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* Rental House Weike Wang. Riverhead, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-54554-6 In this wonderfully acerbic outing from Wang (Joan Is Okay), a married couple from New York City face pressure from [...]

The best regional cookbooks can transport you far from your home kitchen: to childhood, perhaps, and a favorite family meal, or to a far-off country long the subject of wanderlust [...]

James Patterson is best-known for his megaselling adult thrillers, but come November 1, children will also learn his name, when Little, Brown Books for Young Readers releases santaKid, Patterson's first [...]

The book publishing industry, and the area of children's books in particular, are notoriously underreported statistically. And for the statistics that do exist, the categories of children's books don't always [...]

The Big One is at hand. No, not the earthquake. The American Booksellers Association annual convention and trade show, to be held in Los Angeles Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31. [...]

In this article we continue our look at this season's major children's book promotions (which began with 'Fall's Fanfare' in the September 13 issue), with a focus on major sequels [...]

From classic Mother Goose to nonsense rhymes that tickle the funny bone to serious verse that explores the world around us, poetry for children exists in many forms. Rhyming picture [...]

On September 1, seven children's book editors set out on a week-long, three-city journey to visit a host of children's book publishers in Germany. Representatives from seven children's book publishers [...]

With the holidays only a few weeks behind us, bookstores around the country have started adding tip their figures and assessing the season. We contacted a number of children's booksellers [...]

New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association Meets Fri., Sept. 9-Sun., Sept. 11, at the Clarion Hotel in New Orleans. Friday's luncheon features Carol Dawson, Roy Blount Jr. and ABA past-president Chuck [...]

'Milo is more than a provocateur.' I didn't know who Milo Yiannopoulos was until Dec. 26, 2016, when I was on Facebook and saw that Phil Bildner, a children's book [...]

No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands Judith Matloff. Basic, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0465-09788-3 Determined to discover ,why violence flourishes in high-altitude areas, war correspondent Matloff [...]

|JANUARY 1| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Storybook and CD (Disney Press, $12.99). 150,000 copies. The Magician Trilogy Book Two: Emlyn's Moon by Jenny Nimmo (Orchard, $9.99). 100,000 [...]

JULY JULY 3 What a Day It Was at School! by Jack Prelutsky, illus, by Doug Cushman (Greenwillow, $15.99). 100,000 copies. JULY 14 Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave [...]

The spring 2006 season is a big one for children's books--it has the greatest number of titles with a first printing of 100,000 copies or more since we started keeping [...]

The publishing of early readers and first chapter books is big business, as can be seen by the multitude of series on the market from houses both large and small. [...]

As the spring season unfolds, a host of established children's book characters will be reprising their roles in companion books and sequels. PW spoke with authors and editors about their [...]

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), Random House Children's Books decided to throw a party for its [...]

Holiday House acquired the title A Picture Book of George Washington by David A. Adler back in 1988. Editor-in-chief Regina Griffin, who now edits the series, said, 'The company hoped [...]

First published in 1944, The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, is a picture book that just won't quit. It has never gone out of print in [...]

Kane/Miller, which is celebrating 20 years of publishing translated foreign picture books this year, has had great success with a series of books called My Body Science. Originally published in [...]

While children's publishers and booksellers both have the same goal in mind--getting the right book into the right child's hands--their thoughts and ideas about how this works may differ greatly. [...]

The stories behind how books make it into editors' hands and get published are often interesting, and three books due out later this year are no exception. In fact, each [...]

APRIL MEANS MANY THINGS to many people: spring has finally arrived, Easter and Passover are around the corner, but in the publishing world, April means poetry. For the past seven [...]

Lisa Leake had the wake-up call of her life in January 2010. 'I saw Michael Pollan on Oprah, and he was talking about where our food comes from,' she said. [...]

NEARLY 800 booksellers gathered in Atlantic City, N.J., for the New York New Jersey and Mid-Atlantic Bookseller Associations' joint trade show, Oct. 2-3. On Monday morning, NYNIBA and MABA decided [...]

Independents finds camaraderie and a competitive edge in new associations Maybe it's fear, maybe it's even a hint of desperation, but the new competitive reality for small, independent bookstores has [...]

Through two new reading programs, presses and bookstores work together to spread the word about poetry Selling poetry used to be considered by many to be a contradiction in terms, [...]

As you're weaving through the aisles, keep your eyes peeled for these offerings from children's book publishers. Check Out These Debuts Hero by Perry Moore (Hyperion, booth 3957), about a [...]

High Adventure Atherton: The House of Power by Patrick Carman (Little, Brown, Apr.), the launch of a series by the author of the Dark Hills Divide series. Percy Jackson and [...]

Innovations are coming fast and furious in the children's book world, and publishers are right on top of it all. With kids now spending more time on the computer than [...]

They call themselves the Class of 2k7. They're a group of first-time children's book authors 40 strong from 20 states, who have banded together to attract attention to themselves collectively [...]

If you're not a teenage boy or a children's bookseller, you may have never heard of Alex Rider, the 14-year-old super spy who stars in a series of novels by [...]

Publishers are giving away a handful of noteworthy debut novels: * Skinny by Ibi Kaslik (Walker, 2220), a story about battling anorexia. * Alabama Moon by Watt Key (FSG, 2204), [...]

Headlines are filled with news of the trend that teens, notably teenage girls, are into reading manga. But what about younger girls who like reading comic books but aren't old [...]

Half a century ago, Viking passed on publishing the picture book Earl the Squirrel by Corduroy creator Don Freeman. At the time, his editor at Viking, Annis Duff, told him [...]

Harry Potter may be making headlines this summer, but Half-Blood Prince isn't the only children's book that readers will be talking about this fall. Eldest, the second volume in Christopher [...]

School is out, summer's here, the days are long. You'd think it would be the perfect time for bookstores to host author events geared to kids, but in fact, as [...]

Brain Quest, the bestselling educational question-and-answer card game from Workman, is relaunching this month with a new look and new material. According to David Allender, children's book editor at Workman, [...]

Four companion novels to previous bestsellers are: * Inkspell by Cornelia Funke, the sequel to Inkheart (Scholastic/Chicken House, booth 302) * Eldest by Christopher Paolini, the followup to the blockbuster [...]

Two high school sophomores plan a party. It's called a rainbow party because the party theme is oral sex, in which the girls each wear a different colored lipstick and [...]

THE SPRING SEASON brings with it not only a number of big names, but some very big numbers. First-printing figures that were once seen only in the adult arena are [...]

When Maria Barbo, an editor at Scholastic trade paperbacks, went shopping for a secret Santa gift a few years ago, a pair of socks from Jim Benton's Just Plain Mean [...]

After eight years of publishing into the trade, National Geographic Children's Books has shifted its focus to the library market with the introduction of a number of curriculum-based series. Talks [...]

CHILDREN'S BOOKSELLERS at the regional trade shows will have a multitude of galleys to pick up, including a mix of big-name and first-time authors. Here's a preview of some of [...]

The Smooch imprint of Dorchester Publishing is hoping to catch teens' eyes this summer with a contest and the release of two books per month from July through October. The [...]

While these may be the dog days of summer, fall is looming just around the corner, as are publishers' big fall releases. This season we'll see a number of awardwinning [...]

June is the official start of summer, and booksellers will once again be treated to a month-long celebration with Barbara Park's feisty star of the Junie B. Jones series. Now [...]