Sunday, January 18, 2015

Children's Book News with PW


'Tuck' Springs Eternal: Natalie Babbitt's Novel at 40
Natalie Babbitt’s beloved novel Tuck Everlasting celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new edition, a forthcoming musical adaptation, and a reading in NYC with Babbitt. For more details on the book's origin, and how it continues to live forever, read on. more

Bright Lights, Big City, Mobile Reading Rooms
New York City’s Uni Project is putting books into the hands of readers – with pop-up open-air reading rooms in the city’s public spaces. Mobile structures set up in parks, plazas, and closed-off streets unfold to reveal shelves for books and contain benches for sitting. Read more on the origins of the project and its future. more
Sourcebooks Adds Lemony Snicket
To the Story

Sourcebooks's Put Me in the Story platform will add Lemony Snicket's middle-grade series All the Wrong Questions to its lineup. For more on the products in the line and its recent growth, click here. more



IN THE MEDIA


From the Huffington Post:
YA Author Holly Black on Her New Book, Fairies, and Working with Cassandra Clare. Click here
From the Washington Post:
How Harry Potter fans won a four-year fight against child slavery. Click here
From Page to Premiere:
Shailene Woodley and Theo James talk Insurgent. Click here
From the New York Times:
A Talk with Paddington creator Michael Bond. Click here
From MPR:
Five things you didn't know about Laura Ingalls Wilder. Click here
From Flavorwire:
John Green is the John Hughes of Relatable YA Literature. Click here
From the Guardian:
James Patterson: "The books I am the most passionate about writing are these books that get kids reading." Click here
From the Telegraph:
Alice in Wonderland at 150: innocent fantasy or dark and druggy? Click here
From 100 Scope Notes:
Books on Film: The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss. Click here
From Time:
Meg Wolitzer: My Debt to Sylvia Plath. Click here
From BookBub:
13 YA Novels That Are Actually Taylor Swift Songs. Click here
From BuzzFeed:
If Hunger Games characters had Tinder profiles. Click here

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