Harry Potter tops children awards
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Harry Potter and The Simpsons win two gongs each at the UK's first Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
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The sixth book in the children&#39;s series by JK Rowling rocketed to the top of the best-seller charts on Amazon&#39;s US and UK websites, although it will not be published for another seven months.
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The seventh and final Harry Potter book, Deathly Hallows, is rated the best one of the series by fans.
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LOS ANGELES  - Just like magic, JK Rowling&#39;s &quot;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince&quot; is already topping sales charts even though it&#39;s half a year away from being published.
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling reveals the name of her third child, a daughter born on Sunday.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix crowns the 2007 box office in the UK and Ireland.
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A division of the American Library Association has created a new award for children's books, to be named after the late Dr. Seuss. The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for outstanding children's literature will begin next year, the Association for Library Service to Children announced Friday.
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Best-selling children's author J. K. Rowling has given fans of her Harry Potter books a brief but tantalising taster of the next title in the series chronicling the boy wizard's adventures, a report said.
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The John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to childrenâs literature was awarded on Monday to âGood Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village,â by Laura Amy Schlitz. The American Library Association announced the prize at its midwinter meeting in Philadelphia. The book, a series of monologues and dialogues about characters in the Middle Ages, is illustrated by Robert Byrd and published by Candlewick Press. Its format is different from the more traditional novels that have characterized past Newbery winners. The winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children was âThe Invention of Hugo Cabret,â by Brian Selznick. That book, published by Scholastic Press, is also different from the more traditional short picture books for young children that win the Caldecott medal. âHugo Cabretâ is a novel told in blocks of text interspersed with 284 pages of black-and-white drawings.
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Publisher Scholastic Corp. said on Wednesday it set a "record-breaking" 12 million copies for the first printing in the U.S. of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
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J.K. Rowling, author of the very popular Harry Potter series, is backing the search for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann. Rowling has asked her 65 publishers to distribute a poster of the missing girl to stores selling her final Harry Potter book...
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JK Rowling, Arctic Monkeys and UK film This is England are among the winners at the South Bank Show awards.
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Â· Northern Lights tops poll of Carnegie winnersÂ· Author says award is most important he has received
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Television presenters Dick and Dom are nominated for two children's Bafta awards.
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A hand-written, illustrated book of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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The seventh and final book in J.K.  Rowling&#39;s Harry Potter series has become online retailer  Amazon&#39;s most pre-ordered product, with almost 1.6 million  copies bought globally ahead of the book&#39;s release on July 21.
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The latest Harry Potter film takes a record-breaking $12m (Â£6m) at midnight screenings in the US.