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 time favourite books and I cannot wait.
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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 download texts and need to use their reader. Annoying but I think that this is […]
The BBC show on Mervyn Peake has just been out forward to March 5th according the Sebastian Peake’s blog.
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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 breaking a cardinal rule - don’t insult or flatter them. To be fair, it does appear […]
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 6.
Part of this, I suspect, is the simple question of “who do you poll”. […]
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 sign up for the email news letter for the launch on the site but the contents […]