ReadAlert roundup 16/03
Meg Rosoff doesn’t like writing negative reviews. (yep, that’s the Meg who’s coming to Reading Matters)
(speaking of Reading Matters) Jacqueline Wilson’s autobiographical Jacky Daydream is reviewed here and here
Roger Sutton (of the Horn Book) thinks that’s a cop out.
Here are the top 50 children’s books searched for in Yahoo (except who uses Yahoo anyway?)
12 million Harry Potter 7s are going to be printed. Compared to the 500 of HP1.
In other boy-wizard news, the US Scholastic website are cooking up all sorts of pre HP7 hijinks, including a real touring Knight Bus.
MT Anderson is interviewed at 7 Impossible Things.
The ups and downs of having your book turned into a film.
This guy has just signed a six-figure deal with Scholastic US for his book about a boy called Alcatraz doing battle with a cult of evil librarians. Awesome.
