Kicking off with the Really Exciting News, from The Bookseller.com
"HarperCollins Children’s Books has bought a new book from Diana Wynne Jones.
Publishing director Rachel Denwood acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in Earwig and the Witch, for readers aged five-eight-years-old from agent Laura Cecil.
The story tells of orphan Earwig, living at St Morwald's Orphanage, who is chosen for adoption but soon discovers her new "mother" is a witch.
Denwood called the book "thrilling, funny, timeless and truly delightful", and "a story set for classic status".
The book will be published in a "stunning, highly covetable hardback", illustrated by Marion Lindsay, in June 2011."
According to Those Who Know on the DWJ list, this is a book she had written a while ago, and revised just a tad for publication. (Incidently, "covetable" wasn't a word I'd come across before. I don't like it. What's wrong with "desirable?")
The Reviews:
Boneshaker, by Kate Milford, at Eva's Book Addiction and Booked up
Bookweirder, by Paul Glennon, at Back to Books
Boom! by Mark Haddon, at My Brain on Books
The Call (The Magnificent 12 Book 1) by Michael Grant, at Coffee for the Brain
The Charlatan's Boy, by Jonathan Rogers, at Coffee For the Brain
The Clockwork Three, by Matthew Kirby, at Fantasy Literature
The Coming of the Dragon, by Rebecca Barnhouse, at Charlotte's Library
The Curse of the Romany Wolves, by S. Jones Rogan, at Back To Books
The Dead Boys, by Royce Buckingham, at Coffee for the Brain and Booked Up
Dragon Flight, by Jessica Day George, at Reading Vacation
Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine, at Shannon Whitney Messenger
The End of the World Club (Jaguar Stones Book II) at The Reading Zone
Facing Fire, by kc dyer, at Book Aunt
Gargoylz Make a Movie, by Burchett and Vogler, at Nayu's Reading Corner
George Washington's Socks, by Elvira Woodruff, at Charlotte's Library
The Girl Who Could Fly, by Victoria Forester at Mister K Reads
The Grimm Legacy, by Polly Shulman, at One Librarian's Book Reviews
Hero, by Mike Lupica, at BC Book Talk
How Mirka Got Her Sword, by Barry Deutsch, at books4yourkids
Keeper, by Kathi Appelt, at Green Bean Teen Queen
Knights of the Kitchen Table, by Jon Scieszka, at Once Upon a Bookshelf
The Line, by Teri Hall, at One Librarian's Book Reviews
The Magic Thief, by Sarah Prineas, at The Ladybug Reads
Museum of Theives, by Lian Tanner, at TheHappyNappyBookseller
Reckless, by Cornelia Funke, at Booked Up
The Ring of Solomon, by Jonathan Stroud, at Charlotte's Library
The Search for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi, at Madigan Reads
The Storm in the Barn, by Matt Phelan at Books and Other Thoughts
A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz, at Bookyurt
Wolven, by Di Toft, at Booked Up
Interviews and author guest posts:
Helene Boudreau (Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings) at Mundie Moms
Barry Deutsch (How Mirka Got Her Sword) at books4yourkids
John Mayhew (Mortlock) at The Enchanted Inkpot
Frank Cottrell Boyce (Cosmic) at Fuse #8
Michelle Knudson (The Dragon of Trelian) at Cynsations.
Hélène Boudreau (Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings) at From the Mixed Up Files...of Middle Grade Authors
Henry Neff (The Tapestry Series) at Fantasy Book Critic
Kathi Appelt (Keeper) at The O.W.L.
Other Good Stuff:
"Harry Potter and the Flawed Interpretation" at Oz and Ends
Read about Tu Books (a new imprint of Lee and Low, focusing on multicultural sci fi/fantasy) at There's a Book
"Steampunk for Kids--6 Books from 2010", at Charlotte's Library
And this week's guest at the Fairytale Reflection Series over at Seven Miles of Steel Thistles is Celia Rees.
I hope all who are going to be celebrating Christmas get lots of nice books (or whatever lesser present will make them happy. I, for instance, am hoping for a battery charger. As well as books. I am also hoping that the four books that haven't come yet will, in fact, do so...otherwise I shall have to wrap pieces of paper. Sigh).
(picture found at Poe's Ghostal's Points of Articulation, originally from The Brothers Brick)
(if you are reading this in its entirety somewhere else, it's been lifted without my permission).
The Diana Wynne Jones news made my day--thank you!
ReplyDeleteA new DWJ novel!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I've never heard the word "covetable" either. Desirable is a perfectly decent word. Covetable just sounds all wrong.
Thanks for the HP link too. That was interesting.
It's great seeing so many SF/F titles here. When I was a kid, it was pretty much The Chronicles of Narnia and Chronicles of Prydain. Somehow I became a SF/F geek anyway, but that's not the point. ;)
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