Keith Richards is best known as a member of the legendary rock band, the Rolling Stones. Now he adds the... Read more »
| September 15, 2014, 8:25 pm
The Fourteenth Goldfish is a rare children’s book. It presents a message that plenty of people will disagree with –... Read more »
| September 10, 2014, 8:50 pm
It is perhaps just late enough in the summer to look with pleasure (rather than panic) on the coming change... Read more »
| September 10, 2014, 4:15 pm
Subjects once considered taboo for people of any age are making their way into books geared toward the youngest readers.... Read more »
| September 9, 2014, 9:05 am
The Scholastic catalogs you got in elementary school were already cool, but now Usher is joining forces with the children’s... Read more »
| September 8, 2014, 9:51 pm
It is well known that children benefit academically from reading books. Schools require children to build reading skills very early... Read more »
| September 8, 2014, 9:46 pm
Scholastic announced Tuesday that [Nick] Cannon’s “Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems” will be published in March 2015.... Read more »
| September 5, 2014, 2:00 pm
Amazon announced that it will be expanding its Kindle Direct Publishing business to support the needs of children’s books authors... Read more »
| September 5, 2014, 1:00 pm
The discussion of what topics are deemed appropriate and acceptable in children’s literature is certainly not a new one. In... Read more »
| September 5, 2014, 10:00 am
Are you excited, because we’re totally excited about Publishers Weekly’s preview of picture, middle grade, and YA books for spring... Read more »
| September 5, 2014, 9:00 am
David Michel, the former co-founder and GM of Marathon Media, has launched Cottonwood Media, a new indie production company focused... Read more »
| September 5, 2014, 8:00 am
Author Vince Vawter already had a 40-year career in newspapers behind him when he wrote Paperboy (Delacorte, 2013), his Newbery... Read more »
| September 4, 2014, 9:01 pm
With today’s tech-savvy SVOD-gobbling kids, who are more connected than ever, it’s becoming increasingly advantageous for content creators to develop... Read more »
| September 4, 2014, 8:50 pm
San Francisco based author Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner may have written the most fun wrap-up about taking the “Essentials of a... Read more »
| September 4, 2014, 8:26 pm
The Book App Alliance — a group of leading kid lit authors creating book apps for children — informs parents... Read more »
| September 4, 2014, 7:53 pm
Roxie Munro is one of our favorite writers, illustrators, and app developers. Recently Dr. Mira Reisberg of the Children’s Book... Read more »
| September 3, 2014, 9:30 pm
In 2009, Tod Bol built the first Little Free Library in Hudson, Wisconsin. Five years later there are 18,000 Little... Read more »
| September 3, 2014, 6:57 pm
It’s always a joy to discover children’s books written by authors who typically write for adults. Author and playwright Carson... Read more »
| September 3, 2014, 4:49 pm
Since being invented, the hashtag has made it easy for Twitter users to discover topics of importance, or strong interest. Writers... Read more »
| September 1, 2014, 6:19 pm
In August, Senior Manager of Author Platforms Andrea Bachofen asked a group of Random House authors about the best suggestion... Read more »
| September 1, 2014, 3:31 pm