Kidlit/YA News Quickie Round-Up

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Nancy Miller Named Editor-In-Chief at Bloomsbury USA (Publishers Weekly)

Bloomsbury children’s market “robust and [continuing] to grow (The Bookseller)

Authors and Illustrators Team to Create Picture Book Month (Children’s Book Council)

Algonquin Books to start publishing MG & YA by end of 2012 (Kathy Temean)

Jennifer Mattson joins Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Marie Lamb joinsJennifer DeChiara Literary Agency (Kathy Temean)

Wisconsin children’s book author Florence Parry Heide dies at 92; wrote more than 100 books (Washington Post)