Publications about books for children and young adults
March of the Dinosaurs (Touch Press LLP with National Geographic and Wide-Eyed Entertainment, 2011) is based on National Geographic Channel’s 2011 documentary Escape of the Dinosaurs. The app begins with an optional trailer for the film, which also serves as a preview of the app’s content, then opens an illustrated, animated table of contents. From [...]
Happy November! In this month’s newsletter Martha Parravano has five questions for Steve Sheinkin about his latest nonfiction title, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon. You’ll also find – more war books (fiction, nonfiction, and memoir) for young adults – middle-grade graphic novels – funny folklore-inspired picture books – “things that [...]
Some upcoming children’s author events in the Boston area: Leda Schubert, author of Monsieur Marceau: Actor without Words, will be signing at Porter Square Books in Cambridge on Wednesday, November 14th. The free event begins at 7:00 p.m.; see Porter Square Books’ website for details. Author/illustrator Marc Brown will speak at Lesley University’s Washburn Auditorium [...]
Graphic novels reach beyond superhero-style comics to hook all types of readers. From historical fiction and memoir to wacky fantasy, the following examples offer middle graders and middle schoolers plenty of laughs—and lots to think about. The first two books in the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series introduce the Revolutionary War hero as a time-traveling, [...]
The cleverly designed Disney American Presidents app (Disney Learning, October 2012) invites users to peruse “The Unofficial Oval Office Scrapbook.” A scrapbook-like spread devoted to each president features the man’s portrait, birth and death dates, signature, and awards received. A “bookmark” sidebar provides his presidential number, term(s) served, corresponding historical era, party, vice president(s), and [...]
Chris Pauls and Matt Solomon’s adult novel Deck Z: The Titanic: Unsinkable. Undead. (Chronicle, September 2012) begins in early April, 1912, when German pathologist Theodor Weiss is summoned to Manchuria to investigate what appears to be a particularly virulent strain of plague. Weiss takes a recently infected victim to a laboratory to study the disease, [...]
‘Tis the season for ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties, so we’ve updated our Halloween reading list with lots of books that go bump in the night. These titles were all published within the last few years and recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. There’s something for everybody, whether you’re looking for silly, scary, or [...]
David A. Carter and Noelle Carter’s Bot Garage app (Random House/Smashing Ideas, 2011), a companion to their 2011 counting pop-up book Lots of Bots, invites users to recreate the wacky robots showcased in the book and create their own inventions. Build a robot by selecting from a gallery of ten brightly colored options for each bot [...]
…mysterious and spooky for Halloween! This month we’ve got 5 questions for Libba Bray on her spine-tingling new supernatural novel The Diviners, plus – more quirky fantasy for YA – four new not-creepy picture books – silly (and a little scary) chapter books – human body—dead and alive—nonfiction books Read our monthly newsletter Notes from [...]
Daniel Striped Tiger, you’ve come a long way, baby. Introduced on the show The Children’s Corner in the 1950s, shy Daniel went on to be one of many puppet inhabitants of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Earlier this month PBS debuted an animated spin-off series featuring his four-year-old son, also named Daniel, and [...]
