Today - 999 Today : Alice goes online
The original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, one of the world’s most popular and well known children's books, will be available to Internet users for the first time....
ACHUKA: September 2005 Archives
Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Finding the vital spark
Long profile (by Nicholas Wroe in yesterday's Guardian) of Mark Haddon on the occasion of publication of The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, a collection of poems
Independent Online Edition > News : app1
[Quentin] Blake has asked 26 other artists, including Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds and The Gruffalo illustrator, Axel Scheffler, to contribute to a new Dahl book. It illustrates songs and verse from across Dahl's catalogue as well as previously unpublished pieces found in the archives of the new Roald Dahl museum at his old home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
A piece from Monday's INDEPENDENT about the forthcoming Songs And Verse by Roald Dahl.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Dahl's world drawn by new artists
Artist Quentin Blake, who famously illustrated Roald Dahl's stories, has collaborated with 26 other artists on a new Dahl book...
Songs And Verse by Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake &various illustrators
Books - reviews and literary news from The Times and The Sunday Times
Julia Donaldson explains why Arnold Lobel is her hero:
I have a lot of affection for a series of children’s books called The Frog and the Toad books by Arnold Lobel. There are four books about this comic amphibian duo, and each book contains five short and simply-written stories, which are intended for beginner readers but are also perfect for parents to read aloud at bedtime...
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
the latest title by Julia DOnaldson & Axel Shceffler
Scotsman.com News - Features - That magical day when Barry met Harry
Highly Recommended feature article about Barry Cunningham and how he 'met Harry'.
The bunny that bounces back - The Herald
A review of the Happy Birthday Miffy exhibition:
Happy Birthday Miffy, is at Motherwell Heritage Centre, from tomorrow until October 3. Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Thursday until 7pm, Sunday from 12 noon to 5pm. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission is free.
Author Q & A with Ursula Le Guin - Literary Fiction
Ursual Le Guin answers questions for BellaOnline...
Scotsman.com News - UK - Bless their little cotton socks
The case of the stolen socks, as reported in The Scotsman (below) and elsewhere, was also featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme last night.
THIEVES have hot-footed it with 50,000 odd socks, police said yesterday. A Suffolk Police spokesman said that 25,000 pairs of non-matching socks in 50 boxes, including many designed as a policeman and a robber, were taken from an Ipswich lorry park during a raid. The socks had been destined for Woolworth stores throughout the country. They were due to be part of a promotion this Christmas for the children's book series, The Oddies, which is based on the question: "Where do all the missing odd socks go?"
Cross-Currents, published this month by IBBY Ireland, is an innovative guide to the role that books can play in promoting respect for human and cultural diversity. Specifically focused on Ireland, its articles and reviews provide lively, thoughtful and accessible information about books and book-related projects of interest to
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• Reviews of almost 180 books, from toddlers through to teenagers
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mythology and non-fiction
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• Listings of relevant resource organisation
and publisher details
Random House Children’s Books recently announced that they have acquired the Jack Stalwart series by Elizabeth Singer Hunt, previously self-published by Chubby Cheeks Publications Limited.
Featuring nine-year-old Secret Agent Jack Stalwart, who travels the globe fighting crime, the books were inspired by the author's own love of adventure and travel. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Hunt moved to the UK to study for an MA in Southeast Asian Studies and now lives outside of London with her husband and two children.
Random House Children’s Books will be publishing the first four Jack Stalwart books in May 2006, with new titles to follow. The whole series will be updated with brand-new covers and integrated artwork throughout.
This time last week Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell were celebrating 1 million sales of The Edge Chronicles at a party held at the Royal Society of Arts.
I stand by my much-repeated prophecy that in years to come it will be this pair's books and not Harry Potter that will have stood the test of time, so it was a great disappointment to me that the celebration clashed with a rather important family occasion.
