Publishers Weekly articles from July 2012

Publishers Weekly archives from July 2012

Amazon Picks Up Market Share: Demise of Borders, More E-Books Boosts the Industry Leader
July 30, 2012... Amazon appears to have been the big winner in picking up former Borders customers. According to new figures from Bowker Market Research, Amazon's share of book spending in the first quarter of 2012 was 29%, up from 23% in the comparable period...

Is Rowling Tarnishing Her Rep Abroad over Piracy Fears?
July 30, 2012... If you're a Slovenian fan of J.K. Rowling, and you're eager to get your hands on the first available copy of her forthcoming novel, The Casual Vacancy, you're probably going to have to read the book in English. This will also be the case in...

The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales
July 30, 2012... Unit Sales of Print Books by Category JULY 24, JULY 22, % CHGE % CHGE 2011 2012 WEEK YTD Adult Nonfiction 5,087 3,855 -24% -14% Adult Fiction ...

Ilex Press Enters U.S. Publishing Market
July 30, 2012... After packaging for a number of American publishers, among them Focal Press, St. Martin's, Abrams, and Chronicle, U.K.-based Ilex Press is entering the U.S. with its own line of books that is being distributed by Ingram Publisher Services....

ReDigi Plans to Sell Used E-Books
July 30, 2012... For serial entrepreneur John Ossenmacher, cofounder, president, and CEO of ReDigi, which bills itself as "the world's first pre-owned digital marketplace," the copyright infringement case filed by Capitol Records in U.S. District Court in...

Fifty Shades Goes International
July 30, 2012... It turns out the Fifty Shades craze is not restricted to the U.S. On all three charts tracked this month, E.L. James's blockbuster book placed high on the list. In Spain and Italy, where Fifty Shades of Grey debuted in June, it landed at #1 and...

Atria Inks Co-Pub Deal with U.K.'S Short Books
July 30, 2012... Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint has teamed up with British independent publisher Short Books to start a new imprint called Marble Arch Press. The imprint--the name refers to the famous London landmark near Hyde Park--will premiere in fall...

Castillo Nabs Int'l Hit & a Self-Pubbed Bestseller
July 30, 2012... Johanna Castillo, senior editor and v-p at Atria Books, took U.S. and Canadian rights to the Italian bestseller by Massimo Gramellini, Fai bei sogni (or, as it will be called in English, Sweet Dreams). Sheila Crowley at Curtis Brown brokered the...

Sandlin Re-Ups at Pantheon
July 30, 2012... Lee Sandlin, author of 2010's Wicked River, signed a new two-book contract with his current publisher, Pantheon. In the deal, Tim O'Connell took North . American rights from agent Danielle Egan-Miller, of Browne & Miller Literary Associates....

Peaches Author Explores New 'World' for Aladdin
July 30, 2012... Jodi Lynn Anderson, author of the YA series Peaches, sold a middle-grade novel called The Ordinary World to Liesa Abrams at Simon & Schuster's Aladdin imprint. Agent Rosemary Stimola, of Stimola Literary Studio, brokered the North American...

I Spy: Espionage Redux
July 30, 2012... Art restorer, assassin, spy--such is the c.v. of Gabriel Allon, Daniel Silva's intrepid leading man, who's been plying his diverse trade(s) since 2000, when Allon made his first appearance in The Kill Artist. This unlikely career trio has earned...

Texas Style: On the Home Front
July 30, 2012... Writing professionally since 1981, Sandra Brown has published more than 70 novels, with more than 80 million copies of her books in print worldwide translated into 33 languages. A lifelong Texan, Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth,...

A Year Way Up
July 30, 2012... Gerald Chertavian's bestseller, subtitled How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--with Real Success, is about the challenges of chasing the American dream when you're stuck on the wrong side of what the author...

A 'Glee'-Ful Debut
July 30, 2012... Author Chris Colfer is no stranger to the spotlight, as a Golden Globe winner and two-time Emmy nominee for his role as Kurt Hummel on the TV series Glee. Now, he's attracting attention of a different sort: his first novel, a middle-grade...

