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From: mlgav
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:30:50 -0700 (PDT)
March 25, 2008
?Goosebumps? Rises From the Literary Grave By BRIAN STELTER
When R. L. Stine?s characters confront a creepy villain, they may gasp, they may shiver, they may even cringe. Mostly, though, they shriek.
?That?s when I started to scream? may be the most frequently used chapter ending in the hugely successful children?s horror series ?Goosebumps,? which a decade ago catapulted Mr. Stine to prominence. Now, for the first time in eight years, during which Mr. Stine tried his hand at creating other series, he is back with a fresh ?Goosebumps.? Can he resuscitate the dormant brand?
?Maybe it?ll be hard to do a second time,? he said. ?Maybe it?ll happen again. Right now I don?t know.?
Mr. Stine, who was born Robert Lawrence Stine 64 years ago, devotes considerable effort to the cliffhangers that virtually dare you to try to stop reading. For years it paid off with a sizable following of children ? many of them now just getting out of college or having children of their own ? for whom the slightly scary ?Goosebumps? series was a sensation before it cooled off in the mid-?90s, just before Harry Potter took off in the United States.
Now his American publisher, Scholastic, hoping that another generation of readers ages 8 to 12 is ready for his stories, is releasing the first of 12 books in a new series called ?Goosebumps HorrorLand.? The author and his publisher must know the odds are against lightning striking twice.... for the rest of the article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/books/25stin.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
~~~~~~~~~ mary gavlik library media specialist chuckey-doak middle school afton, tn 37601 423-787-2038 mlgav at yahoo.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
? Monty Python skit
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Received on Tue 25 Mar 2008 10:30:50 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:30:50 -0700 (PDT)
March 25, 2008
?Goosebumps? Rises From the Literary Grave By BRIAN STELTER
When R. L. Stine?s characters confront a creepy villain, they may gasp, they may shiver, they may even cringe. Mostly, though, they shriek.
?That?s when I started to scream? may be the most frequently used chapter ending in the hugely successful children?s horror series ?Goosebumps,? which a decade ago catapulted Mr. Stine to prominence. Now, for the first time in eight years, during which Mr. Stine tried his hand at creating other series, he is back with a fresh ?Goosebumps.? Can he resuscitate the dormant brand?
?Maybe it?ll be hard to do a second time,? he said. ?Maybe it?ll happen again. Right now I don?t know.?
Mr. Stine, who was born Robert Lawrence Stine 64 years ago, devotes considerable effort to the cliffhangers that virtually dare you to try to stop reading. For years it paid off with a sizable following of children ? many of them now just getting out of college or having children of their own ? for whom the slightly scary ?Goosebumps? series was a sensation before it cooled off in the mid-?90s, just before Harry Potter took off in the United States.
Now his American publisher, Scholastic, hoping that another generation of readers ages 8 to 12 is ready for his stories, is releasing the first of 12 books in a new series called ?Goosebumps HorrorLand.? The author and his publisher must know the odds are against lightning striking twice.... for the rest of the article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/books/25stin.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
~~~~~~~~~ mary gavlik library media specialist chuckey-doak middle school afton, tn 37601 423-787-2038 mlgav at yahoo.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
? Monty Python skit
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Received on Tue 25 Mar 2008 10:30:50 AM CDT
