Daily Archives: February 22, 2008

Neil Gaiman’s Coraline sneak peak trailer

OMG, Neil Gaiman’s got a sneaky trailer of the Henry Selick’s animation of Coraline. It looks absolutely fab (its short though) and reminds me a little of Tim Burton’s animation style or Jan Svankmajer. Coraline is one of my all … Continue reading

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Digital Children’s books online

The Horn Book blog has a piece on the International Digital Children’s Library, a non profit organization who have digitized various gems so that they can be viewed by  a wider audience. Whilst it is open access, you can’t fully … Continue reading

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The BBC gets Mervyn Peake

The BBC show on Mervyn Peake has just been out forward to March 5th according the Sebastian Peake’s blog.

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Fan Husbandry

Should creators necessarily listen to fans and adjust creations according to comments? io9 (via Holly Black) has a piece on the art of fan husbandry in response to Russell Davies comments that he doesn’t want to listen to fans so … Continue reading

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C.S. Lewis more popular than J.K. Rowling in Booktrust poll

Booktrust, the charity set up to encourage reading, commissioned a poll of the best children’s books for the government backed Bookstart, according to the Times. C.S Lewis’s Narnia tops the polls with the ubiquitous J.K. Rowling coming in at number … Continue reading

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David Fickling launches new weekly comic

David Fickling, the excellent publisher of children’s books, is launching a new comic according to the Independent. Philip Pullman will be writing a strip called “The Adventures of John Blake”. Not sure who else is joining in yet. You can … Continue reading

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