From: SIwanter at aol.com <SIwanter>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:22:34 EDT

  Well here is a celebrity newcomer to the ranks of children's non fiction. I wonder if he knows what he's talking about?
 
 
    Hawking to Do Book for Kids Steven Hawking is going to explain the cosmos to a new audience: children. The renowned physicist has signed with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers to do a children's book, George's Secret Key to the Universe, about the origins of the universe. The middle-grade novel follows the titular boy who, after befriending a father-daughter duo with a super-computer, goes on a series of adventures throughout the universe. It will be illustrated by Garry Parsons and, according to S&S, will be
 done "in partnership" with Hawking's daughter, Lucy Hawking, a journalist and novelist. S&S will publish the title, which was acquired from agent Eric Simonoff of the Jankow & Nesbit Agency, this fall, with a 100,000-copy first printing. ?Rachel Deahl






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