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Fiction Reviews: Week of 8/6/2007
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Children's Notes
ALL ABOARD Little readers will clamor for these board books. What's Wrong, Little Pookie? by Sandra Boynton finds a mother pig trying to figure out, in verse, what has saddened her “little Pookie.” (“ 'Did you fall and get hurt?' 'No.' 'Have you lost your old Teddy?' 'No.' ”) When Mother Pig finally begins suggesting such silly reasons as “Did a very large hippo tr...
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Web-Exclusive Reviews: Week of 8/6/2007
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 8/6/2007
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Charles Simic Named U.S. Poet Laureate
Charles Simic is the new U.S. poet laureate. He's written 20 volumes of poetry with his newest collection due out from Harcourt in early 2008.
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San Diego 2007: Big Books, Big Buzz, Big Con
Bigger and better than ever, the 2007 San Diego Comic-con was dominated by movie studios but as always there were lots of new and interesting comics for the hordes of fans.
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San Diego Manga-Con
CLAMP signed with Dark Horse; CMX got Crayon Shin-chan; Viz acquired Slam Dunk!; manga got respect at the Eisner Awards and more manga news from this year’s San Diego Comic-con.
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A Full House at the Movie-Con
The San Diego Comic-con is now the single biggest marketing event of the year for Hollywood movie studios.
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San Diego Comics Briefly
NBM at 30; Graphic Novel Panel; Paul Pope; Friends of Lulu Award Winners and San Diego Comic-Con Coverage
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Talking Shojo with Arina Tanemura
Kai-MingCha talks with Tenenura about making shojo and inspiring young women.
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Photo Mania: San Diego Comic-Con 2007
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Warren Ellis Has Returned, But
Don't Expect Him to Enjoy ItIt took 10 years to get him back to San Diego. But fueled by Red Bull, cigarettes and junk food, the comics star-turned-novelist finally faces his Comic-Con fans.
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Potter Parties Pack Punch
On Friday July 27th, Harry Potter parties were everywhere, in every state in the Union, and many countries throughout the world.
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Galley Talk
The End of the Alphabet (Doubleday, Aug. 7) is a stunning accomplishment. To say so much in so few words is breathtaking. Although it's a novel about a man who discovers he has less than a month to live, I'm buying multiple copies and shelving most of them on my inspiration shelf.
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Family Lines: PW Talks With Edwidge Danticat
Growing up in Haiti, Danticat had a second father—her uncle Joseph, who raised her for eight years while her parents worked in order to bring the family to the U.S. In 2004, within the span of a few months, both fathers died and Danticat’s daughter was born. This triangle of events frames the family’s story in Brother, I’m Dying.
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After the Deluge
Though Naomi Klein became well-known in Canada, the U.K. and Europe after her first book, No Logo (Picador, 2000), unmasked the global injustices hidden by glossy corporate marketing, she’s not yet a mainstream name in the U.S. She has another chance with her new populist manifesto, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books)
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Harry's in a League of His Own
The record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows provided a much needed shot in the arm to bookstore sales, which were down 4.3% through May and had fallen every month this year. The trend will undoubtedly be broken in July. The 8.3 million copies of Hallows that Scholastic reported selling in the first 24 hours was far above the sales of The Secret, the top-selling title in th...
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 7/30/2007
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