Clik here to view.
Spring 2014 Graphic Novels for Teens: Mix and Match
Sometimes a season’s graphic novel releases seem to fall into some sort of a theme, but this is not that year. We have slice-of-life drama, teenage wastelands, a trek across the Antarctic, and crazy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Diversity 101: Addressing the Need for Diversity in Materials for Kids | ALA...
Approximately 50 librarians and educators joined the Children’s Book Council’s (CBC) Diversity group in a lively discussion about the need for diversity in children’s books in a program that took place...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lorax Spruce Up Your School Grant Program
How would you use $2500 to give your school a makeover? Random House Children’s Books and Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. have established the first annual Lorax Spruce Up Your School Grant Program to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sesame Street Launches First Digital Magazine Available on iTunes March 27
Sesame Street’s first digital magazine, available March 27 on iTunes. On March 27, Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization, launches Sesame Street S’More, a new digital publication for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yang’s Two-Volume ‘Boxers & Saints’ Scores Final Victory | SLJ 2014 BoB
Art by Mark Tuchman While crowd favorite Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park (St. Martin’s Griffin) swept the Undead Poll, it was Gene Luen Yang’s innovative graphic novel Boxers & Saints (First...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Booktrack Education Tool: Engage Students with a Soundtrack to Stories
Global technology company Booktrack has released a dedicated education platform, Booktrack Classroom, which gives students free access to hundreds of soundtracked ebooks suitable for curriculum text...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s an Ebook World for Young Readers 13 and Under Says PlayCollective Report
According to the study by PlayCollective and Digital Book World, 92 percent of children under 13 are using their e-readers at least once a week. The majority of students 13 and under are picking up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring Burst: Upcoming Titles from Little Brown Fall | 2014 Preview
Little, Brown editor, Pam Gruber, with upcoming title Diamond Boy/Rocco Staino April 1 may have been April’s Fools Day, but for the folks at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, it was all business...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Upcoming Titles From Egmont USA |2014 Fall Preview
The Egmont Fall 2014 preview for librarians took place on April 3 in NYC. Photo taken by Rocco Staino Egmont USA brewed up a late afternoon of tea and titles for librarians at the legendary Sarabeth’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
California Town Librarian Leads Project for Students to Publish Poetry Ebook
Freshman from Los Gatos High School are the authors behind Windows to the Teenage Soul. Photo taken by Tonya McQuade The Los Gatos Public Library held a book release on Tuesday, May 6 for Windows to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Library Journal Launches Self-Publishing Partnership with BiblioBoard
In advance of the 2014 Book Expo America (BEA), BiblioBoard® and Library Journal (LJ) have partnered to launch SELF-e™, an ebook discovery service connecting self-published authors with public...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Librarians, Media React to Launch of Kindle Unlimited
In a long-expected move, Amazon on July 18 announced the launch of Kindle Unlimited, a new subscription service that will give users unlimited access to a selection of 600,000 ebooks and more than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Star YA Authors Reveal Inspirations and Challenges | SLJ SummerTeen 2014
On July 24, School Library Journal held its third annual virtual SummerTeen all day conference where nearly 800 virtual conference goers attended the event during which popular YA authors talked about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Amazon Reveals Sticking Points with Hachette
On Amazon’s Kindle forum dated July 29, the online retail behemoth revealed details of the sticking points with the Hachette Book Group that are contributing to the two companies’ very public battle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Zest Books Enters “New Adult” Market with Pulp Imprint
Since 2006, San Francisco publisher Zest Books has been publishing nonfiction books for teens and young adults. They’re now launching Pulp, an imprint for “new adults,” with the byline “Juicy. Messy....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gene Luen Yang Rouses the Crowd at DC National Book Festival
Gene Luen Yang addresses the audience at the National Book Festival. Changes were apparent at this year’s 14th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival compared to prior festivals. In the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Librarians, IT Experts Respond to Adobe Spying Accusations
Adobe this week confirmed reports that it has been logging data on the reading activity of people who use the free Adobe Digital Editions service, and that the company has been transmitting those logs...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rosen Publishing Acquires Nonfiction Children’s Publisher Enslow
Today, Roger Rosen, CEO and President of Rosen Publishing. an independent educational publishing house serving Pre–K–12 in schools and public libraries, announced the acquisition of Enslow Publishers,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We Need Diverse Books Announces Publishing Internship Project
Shortly after exceeding a targeted $100,000 fundraising goal, the We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) organization announced plans to support a publishing internship program to advance diversity in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What’s Trending? Hot Themes in kidlit and what we want to see
Is there any more disparaging term than “trendy”? It drips with disdain. To be trendy is to be of the moment rather than of all time. Little wonder authors and illustrators shy away from the label...
View Article