Iris and Roy: All in the Family
July 30, 2012... This is the fourth collaboration between the megaselling author and her Edgar Award-winning son; their first foray into "literary partnership" was 2008's Silent Thunder. The duo kicked off their promotional tour with appearances throughout the...

Top 25 Hardcover Fiction
July 30, 2012... TOP 25 HARDCOVER FICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE AUTHOR 1 - 1 The Fallen Angel Daniel Silva 2 2 2 I, Michael Bennett Patterson/Ledwidge 3 3 7 Gone Girl ...

Top 25 Hardcover Nonfiction
July 30, 2012... TOP 25 HARDCOVER NONFICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE AUTHOR 1 1 18 Wild Cheryl Strayed 2 - 1 A Year Up Gerald Chertavian 3 3 43 Killing Lincoln ...

Top 25 Paperback Mass Market
July 30, 2012... TOP 25 PAPERBACK MASS MARKET RANK LW WKS TIFLE AUTHOR 1 1 4 The Litigators John Grisham 2 2 4 Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks 3 - 1 Lethal ...

Top 25 Paperback Trade
July 30, 2012... TOP 25 PAPERBACK TRADE RANK LW WKS TITLE AUTHOR 1 1 16 Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James 2 2 15 Fifty Shades Darker E. L. James 3 3 15 Fifty Shades freed E. L....

Top 25 Children's Frontlist Fiction
July 30, 2012... TOP 25 CHILDREN'S FORNTLIST FICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE AUTHOR 1 2 7 Dork Diaries #4: Tales from a Rachel Renee Not-So-Grace... Russell 2 - 1...

Top 25 Children's Picture Books
July 30, 2012... TOP 25 CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 20 447 Goodnight Moon 2 23 30 Oh, the Places You'll Go! 3 29 27 Lego Ninjago 4 30 442 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 5 33 445 Brown Bear,...

Cookbooks Light It Up at QVC: The Shopping Network Sells a Variety of Titles, but Cookbooks Remains Its Hottest Category
July 30, 2012... Since 1988, QVC, the trailblazing, hugely popular home-shopping television network with a companion Web site, has been selling books in the cooking, motivational, children's, and design categories, marketing celebrity authors in much the same...

Venable Adds Author to Resume
July 30, 2012... QVC's live broadcast is supported by 25 program hosts, David Venable being the most popular. He has been with QVC for nearly 20 years, and helped establish and build its gourmet food business. Now he's preparing to be a first-time author with In...

Putting a Price on Value: To Keep E-Book Prices from Falling, Publishers Need to Create a Richer Experience
July 30, 2012... As the downward pressure on e-book prices continues to increase, publishers should pause long enough to realize that there is no need to have a race to the bottom, to the free e-book. Publishers themselves really are the ones to blame for the...

Licensed Characters Add Spice to Cookbooks: Deals with Entertainment Properties Create Fast-Growing Niche
July 30, 2012... Licensing has long played an important role in the cookbook category. While most I of the action has been in brands and cooking shows that have been extended into licensed cookbooks, more recently quite a few characters and entertainment...

Guns and Roses
July 30, 2012... "I like human endings," says Junot Diaz. "For me, human endings are ones that represent the full complexity of what I consider human experience. For me, the consequences of surviving sometimes give you great pause." The author of Drown...

PW Talks with Lidia Yuknavitch: Take That, Sigmund!
July 30, 2012... With her debut novel, Dora: A Headcase, Lidia Yuknavitch takes on Freud, transporting his famous case to current-day Seattle and adding a dose of feminist irreverence (Reviews, July 16; pub date, Sept.). Out of all of Freud's case studies,...

PW Talks with Michael Kardos: When Not Choosing Is a Choice
July 30, 2012... Former drummer Michael Kardos's debut novel, The Three-Day Affair (Reviews, July 2; pub date, Sept.), centers on a spur-of-the-moment kidnapping. How did you go from a career as a musician to being a writer? After graduating from college,...

