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Beyond the words and pictures in a children's book, a number of elements can contribute to its success. Some--like the author/illustrator's reputation, the marketing campaign, the overall quality of the [...]

AT THIS YEAR'S BEA, booksellers got a taste of what promises to be an exciting season, with a number of high-profile titles scheduled to hit the shelves throughout the fall. [...]

A MID RAIN AND chillier-than usual temperatures, once again the international children's book community convened in the gastronomic capital of Italy--where Americans got their first taste of the euro--for what [...]

Since we last published these lists, back in 1996, a number of changes have taken place within the industry. Publishing houses have consolidated. Children's bestseller lists, once few and far [...]

We offer this roundup in an effort to pull together the various transitions, expansions and acquisitions that have taken place over the last year. The information is not comprehensive, although [...]

RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN'S BOOKS has announced the inception of an e-book publishing program to be called Random View Books. It will launch on November 13, and the debut list will [...]

For those who don't know, there's a new dog in town. His name is Mr. Winkle, and he aspires to be more popular than Lassie, more lovable than Martha, bigger [...]

A little boy called me a week ago and said, 'You're still going to write after this, aren't you?'' Patricia MacLachlan recalls, referring to last month's terrorist attacks in the [...]

A look at how children's booksellers and publishers reacted to the events of September 11, and how they are moving forward THE SEPTEMBER 11 DISASTER AT the World Trade Center [...]

Last December, Tracey Dils, a former children's book author, was hired as publisher of McGraw-Hill Children's Publishing. Since then, the Ohio-based company has been increasing its presence in the trade, [...]

Last fall, Marc Aronson left his position as senior editor at Holt Books for Young Readers to become publisher of a new imprint at Carus Publishing; since then he has [...]

In this issue, in addition to our comprehensive listing of publishers' books for fall, our features explore relationships: between collaborators of picture books as well as between bookstores and their [...]

Sharon Creech opens the front door of her three-story, neo-Georgian, red-brick home and welcomes PW with a smile. She is dressed casually, in jeans and a dusty-pink cotton shirt. And [...]

Panels and titles were plentiful for children's booksellers IT WAS A BUSY BEA FOR CHILDREN'S booksellers, with a full complement of sessions and panels; on the convention floor, a multitude [...]

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing is re structuring its paperback division and collapsing five paperback imprints into two. It will phase out Archway and Minstrel, which had been part of [...]

PENGUIN PUTNAM BOOKS FOR Young Readers has announced that Gina Maolucci has been hired as executive director of marketing and marketing design, effectively replacing Angus Killick, who left the company [...]

Last fall, North-South Books held an open house to show off its new offices at 11 E. 26th St. in NewYork City--physically only a block away from their old location [...]

Bobbie Combs, former buyer at Koen Kids, and Sally Lindsay, v-p of merchandising and marketing at Koen, have launched Two Lives Publishing. The company will focus on children's books with [...]

MARIANN DONATO, v-p of sales at Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, will assume the newly created title of v-p of sales and marketing for the division. The job had [...]

LORI BENTON will join Henry Holt Books for Young Readers as associate publisher, director of marketing, on April 2. Most recently she was director of marketing at Harcourt Children's Books, [...]

SUSAN HIRSCHMAN, founder and publisher of Greenwillow Books, announced that she will retire from her position in August. Hirschman's career has spanned nearly 50 years, starting in 1954 with a [...]

RANDOM HOUSE Children's Books has announced that it will realign several of its imprints. Under this plan, explained Beverly Horowitz, v-p and publisher at RHCB Trade Group, Random is seeking [...]

HIT ENTERTAINMENT, the British licensing agent for properties such as Bob the Builder, Kipper and Angelina Ballerina, has bought Lyrick Studios for $275 million. Lyrick's hook-licensing properties include Barney and [...]

Today's publishing environment means an expanding job description for children's book agents It seems as though issues that felt new just a few years ago -- consolidation of companies, editorial [...]

RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN'S BOOKS and the Random House Group Children's Division, U.K., have jointly announced that David Fickling Books will move to Random House in both the U.S. and the [...]

DISNEY PUBLISHING WORLD WIDE has announced that it will separate its children's book division into two groups, Hyperion Books for Children and Disney Global Children's Books. Andrea Pinkney has been [...]

The Millbrook Press has finalized a name for its recently formed children's trade imprint (News, Sept. 25, 2000). Roaring Brook Press will launch with approximately 15 titles in spring 2002. [...]

Wendy Lamb, formerly executive editor at Delacorte, has been named publishing director of Wendy Lamb Books and v-p, Random House Children's Books. She will continue to report to Beverly Horowitz, [...]

Scholastic has acquired the rights to Pfeifer-Hamilton's children's books, including the bestselling titles Old Turtle and The Quiltmaker's Gift. To date, the Duluth, Minn.-based publisher has sold more than 800,000 [...]

Author interviews canceled or postponed as media focuses on election quagmire THE MEDIA COVERAGE of the Florida presidential recount may not be quite as extensive as it was for the [...]

Scholastic has announced a new publishing partnership with The Chicken House, the U.K. publisher recently launched by Barry Cunningham, co-founder of Bloomsbury Children's Books and perhaps best known as the [...]

Last week, three science fiction/fantasy titles landed on PWs hardcover fiction list; this week another--Robert Jordan's Winter's Heat, Book Nine of the Wheel of Time--takes the lead spot after just [...]

In a departure from her past several on-air book club selections, Oprah Winfrey announced last Thursday that her newest pick was by a male author. House of Sand and Fog, [...]

'The Good, the Bad, and the Connected: Electronic Publishing and Children's Books' was the focus of a Children's Book Council program at its annual meeting at the end of September. [...]

CONTRARY TO RECENT RUMORS, DK Ink, a children's imprint at DK, will not be sold to Brookfield, Conn.-based Millbrook Press, according to Millbrook publisher Jean Reynolds. The two publishers had [...]

Marc Aronson has left his post as senior editor at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers and has accepted a position with Carus Publishing in Chicago. Aronson's new title is [...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES has announced changes in its recently launched children's bestseller list (News, July 10). Starting yesterday, the Times will now divide its children's bestseller list into three [...]

PLEASANT COMPANY HAS closed its London office less than a year after it opened, and reported that it has laid off 13 employees. An official from Pleasant Co. reported that [...]

After several years as an editor at Little, Brown Children's Books, for the first time this fall Megan Tingley will see her name on the spine and title page of [...]

At an age when, as he says, 'most people would be thinking of retiring,' Dick Jackson is enjoying a renaissance of sorts, as Richard Jackson Books joins Simon & Schuster [...]

Fall means many things to many people: there's a welcome break from the heat of summer, brightly colored leaves bring a new landscape, and children head back to school. Last [...]

As someone who has found a way to marry her two professional passions, writing and social work, E.R. Frank considers herself pretty lucky. And in fact, for her one would [...]

Delacorte Books for Young Readers has acquired world rights to Backstreet Boys: The Official Book, the first and only book authorized by the multi-platinum-selling pop band. Unlike the 20-plus unauthorized [...]

By all accounts, and by his own estimation, Mark Teague has a nice life. With his wife, Laura, and two daughters--Lily, age seven, and Ava, two and a half--plus a [...]

If you've been in any of several cities across the country, chances are you've seen them. Maybe in a restaurant, a movie theater, a music store--they're even in bookstores. Free [...]