Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Children's Book News with PW

Tomie dePaola 'Grateful'
For a Storied Career

"I turned 81 this month, so I guess you could say I'm in the twilight of my career," says Tomie dePaola, reflecting on his half-century of creating children's books. Given the Newbery Honor– and Caldecott Honor–winning author's robust roster of forthcoming new and reissued works, that twilight is a luminous – and decidedly productive – one. more


IN THE MEDIA

From ABC News:
Twilight Characters Swap Genders in 10th Anniversary Edition. Click here
From the Hollywood Reporter:
New Nancy Drew TV Series in the Works at CBS. Click here
From Entertainment Weekly:
J.K. Rowling debunked some Harry Potter fan theories on Twitter. Click here
From the BBC:
A YA Doctor Who spinoff is coming to BBC 3, written by Patrick Ness. Click here
From Fashion and Style:
3 Big Things About Jack Black, R.L. Stine and Goosebumps Cast At New York Comic-Con. Click here
From NPR:
The Kerlan Collection: A Glimpse of the Work Behind the Magic. Click here
From Entertainment Weekly:
Twilight surprise: New gender-swapped tale introduces Beau and Edythe. Click here
From YA Interrobang:
Authors Maggie Stiefvater and John Green to race for charity. Click here
From Mother Jones:
It's a Coder! It's a Teacher! It's Graphic Novelist Gene Luen Yang! Click here
From the Guardian:
Philip Pullman: how drawing helped me to see the world differently. Click here
From the Chicago Tribune:
Daniel Handler signs on to produce personalized children's books with Sourcebooks. Click here
From Brightly:
Alice at 150: Everything You Never Knew About Wonderland. Click here

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