CBC Arts: Auction seeks bids to name character in Oppel book
Children's writer Kenneth Oppel will allow the winning bidder to name a character in his next book. (Steve Carty) The author of the acclaimed Silverwing series and more recently, Skybreaker, has donated the naming rights as a fundraiser for the Canadian Children's Book Centre in Toronto...
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Harry Potter and the mystery of an academic obsession
And you thought Harry Potter was kids' stuff ? Try telling that to the delegates who packed into a conference in Las Vegas last week discussing moral alignment and metanarrative in the works of JK Rowling. But one question: why were the mostly female delegates dressed up as witches and schoolgirls and talking feverishly about Potter porn?
Carole Cadwalladr
Sunday August 6, 2006
The Observer
