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Julie Andrews' new princess
Shouldn’t having one incredible talent – like a voice so precociously mature you could support your family with your singing career while still a teenager – be enough? Not for Julie Andrews, whose four-octave range brought her stardom, but who is also an accomplished writer, and not just another celebrity trading on her fame. "I think I might have been the original celebrity writer," said...read more...// //Meet 'If I Stay' author
Gayle Forman had published two novels, to little fanfare, when the e-mails about her third novel began arriving -- before If I Stay had even been released. "These were from people who had gotten an early copy, and a lot of the [e-mails] were very personal, about how the book had moved them because they'd sat in an ICU, with someone in a coma, hoping and believing the person could hear them,"...read more...// //Meet kids' author Mo Willems
Mo Willems is really tall. His is audience is very short. (Think knee-high or lower.) Willems is the guy who created the pigeon preschoolers love to deny ( Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, etc.), the genius behind the now-famous story of a lime-green stuffed rabbit left behind in a Brooklyn laundromat one day by a little girl named Trixie. He brings his act to Coral Gables on March 13. Willems is a busy guy, with...read more...// //Book Fair kids: Schooled in comics
School’s in session Friday for parents, teachers, librarians, anybody interested in knowing more about comic books. That’s sure to make a kid Hulk green with envy, isn’t it? BY SUE CORBETT Sue will be making her own appearance at the Miami Book Fair International, reading from her latest book, The Last Newspaper Boy in America . Sue will appear at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Friday,...read more...Troubling tale could help teens
Laurie Halse Anderson's new book, Wintergirls (Viking, $17.99, ages 12-up) just may be the scariest book you will ever read as a parent. But for a teenage girl, Wintergirls could be a life-saver. "It's a painfully beautiful story that not everyone will be able to handle,'' said Lorena Lopez, 16, a junior at Kendall's School for Advanced Studies. But she recommends...read more...
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