Fantastic Fantasies: Hollywood’s Hunt for the Next Boy Wizard is an article from The Book Standard that looks at the new trend of fantasy movies for children. Movie version of Eragon, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Golden Compass, and Artemis Fowl are all in the works. I love that all of these films are based on books, since it will draw kids who enjoy the movies to seek out the books they are based on.
Day: August 18, 2005
Cronin Article
‘Click, Clack, Moo’ author inspired by her father is an article with the touching story of Doreen Cronin’s relationship with her father and how even after his death, he continues to inspire her work. Fans of Cronin, can look forward to her new Diary of a Spider and Click, Clack, Quackity, Quack. If you haven’t read Cronin’s Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type and her other books, you are missing some great kid humor. They are wonderful read-alouds for early elementary kids.
New Hardy Boys
Journal Gazette: Rad Reads offers a brief review of the newest version of the Hardy Boys books, the Undercover Brothers series. It looks like the language the boys use is updated and that this time the boys are working undercover as detectives. The books are also written from both boys’ points of view in alternating chapters.