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    • The Hans Christian Andersen Award Announces the 2012 Short List – Pitch Engine

      Posted at 8:22 am by Laura, on March 14, 2012

      The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of IBBY Announces the 2012 Short List -Pitch Engine – Raab Associates

      Five authors and five illustrators have been selected from 57 candidates submitted by 32 national sections of IBBY for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. The award, considered the most prestigious in international children’s literature, is given biennially by the International Board on Books for Young People to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made lasting contributions to children’s literature. The winners will be announced on Monday, March 19th at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

      Check out the five authors and five illustrators that made the list. Congratulations!

      Posted in books, Link | 0 Comments | Tagged awards, books, genre: children, news
    • PW Tip Sheet: This Week in History

      Posted at 11:31 am by Laura, on March 10, 2012

      Publisher’s Weekly – Marc Schultz

      The historical novel is a perennial fixture in the book business, a nimble genre that works its way into all corners of  the storytelling ecosystem: bestseller lists, hot new subgenres, movie adaptations and, of course, the literary canon. Historicals make up more than half of the just-released longlist for the UK’s Orange Prize for woman-penned fiction, and scripted historicals are in full force on TV (Downton Abbey, Mad Men) and at the movies (2011 Best Picture winner The Artist was one of four historicals nominated for the honor—five, if you count Midnight in Paris). This week, they’re also all over the On-Sale Calendar.

      I’m a huge fan of historical novels! There’s something fun and thrilling about taking historical fact, throwing in fictional characters or turn-of-events, and creating a new piece. Sometimes the novels can be silly, and other times there are gems that convince you of plausibility.

      This list contains historical paranormal, historical romance, historical fiction, historical mystery, and even “straight-up” history in the nonfiction list. Michael Morpurgo (author of War Horse) is also mentioned in his latest young reader book about a cat on the Titanic.

      Posted in books, Link | 0 Comments | Tagged books, genre: adult fiction, genre: children, genre: fiction, genre: history, history, magazine, news
    • New books on my shelves!

      Posted at 8:35 pm by Laura, on March 6, 2012

      Apologies for the lack of posts – my birthday was a few days ago and I’ve been busy with family and friends.

      However, it’s certainly been a book-filled birthday! I received these books (and gift cards to purchase some of these books), and I’m really looking forward to reading them!

      The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey, Passion by Jude Morgan, Faithful Place by Tana French, The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott

      Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl, The Meaning of the Night by Michael Cox, Divergent by Veronica Roth, War Horseby Michael Morpurgo

      Posted in books, Update Post | 2 Comments | Tagged books, genre: adult fiction, genre: children, genre: classics, genre: dystopian, genre: fiction, genre: history, genre: mystery, genre: young adult, goodreads
    • Parragon Books: Little Learners

      Posted at 9:43 pm by Laura, on March 2, 2012

      Introducing Paragon Books: Little Learners! These books are geared toward babies’ and toddlers’ development, including

      • foam and cloth books
      • stroller books (animals, colors, numbers)
      • slide-and-see books
      • bath-time books
      • and many more!

      I think this is absolutely precious, and I’m thrilled to see that not everything has gone digital, especially for children. A very important part of childhood cognitive development (from what I’ve learned in many of my psychology classes) is interaction with the physical world. This includes sights, sounds, touching various textures, discovery – these things aren’t fully developed (especially touch) with e-technology.

      Posted in books, Link | 0 Comments | Tagged books, genre: children, news, publishing
    • Charlotte Brontë’s lost manuscript “L’Ingratitude” to be published

      Posted at 8:23 am by Laura, on February 29, 2012

      London Review of Books: Charlotte Brontë’s lost manuscript L’Ingratitude – available to read in French and English

      The Guardian: Charlotte Brontë’s lost short story to be published

      A long-lost short story written by Charlotte Brontë for a married man with whom she fell in love is to be published for the first time after being found in a Belgian museum a century after it was last heard of.

      The tale, written in grammatically erratic French and entitled L’Ingratitude, is the first-known piece of homework set for Brontë by Constantin Heger, a Belgian tutor who taught both her and her sister Emily, and is believed to have inspired such ardour in the elder sibling that she drew on their relationship for her novel Villette.

