05/10/2012 @ 03:00PM
Most counting books are content to stop at 10 or 20. You might even find one that goes up to 100. A new, large-format picture book from a husband-and-wife team has blown past the competition by taking readers up to 1,000,000 – and showing them exactly what that number looks like. But a project that ambitious is not without design and production challenges.
05/08/2012 @ 10:00AM
Over the past year, U.S. manga publisher Viz media has begun branching out in a new direction, releasing original graphic novels created just for them.
05/03/2012 @ 03:00PM
This week, a young chef/author receives a surprise visit from Rachael Ray; teens get a sneak peek at Julie Kagawa's new YA series; and author events with Laurisa White Reyes, Mariah Fredericks, and Allegra Kent and Emily Arnold McCully.
04/27/2012 @ 07:00PM
Lots to pick up at publishers’ booths this year: favorite authors like Rachel Cohn, David Levithan, and Libba Bray are exploring new genres; some popular series are drawing to a close; and stars of other media (incuding Hunger Games director Gary Ross) are trying their hands at fiction.
04/26/2012 @ 03:00PM
In 1992, Barbara Park introduced young readers to a headstrong, unpredictable kindergartner in Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. Twenty years and 29 books later, there are a total of 52 million Junie B. Jones books in print, and the series has been translated into 12 languages.
04/26/2012 @ 03:00PM
Audrey Vernick scored a hit when she appeared at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on April 12. As part of the hall's Sibling Day festivities, the author of Brothers at Bat: The True Story of An Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of baseball lovers. Vernick's book spotlights 12 Acerra brothers from Long Branch, N.J., who formed their own semi-professional baseball team in the 1930s.
04/23/2012 @ 10:00AM
Children’s author Kate Milford set up a Kickstarter page to raise money to self-publish a novella with McNally Jackson to coincide with the release of her second book from Clarion.
04/19/2012 @ 03:00PM
This week, Newbery and Caldecott winners gather at Books of Wonder; Reading Is Fundamental launches a new literacy awareness campaign; a stage production of The Lonely Phone Booth, and author events with R.J. Palacio, Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, and Cynthia Levinson.
04/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
A middle grade series by Guillermo del Toro, which was initially shopped a few years ago before being shelved, is back on track.
04/16/2012 @ 12:00AM
In a bit of creative deal-making, agents Peter McGuigan and Stephen Barbara, at Foundry Literary + Media, closed two deals—for an adult novel and a YA novel—for a debut thriller that was initially submitted as a standalone novel.
The Roundup for Book News
Publishing news from across the Web
The Ricky Rapper series, published in Finland, has sold more than one million copies to date worldwide.
Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss is barred from a Canadian classroom.
Parents in India complain about a nursery textbook that uses bombs and knives to teach the alphabet.
Peter and the Starcatchers authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson were "over the moon" at the nine Tony nominations for the Broadway adaptation.
| 1 | Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan / Author |
| 2 | Insurgent Veronica Roth / Author |
| 3 | Bitterblue Kristin Cashore / Author, Ian Schoenherr / Illustrator |
| 4 | Invaders John Flanagan / Author |
| 5 | Divergent Veronica Roth / Author |
| 6 | The Lost Hero Rick Riordan / Author |
| 1 | Duckling Gets a Cookie!? Mo Willems / Author, Mo Willems / Illustrator |
| 2 | Max's Easter Surprise Rosemary Wells / Author |
| 3 | Where Are Baby's Easter Eggs? Karen Katz / Author, Karen Katz / Illustrator |
| 4 | Fancy Nancy's Elegant Easter Jane O'Connor / Author, Robin Preiss Glasser / Illustrator |
| 5 | There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick Lucille Colandro / Author, Jared Lee / Illustrator |
| 6 | Splat the Cat: Where's the Easter Bunny? Rob Scotton / Author |
| 1 | Hunger Games Suzanne Collins / Author |
| 2 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney / Author |
| 3 | The Lorax Dr Seuss / Author |
| 4 | Big Nate Lincoln Peirce / Author |
| 5 | The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart / Author |
| 6 | The Kingdom Keepers Ridley Pearson / Author |
