It’s 1966 (not really, but just go with it), Lyndon Johnson is president, Vietnam protests are in full swing, and you’re 13 years old. Walking into your local library, you scan your school’s book shelves until you eye Lewis Gannett’s The Family Book Of Verse. Image Via Amazon It’s a poetry collection, and in the introduction Lewis Gannett explains that the poems were selected based on how they enjoyable they were and how pleasing to the ear they were if read aloud. It’s a book any child could get into – and so you check it out. Then life happens. Image …
Variety reports that USA Network is in the early stages of developing a series adaptation of An Anonymous Girl. Image Via Tampa Bay Times For those of you unaware, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen’s best-selling book was published by St. Martin’s Press on January 8, 2019. Their profiles on Victoria Sanders, the agency that represents this dream duo, describes Greer Hendricks as a “former investigative journalist and newspaper features writer and occasional book reviewer for The Washington Post [whose] writing has appeared in publications ranging from USA Today to Publisher’s Weekly” and Sarah Pekkanen as “Vice President, Senior Editor at Atria Books” whose …
Stop the presses! A Sesame Street book is coming this fall, on Oct. 22, to celebrate the franchise’s 50th birthday. Image Via Psychologies The book, entitled Sunny Day, will soon be available through Random House… although not soon enough! As exciting as it is, this release should be no surprise to fans: after the show’s premiere on PBS on November 10, 1969, the first tie-in book, The Sesame Street Storybook, hit readers’ shelves just two years later. Fans needed more of this heartwarmingly wholesome (and educational!) series. Given that Publisher’s Weekly claims that Sesame Workshop orchestrated around 100 new franchise titles each year from …
Acclaimed actress Jennifer Garner has been cast in a leader role for a new limited series based on the powerful memoir of empathy, illness, and survival My Glory Was I Had Such Friends. After hitting shelves on June 27, 2017, readers learned about how Amy underwent heart transplant surgery at the young age of 25, and, according to her website, had an “‘extraordinary kind of amazing’ medical miracle:” despite a grim ten-year prognosis, her heart continued to beat for three decades, all of which is chronicled in Sick Girl. But those miraculous thirty years do come to end, and Amy Silverstein’s heart …
The first project from Amy Adams’ Bond Group Entertainment has just been revealed: an adaptation of Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible. For those of you unaware, actress Amy Adams, made famous for her Oscar nominated roles in Vice, American Hustle, and The Fighter as well as many others (including Arrival, an Oscar-nominated film based on Ted Chiang’s Stories of your Life). Recently, she portrayed Camille Preaker in the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel Sharp Objects. But Amy Adams isn’t just an amazing actress. She’s at HBO, and she’s going to get things done. She teamed up with her manager, Stacy O’Neil, to …