A Road Not Taken
July 30, 2012... A Road Not Taken Jennifer Thorne. Samhain (www.samhainpublishing.com), $3.50 e-book (116p) ISBN 978-1-61921-283-1 Thorne's thoughtful novella is more of a coming-out story about a despondent young man than a romance. Peter is in his...

Sky Riders
July 30, 2012... Sky Riders Fae Sutherland. Harlequin/Carina, $4.99 e-book (151p) ISBN 978-1-4268-9434-3 Sutherland begins her Crux Ansata series with a gay, erotic science fantasy romance that's implausible on every level. World-weary pirate captain Torin...

PW Talks with Joyce Johnson: Caught between Two Languages
July 30, 2012... In The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac (Reviews, July 9; pub date, Sept. 17), Joyce Johnson explores the impact of Kerouac's French-Canadian heritage on his writing and reveals the hardworking man behind the myth. You knew...

PW Talks with Paul Elie: Listening to Bach Today
July 30, 2012... In his first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Elie wrote a group portrait of writers--Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy--whose writings and lives could be connected by the motif of pilgrimage. In his new book,...

Recently Reviewed Online
July 30, 2012... www.publishersweekly.com NONFICTION Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters. Globe Pequot/Lyons, Sept. The Bark River...

On to Book Two: An Author Describes the Chills and Thrills of Starting Her Second Novel
July 30, 2012... My first novel, Ten Girls to Watch, comes out July 31. The last few months I worked on it were heavenly. I spent my days fixing sentences and making tiny plot tweaks, swapping thoughts and revisions with my wonderful editor, Sarah Cantin. She...

Industry Sales Pegged at $27.2 Billion: With Print Declines Offsetting Digital Gains, Total Sales Slipped in 2011
July 23, 2012... Total book sales fell 2.5% in 2011, to $27.2 billion, according to the latest figures released by BookStats. Revenue was down in three of the four major segments measured by BookStats--k-12, higher education, and professional/scholarly--and up...

Self-Publishing Goes Big Time
July 23, 2012... If it wasn't clear before that self-publishing is transforming the book industry, Pearson's $116 million acquisition of self-publishing vendor Author Solutions Inc. should wipe away any lingering uncertainty. The purchase of Author...

The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales
July 23, 2012... Unit Sales of Print Books by Category JULY 17, JULY 15, % CHGE % CHGE 2011 2012 WEEK YTD Adult Nonfiction 4,205 3,802 -10% -14% Adult Fiction ...

San Diego Comic-Con: Bigger, Still Better
July 23, 2012... Even with attendance capped at 130,000 by the fire marshal, the San Diego Comic-Con International remains the granddaddy of all comics conventions. It's the biggest pop culture event in North America--comics are the core of an event that also...

After Great Year, Scholastic Tries for Encore
July 23, 2012... "Fiscal 2012 was a good year made great by The Hunger Games," Scholastic chairman Dick Robinson told analysts in a conference call last Thursday to discuss results in the year ended May 31, in which sales rose 14%, to $2.15 billion, and net...

Library of America Steps Up Its Digital Effort
July 23, 2012... Launched at the end of 2011, the e-book program of the Library of America has released eight titles so far with plans to publish about two e-books a month for the next year. LOA publisher Max Rudin explained that the nonprofit charged with...

Rodale Thinks 'Thin' with Harvard Crew
July 23, 2012... Rodale has acquired a new diet book, from a team of Harvard M.D.s, called Thinfluence: Unlocking the Power of Your Relationships and Environment to Achieve Your Perfect Weight. Executive editor Patricia Calvo and associate editor Natalie...

Cabot Closes Double
July 23, 2012... Bestselling novelist Olen Steinhauer has signed a new three-book deal with Minotaur. Agent Stephanie Cabot, at the Gernert Company, did the North American rights deal with editorial director Kelley Ragland (who's edited the author's last eight...

