BOXERS & SAINTS knocks out all the opponents to win SLJ’s three-week long 2014 Battle of the Kids’ Books. Judge Jenni Holm said: “…A Sistine Chapel of comics and story and historical fiction. It is what we should all aspire to create. You know, like Neil Gaiman says: “Make good art.” My friends: This is great art.” To read…
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Pocket Jeunesse Aquires French Rights to NIL by Lynne Matson
“How do you escape from an island that doesn’t exist?” A cross between Lost and Lord of the Flies…NIL is edge of your seat, nail-biting suspense!
More Kudos for BOXERS & SAINTS!
BOXERS & SAINTS by Gene Luen Yang has won the Los Angeles Times Book Awards prize for Young Adult Literature. This title has won so many prizes that we’ve lost count!
THE UNDERTAKING OF LILY CHEN by Danica Novgorodoff
An ancient Chinese custom takes a young man on a quest to find a wife.for his brother in a new graphic novel by Danica Novgorodoff. Coming in March from First Second Books! Watch the book trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUHW8gSFtBI
More Kudos for David Thompson!
Australian restaurateur and author (THAI FOOD, THAI STREET FOOD, Penguin Australia) David Thompson’s Nahm restaurant in Bangkok was named as Asia’s best at the San Pellegrino Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014 awards yesterday! (Nahm was already on the list of the world’s 50 best restaurants.) David’s firrst book, THAI FOOD, won the 2003 James Beard Award…
Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books for Spring 2014:
Three great books from our clients: THIEF’S MAGIC by Trudi Canavan RULES OF SUMMER by Shaun Tan and THIS ONE SUMMER by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki are on the Publishers Weekly list of “Most Anticipated Books for Spring 2014”. Congratulations to the authors, their agents and their publishers!
LA Times Book Prize Finalists
Congratulations to Gene Luen Yang, whose graphic novel duo “Boxers & Saints” is a finalist for Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Young Adult Literature category! http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-announcing-the-la-times-book-prize-finalists-for-2013-20140219,0,6943176.story#ixzz2tqzybi3y
THE REAL FOOD COOKBOOK
The forthcoming REAL FOOD COOKBOOK by Nina Planck (Bloomsbury US, June) just got a nice review in the 17 February issue of Publishers Weekly: “Planck promotes her “good and simple” philosophy of eating (Real Food: What to Eat and Why) in a collection of 150 straightforward, trend-bucking recipes. In this green-market driven cookbook, the Virginia…
Another Great Review for RULES OF SUMMER!
Shaun Tan’s RULES OF SUMMER gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-545-63912-5
RIP Mavis Gallant
Canadian writer Mavis Gallant has died at the age of 91 in Paris, where she had spent most of her life. More than a hundred of her short stories were published in The New Yorker magazine and by publishers in both Canada and France. In 1981 she was awarded Canada’s most prestigious literary prize, the Governor General’s…
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