Reading Copy Book Blog

Earlier this month my six-year-old daughter and I progressed to chapter books for her bedtime reading. We had dabbled with slim children’s chapter books involving fairies, princesses and ballerinas but now I’m reading what I would call proper books – namely Roald Dahl. We started with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and then followed up [...]

How cool. One of Will Eisner’s stories of The Spirit is now available as a pop-up graphic novel. Swoon. Listen to how fantastic this sounds: On the dead body of a police officer the Spirit discovers a note with the name ‘Sand Saref,’ his lost childhood sweetheart. Saref has come to Central City peddling a [...]

On January 1, Popeye the Sailor man becomes copyright-free and enters the public domain in the European Union. Creator, Elize Segar died in 1938 which means the timeframe specified in EU law of author’s rights for the duration of the author’s life + 70 years is up at the end of the year and the [...]

BookNet Canada has released their list of bestselling books in Canada for 2008. As with most bestseller lists for the past year, you’ll see that Stephenie Meyer dominates: Top 5 Overall 1. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle 2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer 3. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer 4. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer [...]

I thought the Christmas period was supposed to be a quiet time. Harold Pinter, famous for The Caretaker, and Eartha Kitt, who wrote several books, made their exits and the author of Angel at the Fence admitted his piece of non-fiction was actually fiction. Another sad loss was Dale Wasserman, who wrote Man of La [...]

Two of ten novels chosen by  Richard and Judy for their 2009 reading list are written by Canadian authors.Richard and Judy, the popular talk-show duo and one of the greatest  influences on Briton’s reading habits, have selected Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle and Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo as part of their book club reads [...]

Anyone up for a laugh today? Here’s a list of just some of the funnier titles published in 2008: Hip-Hop for Dogs: From Bling to Phat Your Dog Is One Cool Cat by Janet Perr Is your dog phat? Is he a playa? Does he represent? There’s only one way to find out, homie. Chill [...]

Is 2008 going to end with a revelation about another made-up memoir? Perhaps. The book in question is Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived by Herman Rosenblat, who has twice appeared on Oprah’s TV show. The book is set to be published by a division of Penguin in February [...]

A very literary Christmas carol, and this time it has nothing to do with Dickens Merry Christmas!

I was immediately attracted by the cover of Christin Ditchfield‘s Cowlick! – a bold image of a toddler’s face with a look of surprise and one major cowlick! The brightly coloured images  will attract, and keep, the attention of young children as will the simple rhyming. Cowlick! is a story about two little boys who [...]