Scattered Authors Society Competition 2005
THE SCATTERED AUTHOR’S SOCIETY
“AUTHOR’S CHOICE 2005”
COMPETITION
The society's three "Author's Choice 2005" posters, each featuring eight titles, are on display in many libraries and schools. Between them, they cover titles for more mature teen readers, good reads for the keen 9-13 year olds, as well as titles for primary age children...
Details about entering are on the webpage...
Philip Pullman appoints himself as honorary adviser to the Conservative Party:
I've noticed that the Conservative party has been rather at a loss recently. It doesn't know what it stands for or what it ought to be proposing to do in government. So in a friendly spirit of helpfulness, I thought I'd point out some policies that resonate with old-fashioned ideas of the sort that a truly conservative party might well feel at home with. By good luck, these policies are without a current champion, and any party taking them up would find a natural body of support ready and waiting... ...
Imaginaria - Revista de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil
Imaginaria No 163
If you haven't visited this Arbentine children's literature site before, do so without delay.
Recommended
Wired News: The Video-Game Novel Also Rises
Clive Thompson writes about the growing genre of video game novelisations:
In the last few years, publishers have taken a cue from the booming world of fan fiction and have begun commissioning novels based on famous games. It's now such a successful cottage industry that when you wander into any Barnes & Noble, there are shelves groaning under the weight of books written from Resident Evil, Halo, Tomb Raider and MechWarrior... ...
Independent Online Edition > Asia : app2
Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck have scored a rare victory over China's army of pirates and plagiarists. After a two-year odyssey through the Chinese legal system, a state-owned Chinese publishing house has been banned from using Beatrix Potter's own illustrations in an unauthorised Chinese-language version of her much-loved children's books. The landmark judgment in favour of Frederick Warne and Co, a subsidiary of Penguin Books, is subject to appeal, but it is one of the few occasions when a Chinese court has found in favour of a foreign company... ...
Books - reviews and literary news from The Times and The Sunday Times
All Paver’s characters are drawn with precision, but the affectionate puzzlement Wolf feels at the way Torak or “Tall Tailless” behaves is close to what we suspect goes on inside our own dog’s mind. Paver has studied real wolves and it shows..."Amanda Craig reviews Michelle Paver's Spirit Walker, the sequel to Wolf Brother:
hardback
paperback
Books - reviews and literary news from The Times and The Sunday Times
Geraldine McCaugrean writes about her children's adaptation of Moby Dick:
McCaughrean's latest novel, The Wite Darkness
Hilary Murray Hill is to move from Usborne to become Sales & marketing Director at Scholastic later this month...
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Off the shelf
Dina Rabinovitch's Author Of The Month in The Guardian yesterday was Lian Hearn (Gillian Rubinstein)...
Telegraph | Money | Disney says it does believe in fairies
Today marks the simultaneous launch of Fairy Dust and The Quest for the Egg in 45 countries. Its print run of one million is on a scale rarely seen with children's books - the first Harry Potter volume had a print run of just 50,000 - and the associated $1m marketing campaign is larger than anything Disney has attempted before...
Telegraph | News | Author attacks school league tables for killing off curiosity and joy
I was lucky enough to grow up at a time and go to church at a time when the King James Bible, the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and Hymns Ancient and Modern were the three great texts.
Darren Shan reveals in his September Shanville Monthly that he will be included in the 2006 £1 World Book Day promotion:
Good news for fans in the UK and Ireland who can't get enough of my books -- next year, as well as the two "Demonata" books which I'll be publishing in May and December, I'm also releasing a short novel for World Book Day!!!! The book is called "Koyasan", and will be going on sale in February/March 2006, for the pricely sum of just £1!!!
As always, there is much else of interest in Shan's online newsletter.
Open Source ? Blog Archive ? Memorializing Whitman
Off the topic of children's books for one moment, this photo of me was used with the caption 'Whitman look-alike' on the Open Source radio website, to accompany a feature about the poet.
If you click on the link, as well as accessing the Whitman page, you'll be able to get to a highly-recommended broadcast titled 'The End Of New Orleans'.
