Warner Bros. scoops high-profile kids' book series
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LOS ANGELES  - Warner Bros. Pictures, whose "Harry Potter" series is past the halfway mark, may have found its next big all-ages franchise. The studio has come out on top of a bidding war for the rights to upcoming children's book series "Skulduggery Pleasant" by Irish author Derek Landy.
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Bookstores selling the eagerly anticipated seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series will be asked to display posters of missing girl Madeleine McCann, and the books will come with appeals to help search for her.
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Warner Bros. Pictures is  bringing Terry Brooks&#39; &quot;Shannara&quot; fantasy book series to the  big screen.
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In the world of kid-lit, a certain kind of scary book is in demand: Gothic Lite. The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black - "more cozy than chilling" - fills the bill, says Roger Sutton, editor in chief of The Horn Book Magazine, which covers children's books.
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Warner will be North American distributor for U.K.-published titles such as Operation Flashpoint.
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Warner Bros. Pictures has signed the lead for its next &quot;big&quot; movie debuting in 2010, a principal that is no stranger to working with the stars.
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With the Hollywood writers  strike putting the brakes on film and TV writing, a group of  scribes has found an unusual mode of creative expression:  children's books.
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Publishers are using outlets like MySpace to promote new books.
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Robin Williams will star in a comic fantasy feature based on the preschool book "The Krazees."
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The next Harry Potter book has just been announced, and it&#39;s rocketed--or broomsticked--to No. 1 on Amazon.com&#39;s best-seller list.
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Blog: Online book distributor and parent company are now up to their eyeballs in lawsuit, and something is awfully fishy in Hogwarts.
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A search is launched for someone to write a sequel to bring children's classic Peter Pan up to date.
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Harry Potter director Alfonso Cuaron signs a three-year deal with Hollywood studio Warner Brothers.
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The world's most famous pop stars are to be lampooned in a television cartoon after the success of a series of children's books mocking their celebrity lifestyles.
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LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters Life!) - The world's most famous pop stars are to be lampooned in a television cartoon after the success of a series of children's books mocking their celebrity lifestyles.
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A wave of books on the pornography industry and other racy subjects are getting prominent placement in bookstores.
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Business & money: Overseas Harry Potter fans can't wait for a translation of the final book in the boy wizard's saga.