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The speakers for the annual Children’s Book and Author Breakfast at BookExpo America have been announced. The breakfast will feature Meg Cabot, author of the Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls series (Scholastic); Tomie dePaola, author of Strega Nona’s Harvest (Putnam); and Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of Duck! Rabbit! and Little Oink (both Chronicle). Julie Andrews Edwards, author of Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies (Little, Brown) will be the master of ceremonies. The breakfast is presented in cooperation with the Children’s Booksellers and Publishers Committee, a joint committee of the American Booksellers Association, Association of Booksellers for Children and the Children’s Book Council. It will be held on Friday, May 29, in New York City. read more |
From the New York Daily News: Though Stephenie Meyer hasn't changed her decision not to go forward with her novel Midnight Sun, after an early draft of it was posted on the Internet last summer, she is in fact working on another book, which is not Twilight-related.
A CLASSIC IN THE MAKING FROM THE 2008 CALDECOTT HONOR WINNER
ONE BOY is a perfect example of why Kirkus Reviews calls Laura Vaccaro Seeger the “emerging master of the concept book”—a die-cut book exploring counting and words-within-words, and the power of art and imagination.
Laurie Halse Anderson has won the 2009 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for her novel Chains (Simon & Schuster). Set in New York City at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the novel follows a young house slave, Isabel, who is caught between the Rebels and the Loyalists. Chains was a finalist for last year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature, as was Anderson's first novel, Speak, back in 1999. The O'Dell Award comes with a $5,000 prize.
Michelle Magorian has won the 2008 Costa Children's Book Award in the U.K. for Just Henry (Egmont). Just Henry, which is set in post-war Britain and raises issues about patriotism and social class, is Magorian's first book in 10 years. She is perhaps best known for her 1981 novel, Goodnight, Mister Tom. The prize will be awarded at a ceremony in London on January 27. Read more about the author here.
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by Chris Grabenstein |
"Have you ever seen a face hidden in the bark of a tree and known that the man trapped inside wanted to hurt you?" It's the perfect opening for Chris Grabenstein's ghost story, The Crossroads.
Ghosts vengeful and benevolent, evil possession and dark secrets from the past all figure in this suspenseful page turner destined to grab reluctant readers, especially boys, and R.L. Stine fans.
Author Meg Cabot says it's "bittersweet" to end her Princess Diaries series. But she has more tween books on the way.
'Forever' yours on Tuesday
Meg Cabot tools around Key West on bicycles whose colors — pink, purple and turquoise — match the covers of her popular Princess Diaries series.
A new bike in a new color isn't in Cabot's future; her series about a reluctant teen royal is coming to an end. The last book, Volume X: Forever Princess (HarperTeen, $16.99), goes on sale Tuesday.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-01-04-meg-cabot_N.htm?csp=34
by Lynne Jonell
Now, Emmy, a likeable mixture of Nancy Drew and Dr. Dolittle, is set to embark on a new adventure in a sequel, Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls
Click here for more about the book. Read an excerpt, visit the author's website, make your own drawings that move and find out how to create flipbook animations in PowerPoint => http://bit.ly/UKYphj
Businessman whose Ladybird Books revolutionised children's publishing
"Douglas Keen, the driving spirit behind Ladybird Books, was a publishing visionary and an inspired businessman. In the years following the Second World War, under his editorial direction, the series of children's books became a household name. The Ladybird Key Words Reading Scheme alone sold 85 million copies, making Keen an important figure in promoting children's literacy.... One title, The Computer, was used by the Ministry of Defence to introduce its employees to higher technology (although the books' cover was plain, so staff would not realise they were learning from a Ladybird book). The same organisation later bought multiple copies of Understanding Maps to provide help with orienteering for the British Army during the Falklands War.... "
To see the full article by Nicholas Tucker: http://tinyurl.com/7n3dxz
Robert Louis Stevenson's eternally fresh comic adventures
There comes a time in the life of any young reader when nothing but adventure will do. It is the time when the old classics -- The Count of Monte Cristo, Journey to the Center of the Earth, King Solomon's Mines -- are suddenly the best stories in all the world. Which, of course, they are -- with the possible exception of those that begin this way:
