New books to watch for...

in a about a year or so (from Publisher's Lunch Deal Weekly)

Illustrated/Art
Seymour Chwast's CANTERBURY TALES, a graphic novel of Chaucer's classic, to Margaret Maloney at Bloomsbury, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Sandy Choron at March Tenth (world).

Science
Stanford mathematician and NPR's "Math Guy" Keith Devlin's FIBONACCI'S BRIDGE OF NUMBERS: THE MEDIEVAL GENIUS AND THE BOOK THAT LAUNCHED THE MODERN WORLD, the previously untold story of how a 12th-century Italian mathematician brought Arabic numbers to the West, triggering revolutions in everything from banking to the age of exploration to architecture, to George Gibson at Bloomsbury, at auction, by Ted Weinstein at Ted Weinstein Literary Management (World English).

Children's: Young Adult
Maggie Stiefvater's FOREVER, the final book in the bestselling SHIVER trilogy, plus three new stand-alone fantasy titles, to David Levithan at Scholastic, for publication summer 2011, by Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary Agency (world).

YRCA Nominees

Some of my favourite books from this past year have been nominated for the 2011 YRCA selection.

9 Scholastic titles out of 23.