Hail to the Chef: Bon Appetit!
July 23, 2012... Marking its third week on our nonfiction list is Marcus Samuelsson's inspiring memoir, Yes, Chef, in which he chronicles his life as an orphan born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, then his new life in America as a celebrated chef. "Mr....

Dedicated to a Worthy Cause
July 23, 2012... Susan Elizabeth Phillips's newest bestseller, The Great Escape, debuts in seventh place on today's fiction list, but the book is clearly much more than a summer sizzler. With 7,151 units sold to date, Escape gives voice to the plight of families...

First Time's the Charm
July 23, 2012... As the Wall Street Journal headlined on June 28, "After 360,000 Copies, Publishers Take Notice." That was then, this is now. Tracey Garvis Graves's first book, On the Island, a survival tale reminiscent of The Blue Lagoon and TV's Lost, debuts...

Farewell to a Teenage Criminal Mastermind
July 23, 2012... The long run is finally over.With the publication earlier this month of The Last Guardian, Eoin Colfer's hit Artemis Fowl series comes to an end. Colfer, an Irish author who lives in France, has just concluded a U.S. tour: Colfer is performing 8...

Witch Bestseller
July 23, 2012... How big a hit was Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches, the first book in her All Souls trilogy, which was published in February 2011? According to Nielsen BookScan, it's so far sold 247,102 copies in hardcover and paperback, and volume...

Top 25 Hardcover Fiction
July 23, 2012... TOP 25 HARDCOVER FICTION PUB RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 - 1 Shadow of Night 2 - 1 Michael Bennett 3 1 6 Gone Girl 4 - 1 Backfire 5 3 2 The Next Best Thing 6 2 4 Wicked...

Top 25 Hardcover Nonfiction
July 23, 2012... TOP 25 HARDCOVER NONFICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 2 17 Wild 2 3 9 The Amateur 3 6 42 Killing Lincoln 4 - 1 Dream Team 5 7 9 The Skinny Rules 6 5 5 Cowards 7 8 6...

TOP 25 Paperback Mass Market
July 23, 2012... TOP 25 PAPERBACK MASS MARKET RANK LW WKS TITLE AUTHOR 1 1 3 The Litigators John Grisham 2 2 3 Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks 3 3 3 Split Second ...

Top 25 Paperback Trade
July 23, 2012... TOP 25 PAPERBACK TRADE RANK LW WKS TITLE AUTHOR 1 1 15 Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James 2 2 14 Fifty Shades Darker E. L. James 3 3 14 Fifty Shades Freed E. L. James 4...

Top 25 Children's Frontlist Fiction
July 23, 2012... TOP 25 CHILDREN'S FRONTLIST FICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 - 1 Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian 2 1 6 Dork Diaries #4: Tales from a Not-So-Grace.. 3 3 18 Divergent 4 2 11 ...

Top 25 Children's Picture Books:
July 23, 2012... TOP 25 CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 10 45 Little Blue Truck 2 26 446 Goodnight Moon 3 31 26 Lego Ninjago 4 35 441 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 5 40 444 Brown Bear, Brown Bear,...

The Changing World of World Book: The Encyclopedia Company Moves into Children's Trade Publishing
July 23, 2012... Few publishing companies have been more dramatically affected by recent social trends and technological advances of the past few decades than encyclopedia publishers, who have had to reinvent themselves several times over to remain relevant in...

Selling 'The Night Circus': Retailers Tap Their Creative Side to Promote the Paperback Edition
July 23, 2012... When Erin Morgenstern's first novel, The Night Circus, debuted last September, PW predicted in a starred review that this magical tale was destined for bestsellerdom. The hardcover went on to sell 167,000 copies through the outlets tracked by...

Strength in Stitchery
July 23, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The DIY trend kick-started by a younger generation forming Stitch 'n Bitch knitting circles in the early 2000s hardly seems like a trend any longer. A decade and change on, it's simply a part of the culture. As a...

