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'After three years of rain and misery at Bologna, it was wonderful to see the sun shining again,' said Roaring Brook editor Neal Porter. Unfortunately,' he added, 'the sun was [...]

ABRAMS Abrams pricks up its ears with Noises at Night by Beth Raisner Glass and Susan Lubner, illus. by Bruce Whatley, a bedtime tale; Albert the Slug and the First [...]

Though much of the country is still in winter's icy grip, spring has already sprung for audio publishers who are rolling out their new titles for the season ahead. The [...]

It may be a stretch to think about autumn when the scent of sunscreen and the snap of flip-flops are still in the air, but the new--and hardy--harvest of spoken-word [...]

BABY TATTOO BOOKS Baby Tattoo digs Little Jordy Ray's Muddy Spud by Gris Grimly, a picture-book fantasy about a potentially magic potato. BLOOMSBURY Bloomsbury straightens its tiara for The Princess [...]

ARMED WITH ROSTERS OF tightly scheduled appointments, the 4400 foreign attendees (including 1100 exhibitors from 63 countries) weren't bothered by the cool and rainy weather front stalled over Europe for [...]

ABRAMS Abrams tunes up for Jungle Drums by Graeme Base, about the smallest warthog in Africa; Under the Sun by Arthur Dorros, a wilderness survival story about a teenage boy [...]

AUDIO BOOKSHELF Black Like Me by John I toward Griffin. Read by Ray Childs. Unabridged, four cassettes, seven hours, $39.95; six CDs, $49.95, Jan. AUDIO PARTNERS The Book on Bush: [...]

AUDIO PARTNERS Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie. Read by David Suchet. Unabridged, four cassettes, six hours $25.95; five CDs, $27.95, Jul. The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie. Read by Hugh [...]

AMID THE GLITTER IN Los Angeles, it was the novels that shone most brightly for children's booksellers at this year's BEA. An oft-mentioned favorite: Inkheart (Scholastic/Chicken House, 250,000 first printing) [...]

AAA PUBLISHING Offers titles on domestic and foreign travel, children's travel and activities as well as maps, atlases and specialty publications; distributed by Simon & Schuster. Featured: AAA Automotive series, [...]

RAINCOAST BOOKS Raincoast Books, together with its Polestar and Press Gang imprints, offers a diverse list of children's books, literary fiction, gardening titles, outdoor adventure series, gift books and feminist [...]

KABBALAH PUBLISHING Booth: 271. KANE/MILLER BOOK PUBLISHERS Specializes in translated American editions of children's books and offers ancillary items. Featured: Dan's Angel: A Detective Guide to the Language of Paintings [...]

DA CAPO PRESS A member of the Perseus Books Group. Featured: No Horizon Is So Far: An Hisoric Journey Across Antarctica by Anne Bancroft and Liv Arnesen; Signor Marconi's Magic [...]

MOMENTOUS WORLD events, from the war in Iraq to the outbreak of the SARS virus, as well as some gloomy spring weather, threatened to cast a pall over the 40th [...]

Librarians know a thing or two about getting their hands dirty. Sometimes it's in ways they'd rather not discuss (cleaning messes, ahem), but more often it's in the name of [...]

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN child hood and adolescence there lies a middle stage of kids' de velopment. Marketers and demographers are fond of calling young people who fall intc this area--roughly demarcated [...]

WHAT DO A WIZARD-IN-training, a teenage royal and a big green-ogre have in common? They happen to be the lead characters in three hit feature films -- Harry Potter and [...]

AAA PUBLISHING Offers titles on domestic and foreign travel, children's travel and activities as well as maps, atlases and specialty publications; distributed by Simon & Schuster. Featured: AAA Ready, Set [...]

SAFETY TIMES This first-time exhibitor offers a bimonthly newsletter and books on safety tips. Featured: Living Safely Is No Accident: How to Avoid the 1-in-45 Odds of Dying in an [...]

MACADAM/CAGE PUBLISHING Publishes modern fiction and nonfiction. Featured: fall 2002 titles; Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn; Snow Island by Katherine Towler; Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit; Sea [...]

FACTS ON DEMAND PRESS Publishes business management, public record research and Internet research books; its BRB Publications imprint offers public record sourcebooks; distributed by National Book Network; exhibiting with the [...]

