Random House Children’s is discontinuing Schwartz & Wade Books, with the imprint’s final list publishing in Spring 2021. Anne Schwartz and Lee Wade, will each become vice president and publisher of their own imprint, Anne Schwartz Books and Random House Studio, respectively. Anne Schwartz Books will focus on “publishing critically acclaimed titles by renowned authors…
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Hachette Acquires Disney Book Group, Moves to Inform and Reassure Confused Authors and Agents
Hachette Book Group has acquired the Disney Book Group, comprising a catalog of over 1,000 titles, announced Thursday afternoon, and will publish those books as part of Little, Brown Children’s. The deal includes over 100 titles acquired but not yet published by Disney. A small number of titles that lend themselves to exploitation in multiple…
The Best of the Best Children’s Books of 2019
With an ever-expanding universe of published lists, we are excited to expand our popular aggregation of selective “best books of the year” lists to include a terrific tabulation of the consensus Best of the Best Children’s Books of 2019. Drawing on 28 selective sources in all, the data naturally provided a clear set of top…
Children’s Publishing: Executives Buy Bonnier’s US Children’s Lines; Sourcebooks Adds Three Imprints
Continuing last year’s developments that saw changes in leadership at Bonnier Books’ English-language divisions and a slimming of their lines (including the sale of Weldon Owen to Insight Editions), the company has sold the children’s publishing lines that comprised Bonnier Books USA. CEO Shimul Tolia and cfo Thomas Morgan have bought the division from Bonnier Books….
YA: Abrams Cancels Graphic Novel; Lerner Acquires Zest Books
Abrams has cancelled publication of controversial graphic novel A SUICIDE BOMBER SITS IN THE LIBRARY by writer Jack Gantos and illustrator Dave McKean, which was to be released in May 2019. The decision was made “together with the book’s creators,” after the title received criticism online. Abrams said in a statement, “While the intention of the…
Penguin Workshop Imprint for Kids Starts This Fall
Penguin Children’s will launch a new imprint this fall, Penguin Workshop, run by president and publisher of Grosset & Dunlap and Warne, Francesco Sedita. The new line will publish “new voices and established brands for readers ages birth to 12.” He says in the announcement, “Penguin Workshop is a laboratory for cultivating unique, new ideas….