Read Alert Roundup 19/2/07
It’s Mike’s birthday today. Happy birthday Mike!
There’s a bunch of people getting knickers in twists about the use of the word ’scrotum’ in a children’s book. Read about it here, here, here, here and here. (That last one’s from Justine Larbalestier, who’s coming to Reading Matters.)
A profile of Jacqueline Wilson here. (did we mention that she’s also coming to Reading Matters?)
Mal Peet reviews F E Higgins’s The Black Book of Secrets. (And Mal. He’s coming to Reading Matters too.)
Our Margo is shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Hurrah! (Margo Lanagan will also be coming to Reading Matters.)
Christopher Ecclestone is playing The Black Rider in the film of Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising. (Christopher Ecclestone is unfortunately not coming to Reading Matters. But John Boyne is, so that’s practically the same thing.)
An interview with Philip Pullman here. (He’s not coming either. He doesn’t fly anymore, because of the environment. And the boat takes a really long time.)
