Sheila Keenan at Viking has acquired Edison Beaker, Creature Seeker, a two-book series by Frank Cammuso. The middle-grade graphic novels follow the adventures of a boy whose family pest-control business is really about monster wrangling. Publication for the first book, The Night Door, is slated for
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While those are not directly incorrect assumptions, a creative writing course goes beyond acting as a therapeutic service or a channel for eccentric stories. Ultimately, taking a creative writing course can be beneficial. One main advantage is that it's very liberating; after all, you are the creator of anything
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About 20 years ago, Harbour Publishing released a children's picture book, The Ferryboat Ride, featuring a story by Robert Perry and illustrations by Gibsons artist Greta Guzek. It proved popular among the junior set aged around five to eight and has now been re-released by Nightwood Editions as a
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National Geographic Kids Books is charting new territory with the launch of Under the Stars, the publisher's first-ever fiction imprint. The press will release its inaugural book, Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret by Trudi Trueit, in September. A new book in the seven-part series will follow every six
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Lion Forge, which was founded in St. Louis, Mo., as a comics publisher in 2011, is expanding beyond the comics and graphic novel format with the launch this spring of a line of picture books. The books will be released under Lion Forge's two-year-old CubHouse imprint of books for readers up to age 12
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