April 2019

April 27, 2019

Happy Book

Birthday

to

DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR

12 Endangered Species
Across the Globe

Illustrated
by award-winning
Gianna Marino

Written by
#1 NYT Best Selling
Chelsea Clinton / Philomel

Debuted at
#4
(4.21.19)
on the
NYT Best Seller List

A #2
Indie Best Seller
(going on two weeks)

In its first week on sale, DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR also
hit 8 of the 9 children's illustrated
regional Indie Best Seller lists,
including the #1 slot at MPIBA
(Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Assoc.)

A #3 PW Best Seller
A WSJ Best Seller

Having been an animal lover since childhood, it was an honor to illustrate DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR. Chelsea's love for animals comes through in her words and I hope my
illustrations will reflect the love and compassion that animals have for one another. It is my hope that every child will do their part to help all the animals on this planet thrive!
–Gianna Marino

"-…an inviting,… appeal to care for the planet and its most vulnerable creatures."
— PW

As seen on Good Morning America:

Host Robin Roberts: "The illustrations are so beautiful in the book."
Clinton: "Gianna did an extraordinary job…"

Clinton: "I'm so thankful we got to work together on this and that [Gianna]…shared her talents."

So cool to see Marino's illustrations on THE VIEW.

"The subjects of Marino’s intimate, close-up portraits…steal the show. Still, Clinton’s accompanying tally of facts about each one’s habitat and daily routines, to which the title serves as an ongoing refrain, adds refreshingly unsentimental notes:…A winning heads up for younger readers just becoming aware of the wider natural world."
—KIRKUS

"There's so much joy in these images and in this story…"
—LATimes

One Of Amazon's April
Books of the Month

"I’m just hoping that the words match [Gianna's] beautiful illustrations…" –Clinton
Romper's exclusive of
DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR.

Click above image to hear more fabulous kudos to Marino's work on Picturebooking's podcast.

On May 1, join Chelsea Clinton and Gianna Marino as they read and discuss DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR and Gianna's new picture book, JUST LIKE MY BROTHER. More info here.

Happy Book

Birthday

to

Gianna Marino's

JUST LIKE MY BROTHER

Continuing her picture book stories about family relationships,
Gianna Marino introduces
Little Giraffe …

As it plays hide-and-seek on the veldt with its admired big brother, a young giraffe gains confidence in its own abilities.

…[Marino] has created another excellent picture book, beginning with the winsome cover art and its clearly expressed sibling affection.
…the ending is a humorous, satisfying surprise.

Magical, aesthetically appealing watercolor art…Brilliant fun.

—Starred KIRKUS

As featured in
KidsR.Us Book Reviews:

"…I am thrilled with this wonderful book. It tells a simple story of a young giraffe with a taller/faster/braver older brother…it’s so important to simply realize we live and stand on our own, not perpetually “in “comparison with others…This is such a great book to instill that understanding at a young age before such misconceptions can lead a child astray into discouragement (or worse). The illustrations are charming and fun…I’d recommend this for any younger siblings out there and for libraries and schools as well."

An entertaining and moving tribute to big brothers by the author/illustrator of MEET ME AT THE MOON, FOLLOWING PAPA'S SONG, and TOO TALL HOUSES …

Marino's NIGHT ANIMALS is featured in Brightly's 13 Books To Help Kids Who Are Afraid of the Dark.

Look soon for Gianna’s
companion book,
NIGHT ANIMALS NEED SLEEP TOO.

Where's East/West?

HEY, WATER! book launch at Children's Book World LA
with Antonette Portis.

Congrats, Antoinette!

Luciana Navarro Powell (GRANDMA'S FAVORITE & GRANDPA'S FAVORITE / Erin Dealey) met up with Kane Miller Editor & Publisher, KIra Lynn, at the Bologna Children's Book Fair

Art from Powell's upcoming book, A TINY BROWN MONKEY ON THE BIG BLUE EARTH (Amicus/ Tory Christie) decorated the Amicus booth in Bologna!

Happy Book

Birthday
to

ANIMALICIOUS

A seriously silly ABC book packed with imaginary animals from the creator of the Llama Llama books,
Anna Dewdney,
and Reed Duncan.

(Penguin Workshop/
Illus. Claudia Boldt)

Longtime partners Duncan and the late Dewdney introduce make-believe animals with names that integrate wordplay, puns, and double entendres…

Boldt illustrates the puckish animals in scribbly, crayonlike textures that amp up their buffoonery: a red “raindeer” holds a yellow umbrella; a gray “Hippopotamess” sits on a messy floor; and a green “Knocktopus” wears blue boxing gloves on two of his eight arms. The book finds a sweet spot between silly and literal that can be fun to puzzle out; readers may be inspired to create their own bestiary.
–PW

The late author and her collaborators create, combine, and reimagine a batch of spirited new animals from A to Z.

