It’s a chilling warning: “As if the recession weren’t bad enough, now British readers have the threat of a new series from Mr Snicket hanging over them,” Cally Poplak, director of publisher Egmont, tells The Guardian this week. ”As a responsible publisher, of course we shall put all our efforts into ensuring no child is exposed to [...]
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Caution: More unfortunate events
Posted in Profile, Publishing, tagged A Series of Unfortunate Events, Children, Egmont, film, Lemony Snicket on August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
La joie de livres!
Posted in Treasured tomes, tagged Children, Paris, Photography, Southbank Centre on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My eye was caught by the excited smirks of these little ladies carting their new piles of reading matter through the streets of wartime Paris while I was browsing the bookshop of London’s Southbank Centre. And they’re a familiar bunch, this lot: little miss middle is sporting a grin uncannily like the one slapped [...]