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Candlewick Press will have a new address |
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As of 10 Mar 2008, Candlewick Press will have a new address: 99 Dover Street Somerville, MA 02144 |
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY reports that Egmont USA has hired Regina Griffin as an Executive Editor. Griffin was previously Editor-in-Chief at Holiday House and Executive Editor at Scholastic. |
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Simon & Schuster has reorganized its children’s publishing wing |
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Simon & Schuster has reorganized its children’s publishing wing into three distinct units, each publishing in both hardcover and paperback. As PUBLISHERS WEEKLY breaks it down, the S&S children's division will now consist of: |
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Maria van Lieshout announces the publication of her first little book: Bloom! |
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Bloom isn’t interested in playing in messy mud puddles with other pigs. She’d rather gallivant among pretty flowers. Bloom LOVES flowers and other pretty things. She also likes attention.
And when a beautiful butterfly, a “flying flower,” wafts by, she falls head over heels in love. But she soon learns that attraction is fleeting, and friendship brings a deeper, more satisfying love. Publisher’s Weekly writes in a starred review (12/2007), “As light and sweet as cotton candy, this saga of a pig in love will win over kids and grownups alike. Van Lieshout’s loosely drawn pen and ink illustrations, mostly on stark white pages, wring Oscar-winning expressions from the slenderest curves and squiggles…This paper-over-board book’s stylish design and small square format designate it as a natural for Valentine’s Day |
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Maria van Lieshout announces the publication of her first little book: Bloom! |
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Bloom isn’t interested in playing in messy mud puddles with other pigs. She’d rather gallivant among pretty flowers. Bloom LOVES flowers and other pretty things. She also likes attention. |
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Jim Averbeck announces the April publication of his first book In a Blue Room |
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It’s a timeless question: how do you get a little one to go to sleep? First-time author Jim Averbeck has the answer in the new picture book In a Blue Room, illustrated by Tricia Tusa (Harcourt Children’s Books, April, $16 hardcover). |
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