My own grandchildren are wild with interest over the Hunger Games and their mum loves reading the series too.

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The Hunger Games Classic

Hunger Games Trilogy

By Suzanne Collins

This title is first in the ground-breaking "Hunger Games" trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

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The Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet

Wisdom of Pooh S.

By Benjamin Hoff, E.H. Shephard (Illustrated by)


Following the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Year of Winnie-the-Pooh in 2001, there will will be a year of change for The Wisdom of Pooh list in 2002. To celebrate the 20th year since the publication in the UK in 1982 of The Tao of Pooh and the 10th year since the publication in 1992 of The Te of Piglet, the cover for best selling title The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet paperback bind up of these two titles will be redesigned in a new style to reach a wider market for Winnie-the-Pooh adult readers and to encourage new fans for Benjamin Hoff's best-selling titles. Pooh's Way of doing things seems strangely close to the ancient principle of Taoist philosophy, while Piglet exhibits the very important principle in Taoism of the Te, meaning Virtue of the Small. The author's explanations of Taoism and Te through Pooh and Piglet show that this is not an ancient and remote philosophy but something that you can use, here and now.

“What day is it,?" asked Pooh.
"It's today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.”

May all your Today's be your favourite.



The Toa of Pooh.

The 75th Anniversary Year of Winnie-the-Pooh in 2001 was a year of change and renovation for The Wisdom of Pooh list, which continues in 2003 with the reissue of this phenomenally popular title. The cover has been redesigned in a new style to reach a wider market for Winnie-the-Pooh adult readers and to encourage new fans for Benjamin Hoff's bestselling titles. Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear, and Pooh's Way, as Benjamin Hoff brilliantly demonstrates, seems strangely close to the ancient Chinese principles of Taoism.

From picture book author Tara Lazar's blog--advice for aspiring writers:

http://taralazar.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/how-to-become-a-childrens-author/

It's both realistic and helpful.

If you want to publish a book for children, the first thing you must do is ask yourself WHY. Is your motivation to publish a kid’s book one of the following?
Your kids/grandkids/nieces...


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The Business of Writing for Children An Award-winning Author's Tips on Writing Children's Books and Publishing Them, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids

By Aaron Shepard


Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: "Dangerous Myths and Terrible Truths" PART 1 -- THE BASICS Writing Tips; Book Categories; Submissions; Publisher Categories; Contracts; Publishing Process; Bookseller Categories; Promotion and Career PART 2 -- THE INSIDE STORY Close looks at special topics. APPENDIX -- RESOURCES

About the AuthorAaron Shepard is the author of King o' the Cats, The Sea King's Daughter, The Legend of Lightning Larry, and sixteen other published and forthcoming picture books. His publishers have included Atheneum, Scribners, Clarion, Lothrop, Dial, and HarperCollins, as well as Cricket and Australia's School Magazine. Aaron's work has been honored by the American Library Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the American Folklore Society, and he has been a judge for the Golden Kite Awards of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

How to Become a Children’s Author taralazar.wordpress.com

I finally got to see a much talked about film and "I did not like it."
What do you think?   Did it have the suggestion of Pedophilia about it?
Pure romantic Sci Fi - or the child should have shown more wariness and distasteful that she didn't and he 'came on to her' while there was a big age difference?
I just watched "The Time traveler's Wife." I felt strongly that in all the scenes where Claire as a child met Henry as a mature man she was far too young to be alone in a meadow with a mature man with no concept of 'stranger danger.'
Maybe I'm no romantic to think that scene was questionable. I do not like to watch children being groomed for a relationship by a mature adult.
I also will not judge this book I haven't read by the film I watched because I have heard so much about it. I would still read the book. i am sure the author will have more words to explain the actions than the mostly visual film can give. "Don't judge a book by the film."

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Harry Potter Hardback Boxed Set By J. K. Rowling


The first opportunity to own all seven Harry Potter titles in hardback in the latest 'Signature' edition livery. All encased in a smart gift box. The books will have stylish marker ribbons and decorated endpapers.

About the Author
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as well as three books written for charity and inspired by the Harry Potter novels: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Harry Potter novels have now sold over 400 million copies worldwide and been translated into 68 languages. J.K. Rowling has generated huge popular appeal for her books across the generations in an unprecedented fashion: she was the first children's author to be voted the BA Author of the Year, and also to win the British Book Awards Author of the Year. J.K. Rowling lives with her family in Edinburgh.

Prizes
Hardback editions in the stylish livery available for the first time and only as part of this boxed set - not available individually The boxed set has a stylish magnetic closure with clasp-effect decoration and will make a perfect Christmas gift The individual books will have coloured page-marker ribbons and decorated endpapers

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Little Women Collins Classics

By Louisa May Alcott


As a tomboy and writer at heart even as a child, I fell in love with Jo March then and I still love her.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?'

A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the New England Civil War, Little Women tells the story of the lovable March family. Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy try to support their mother at home while their father is away at war and enter into various scrapes and adventures as they do so.

Alcott beautifully interweaves bad times and good as her characters struggle with the trials and tribulations of growing up and their relationships with one another.

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The Sheep-pig By Dick King-Smith

When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hearted sheep-dog. Babe is determined to learn everything he can from Fly. He knows he can't be a sheep-dog. But maybe, just maybe, he might be a sheep-pig.

About the Author
Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. Later he taught at a village primary school. His first book, The Fox Busters, was published in 1978. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, Noah's Brother, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, Ace, The Cuckoo Child and Harriet's Hare (winner of the Children's Book Award in 1995). At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

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Goodnight Moon [Board book] By Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illustrated by)


This gentle bedtime story, which has lulled generations of children to sleep, is the perfect first book to share at bedtime. In a great green room a little bunny is tucked up snugly and safely in bed and is getting ready to say goodnight to all the familiar things in his room, one by one. Margaret Wise Brown's comforting, rhythmical text accompanied by the warmth of Clement Hurd's classic mid-century illustrations make GOODNIGHT MOON a timeless picture book, which is known and loved around the world.

About the Author
Clement Hurd (1908 -- 1988) studied art in Paris and worked as a freelance decorative artist in New York before becoming a children's book illustrator. Best known for GOODNIGHT MOON, he later created on many beautiful books with his wife Edith Thacher Hurd.