Jo Nesbo Is Not the Next ... Although He Is a Bestselling Scandinavian Writer of Addictive and Accomplished Crime Novels
July 23, 2012... And this October, Nesbo's earnest but seriously flawed homicide detective, Harry Hole (pronounced HEU-leh in Norwegian) is back for a ninth mystery, Phantom, coming from Knopf in October. Hole had fled to Hong Kong, traumatized emotionally...

PW Talks with Dean Koontz: The Triumph of Good
July 23, 2012... Known for his bestselling suspense thrillers, Dean Koontz has incorporated elements of science fiction, horror, and fantasy into his books, along with spiritual grounding. When Koontz writes about the battle between good and evil, he speaks from...

PW Talks with Michael Sears: Wall Street Wrongdoing
July 23, 2012... A foreign currency trader, freshly out of jail, investigates potential financial misdeeds--along with a suspicious death--in Michael Sears's first novel, Black Fridays (Reviews, July 9; pub date, Sept.). Like your protagonist, Jason Stafford,...

PW Talks with Nick Hornby: More Baths Less Talking
July 23, 2012... In More Baths, Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family and Time Itself, Nick Hornby shares his "Stuff I've Been Reading" columns. (Reviews, June 25; pub date, Aug.) You talk...

PW Talks with Naomi Wolf: Reclaiming the Vagina
July 23, 2012... Inspired by her own experience with a damaged pelvic nerve, noted feminist author Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth) explores the science of female sexuality in her intimate and provocative latest, Vagina: A New Biography (Reviews, July 2; pub date,...

Recently Reviewed Online
July 23, 2012... www.publishersweekly.com NONFICTION My Father, My Monster McIntosh Polela. Jacana (IPG, dist.), Aug. Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century Philip McFarland. Rowman &...

The Art of the Deal: An Artist and Writer Lauds the Romance of Independent Bookstores, Book Tours, and How Love Translates into Sales
July 23, 2012... When your publisher puts up the dough to send you on a 20-city national book tour, they're expecting you to transform yourself from a hermitic wordsmith into . a traveling salesman. As ill suited as many authors are for this new role, it...

About Our Cover Artist
July 16, 2012... Though Stephen Savage had always intended to make picture books, success as an editorial illustrator (clients include the New York times, the New Yorker, and Rolling Stone) delayed those aspirations for a number of years. He's fully on track...

Digital Imprints Take Root: The Pace of Publishing Via E-Book Imprints Quickens
July 16, 2012... Traditional trade publishers have been testing the digital-first/digital-only publishing waters for more than two years now, and the pace is accelerating. This month alone, Penguin is reviving the Dutton Guilt Edged Mysteries line as a digital...

The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales
July 16, 2012... THE WEEKLY SCORECARD Tracking Unit Print Sales Total Print Units (in thousands) Week ending July 20, 2011 10,325 Week ending July 8, 2012 10,319 Year to Date July 10, 2011 317,468 Year to Date July 8, 2012 285,910 CATEGORY...

The Bestselling Books of 2012 (So Far)
July 16, 2012... The bestselling print books and e-books halfway through 2012 look nearly uniform on top (50 Shades and Hunger Games reign across all lists). After that, differences begin to creep in. Perhaps most surprising is Amazon's Kindle top 20, which is...

Parragon Hones Its Global Publishing Strategy
July 16, 2012... A global publishing approach can take many forms. For Parragon Publishing, which started in the late 1980s as a conduit to get books into U.K. supermarket chains, the key is tailoring content that can roll out across borders in one fell swoop....

Bloomsbury Lands Mapson's Latest
July 16, 2012... Nancy Miller, editorial director at Bloomsbury USA, took world English rights to Jo-Ann Mapson's novel, Owen's Daughter, in a deal brokered by agent Deborah Schneider. The book, which is scheduled for August 2013, features characters from the...

Army Wife/blogger Signs with Hyperion
July 16, 2012... Sarah Smiley, Army wife and blogger, has sold an inspirational book to Hyperion called Dinner with the Smileys. Kerri Kolen took North American rights from Cheryl Pientka at Jill Grinberg Literary Management. The book, which was nabbed in a...

