Publishers Weekly
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Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling". With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. Source
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| Scope | National, Trade/B2B |
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
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Search ArticlesWriters Talking Writers: Sigrid Nunez on Virginia Woolf and Keith Ridgway on Samuel Beckett
We’re attempting to unravel the tangled web of literary influence by talking with the great writers of today about the writers of yesterday who inspired them. This month, we spoke with National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez (It Will All Come Back to You) about the boundary-pushing genius of Virginia Woolf, and Rooney Prize winner Keith Ridgway (Dooneen) about the despair and humor of Samuel Beckett.
Authors Weigh In on Wilder’s ‘Little House’—Then and Now
Published by Harper & Brothers between 1932 and 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s iconic if controversial Little House on the Prairie series has become a cornerstone of children’s literature, with sales of more than 73 million copies worldwide. The semi-autobiographical saga of a close-knit pioneer family in late 19th-century Minnesota was thrust into a different spotlight from 1973 to 1984, when a television series based on the books aired and was syndicated in 100 countries.
TV Alert: ‘The Day You Begin’ by Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson’s picture book The Day You Begin will be hitting screens in the form of a one-hour animated special on August 4 from PBS Kids. The 2014 picture book, which received a starred review from PW, homes in on a concern for many kids on their first day of school: feeling different from their peers.
New Kids’ and YA Books: Week of August 3, 2026
Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles, including a picture book about how grandparents soothe their grandchild, a YA novel about a teen grappling with familial pressure, a middle grade mystery novel following tween ghost hunters, and more. Ama’s Purse by Charlotte Cheng, illus. by Xindi Yan. Rocky Pond, $18.99; ISBN 978-0-5936-9677-4.
In Brief: July 30, 2026
Recently, children’s authors attended an awards ceremony, a publisher welcomed an illustrator for an office visit, a retreat highlighted the needs of Indigenous readers and creators, an artist helped celebrate a bookstore’s opening day, an author dropped by a summer camp for children with a chronic illness, and an illustrator invited the family of her picture book biography subject to an event.
Just Announced: ‘Meet the Hueys’ by Oliver Jeffers
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, has announced Meet the Hueys: The Graphic Novel, forthcoming from Oliver Jeffers, the acclaimed Belfast- and Brooklyn-based author-illustrator of picture books such as Here We Are, Stuck, and How to Catch a Star as well as the illustrator behind the perennially popular Crayons series by Drew Daywalt. The new project is scheduled for releaseon March 9, 2027, in paperback.
Do Re Mi Brings Japanese Children’s Books and More Stateside
Do Re Mi Books, a London-based children's publisher, will launch in the U.S. this September, bringing a debut season of board books and picture books that includes titles translated from Japanese, Korean, French, and German, as well as several titles originated in-house. Do Re Mi was founded 18 months ago by married couple Sam Voulters, a Brit, and Anna Watanabe, an American. Voulters spent nearly a decade as brand director of Penguin Classics; Watanabe is an artist, originally from Seattle.
‘Let’s Sculpt This Together’: PW Talks with Matthew Burgess and Matthew Forsythe
Call it a meeting of the Matthews: PW brought together Matthew Burgess, author of the 2026 Caldecott winner Fireworks, and acclaimed book creator Matthew Forsythe to talk about their new picture book, If the Moon (Stonefruit Studio, Aug.), a spare, incantatory bedtime reverie that carries a sleepless child through a cascade of dreamy transformations on the way to slumber.
Obituary: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Renowned author and poet Benjamin Alire Sáenz, whose wrenchingly realistic work was drawn from his life on the U.S.-Mexico border, died July 28 in El Paso, Tex., following a lengthy illness. He was 71. Sáenz was born August 16, 1954, in the small farming village of Old Picacho, N.M., to Juan Villanueva, a cement finisher, and Eloisa Alire, a cook. He was the fourth of seven children. As a child, “I was always reading,” he told El Paso Inc. magazine in a 2021 interview.
S&S CEO Greg Greeley Reviews His First 100 Days
Since being named CEO of Simon & Schuster in early March, Greg Greeley has kept his promise to engage in an extended listening tour. He reflected on his first 100 days in the role, and the lessons of that listening tour, on a recent episode of the Open Book monthly podcast, hosted by Open Road CEO David Steinberger.