Book of the Week
NEW VOICES: OPENING THE BOOK WITH…CHRISTOPHER HEALY
Meet Christopher Healy, author of the uproariously funny THE HERO’S GUIDE TO SAVING YOUR KINGDOM (read an excerpt here!). In case you missed yesterday’s post about the book, be sure to check it out for some words from Christopher’s editor, Jordan Brown, along with a downloadable activity for the book. And now, let’s Open the [...]
NEW VOICES, A WORD FROM THE EDITOR: THE HERO’S GUIDE TO SAVING YOUR KINGDOM
Now that May is here, it’s officially summer, right? Well, it’s at least right around the corner, and you know what that means . . . a new round of New Voices! We’re excited to start off the summer leg of our program with a spotlight on debut author Christopher Healy. His book THE HERO’S [...]
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CLASS ACTS
We’re doing something really fun and new this coming Fall (we know, it’s just barely getting nice out and here we are, already fast-forwarding…) to get our tween authors out in schools and bookstores: it’s called Class Acts, and terrific author duos are going out on the road to compete (with the help of the [...]
PRETTY CROOKED, PRETTY AWESOME GUEST POST
Today we have a guest post from Elisa Ludwig, author of PRETTY CROOKED, which goes on sale tomorrow! PRETTY CROOKED is the first in a three-book series, a modern day “Robin Hood,” featuring loveable and smart teenage heroine Willa, who steals from her privileged friends, gives gifts to the disenfranchised students at her prep school, [...]
BOOK BIRTHDAYS
Wow– we have some really fantastic books to wish a Happy Book Birthday to today! They’re ALMOST Leap Year book babies, but not quite… PANDEMONIUM, by Lauren Oliver. In the highly anticipated sequel to DELIRIUM, Lena completely transforms herself into a warrior for the resistance in order to push Alex and her old life far [...]
NEW VOICES: OPENING THE BOOK WITH… CHRISTINA MEREDITH
Today we’re introducing you to Christina Meredith, debut author of KISS CRUSH COLLIDE and one of our Winter 2012 New Voices. Yesterday we shared an excerpt of the book (READ IT HERE!), and a few words from Christina’s editor, Virginia Duncan, on why and how this story spoke to her. Appropriately, this story is really about [...]
NEW VOICES, A WORD FROM THE EDITOR: KISS CRUSH COLLIDE
We haven’t forgotten about New Voices, and we hope you haven’t either! Our next book in this series promoting debut authors, KISS CRUSH COLLIDE, by Christina Meredith, we’ve been saving for this very week, so perhaps you can guess what it’s about? Good answer– love. While this is a steamy novel about that kind of attraction that hits [...]
THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN
In case you haven’t heard us talking about this book yet, we’ll say it again here: WE LOVE IVAN. Ivan is an easy-going gorilla who lives at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, and he spends his days drawing, watching his TV, and being stared at by shoppers. When Ruby, a baby elephant, moves in, Ivan summons the [...]
AUDREY VERNICK ADOPTS A SCHOOL- P.S. 184
I set up a lot of school visits in the course of the year, but few warm my heart as much as the annual Adopt-a-School visit. The Adopt-a-School Initiative is a collaboration between the American Association of Publishers, the Children’s Book Council, the NYC Department of Education, school librarians, and publishing houses. The program sends [...]
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