IBID Offers a complete inventory management system for bookstores. Featured: introducing a Web-enabled, Windows-based point-of sale product for bookstores called IBID/ie; demonstration of new software. Booth: 3656. ICG-MUSE This first-time [...]

OAKTREE PRESS Exhibiting with Midpoint Trade Books. Booth: 2133. OASIS AUDIO Exhibiting with the Publishers Marketing Assn. Booth: 4772. OBERON DESIGN Booth: 2451. OCTOPUS PUBLISHING GROUP The parent company of [...]

CACHET PRODUCTS Booth: 903. CADENCE Distributed by Publishers Group West. PAMELA R. CALVIN Booths: 2840, 2842. Booth: SP139 CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS Publishes academic and trade books. Featured: On Nature and [...]

UAHC PRESS UAHC is the publishing arm of Union of American Hebrew Congregations and specializes in text, trade and reference books of Jewish interest. Featured: The Torah: A Modern Commentary, [...]

Roaring Brook Press Just as a new imprint signals a company's growth or change in direction, a newly minted imprint is also a perfect symbol for making a fresh start. [...]

Bill Bass Innovation coordinator for instructional technology, information, and library media Parkway School District West St. Louis County, Mo. The best book I read this summer, reread actually, was Creative [...]

One of the most anticipated events at the ALA Midwinter Meeting is the announcement of the ALSC Youth Media Awards. This year's recipients will be revealed during a press conference [...]

At the age of 12, Marley Dias is already a social activist to be reckoned with. When she saw that her West Orange, N.J., elementary school was lacking in diverse [...]

Tony Award--winning actress and singer Idina Menzel (Wicked), also known for her voice role as Queen Elsa in Frozen, has been described since childhood as having a big voice. No [...]

ABBEVILLE Abbeville leads the fall pack with Coyote in Love with a Star by Kreipe de Montano, illus. by Tom Coffin; and Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird by Joe Medicine [...]

Though it's hard to imagine in February, spring will be here soon. And a healthy bunch of children's audio and video titles will be sprouting up right along with the [...]

'When you follow in the path of your father,! you learn to walk like him.' This Ashanti proverb begins In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall (Lee & Low, Nov.), a [...]

AUDIO ALCAZAR P.O. Box 429, S. Main St., Waterbury, Vt. 05676-0429; (802) 244-7845 There's a Pea on My Plate by Bill Harley. Children's songs ranging from rock to folk to [...]

ARCHWAY Archway parties like it's 1999 with The Millennium by Dan Cohen, a book about the dawning of the new century; The Hollow Skull, a creepy new novel from horrormeister [...]

Children's authors and artists talk about their spring '97 debuts Milly Lee, the author of Nim and the War Effort (FSG, March), is not your typical first-time author. A retired [...]

ARCHWAY Archway puckers up with Good Night Kiss Collector's Edition by R.L. Stine, which includes two Stine classics and a new vampire story; Stine also invites readers to add their [...]

ABBEVILLE KIDS Who Are You? and Where's the Cat? by Stella Blackstone, illus. by Debbie Harter ($9.95 each), feature animals hidden in each scene; and a hunt for a kitty. [...]

Six children's book newcomers share thoughts on their debut projects Unlike the young protagonist of her first novel The Cuckoo's Child (Green-willow, Mar.), Suzanne Freeman has not experienced the trauma [...]

In competitive times, booksellers have learned to survive by making the most of what they've got For a survey conducted by Cahners Publishing's research department in March 1996, questionnaires were [...]

The Best Books were chosen by: Sybil Steinberg, fiction; Genevieve Stuttaford, nonfiction; Diane Roback, Elizabeth Devereaux and Shannon Maughan, children's; Maria Simson, paperbacks; Dulcy Brainard, poetry and mysteries; Phyllis Tickle, [...]

Five first-time children's authors and illustrators talk about their spring '95 debuts Zoom's cosmic implications are enormous. Frame by frame, the wordless cartoon volume backs away from human figures, revealing [...]

For a survey conducted by Cahners Publishing's research department in February 1995, questionnaires were sent to 1500 Publishers Weekly subscribers and 341 bookstore members of the Association of Booksellers for [...]

AVON/CAMELOT Thrills and chills are part of the curriculum during a Bad Day at Monster Elementary by Mike Thaler and Jared Lee. Reprints include The Sara Summer by Mary Downing [...]