For Summer Publishing Institute students, reading is a given, like breathing. They are obsessed with books, so we oblige by sending them around the city each summer for visits to publishing houses to meet key executives and hear all about books, audio books, and podcasts. Read on, as they say, for an inside look at SPI student visits to Penguin Young Readers and Blackstone Audio.
Penguin Books for Young Readers
Bunny Eat Bunny World
A much-anticipated panel on children’s books at NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute brought out an amazing array of publishing talent, with newly minted literary agent Brenda Bowen moderating. Included in the lineup were Ellie Berger, President of Scholastic Trade Publishing, Megan Tingley, Publisher of Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Don Weisberg, President of Penguin’s Young Readers Group, Felicia Frazier, SVP and Director of Sales at Penguin, and Jean Feiwel, SVP and Director, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. [Read more…] about Bunny Eat Bunny World