Packed full of invented punny and portmanteau animalgamations such as the “kangarude,” a golden marsupial…the book presents a bevy of oddball beasts to accompany each letter…Readers will smirk at many of the funny combinations…The potent primary colors, scribbly, smudgy textures, and lack of outlines constraining the creatures all contribute to the free-wheeling feel.
–KIRKUS

Happy Book

Birthday
to

CHOMP
A SHARK ROMP

by
author/ illustrator
Michael Paul

(Crown)

"CHOMP: Fans of ROAR: A Dinosaur Tour + the “Baby Shark” song will enjoy learning about sharks that live under the ocean’s surface. VERDICT A strong choice for early elem. nf shelves & a vibrant exploration of different types of sharks."
—SLJ

Praise for ROAR: A Dinosaur Tour:

"Intense hues light up a prehistoric parade."
—KIRKUS

"An engaging introduction to the world of dinosaurs."
—SLJ

"Paul’s approach is more playful than naturalistic, making this dinosaur primer a good choice for readers just starting to have fun with mixing colors and shapes."
—PW

A gallery of shark shapes and sizes, attitudes and appetites…Those with “Baby Shark” fans to satisfy should try pairing this with Shawn Loves Sharks, by Curtis Manley and illustrated by Tracy Subisak, or Misunderstood Shark, by Amy Dyckman and illustrated by Scott Magoon
—KIRKUS

Did someone say Baby Shark?
Pair CHOMP with this
sing-it-again song:
Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo

Michael Paul's CHOMP launch at Children's Book World LA followed close on the heels of Antoinette Portis' HEY, WATER! (Below L)

CONGRATS
to

#1 NYT Best Selling
Kimberly and James Dean's

PETE THE CAT
BIG EASTER ADVENTURE

15 weeks
as of
4.28.19

The week of 4.28.19 with
TWO titles on the
NYT Bestseller List
marks East/West's
227th week!

The second week for
DON'T LET THEM DISAPPEAR
Clinton/Marino
Philomel

E/W held one or more slots for 88 consecutive weeks!

AND

Congrats to these
PW Best Sellers:

PTC's BIG EASTER ADVENTURE
and

Anna Dewdney's
LLAMA LLAMA EASTER EGG

LL EASTER EGG
is featured in
Brightly's

Egg-cellent Book Gifts for Your Little Bunny’s Easter Basket

AND

Congrats to:

And the debut of…

Where's
East/West?

Patricia Newman (pictured with author Miranda Paul above) at the
National Science Teachers Association
NSTA Conference in St. Louis.

Newman was also busy at #TXLA.
EAVESDROPPING ON ELEPHANTS
(Millbrook/ Lerner) is shortlisted for the
Nature Generation
2019 Green Earth Book Award

Half of the
JACOB'S ROOM TO CHOOSE
duo (Sarah & Ian Hoffman,
Magination Press) at #TXLA

At the NAACP Image Awards with
Blue Sky Press Publisher
Bonnie Verburg.

Jim Averbeck will sign books at SCBWI Nevada" May 4th event at the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.

Happy Book Birthday

to
Award winning
author/illustrator team

Don and Audrey Wood's

FULL MOON AT THE NAPPING HOUSE

padded board book
(HMH)

With a patterned text and stunning paintings, Audrey and Don Wood reveal once again why they are picture book creators of the highest order. The Full Moon at the Napping House, the dreamy companion to their classic The Napping House, is now in a cozy padded board book edition—perfect for sharing at bedtime or anytime.

The Napping House is anything but in this companion to the Wood's evergreen …picture book. Nearly all of the familiar players return—the granny, curly-haired boy, fuzzy dog, and tawny cat…the Woods’ story serves as a pleasing inversion of the previous book and works even better as a bedtime read.
–PW

…Years after a wakeful flea roused the heaped-up sleepers in The Napping House, a full moon finds the household struggling to get back to sleep…Don Wood’s acrylics re-create the familiar bedroom with a deep blue, nighttime palette. Audrey Wood’s cumulative story takes the same pattern as in the previous book, a mirroring that its fans will instantly recognize…

Don Wood wisely eschews the temptation to replicate the first book’s humorously indelible image of sleeper piled upon sleeper, instead varying composition and perspective slightly with each double-page spread to create a gentle turbulence that slows down gradually as the characters calm.

Fans will doubtless be happy to revisit old friends, but they will probably still reach for the original more than this once the novelty wears off.
–KIRKUS

Happy Book Release
to

Mark A. Vieira's

FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD

The Pre-Code Era
(1930-1934)

(Running Press/
Turner Movie Classics)

in Movie Guides and Reviews

"Informative, intelligent, and delightfully scandal-filled . . . Illuminating an integral part of movie history often seen through soft-focus and murky lighting, this clearly written survey deserves a spot both on film scholars' book shelves and movie buffs' coffee tables."
―PW

"Even knowledgeable film fans will find new information…. Hollywood historian, author and photographer Vieira's well-laid-out, lush, lascivious look at film's pre-Code era, the early 1930s, is a gorgeous volume augmented by historical snapshots."
―Liz French, Library Journal

Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies.

Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like none other: you will eavesdrop on production conferences, read nervous telegrams from executives to censors, and hear Americans argue about "immoral" movies.

You will see decisions artfully wrought, so as to fool some of the people long enough to get films into theaters. You will read what theater managers thought of such craftiness, and hear from fans as they applauded creativity or condemned crassness.

