Book of the Week
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 [...]
STORYTIME CORNER: MOONLIGHT
Although I must confess that I’ve never have been able to see a man in it, the moon is not only beautiful, but mythical and magical, especially for little ones. Imagine our excitement when brainstorming a storytime theme that could include our brand new beautiful picture book MOONLIGHT when we realized that the perfect answer [...]
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 [...]
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ALA AWARD WINNERS!
Truly, our cup is overflowing. Everyone here is beyond excited and incredibly proud of our award winning books and authors, announced this Monday at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. An astounding amount of work, love, patience, devotion, and hope goes into each book that’s published, and we’re honored to be part of the process that helps [...]
MEET ME AT MIDWINTER
Things might be a little quiet over here at the blog this week, because the team is packing up and heading to Dallas, Texas to attend the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting. We love this conference– we catch up with old friends, make new ones, promote our terrific upcoming books, and scope the scene for [...]
HAPPY HARPER HALLOWEEN!
We bookmaking folk take our Halloweening pretty seriously. How many HarperCollins Children’s characters can you spot in the photos above (taken in our photo studio/elevator bank)?
HARPERCOLLINS’ WINTER/SUMMER ’12 LIBRARIAN PREVIEW
Last week, we hosted a preview of our Winter and Summer 2012 lists for our terrific tri-state librarian friends, trading bagels and coffee for their undivided attention so very early in the morning. Our wonderful and very cheerful editors presented their upcoming books, and lucky for me, that meant I could eavesdrop at each table and hear booktalks of [...]
Holiday Round-Up
I know, it seems crazy to talk about the holiday season already. But this is also the point where we start putting in book orders for the latest titles and replacing old books as well. So let’s jump in and talk about some of the newest books for the holiday season: MARY ENGELBREIT’S NUTCRACKER by [...]
BBW Booktalk: IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN
Like BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA yesterday, Maurice Sendak’s IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN makes the list for one of the top 100 most frequently banned books of the decade, 1990-2000. It was also made the Top 10 most challenged book of 2004. It’ll be no surprise to those of you familiar with the book that the sticking [...]
EVERYTHING GOES: ON LAND Giveaway Winners
Eek! We forgot to post the winners of our EVERYTHING GOES: ON LAND giveaway contest yesterday as promised! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING WINNERS! Jana Jennifer Coffelt Holly Baker We’ll contact you shortly to get your mailing address and congrats!
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