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Booklist Webinar: Spring into Books 2/22/2011

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Thank you for joining us today. Spring into Books: Terrific New Titles for Youth will begin at 1 p.m. CST.Today’s panelists are:

Special thanks to our sponsors

Liz HartmanExecutive Director, Publicity and Institutional Marketing, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

Lisa DiSarroAssociate Marketing Director, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group

Rick WilksDirector,Annick Press

Paula AyerEditorial Assistant,Annick Press

Mary CashEditor-in-Chief,Holiday House

Grace MaccaroneExecutive Editor,Holiday House

Spring into Books Terrific New Titles for Youth

Tuesday, February 22, 20111–2 p.m. CST


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Download a list of all the titles from today’s presentation atwww.booklistonline.com/youth

Booklist Magazine for Youth Readers’ Advisory

• New reviews of youth books

• Youth-themed features—top 10 lists, core collections, and read-alike columns

• Youth author interviews

• Editors’ Choice picks and annotated lists of ALA’s notable book selections, including youth book awards and lists


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Book Links magazine’s“New in Paperback” columnThe best place to find out about upcoming children’s and YA paperback editions

Our Presenters





Mary CashEditor-in-Chief, Holiday House

Grace MaccaroneExecutive Editor, Holiday House


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Executive Director, Publicity and Institutional Marketing, Macmillan Children’s Book Group

Liz Hartman

Farrar Straus Books for Young

Readers

Roaring Brook Press

Henry Holt Books for Young Readers

Feiwel and Friends

First Second

Priddy

Square Fish


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WINTER 2011 &

SPRING 2011

PICTURE BOOKS

FROM

UNDERGROUND

by

Shane W. Evans

January 2011

$16.99

978-1-59643-538-4

Ages 4 - 8


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WON TON: A CAT TALE

TOLD IN HAIKU

by

Lee Wardlaw &

illustrated by

Eugene Yelchin

February 2011

$16.99

978-0-8050-8995-0

Ages 4 - 8

March 2011

$16.99

978-0-8050-8776-5

Ages 3 – 7

by

Tom

Lichenheld


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SHOUT! SHOUT IT OUT!

by

Denise Fleming

March 2011

$16.99

978-0-8050-9237-0

Ages 2 – 6

MEET THE DOGS OF

BEDLAM FARM

by

Jon Katz

April 2011

$16.99

978-0-8050-9219-6

Ages 4 – 8


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SURYIA AND ROSCOE:

The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship

by

Dr. Bhagavan Antle

with Thea Feldman;

photographs by Barry

Bland

April 2011

$16.99

978-0-8050-9316-2

Ages 4 – 8

TYRANNOSAURUS DAD

by

Liz Rosenberg

May 2011

$16.99

978-1-59643-531-5

Ages 4 – 6


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TUMFORD THE TERRIBLE

by

Nancy Tillman

May 2011

$16.99

978-0-312-36840-1

Ages 3 – 5

Winter 2011 &

Spring 2011

EARLY READERS &

EARLY CHAPTER BOOKS

from


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THREE STRIKES FOR

ROTTEN RAPLH

*Rotten Ralph Rotten Readers*

by

Jack Gantos

February 2011

$16.99

978-0-374-36354-3

Ages 6 – 8

PIPER REED,

RODEO STAR

by

Kimberly Willis

Holt

illustrations by

Christine Davenier

March 2011

$15.99

978-0-8050-9007-9

Ages 8 – 11


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NEW

PACKAGING!!

978-0-312-61676-2 978-0-312-61677-9

978-0-312-62548-1 978-0-312-67482-3

Paperback

$5.99

BAD KITTY MEETS

THE BABY

by

Nick Bruel

June 2011

$13.99

978-1-59643-597-1

Ages 7 – 10


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WINTER 2011 &

SPRING 2011

MIDDLE GRADE

BOOKS

FROM

THE CHILDREN OF

THE LOST

by

David Whitney

January 2011

$16.99

978-1-59643-614-5

Ages 11 – 14


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ZITA THE SPACE GIRL

by

Ben Hatke

February 2011

$17.99

HC: 978-1-59643-695-4

PB: 978-1-59643-446-2

Ages 8 – 12

SHIMMER

by

Alyson Noel

March 2011

$7.99

978-0-312-64825-1

Ages 9 – 12

Paperback

Original


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ANGEL IN MY POCKET

by

Ilene Cooper

March 2011

$16.99

978-0-312-37014-5

Ages 10 – 14

LEMONADE

and OTHER POEMS SQUEEZED from

a SINGLE WORD

by

Bob Raczka

March 2011

$16.99

978-1-59643-541-4

Ages 8 – 12


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HIDDEN

by

Helen Frost

May 2011

$16.99

978-0-374-38221-6

Ages 10 - 14

THE GIRL WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED

FAIRYLAND

IN A SHIP OF HER OWN MAKING

by

Catherynne Valente

May 2011

$16.99

978-0-312-64961-6

Ages 10 – 14


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THE MIDNIGHT GATE

by

Helen Stringer

May 2011

$17.99

978-0-312-38764-8

Ages 9 – 12

WILD LIFE

by Cynthia DeFelice

May 2011

$16.99

978-0-374-38001-4

Ages 8 – 12


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ASTRONAUT ACADEMY

ZERO GRAVITY

by

David Roman

June 2011

HC: $16.99

HC: 978-1-59643-756-2

PB: $9.99

PB: 978-1-59643-620-6

Ages 5 – 9

WINTER 2011 &

SPRING 2011

NEW IN

PAPERBACK


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CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice

