Roger Sutton over on the Horn Book blog has recently read George Eliot’s Middlemarch (which I confess to reading and disliking intensely).
He makes a point which Scott Westerfeld made to me about using language for children in an as yet to be transcribed interview. Writers need to push the boundaries of their language for children […]
The New York Times reports that R.L. Stine is to return to the Goosebumps series for the first time in eight years.
The stories will be linked by a sub plot concerning a horror theme park and will be linked to two websites, enterhorrorland.com and escapehorrorland.com. Influenced by Ray Bradbury’s twists, he comments:
“I don’t really want […]
Bloomsbury appear to be doing a wonderful thing, according to Neil Gaiman’s blog. Aware that there are two audiences, Bloomsbury will have Dave McKean illustrate the adult version and the awesome Chris Riddell, the children’s one. Must reserve space on the bookshelf for both as they will work in very different ways!
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News from Sebastian Peake that the Titus trilogy is to be released on CD later this year. Titus Grown will appear towards the end of the year with the other novels coming at three month intervals.
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