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Stories About Memorable Books We asked 20 prominent editors to tell us about a book they worked on at some point in their careers that stilll makes them proud. Read about Eric Carle's initial proposal for what became The Very Hungry Caterpillar; hear how the team at Delacorte was "instantly riveted" by Ann Brashares's manuscript for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; and much more. more
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Riggs Returns to Miss Peregrine's Home with 'Hollow City' The eccentric, often downright creepy, inhabitants of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children return in Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children, due January 14. In the follow-up, Ransom Riggs takes his cast to war-torn London in 1940. There they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, who's trapped in the body of a bird and locked in a cage. As was the first book, Hollow City was inspired by vintage photos that the Los Angeles-based author discovered at antique shops and flea markets and in private collections. more
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a Small Press in New England Have One of This Year's Christmas Favorites?
Last month saw the release of A Child's Christmas in New England by Robert Sullivan, illustrated by Glenn Wolff. Sullivan and Wolff's The Flight of the Reindeer was published by Macmillan in 1996 and reissued by Skyhorse in a 15th anniversary edition, with 190,000 copies in print. Bunker Hill Publishing is hoping to replicate that earlier success on a more modest scale with the new book. more
IN THE MEDIA
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From the New Republic:
The Hunger Games vs. The Grapes of Wrath: How useful is a Lexile score in determining a book’s complexity? Click here
From the New York Times:
"Mormons tend to have hope and believe in goodness and triumph, and those portrayals can ring false in a literary world": Mormon author Shannon Hale. Click here
From USA Today:
Eric Carle hopes that his new book Friends may help him find one he hasn't seen since the 1930s. Click here
From Today:
The USPS has unveiled its Harry Potter stamps, featuring several characters and scenes from the films. Click here
From Scripps-Howard:
Karen MacPherson interviews "children’s literature sage" Leonard S. Marcus. Click here
From the New York Times:
The perils of reading Harry Potter to a five-year-old. Click here
From the Christian Science Monitor:
After dystopia, what's next for YA? Click here |
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From UPI:
Scholastic will reprint a Geronimo Stilton book that omitted Israel from a map of the Middle East. Click here
From the Spokesman-Review:
"If you try and appeal to a kid's mom or dad, the book is dead on arrival for the teen himself": The Living author Matt de la Peña. Click here
From NPR:
Gertrude Stein and Clement Hurd collaborated on a 1939 children's book called The World Is Round. Click here
Also from NPR:
How author Cynthia Rylant discovered the poetry of storytelling, and how her childhood shaped her work. Click here
From MTV:
Why Sophie Nélisse gave up her Olympic dream to act in The Book Thief. Click here
From Gotcha Movies:
13 YA book-to-film adaptations to look out for. Click here
From WFPL/NPR Louisville:
Living life with Little Golden Books. Click here |
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