39 Clues®, Infinity Ring® and Spirit Animals™, announced today that it will publish …
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Lois Lowry and Jeff Bridges Discuss ‘The Giver’
“…Bridges and Lowry expressed similar sentiments about the role of reading in children’s lives. ‘Reading is a rehearsal for life,’ Lowry said. Bridges expanded on her point, saying, ‘Both movies …
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Film Adaptation of ‘Wicked Lovely’ On the Way
“The project was grabbed back from turnaround by WWPSP, and it rears up again at a time when there is a strong market for female driven YA adaptations, after Divergent …
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Science! Naturally Presents ‘Mystery of the Month’
“The brainteasers can be used as independent reading for kids, a guessing game for families, a springboard for school projects, a bell ringer for teachers, or an assessment tool for …
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UK’s “Next Big Thing” Writing Competition
Entrants must be previously unpublished UK residents. The prize will include a £5,000 advance and a publishing contract with Bloomsbury. Said Jonathan Douglas of the National Literary Trust, “we work to …
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First Lemony Snicket Prize Awarded to Lower 9th Ward Librarian
“…she was told there’s no money in the budget for an outreach librarian, so she is an unofficial volunteer outreach librarian, taking books around her neighborhood, to the community Guerilla …
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Parents: Free Summer Reading Resources for the Whole Family
New York, NY – Just in time for summer vacation, Scholastic unveils free summer reading resources for parents to help enhance their children’s reading and learning skills all summer long atscholastic.com/summer. Available now …
