Book Divas

Just in time for the holidays! Children's book publisher Candlewick Press announced today that its books will be available on Apple’s iBookstore. Their titles will available from the iBookstore on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch or at iTunes.com/iBookstore.

Candlewick titles available on the iBookstore include best-sellers and award-winners such as:

• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• The Chaos Walking trilogy (The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men) by Patrick Ness
• The Judy Moody and Stink books by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
• Liz Kessler’s Emily Windsnap series

Some of the books are even integrated with audio read by the authors, including:

• Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! by Wynton Marsalis, illustrated by Paul Rogers
• Charley’s First Night by Amy Hest, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

Readers will also have the ability to pre-order select books, including Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made by Stephan Pastis.

Candlewick Press, which has celebrated its twentieth anniversary throughout 2012, is an independent, employee-owned publisher based in Somerville, Massachusetts, and is part of the Walker Books Group, together with Walker Books UK in London and Walker Books Australia, based in Sydney and Auckland. Visit Candlewick online at www.candlewick.com.