You will see how these films caused a grass-roots movement to gain control of Hollywood-and why they were "forbidden" for fifty years.

The book spotlights the twenty-two films that led to the strict new Code of 1934, including Red-Headed Woman, Call Her Savage, and She Done Him Wrong. You'll see Paul Muni shoot a path to power in the original Scarface; Barbara Stanwyck climb the corporate ladder on her own terms in Baby Face; and misfits seek revenge in Freaks.

More than 200 newly restored (and some never-before-published) photographs illustrate pivotal moments in the careers of Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, and Greta Garbo; and the pre-Code stardom of Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, and Mae West. This is the definitive portrait of an unforgettable era in filmmaking.

Follow Mark A. Vieira on
Instagram or his FB page
Forbidden Holywood.

Celebrating at the TCM
(Turner Classic Movie)
Classic Film Festival

Look for Vieira:
April 26 – UCLA Film Archive book signing; intro of double bill (The Sign of the Cross, Only Yesterday)
April 2019 – A roundtable press conference with Hans J. Spurkel and members of the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association

As to our other adult titles:
Congrats to Scott Rieckens’
PLAYING WITH FIRE:
Financial Independence
Retire Early
(New World Library)
#2
on the
Indie Personal Finance Bestseller List.

Stay tuned for the launch
of the FIRE documentary
on June 1st.

We Read
Banned Books!

THIS DAY IN JUNE
by Gayle E. Pitman
(Magination Press
Illus. K. Litten)
was the inspiration for
ALA's first QLBT
Book Month artwork!

Next up: Look for Gayle’s
THE STONEWALL RIOTS: Coming Out in the Streets (Abrams)

…“fresh storytelling” that “brings emotion and depth to the history of a movement.”
— PW

Acquisitions & Licensing

TITAN AND THE WILD BOARS: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team (Susan Hood, Pathana Sornhiran, illustrated by Dow Phumiruk; HarperCollins) is a Junior Library Guild selection in their Nonfiction Elementary Plus category.

PW Deal Announcements

Illustrator Highlight

Sarah Aspinall is featured in our April issue of East/West's
Illustrator Highlight.

April Showers of
GOOD News

Speaking of water…

In Antoinette Portis’ playful and informative picture book Hey, Water!, a girl named Zoe speaks directly to water while considering its different forms and its roles inside and outside a home. Spare, accessible main text makes effective use of figurative language: dewdrops that wink, water that freezes “soft as a feather,” etc. Water’s many permutations are the focus of the crisp, uncluttered, primarily aqua-colored illustrations. Back matter includes notes on conservation and water forms and a simple water cycle diagram.
–Horn Book

"Operation Frog Effect is one of my favorite 2019 middle grade novels. I can't wait to book talk it when we get back from spring break. Adding it to my list of awesome 2019 books."
—Colby Sharp, 5th grade teacher

"GOODREADS has a list of MIDDLE GRADE NOVELS OF 2019 and Sarah Scheerger's
OPERATION FROG EFFECT is listed #1.
Of course it is."
—Ernesto Cisneros
debut MG author of

Efrén-Divided / Harper Collins –coming in 2020

A 12 year old boy struggles to make sense of the world while trying to hold the family together after his mother is deported.

NYT-Bestselling Author Mary Rand Hess received the
Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) recently at Howard University in D.C.
for SOLO, co-authored with Kwame Alexander.
Photo above: Hess with Dr. E. Curtis Alexander, accepting the award on his son Kwame’s behalf.

Next month, Mary will serve as a judge for the 2019 Poetry Out Loud National Finals, wherein Fifty-three student champions from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands will travel to Washington, D.C. to vie for the title of National Poetry Out Loud Champion.

Speaking of National Poetry Month:

CONGRATS Bank Street Best Children's Books 2019/ Under Five:

Bank Street Best Children's Books 2019– ages 5 to 9:

Bank Street Best Children's Books 2019– ages 9 to 12:

Congrats "Witchy War" series author D.J. Butler and his
2018 AML Novel Award winner:
WITCHY WINTER
(Baen Books)

Americana "flintlock fantasy of the first order…Butler deftly handles pacing, pt of view, & dialogue in multiple languages as…his characters navigate the cultures, belief systems, & entangled interests that make up their world." AML

WITCHY WINTER is the second book in the trilogy
launched by the groundbreaking WITCHY EYE.

Coming in August: the third book in the series,
WITCHY KINGDOM

Shannon Hitchcock's ONE TRUE WAY (Scholastic)
is on the Maine Student Book Award list.

Cover reveal:

ISABELLA, ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE by Jennifer Fosberry,
(Sourcebooks/ Jabberwocky/ illus. Mike Litwin)
–coming in MAY.

Also—

SHIPWRECKERS: The Curse of the Cursed Temple of Curses – or – We Nearly Died. A Lot.
by Scott Peterson and Joshua Pruett
(Disney)

and Jeanne Walker-Harvey
— BOATS ON THE BAY
(Illus. Grady McFerrin / Cameron & Co.)
seen "in the wild' at the new Copperfield's in Larkspur CA.