Children’s Writing Web Journal

Farrar, Straus & Giroux is the publisher that has given us Madeleine L’Engle, William Steig, Louis Sachar and Polly Horvath.  And Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  And Pablo Neruda.  And Isaac Bashevis Singer.   And…. well, you get the idea.

So it would be a tragedy if FSG was a casualty in the Macmillan restructuring announced yesterday.  Fortunately, it appears that FSG will make it through the storm, though not entirely unscathed.

On the heels of job losses and a restructuring of the children’s division, FSG publisher Jonathan Galassi penned a relatively hopeful memo to FSG staff yesterday that says, in part:

Our approach to publishing and what we choose to publish are not going to change…This new structure will make us more agile, more capable of being creative in doing what we do best in an environment that is constantly changing and ever more competitive.

The full memo, along with a thorough analysis that includes what’s in store for FSG’s Young Readers division can be found here:  http://www.observer.com/mobile/article/80428

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