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From Entertainment Weekly:
Alloy Entertainment is developing the final Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book, Sisterhood Everlasting, for a movie adaptation. Click here  
From Deadline:
Stephenie Meyers's production company has optioned YA debut Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis. Click here
From Publishing Perspectives:
SmackFiction: building an app for mobile YA book discovery. Click here
From Education Week:
What's wrong with poetry books for children: a teacher's lament. Click here
From USA Today:
"An incredible feeling, somewhat undercut by exhaustion": Laini Taylor on ending her Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. Click here
From Brain Pickings:
"Mr. Bliss": Tolkien's little-known children's book, which he wrote and illustrated for his kids. Click here |
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From Time:
John Green was named to the magazine's 100 most influential people list; Shailene Woodley, who stars in the TFIOS film, wrote the appreciation. Click here
From the Hollywood Reporter:
Scarlett Johansson and Lupita Nyong'o are in talks for Disney's live-action/CGI hybrid Jungle Book. Click here
From USA Today:
Who's "Popular" now? A teen's memoir leads to movie deal. Click here
From Bookish:
The website asks: What will be the next big YA subgenre? Click here
From Deadline:
Felicity Jones will star in the film version of A Monster Calls, based on the Carnegie Medal-winning fantasy novel by Patrick Ness. Click here
From the Hub:
Young adult–picture book pairings: a collection of Cinderella stories. Click here |
Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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