Edinburgh Evening News - A novel look at tales of the city
In a short but revealing introduction to Reading Round Edinburgh, a guide to children's books set in the city, Rowling writes about the significant impact the city has had on her work.... ...
Jump to the link to find out what other authors say about the influence Edinburgh has had on their work.
Stage Show Set To Commemorate Harry Horse (from Sunday Herald)
THREE MONTHS after his death, the life and work of Sunday Herald political cartoonist Harry Horse is set to be commemorated on stages across Scotland. Actor Tam Dean Burn, currently starring in the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) production of Tutti Frutti, plans to create an as-yet-untitled show using Horse's words and images as well as unreleased tracks the illustrator recorded with his band Swamptrash. His aim is to undertake a national tour of the resulting show in the late autumn... ...
Another feature and review packed edition of the Scottish publication Teen Titles is just out.
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The microsite set up by Puffin to help promote Kevin Brooks' latest novel Being is being routinely hit by porn spammers.
It's a mystery to ACHUKA that a site that must be costing the publisher a pretty penny cannot stamp this out.
Here is a screenshot taken at 8.15pm Sunday evening, showing the extent of the problem.
This is what you get if you click the 'Join the debate' link. Not quite what Carnegie 'shadowers' will be expecting!
If you actually venture into the forum you will find that the issue of porn spamming was first addressed a couple of months ago. Puffin's complacency in this matter is extremely surprising.
http://achuka.co.uk/achukachat/viewtopic.php?t=22
See John Sedden's post in ACHUKACHAT about plans to cut and deprofessionalise the Hampshire Library Service.
Cassandra Jardine, writing in the Telgraph, describes how her son didn't enjoy reading, only being read TO, until... ...
His problem - one common to many children - is that the books he enjoys are too difficult for him to read fast enough to keep pace with the story. Left to battle on his own, he gives up after a few unfamiliar words or long sentences and turns to computer games, football cards and wildlife television programmes.But one evening last week I came home to an unusual scene, courtesy of Dr Seuss...
The Aberfeldy Watermill - Home
#1 in The Scotsman's Best Bookshop ratings:
Stunning conversion of a water mill, voted Scotland's best independent bookshop last May, a year after it was opened by Michael Palin. The largest bookshop in rural Highlands (5,000 titles), it has an excellent children's selection. Staff hold five Saturday children's reading groups, and next month the shop hosts its first children's book festival (12-13 May), featuring writers such as Mairi Hedderwick, Nicola Morgan and Keith Gray...
Raisingkids: News - Daily Parenting News: Photos Illuminate Kids Reading
Traditional illustrations fare poorly in academic study... ...
LondonNet : Harry Potter World to open in Orlando, Florida
A Harry Potter theme park is opening in Florida, it has been reported.Fans of the popular children's book series will soon be able to step into the young wizard's magical world as Universal Studios is reportedly close to making a deal to build Harry Potter World in Orlando...
AHN | Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell To Publish Children's Books | April 16, 2007
Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, best known as Ginger Spice, has signed a six-book publishing deal with MacMillan Children's books. Halliwell's books center around a nine-year-old girl named Ugenia Lavendar who solves mysteries when she's not in school. AP reports that Halliwell, 34, said the books will be somewhat like "'Alice in Wonderland' meets 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'"...
Delivered Spring '07
Published Summer of ’07
Before I Die - JENNY DOWNHAM
David Fickling has issued a press release explaining why this novel, acquired from Catherine Clarke at Felicity Bryan Agency, is to be published at breakneck speed.
The road less travelled | Saturday Magazine | Arts | Telegraph
From her time as a dreadlocked, carefree traveller to her incarnation as an award-winning children’s writer, Emily Gravett has never chosen a conventional route. By Sally Williams
Recommended Telegraph feature, which includes an audio slideshow.
Saturday's paper also included a two-and-a-half page roundup of children's book reviews: Sam Leith on the autobiographies by Jacqueline Wilson and Allan Ahlberg; Lorna Bradbury on picture books; Judith Woods on younger fiction; Helen Brown on older fiction for girls; and Toby Clements on older fiction for boys. How lamentable that there is such a perceived gender divide opening up in this audience!
I haven't been able to locate hyperlinks for the reviews. If anyone can, let me know.
How to survive the hols-Arts & Entertainment-Books-Children-TimesOnline
Amanda Craig's Easter roundup from Saturday's Times...
To meet the author, right click-Arts & Entertainment-Books-TimesOnline
A writer’s website once meant a blurry headshot, a biog and a backlist. Now a new world is opening up online. And it’s not just for the geeks, Tom Cox says...
focuses on authors of adult books (and Jasper Fforde's in particular), but interesting nevertheless
