HarperCollins Children's Books announced [yesterday] the "Narnia ... Beyond the Wardrobe" Educator Sweepstakes. Beginning June 21, 2006 and running through January 31, 2007, the contest offers the chance for a unique behind-the-scenes look at the making of the next blockbuster film in the Narnia franchise, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, coming to theaters in Summer 2008. This contest is open to all educational professionals ages 18 and over.
US: June 2006 Archives
Prize-winning New Hampshire poet Donald Hall will be the next poet laureate of the United States.
Also a writer of prose and children's books, Hall won the Caldecott Medal for his children's work Ox-Cart Man.
Scotland on Sunday - Review - The sick and the dead
Profile of George Saunders, author of The Very Persistent Gappers Of Frip
CRITICS LIKE TO mine Saunders' fictions for influences, from the cult writer Donald Barthelme to Don DeLillo. But Saunders insists that the biggest influence on his imagination was his father, a coal salesman, who would entertain him and his two younger sisters when they were growing up in Chicago with riveting tales from the underbelly of the city ... ...
