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If you have anything remotely to do with kids’ lit in Chicago, get your butt over to the Harold Washington branch of the Chicago Public Library on Wednesday, November 16, from 6 to 8pm in the Pritzer Auditorium, to experience the madness that is the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, the first in what is planned [...]

It’s Halloween season, and this book’s subject is called Boo, but who’s afraid of The World’s Cutest Dog (election date unknown)? Not my unnamed coworker, who exclaimed “Hahahaah! Yayay!!! This makes me sooooo happy!” when s/he first caught a glimpse of our fluffy hero’s debut book trailer. Does Boo also make you “sooooo happy!”? Or [...]

Following his film role as Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, Johnny Depp (or, rather, his production company) has just announced that he’s planning a biopic about Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss), with the strong possibility that he will star as the Cat in the Hat’s creator. Is the children’s book author biopic [...]

I’ve always said it will be time to quit this job when I don’t feel at least a tingle as a new season’s books starting arriving. Spring 2012, a trickle of books  a few weeks ago, has turned into a steady stream, and everywhere I turn, there’s something new I can’t wait to read. Meg Rosoff is [...]

Earlier this year, my esteemed colleague Dan Kraus wrote a manifesto (My 2011 YA Wishlist) outlining the seven things we need to see less of in teen fiction. Well, in the spirit of making this a regular feature around here, here’s another report from what we’ll be calling the Booklist Book Crimes division. Think of it [...]

It’s come to my attention that David Fincher, director of such excellent films as The Social Network, Zodiac, and Se7en, is going to be making a movie out of Jules Verne’s 1870 novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This won’t be the first movie, of course. In fact it won’t be the fifth. There  have [...]

The 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award nominees have been announced. The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) aims to  recognize authors and illustrators “whose complete works have made an important and lasting contribution to children’s literature.” The finalists, representing 33 countries, include Author Paul Fleischman and Illustrator Chris Raschka for the US, Author Eoin [...]

In honor of Children’s Book Week, kids around the country cast about 5,000 votes  for their favorite books. The results are in: They love Rick Riordan. Take a look : Author of the Year Rick Riordan for The Lost Hero            Illustrator of the Year David Wiesner for Art & Max Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the [...]

Actually, that should read, Children’s Book Illustrator Draws Colorful Response to Martin Amis. Amis’ remark last week that “If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book” has drawn a firestorm of criticism (including one verbal slap from a children’s author who does have brain damage), but few as entertaining as [...]

In 1997, Booklist hosted a party for Margaret McElderry on the occasion of her 50th year in publishing. She also did an interview with us in which she reminisced about her long and storied career: how she was initially was told by a career counselor she had nothing to offer publishing; the camaraderie she enjoyed [...]