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Three Cheers for Heather Henson’s That Book Woman!

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Authors & Illustrators, Books & Reading

First Book and Simon & Schuster are cheering for Heather Henson’s book That Book Woman, recently chosen for the 2010 – 2011 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List! Last December, Simon & Schuster and First Book simultaneously released That Book Woman, a story about the 1930’s Pack Horse Librarians who carried books to children in the hard-to-reach Appalachian Mountains. Illustrated [...]

Today’s Forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!

September 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Books & Reading, Video

First Book is proud to announce that select meteorologists across the country from Boston to Los Angeles participated in The Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Challenge issued by Today meteorologist Al Roker. The challenge, in celebration of today’s release of the animated movie CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, generated more than 20,000 assorted [...]

Bringing Books to the Garden State

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Books & Reading

NEW JERSEY! The Garden State, The Clam State, The Pathway of Revolution and the lesser known Switzerland of America! Last Monday, three of my First Book colleagues and I traveled north along Interstate 95 to New Jersey, where we experienced many of the state’s nicknames and helped to further the “The Pathway of Revolution” by [...]

Books to Romeoville and Beyond!

July 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Book Distributions

Last week, I travelled with the First Book team to Romeoville, Illinois to distribute over 400,000 books to children across the nation. I was very excited to get my first on-the-ground look at a book distribution from start to finish. The books donated by Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing included approximately seventy different titles, ranging [...]

The clock is ticking — Enter your best children’s book story

June 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Authors & Illustrators, Books & Reading

Guest blogger Shellie Braeuner, a nanny in Nashville, Tenn., is the winner of the first Cheerios® Spoonfuls of Stories® Children’s Book Contest. The contest invites previously unpublished adult authors to submit their stories for a children’s book. Cheerios provides cash prizes to up to three winners, and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing reviews the top [...]

Book Expo America: a book-stravaganza

May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Authors & Illustrators, Books & Reading, First Book Events

When I came to work at First Book, I heard a lot about Book Expo America (BEA) – a weekend-long event for publishers, booksellers, educators and anyone who loves books and reading. But it wasn’t until the following year when I experienced the show for myself that I truly understood what my colleagues were talking [...]

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