Ypulse Book Essentials: 'The Book Of Michael', Screenwriters Get 'Goosebumps,' Blurbs For Sale
Posted by alli on 08-20-2008
Moral ambiguity (is a big part of Lesley Choyce's realistic narrative The Book of Michael.) (Chronicle Herald)
- 'Screenwriting pair gets 'Goosebumps" (Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander, the pair behind flicks like "Ed Wood" and "Man on the Moon" are in negotiations to write the live-action big-screen adaptation of "Goosebumps" for Columbia Pictures.) (Reuters)
- 'The 39 Clues' audio book launches September 8 ("beginning with the first book in the series titled The Maze of Bones, from author Rick Riordan") (via CynopsisKids)
- 'Tricked out' digital bookmobile (makes the rounds in NYC making sure everyone knows about the NYPL's awesome digital services.) (SLJ)
- 'So Sexy So Soon' (authors take on the "new sexualized childhood"…and what parents can do about it. Speaking of, the YWCA released a disturbing report [.pdf] entitled "Beauty at Any Cost" about how America's "beauty obsession" poses serious health risks for women and girls.)
- Books and Boys (Ypulse reader and former "reluctant reader" Max Elliot Anderson let us know about his work on this issue)
- Blurbs for sale (NYT, reg. required, explores the politics of blurbs and books.)
- You know how I love to talk covers (Shelftalker shares one of the better [NOT] ones.)
- Leonard Sax weighs in on gender (and Twilight series.) (Washington Post)
- 'Children's knitting group turfed from library under new craft ban' (As a major knitter, this made me sad. Isn't there room for everyone?) (CBC News)
- The controversy over book banding (continues.) (BBC News)
- 'A new marriage for films and books' (Referred to as an "end-in-mind-relationship"…Well, it is Hollywood.) (Herald Tribune)
- Enid Blyton voted most beloved British author (JK Rowling is ranked #3.)
