Ypulse Book Essentials: 'Savvy,' 'Savvy Girl,' 'The Lion and the Mouse'
Posted by alli on 07-18-2008
Savvy by Ingrid Law (Read the first chapter free. Or listen. Beautiful language. 'The Fabulous Four' meet 'The Incredibles' meet 'The Waltons'?) (Penguin)
- Savvy Girl (Completely different. Enter a trailer contest for new a new book by a 17-year-old fashionista and win a GB Panasonic SDR-H60 hard-drive camcorder.) (EW.com)
- 'The Lion and the Mouse' (The New Yorker brings us a story from within the annals of the history of children's literature, the public library and their longstanding unique relationship.)
- 'Invincible' (The comic superhero will be… everywhere.) (New York Times, reg. required)
- Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics (This year's Olympic companion by National Geographic)
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Danny DeVito is set to direct the family-adventure movie based on Avi's YA book.) (Cynopsis Kids)
- Join Eoin Colfer (on his fabulous book tour entitled: 'Fairies, Fiends and Flatulence' supporting his latest Artemis Fowl release.)
- More about sexually confusing Twilight (This Op-Ed in New York Times discusses readers' attraction to Stephenie Meyer's sexless characters.)
- If you're in LA… (Check out LAPL's 'Image of the Child' Exhibit.) (SLJ)
- Neil Gaiman (thinks giving away his books actually helped sell his books. Good comments.) (Boing Boing)
- This week's Fine Lines (Jezebel's Lizzie Skurnick revisits Lois Duncan's Stranger With My Face)
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