US: December 2004 Archives

RTE.ie Entertainment - Ashanti set for career as an author?

Ashanti reported to be planning to write a book...

Teen Hollywood quoted the singer as saying that she would like to write about her own experiences as a performer or pen a children's book.

Historical House

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Worcester Telegram & Gazette Online - APN

A walk through Orchard House is like flipping through the pages of Little Women

says reporter Denise Lavoie, in an article about the home of the Alcotts - in Concord, Massachusetts - which is open to the public and has been preserved much as it was in the time of Louisa May Alcott and her father Bronson Alcott.

CNN.com - Gloria Estefan to write children's book - Dec 6, 2004


According to HarperCollins US, the currently untitled book "will center on the life and adventures of an intrepid bulldog named Noelle who doesn't feel like she fits into the new and mythical land she now calls home."


TownOnline.com - Westborough News - Local News

In The Last Holiday Concert, his latest book for readers in middle school, Clements tells the story of a young boy, Hart Evans and his music teacher, Mr. Meinert, who puts him in charge of the Winterhope holiday concert...

Babar

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The New York Review of Books: The Royal Family

For over seventy years, Babar has been the most famous elephant in the world?and the most controversial. He has been praised as a benevolent monarch, an ideal parent, and a model of family affection, loyalty, justice, good manners, and civilized living. He has also been damned as a sexist, an elitist, a colonialist, and a racist. It has even been proposed that he deserves to be burned alive: see Should We Burn Babar? by Herbert Kohl (1995). Clearly, a figure who arouses such intense and conflicting opinions must be more than the ordinary hero of a children's picture book: he must represent important and sometimes contradictory views of both childhood and society.

Alison Lurie investigates in the New York Review of Books...

Tween Title

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PRESS RELEASE: Hot New Tween Novel Not My Reality Chosen For Fineliving.com Holiday Gift Guide

From tens of thousands of gift ideas, Not My Reality, the first young adult?s novel from author Kimberly Weiner was selected by the editors of the Fine Living network?s fineliving.com?s Ultimate Gift Guide as one of the hottest gifts this season.... ...

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