A Circus Headliner: Under the Big Tent
July 16, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Debut author Morgenstern doesn't miss a beat in this smashing tale of greed, fate, and love set in a turn of the 20th-century circus." So said PW's starred review of The Night Circus, which, following its Sept. 2011...

The Gold Standard
July 16, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In its bestselling trade paper edition, Chris Cleave's previous novel, Little Bee, enjoyed a 63-week run on our list, racking up sales, per Nielsen BookScan, of 1,163,767. With a 125,000-copy first printing, his Gold is...

Casey at the Bat
July 16, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though Rielle Hunter's What Really Happened dropped off our Nonfiction list this week, publisher BenBella has moved in on another headline-worthy topic with Presumed Guilty, which lands at #16 with 2,985 YTD copies...

The Next Best Cupcakes
July 16, 2012... Not only are Jennifer Weiner's bestselling novels noted for their wry witticisms, but even her Web site is chockfull of one-liners. In her FAQ section, for example, she's asked, "Where do you get your ideas?" Her answer: "Target. They have...

"Heavenly" Sales: A Series about a Fallen Angel Casts Worldwide Spell
July 16, 2012... In just two and a half years, Lauren Kate has become an international sensation. Rapture, the final volume in her Fallen series, came out last month; her books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and more than 800,000 Fallen books...

An American Son
July 16, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With 17 weeks until the presidential election, it's no surprise that political tomes are hitting the bestseller lists--Klein's The Amateur, with eight weeks on our list; Limbaugh's The Great Destroyer (five), Beck's...

Bestsellers July 2-July 8, 2012
July 16, 2012... TOP 25 HARDCOVER FICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE AUTHOR 1 1 5 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 2 2 3 Wicked Business Janet Evanovich 3 -- 1 The Next Best Thing...

Children's Bestsellers July 2-July 8, 2012
July 16, 2012... TOP 25 CHILDREN'S FRONTLIST FICTION RANK LW WKS TITLE 1 1 5 Dork Diaries #4: Tales from a Not-So-Grace... 2 3 10 Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) 3 4 17 Divergent 4 2...

Children's Books for All
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What Common Core Means for Publishers: Will the Push to Impose Uniform Education Standards in Almost Every State Translate into Better Books and Bigger Sales?
July 16, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new Common Core State Standards are all the buzz among educators and publishers--not to mention parents. But what exactly are they, and what do they mean for the book industry? As it turns out, these are not easy...

Children's Books Taking College Campuses by Storm: At a Time When the Amount of Space Devoted to Trade Books on College Campuses Is Shrinking and Many Campus Stores Have Dropped "Book" from Their Name to Reflect a Greater Breadth of Products and Services, Children's Books Are Proving to Be a Bright Spot
July 16, 2012... Thanks to series like the Hunger Games and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and before that Twilight, children's books are "the shining star in the print book world," says Jack Barney, director of trade books for Barnes & Noble College Stores, which...

Erin and Philip Stead: When Your First Book Wins the Caldecott Medal, Life Tilts. Doors Open. Everyone Is Your Friend. It's Hard to Know What to Do Next. So Erin Stead Put the Medal in a Drawer and Got Back to Work
July 16, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I have a lot more books to make, so I think if it were out all the time it would be really intimidating," says Erin, 29, winner of the 2011 Caldecott for A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Roaring Brook/Porter), written by her...

Children's Books for Fall
July 16, 2012... ABBEVILLE KIDS Are You Sleeping Little One? by Hans-Christian Schmidt and Cynthia Vance, illus, by Andrea Nemet, trans, by Laura Lindgren (Aug. 28, board book, $6.95, ISBN 978-0789211200) reveals how various baby animals sleep. Ages 2 to 4....

Children's Books for Fall
July 16, 2012... MOONSTONE PRESS Healthy Foods from A to Z / Comida sana de la A a la Z by Stephanie Maze, illus, by Renee Comet (Sept. 5, hardcover, $15.95, ISBN 978-0983498315) is a bilingual book that introduces the alphabet, food facts, and related...