by Erin Finnegan, NY editorial intern Every year the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Arts hosts an independent comics convention, known as MoCCA Festival (or, usually, just called MoCCA as well). Held at the 26th Street Armory on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, this year MoCCA had over 400 artists. The mood and market are similar […]Read more "GU Comics Day: Reporting on MoCCA 2010"

Earth Day has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean that we should forget about its significance. In order to help draw attention to Earth Day and to our new Mallory title, Mallory Goes Green, we’ve had a special promotion running during the month of April. The promotion gives visitors to www.mallorymcdonald.com the ability to […]Read more "Last Chance to Read the “Mallory on the Move” E-book Online for Free!"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB I just had one of our IT guys in my office updating my computer. I keep getting error messages when I try to print stuff, and he did some magic so that the messages no longer appear—at least for now. This reminds me of a wonderfully funny video […]Read more "IT Help Desk—Then and Now"

By Carol HinzEditorial Director, Millbrook Press Bob Rackza’s latest book is Speaking of Art: Colorful Quotes by Famous Painters. The book presents quotations from a whole range of artists, from Vincent van Gogh to Georgia O’Keeffe to Grandma Moses to Keith Haring. Each quote is paired with one painting. In the spirit of the book, […]Read more "Speaking of . . ."

by Anna CavalloAssociate Editor Yesterday, Earth got quite a bit of attention. The media was all over the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and I’d imagine most classrooms didn’t let the day pass without lessons, activities, or discussions related to taking care of our planet. This is fantastic, in my opinion; yes, let’s have a […]Read more "The Day After Earth Day"

Sally Walker’s fall 2010 book, Frozen Secrets, is about Antarctica, and  I’ve spent most of my Earth Day wrapped up with the last stages of the book’s layouts. This seems to me quite an appropriate activity for a day that should be devoted to understanding and protecting the state of our planet. Working on this […]Read more "(Bottom of the) Earth Day"

By Domenica Di Piazza, Editorial Director, TFCB My father is on an Atlantic cruise. He just landed at Ponta Delgada in the Azores and is scheduled to fly home on Sunday from Barcelona. But, there’s this Icelandic volcano that keeps erupting, and it’s unclear if his flight will be cancelled, like so many others have […]Read more "Stranded in Europe"

By Carol Hinz Editorial Director, Millbrook Press Back in February, I blogged about the new book Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: A Compost Story. I promised then that it wouldn’t be the last time I wrote about the book, and I have something special today, just in time for Earth Day (April 22).The photographs in […]Read more "Earth Day: A Family’s Compost Story"

When I was working on the Unearthing Ancient Worlds series, I often thought how exciting it must have been “back then”—back in the days of amazing archaeological discoveries such as Pompeii, the tomb of King Tutankhamen, and Troy and Mycenae. It sometimes seems that now—as we focus our attention on the depths of the oceans […]Read more "Ancient Treasures"