      Posted in books, Link, publishing | 0 Comments | Tagged authors, genre: children, genre: classics, history, magazine, news, newspaper
    • Children’s Books are where the Wild Things Aren’t – SciCodex

      Posted at 2:23 pm by Laura, on February 24, 2012

      Study: Increasingly, children’s books are where the wild things aren’t – Science Codex – U of Nebraska-Lincoln

      Was your favorite childhood book crawling with wild animals and set in places like jungles or deep forests? Or did it take place inside a house or in a city, with few if any untamed creatures in sight?

      A new study has found that over the last several decades, nature has increasingly taken a back seat in award-winning children’s picture books — and suggests this sobering trend is consistent with a growing isolation from the natural world.

      A group of researchers led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociology professor emeritus J. Allen Williams Jr. reviewed the winners and honor books receiving the prestigious Caldecott Medal from the award’s inception in 1938 through 2008. In total, they examined nearly 8,100 images contained in nearly 300 books. Caldecott awardees are the children’s books judged by the American Library Association to have the best illustrations in a given year.

      This makes me a little sad! At a time when we should care about our environment the most, the books are reflecting our neglect!

      Posted in books, Link | 0 Comments | Tagged books, genre: children, news
    • Upcoming Books! [5]

      Posted at 3:00 pm by Laura, on February 19, 2012

      I’m going to play around with a new format this week.

      Title: Pandemonium
      Author: Lauren Oliver
      Genre: young adult – fantasy – dystopia
      Publisher: HarperCollins
      Publishing Date: February 28
      Summary:
       The old Lena is dead. The old Lena remains with Alex in Portland, Maine, behind a wall of smoke and flame, but the new Lena was born in the Wilds, transformed by hardship, deprivation, and loss.
      Now an active member of the resistance, Lena fights for a world in which love will no longer be considered a dangerous disease. Her inner life is as turbulent as the world around her. . . . Although consumed with grief for Alex, might she be falling in love with someone else?
      The second in Oliver’s “Delirium” trilogy.

      ~

      Title: And Then It’s Spring
      Author: Julie Fogliano
      Genre: children’s
      Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
      Publishing Date: February 14
      Summary: Following a snow-filled winter, a young boy and his dog decide that they’ve had enough of all that brown and resolve to plant a garden. They dig, they plant, they play, they wait . . . and wait . . . until at last, the brown becomes a more hopeful shade of brown, a sign that spring may finally be on its way. Julie Fogliano’s tender story of anticipation is brought to life by the distinctive illustrations Erin E. Stead, recipient of the 2011 Caldecott Medal.

      ~

      Title: The Dressmaker
      Author: Kate Alcott
      Genre: historical fiction
      Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
      Publishing Date: February 21
      Summary: Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic’s doomed voyage. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.
      Amidst the chaos and desperate urging of two very different suitors, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat. Tess’s sailor also manages to survive unharmed, witness to Lady Duff Gordon’s questionable actions during the tragedy. Others—including the gallant Midwestern tycoon—are not so lucky.
      On dry land, rumors about the survivors begin to circulate, and Lady Duff Gordon quickly becomes the subject of media scorn and later, the hearings on the Titanic.

      ~

      Title: Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
      Author: Craig Taylor
      Genre: nonfiction
      Publisher: HarperCollins
      Publishing Date: February 21
      Summary: Five years in the making, and published on the eve of the 2012 Olympics, “Londoners” is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world’s most fascinating cities–a vibrant, narrative portrait of contemporary London, featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum.

      Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: adult fiction, genre: children, genre: dystopian, genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, genre: history, genre: nonfiction, genre: young adult, upcoming books
    • TOC 2012: Children’s Books Must Exist in Both Formats – PW

      Posted at 5:19 pm by Laura, on February 15, 2012

      TOC 2012: Children’s Books Must Exist in Digital and Print – Publisher’s Weekly – Gabe Habash

      The “What Works Well Where? Considering Books for Children in Different Formats” session at TOC 2012 stressed the necessary coexistence of digital and traditional books for children, an opinion put forth by Junko Yokota, director of the Center for Teaching Through Children’s Books.

      I couldn’t agree more! There are some aspects of a print book that are necessary for infants and children in order to adapt to the environment and to learn! In this case, there are things technology cannot touch.

      Posted in books, Link, publishing | 1 Comment | Tagged books, ebooks, ereaders, genre: children, magazine, news, technology
    • Upcoming Books! [4]

      Posted at 8:28 am by Laura, on February 13, 2012

      Apologies for the late post, normally I do this on Sundays. Been a rough few weeks with class.

