Last week’s highlight was a trip to Orlando for the 2013 conference of the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME). Thank you, Florida librarians!
Meeting Florida librarians with Greg Leitich Smith
About to start the author panel with Lisa Yee, Continue Reading Event Photo Report: Florida Association for Media in Education »
More on this cover reveal!
Authors for the Philippines: “The auction is now live and you can bid on the items via the comments on the individual posts. Once the auction has ended (Wednesday 20th November), we will contact the winning bidder and ask them to donate the funds directly to the Red Cross and send the confirmation of payment to us.”
Charlotte Zolotow, Author of Books on Children’s Real Issues, Dies at 98 by Margalit Fox from The New York Times. Peek: “Ms. Zolotow’s own picture books — she wrote more than 70 — were cleareyed explorations of the interior landscape of childhood by one who had obviously not forgotten what it felt like to dwell there.”
From Lee & Low Books
Lee & Low Books, an independent children’s book publisher focused on diversity, has acquired children’s book publisher Shen’s Books. The acquisition is a new milestone in the growth of Lee & Low, which published its first book twenty years ago and has maintained its commitment to diversity in children’s books for two decades.
When my editor at Zondervan bought Summer of the Wolves (2012), my book about stepsisters in a newly blended family, and asked for three more books about the same characters, I panicked.
I had written the book several years before, so I hadn’t been “with” those characters for awhile.
Continue Reading Guest Post: Lisa Williams Kline on Character Relationships & Series Potential »
Shared by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”–releasing November 22–is the latest film adapted from a YA novel to hit screens. From the promotional copy:
The film begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark.
Continue Reading Sesame Street Parody Video: The Hungry Games: Catching Fur »
Susan Signe Morrison is the first-time editor of Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America by Joan Wehlen Morrison (Chicago Review Press, 2012)(author blog and facebook page). From the promotional copy:
This diary of a smart,
Junie B. Jones Creator Barbara Park Dies at 66 from Publishers Weekly. Peek: “Children’s author Barbara Park, long appreciated for her stories that blend humor and heart, and best-known as the creator of irrepressible kindergartner Junie B. Jones, died on Friday, November 15,
C.S. Johnson is the first-time author of The Starlight Chronicles: Slumbering (Book 1 of the Starlight series)(Westbow/Thomas Nelson, 2013). Note: Thomas Nelson is a Christian press. From the promotional copy:
Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger is at the top of his class,
Continue Reading New Voice: C.S. Johnson on The Starlight Chronicles: Slumbering »
Sometimes the “Tough” Teen Is Quietly Writing Stories by Matt de la Peña from NPR. Peek: “My professor said something I will never forget when I went and talked to her the following week. Even in the harshest and ugliest of circumstances, she explained, there’s still hope.”
