2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1012+ words) Daniel, this is your third picture book—again playing with the form in surprising ways. What initially drew you to the medium, and what’s kept you excited about it? Daniel Kwan: Growing up, I always loved children’s books, and I…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (233+ words) Publishers Weekly Perri Klass to Receive National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award The National Book Foundation has named Perri Klass, the longtime national medical director of the children’s literacy nonprofit Reach Out and Read, as the recipient of the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (191+ words) I sit at her feet, her hand in my hair. Mother Science Fiction: socialite, nepo-baby, genius, scandalous gossip, philosopher, all. How could I write anything less than a love letter, with my cheek upon her knee? In a love letter,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (151+ words) Defining global kids’ books As World Kid Lit Month enters its second decade, the organization continues to prioritize raising young readers’ awareness of and access to diverse literature, especially books in translation. Supporting the education and library sectors, along with…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (405+ words) As Highlights for Children turns 80 this year, the company’s 11-year-old Highlights Press imprint is celebrating the milestone with sales growth that is significantly outpacing not only the children’s book market as a whole but also the red-hot activity book category,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (287+ words) Why did you start Qesher? How did this project grow into a book that includes Latin American, European, North African, Middle Eastern, Indian, and South African writers? How did you choose contributors? Sebastián Mizrahi: We wanted this book to emphasize…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (216+ words) Bookshop.org, the online bookstore, has surpassed the $50 million milestone in distributions to independent bookstores. The company launched in 2020 to offer shoppers a way of buying books online that supported independent bookstores and to divert sales away from Amazon and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (144+ words) Union Square & Co., an imprint of Grand Central Publishing Group, has announced the launch of Singularity, a new novella program that will publish 10-12 paperback titles per year, beginning this September, and helmed by Union Square editorial director Mika Kasuga. Ellison’s…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (207+ words) U.K. literary charity Hay Festival Global has appointed Ted Hodgkinson as its first-ever creative director, starting in November. He joins Hay from London's Southbank Centre, Europe's largest arts complex, where he spent the past decade as head of literature and spoken…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (45+ words) Publishers Weekly The Flying Death: Poison, Plunder, and the Quest for a Miracle Medicine in the Amazon Matt O’Hara. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32 (400p) ISBN 978-0-374-60921-4...