Toward Justice

by

Phillip Hoose

December 2010

$9.99

978-0-312-66105-2

Ages 10 & up

THE EVOLUTION OF

CALPURNIA TATE

by

Jacqueline Kelly

January 2011

$7.99

978-0-312-65930-1

Ages 9 – 12


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THE SMALL ADVENTURE

OF POPEYE AND ELVIS

by

Barbara O’Connor

January 2011

$6.99

978-0-312-65932-5

Ages 8 - 12

MY LOUISIANA SKY

by

Kimberly Holt Willis

February 2011

$6.99

978-0-312-66095-6

Ages 9 – 12


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THE BONE MAGICIAN

by

F.E. Higgins

February 2011

$6.99

978-0-312-65944-8

Ages 10 – 14

THE SECRET OF ZOOM

by

Lynne Jonell

March 2011

$7.99

978-0-312-65933-2

Ages 9 – 12


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CELESTIAL GLOBE:

The Kronos Chronicles: Book II

by

Marie Rutkoski

March 2011

$6.99

978-0-312-65933-2

Ages 9 – 12

THE TIME PIRATE

A Nick McIver Time Adventure

by

Ted Bell

April 2011

$7.99

978-0-312-66549-4

Ages 10 – 14


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KILLER PIZZA

by

Greg Taylor

May 2011

$6.99

978-0-312-67485-4

Ages 10 - 14

EVERYTHING FOR A DOG

by

Ann M. Martin

May 2011

$6.99

978-0-312-67484-7

Ages 9 – 12


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For more information, check out: www.mackids.com

or contact: Liz Hartman

Director of Publicity & Institutional Marketing

[email protected]

646-307-5738

MACMILLAN CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING GROUP



http://www.mackids.com/

mailto:[email protected]


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Starred reviews for Dog in Boots!

―Truly enjoyable . . . just right for reading

aloud.‖

—Kirkus Reviews

―Readers will fall in love with adorable

Dog. . . . This tale begs for multiple

readings.‖

—School Library Journal


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About the Author and Illustrator

Marion Dane Bauer is the author of

Newbery Honor Book On My Honor.

Emily Arnold McCully won a Caldecott

Medal for Mirette on the High Wire.


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About the Author

Jean Marzollo

• author of the award-winning I Spy series

• early childhood expert

• has written more than 130 books for

children


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Praise for Gail Gibbons:

―Gail Gibbons has taught more

preschoolers and early readers about

the world than any other children’s

writer-illustrator.‖

—The Washington Post


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The language arts library by

Robin Pulverand

Lynn Rowe Reed:


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With poems by:

• Karla Kuskin

• Lee Bennett Hopkins

• Jane Yolen

• Naomi Shihab Nye

• Christine O’Connell George

• and more!


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Thank you!

Mary Cash

Editor-in-Chief

Grace MaccaroneExecutive Editor

Holiday House

www.HolidayHouse.com


http://www.holidayhouse.com/


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The Loud Book

by Deborah Underwood978-0-547-39008-6

$12.99

Publication date: 4/4/11

Houghton Mifflin

MAKE SOME NOISE! For the

companion to the New York Times

bestseller, The Quiet Book!


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Queen of the Falls

by Chris Van Allsburg

978-0-547-31581-2

$18.99


Houghton Mifflin

The fascinating true story of the

first woman to go over Niagara

Falls in a barrel and survive!


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Tallulah’s Tutu

by Marilyn Singer

978-0-547-17353-5

$16.99


Clarion

Meet Tallulah! The ballet obsessed star of a new picture book series.


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The Little Red Pen

By Janet Stevens &

Susan Stevens Crummel

978-0-15-206432-7$16.99

Publication date: 4/18/11Harcourt

From a best-selling duo comes a

classroom adventure starring an

opinionated cast of school supplies.


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Bless This Mouse

by Lois Lowry

978-0-547-39009-3

$15.99


Houghton Mifflin

A timeless tale about a colony of

church mice from a Newbery and

Caldecott Medal winning team.


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The Lemonade Crime

by Jaqueline Davies

978-0-547-27967-1

$15.99


Houghton Mifflin

This sequel to The Lemonade War

tackles law and order in a fourth

grade classroom’s mock trial.


