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www.delawareonline.com : The News Journal : BUSINESS : Just Us Books creates a niche
Feature about US independent children's publisher, Just Us Books...
Telegraph | Arts | A writer's life: Elmore Leonard
A writer's life: Elmore Leonard
(Filed: 26/07/2004)
The crime writer tells Tim Geary how he came to write a children's book in the voice of a coyote...
This feature appeared in the paper a few days ago, and has just come online.
A Coyote's In The House is the current ACHUKA CHOICE.
In thew Sunday Times 'A littl;e night reading' slot, Jennifer Donnelly, winner of the Carnegie Medal, says that she is 'currently devouring' Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful:
The story is beautifully written, both heartfelt and heartbreaking, and makes the reader think hard about the dreadful sacrifices soldiers made ? and still make ? for the rest of us.
Pessimistic summary of US report on the book business, which points out that while revenues are increasing (due to price rises) both book sales and book reading are declining.
According to Ipsos, children's books had a fairly good year in 2003, with early lackluster sales jolted by the June release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. But despite the Potter phenomenon, Rappaport said, the consumer base for children's books is actually shrinking, with 33 percent of American households buying at least one book for someone under the age of 14 in 2003, compared with 35 percent in 2002."Even with exciting, new and value-added books on the market," Rappaport reported recently on the Ipsos Web site, "the children's book industry has not managed to substantially increase the volume of children's book purchases or share-of-wallet."
Little Girls On the Prairie (washingtonpost.com)
Long, highly-readable piece about the annual Laura Ingalls Wilder gathering...
Laura's world is now about collapsible canvas lawn chairs, strollers and people wearing tank tops and sandals with their bonnets. It has a snack bar. A German sociology student from the University of Cologne, dressed in prairie garb, greets audience members as they come in and asks them to fill out a survey, which she will use for her PhD dissertation, which is an examination of people's powerful need to visit the places where their favorite pop-literary characters lived.
News-Leader.com | Weekend | Adventures in Oz continue with great-grandson
The latest Oz title by the original author's great-grandson, Roger S. Baum, is Toto Of Oz And The Surprise Party.
The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more...
Marvel Comics have launched a brand new prose imprint, Marvel Press, which will focus on producing novels about all your favourite Marvel characters.
Marvel has hired seven-year veteran of children's and young adult publishing, Ruwan Jayatilleke, formerly of Scholastic, to head Marvel Press and he'll have his work cut out for him as they open with three titles for 2004 and a minimum of twelve titles through 2005.
Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Brief
Scholastic US will launch its new graphic novel imprint, Graphix, with the publication of Jeff Smith's award-winning series Bone, in January next year...
What Does Life Tell Us ABout Love? - The Times
Kate DiCamillo was the suject of yesterday's 'What Does Life Tell Us About Love?' series in The Times.
The 40-year-old author reveals speaks about her turbulent relationship with her (now estranged) father, and the effect it has had both on her relationship with men and on her determination to become a successful author. She moved to Minneapolis as a ploy to convince a man she had been dating for ten years to ask her to marry him. It didn't work and she remains single - a lifestyle she claims to enjoy.
