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Everyone’s favorite egg-tossing hero is back. Find out how you can win Yoshi’s New Island for Nintendo 3DS!
Six worlds full of different levels await exploration in the Yoshi’s New Island™game, the third game in the beloved Yoshi’s Island series, which just launched on the Nintendo 3DS™ system. In the game, Yoshi™ must help Baby Mario™ reunite with his kidnapped brother, Luigi™. This time around, there are giant new eggs, fun new visuals and a multiplayer mode that lets two players who each have a Nintendo 3DS system pair up for a mini-game cooperative challenge. The new character transformations are dynamite. Yoshi can turn into a hot air balloon, mine cart, and even a jackhammer! And by grabbing a special star, Yoshi can soar in the sky or run along walls and ceilings. Gravity doesn’t mean a thing to this “Super Yoshi!”
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[NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Open to any child between the ages of 7 and 12, who is a legal resident of one of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia. Contest begins March 20, 2014. Entries must be postmarked by April 25, 2014, and received by May 2, 2014. Entries must be submitted by mail to: Scholastic Presents Yoshi's New Island Sweepstakes, Scholastic Inc., 557 Broadway, 5th Floor, Attn: M. Battle, Office 528, New York, NY 10012. Entry form must include the child's name and grade; a parent's/legal guardian's name and signature, mailing address, phone number, and email address. Prizing: Three (3) Grand Prize winners will each receive a Nintendo 3DS XL video game system and a Yoshi's New Island Game (ARV: $239.98). See official rules at www.scholastic.com/yoshisweeps for additional details. To enter the Sweepstakes, an individual must download and complete the entry form, color it (optional and not required), and mail it in. Three (3) Grand Prize winners will be selected at random. Sponsor: Scholastic Inc., 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. Nintendo is not a sponsor, co-sponsor, or administrator of this sweepstakes.]
After passing along the biggest buzz out of the E3 [Electronic Entertainment Expo] in Essentials last week, we're excited to have an on-the-ground report from Youth Advisory Board member Chase Straight, who attended the event for his day job in the... Read the rest of this post
Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.5
Finally got down to some good revision this morning. Phew! Does it feel good to be working with the book again.
We’ve read that children’s books have been doing better than some other segments in this recession. Borders even took floorspace from CDs and DVDs to expand children’s books. However, in today’s culture, kids have so many more things calling out for their attention, and the most popular is videogames.
That’s why I LOVE what Egmont is doing. Britain’s Telegraph reported that Danish publisher Egmont (which has a U.S. division, Egmont USA) has signed a deal with EA Games to put children’s books on Nintendo’s DS handheld videogame console. The Telegraph reports that Penguin is involved in the deal too.
The ebooks will be known as Flips and will include Enid Blyton books (a favorite of mine was I was a tyke) and boys’ book Too Ghoul For School.
Egmont owns the rights to Winnie the Pooh (still a favorite of mine), the Mr. Men series (I love Mr. Tickle!!), Thomas the Tank Engine, Wallace & Gromit and Rupert the Bear, so I’d guess it’s only a matter of time before these are on the DS too.
Ereaders and ebooks have been gaining in popularity. The blogosphere and Twitter have been all, well, atwitter with discussions about them. Are they the future? Who knows. I personally don’t think paper books will ever go away completely, but maybe that’s my nostalgia talking.
But the interesting thing about ebooks is the opportunity to attract kids. Kids lock onto gadgets and new technologies faster than anyone, and what better place is there for a book than a handheld videogame console kids carry around all the time?
The key is making the ebooks as fun as the videogames, which could be a challenge with so much less interaction in a book. In the Telegraph article, Egmont’s Rob McMenemy said ebooks won’t be popular with kids until they have color and moving imagery. The Flips will have an interactive element.
I think he’s right. And my hope, is that kids who gain a love for these moving, interactive ebooks will grow up to enjoy the paper kind — or at least regular old digital kind — of stories only books can deliver.
What do you think? What’s the future?
Write On!
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Last week we briefly touched on the latest Pew Study that shows that the current generation of gamers is a far cry from the anti-social stereotype many of us envision. eMarketer aggregated data from the Pew study, combined and a recent survey from... Read the rest of this post
I've mentioned before on this blog my love of the work of Irish illustrator Harry Clarke -- over at http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com the Clarke FAUST illustrations are being posted. You may not like them as much as I do, but I shall put up the links so far for lovers everywhere of the elegant ink-line, of the macabre and of the beautifully disturbing...
Your recent comment that the Polaroid 20x24 camera would be useless within the coming year has caused some commotion over on apug.org (analog photography users group) where we enjoy fretting about the future of film. Did someone really tell you that the 20x24 polaroid film was going to run out this year?
Thanks,Will
Yes, although I no longer remember whether it was the photographer, Marina Alessi, or the journalist (whose name I've forgotten) who told me this. They've been doing this thing of shooting the authors for Italian Vanity Fair for four years now, and this is either the last or the penultimate year, because, she said, there would be no more film.
I found a photo taken by Holly of the photo-shoot that shows the camera...
And an early shout-out for the diaries of anyone in the UK:
On the evening of Tuesday October the 2nd, I'll be doing a literary event in London -- being interviewed by Peter Florence (from the Hay on Wye festival), and doing a reading and the only UK signing. I'll post location details and how you get to it as soon as I know for sure.
(October the 3rd will be the big, red carpetty Stardust premiere in Leicester Square. Having been the only person in a tuxedo at the US premiere, I now have a yearning to be the only person in a leather jacket at the UK one. But I may change my mind.)
Right. Back to writing. Then I zoom to Sweden...
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Wow. Thanks Amy and J-Zee. I can't believe I didn't know about that site!