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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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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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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. -
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 …
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Author Ruta Sepetys Awarded Lithuania’s ‘Cross of the Knight’ for Contributions in Education & Culture
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Author Ruta Sepetys was decorated with Lithuania’s ‘Cross of the Knight of the Order’ by the President of Lithuania in a formal ceremony last weekend at the nation’s …
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Brenton Thwaites to Play Jonas in ‘The Giver’ Movie
“Aged up from the book, the Jonas character is selected to become the next Receiver of Memory in the heavily ordered and seemingly perfect society. He bonds with the previous …
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This Week on Girls Scouts’ The Studio: Author Natalie Yoder
“I think that I got my love for writing from my dad. He has always kept me on the right path and made me realize that writing was a good …
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Simon & Schuster Releases the ‘Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale’ Digital Short Story
The story for the third short story follows “immortal warlock Magnus Bane [who] attends preliminary peace talks between the Shadowhunters and the Downworlders in Victorian London, he is charmed by …
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Elizabeth Ross On Writing Historical Fiction YA
“To write a historical novel, the writer’s task is to make history breathe, to make it feel tangible—it’s a feat of world building. In researching Belle Epoque, I brought history …
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“White Publishing”
There’s a unique fear that I experience as an editor--which I imagine other editors experience as well--after reading a manuscript by and about a minority group I know too little about.Read more »
For example, I’m a Persian male who was born in Iran, and raised all over Europe, and then Oklahoma. So if you send me FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, man, I am in it. I lived that experience. Maybe not exactly as Boobie Miles lived it. But I played ball in Oklahoma. I get the lingo. My first manuscript was the story of that experience.
In the same way, if you write a novel set in Rome, if you want to sample some Farsi for a character, or French, then I’m good. I’m still with you. I have firsthand knowledge of the languages, the cultural nuances, etc. -
Harry Potter Fans Reveal New Cover for ‘Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix’ by Award-Winning Illustrator Kazu Kibuishi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New trade paperbacks and boxed set with covers by Kibuishi will be released on August 27, 2013. New York, NY (July 1, 2013) — Fans of Harry Potter …
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Alan Snow’s ‘Here Be Monsters!’ Adapted as a Stop-Motion Animated Film
Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi are teaming up as directors for this stop-motion animated movie project. The cast of voice actors include Elle Fanning, Simon Pegg, Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, …
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Chris Weitz Signs a Young Adult Book Trilogy Deal
“The books centers on teenage survivors who inherit a destroyed and desolate earth, after a cataclysmic event kills off every person not between the ages of 12 and 21. Ill-equipped …