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Okay For Now

By Gary D. Schmidt

978-0-547-15260-8$16.99Publication date: 4/5/11Clarion

A coming of age masterwork with

equal parts comedy and tragedy from

a two-time Newbery Honor winner.

Those That Wake

By Jesse Karp

978-0-547-55311-5$16.99Publication date: 3/21/11Harcourt

This debut YA novel finds two teens

out to discover why they’ve been

erased from their loved ones

memories.


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Lost Voices

by Sarah Porter

978-0-547-48250-7

$16.99


Harcourt

The first book in a trilogy about a

tribe of damaged girls who are

transformed into mermaids.

Awaken

By Katie Kacvinsky

978-0-547-37148-1$16.99Publication date: 5/23/11Houghton Mifflin

In the virtual world of 2040, two

teens fights for a different,

more connected way to live.


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Thank you for attending our presentation!

For more information please contact:

Lisa DiSarro

Associate Marketing Director

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Book Group

[email protected]

Rick WilksDirectorAnnick Press

Paula AyerEditorial AssistantAnnick Press

https://owa.hmhpub.com/whalecom80fa9ab64a2f9b4758c747e20b45c0ca2e16e269893435061e92/whalecom1/owa/redir.aspx?C=5ee97d24bab6476ea993b571524a0889&URL=mailto:[email protected]

https://owa.hmhpub.com/whalecom80fa9ab64a2f9b4758c747e20b45c0ca2e16e269893435061e92/whalecom1/owa/redir.aspx?C=5ee97d24bab6476ea993b571524a0889&URL=mailto:[email protected]


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Overview

• Who Is Annick Press?

• New titles for Spring 2011

– Africans Thought of It: Amazing Innovations

– The Never Weres

– 50 Poisonous Questions: A Book with Bite

– A Sword in Her Hand

– Single Voice Series: Dead Time/Shelter

– Held

WHO IS ANNICK PRESS?

• Independent publisher founded in 1975

• Publishes books for babies to young adults, fiction and non-fiction

• Distributed in Canada & USA by Firefly Books


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Annick Press

• Best known as original publisher of Robert Munsch books, including The Paper Bag Princess

• Award-winning titles include Red is Best, Chanda’s Secrets, Thunder Over Kandahar, and The Bite of the Mango

Our Motto

• Excellence and innovation

• Dynamic and enterprising

• Positive reading experiences that are self-

affirming, enriching and entertaining


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What Makes Us Different?

• Willing to take risks

• Publish books that are edgy, controversial

• Tackle topics that other publishers shy

away from

• Strong focus on international stories with

universal themes

Africans Thought of It

Amazing Innovations

by Bathseba Opini and Richard B. Lee

The ingenuity of

African peoples

from ancient times

to today.


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Africans Thought of It

Amazing Innovations

• Agriculture

• Architecture

• Medicine

• Arts and crafts

• Food

• Musical instruments

• Games and sports

The Never Weres

by Fiona Smyth

Three teens become

humanity’s only

hope for survival.


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The Never Weres

• The human race is on the verge of extinction.

• Three urban teens try to live their lives with hope.

• A 60-year-old mystery leads them to the key to saving our species.

A gripping graphic novel as visually detailed as it is emotionally rich.

50 Poisonous QuestionsA Book with Bite

by Tanya Lloyd Kyi; illustrated by Ross Kinnaird

Poisons can be the

death of us, but they

can also save our

lives.


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50 Poisonous QuestionsA Book with Bite

• Second book in Annick’s 50

Questions series.

• Q&A format provides

answers to many intriguing

questions: Why was the Mad

Hatter mad?; Can a monster

cure diabetes?

• Killer cartoons and dead-

funny text are venom-free.

A Sword in Her Handby Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem and Pat van Beirs

• Marguerite, Countess of

Flanders, is everything

her father wanted her to

be–everything except a

boy.

• Based on a real character.

• A captivating medieval

adventure with a

thoroughly modern

heroine.


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SINGLE VOICE SERIES

• Provocative YA fiction

• Ideal for mature reluctant readers

• Short novellas = read in one gulp!

• Flip-book format

2 novellas / book

2 front covers / book

Single Voice

Dead Time/Shelter

Two vulnerable girls go to

extremes for love.

Dead Time

by Christy Ann Conlin

Isabella says she had nothing to

do with the death of Sergei’s ex-

girlfriend …

Shelter

by Jen SookFong Lee

Sean may be a lot older than

Abby, but that doesn’t stop her

from falling in love with him.


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Heldby Edeet Ravel

• What happens when the source of your worst fears becomes the object of your affection?

• A powerful psychological thriller.

• Bestselling author of Ten Thousand Lovers.

Book Trailers Online

www.annickpress.com

• Africans Thought of It

• A Sword in Her Hand

• Single Voice series

• Held


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