      Here’s the latest news on upcoming and newly published books!

      Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult which will be released February 28th!

      Summary: Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.
      With her father’s chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father’s organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision?
      Lone Wolf explores the notion of family, and the love, protection and strength it’s meant to offer. But what if the hope that should sustain it, is the very thing that pulls it apart?

      ~

      At Left Brain, Turn Right by Anthony Meindl

      Summary: 15 Weeks and 25 Ways to Unleash Your Inner Brando, Einstein, and Shakespeare:
      The most successful and creative people in the world don’t possess anything different than you. They have no magic formula or special secret. They’ve simply prevented the left hemisphere of their brain – the “logical,” analytical side – from sabotaging their life. Whether you’re a ballerina or banker, accountant or actor, At Left Brain Turn Right shows you how to silence the noise of your left brain, ignite your creative side, and live the life you’ve always imagined. Using relatable no-nonsense stories from his own creative journey, Anthony Meindl guides you from the left brain to the right to realize your own full creative potential.

      ~

      The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice, out on Valentine’s Day!

      Summary: A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.

      ~

      And finally, a few books to look forward to later in 2012 and 2013:

      • Lisa O’Donnell’s The Death of Bees, two young sisters trying to keep the world at bay after the mysterious death of their parents
      • French Lessons author Ellen Sussman’s The Paradise Guest House, set in Bali during the aftermath of the 2002 nightclub bombings, a story about love, risk, and facing up to our deepest fears
      • A four book series by Lemony Snicket, due out October 23rd.
      Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: adult fiction, genre: children, genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, genre: nonfiction, genre: young adult, upcoming books
    • Upcoming Books! [3]

      Posted at 5:23 pm by Laura, on February 5, 2012

      Here’s the latest news on upcoming and new publications.

      Don’t Forget, Nana, God Bless Our Troops by Jill Biden

      Read about this upcoming children’s picture book here. Tentative publishing date June 2012.

      Summary: Inspired by her own granddaughter Natalie, Vice President Joe Biden’s wife Jill tells a family story through a child’s eyes of what family life is like when a parent is at war across the world.
      When her father leaves for a year of being at war, Natalie knows that she will miss him. Natalie is proud of her father but there is nothing to stop her from wishing he was home. Some things do help her feel better. Natalie works with her Nana to send her dad and the other service men and women cookies and treats they have made. Natalie, her mom and brother can see and talk to Dad over the computer, and the kindness of friends at school and at church help her feel supported and loved. But there is nothing like the day when her Dad comes home at last.

      ~

      The Bedlam Detective by Stephen Gallagher out Monday February 6!

      Summary: Set in England in 1912, this masterful whodunit from Gallagher (Red, Red Robin) introduces Sebastian Becker, a former policeman and Pinkerton agent who now works as the special investigator to the Masters of Lunacy, looking into cases involving any “man of property” whose sanity is under question. His latest assignment takes him to the small town of Arnmouth to determine whether Sir Owain Lancaster has gone around the bend. Lancaster returned from a disastrous trip to the Amazon, which claimed the life of his wife and son, only to attribute the catastrophe to mysterious animals straight out of Doyle’s The Lost World. Lancaster believes that the creatures that plagued him in South America have followed him home, and are responsible for the deaths of two young girls, a theory supported by a local legend of a beast of the moor.

      ~

      First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low by Ginger Wadworth out tomorrow!

      Summary: Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts in 2012, a lavishly illustrated account of the fascinating life of the woman who started it all. Juliette Gordon Low was a remarkable woman with ideas that were ahead of her time. She witnessed important eras in U.S. history, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to westward expansion to post–World War I. And she made history by founding the first national organization to bring girls from all backgrounds into the out-of-doors. Daisy created controversy by encouraging them to prepare not only for traditional homemaking but also for roles as professional women—in the arts, sciences, and business—and for active citizenship outside the home. Her group also welcomed girls with disabilities at a time when they were usually excluded.

      ~

      Happy reading, everyone!

      Posted in Upcoming Books | 0 Comments | Tagged genre: adult fiction, genre: children, genre: fiction, genre: mystery, genre: nonfiction, genre: young adult, upcoming books
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