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Christopher Paolini Publishers always hope for a new author to create a buzz, but few could imagine the level and intensity of attention that 20-year-old Christopher Paolini has generated. He [...]

AMID THE GLITTER IN Los Angeles, it was the novels that shone most brightly for children's booksellers at this year's BEA. An oft-mentioned favorite: Inkheart (Scholastic/Chicken House, 250,000 first printing) [...]

AT THIS YEAR'S BEA, booksellers got a taste of what promises to be an exciting season, with a number of high-profile titles scheduled to hit the shelves throughout the fall. [...]

Discriminatory treatment is defined in terms of limited job related opportunities and exposure to sexual harassment. The structural status of women police in England and Wales in terms of rank [...]

With the publication of books such as last fall's The Facts Speak for Themselves by Brock Cole (a National Book Award nominee) and Norma Fox Mazer's When She Was Good, [...]

'When you follow in the path of your father,! you learn to walk like him.' This Ashanti proverb begins In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall (Lee & Low, Nov.), a [...]

MS. RAPSCOTT'S GIRLS Written and illustrated by Elise Primavera 263 pp. Dial. $16.99. (Middle grade; ages 8 to 12) THE GIRL WITH THE GLASS BIRD By Esme Kerr 265 pp. [...]

CAN THERE BE AN OBJECTIVE VIEW OF HISTORY? Ask Howard Zinn this question, and he'll answer, 'No.' Each history we read is interpretation. Everyone has a point of view. Zinn, [...]

WHAT MAKES A BOOK JACKET 'work'? If you ask editors, publishers, designers and even authors, you'll get a lot of answers, about design and color and typeface and 'point of [...]

Coastal flood warning and design of coastal protection schemes rely on accurate estimations of water level and waves during hurricanes and violent storms. These estimations frequently use numerical models, which, for computational reasons, neglect the interaction between the hydrodynamic and wave fields. Here, we show that neglecting such interactions, or local effects of atmospheric forcing, causes large uncertainties, which could have financial and operational consequences because flood warnings are potentially missed or protection schemes underdesigned. Using the Severn Estuary, SW England, we show that exclusion of locally generated winds underestimates high water significant wave height by up to 90.1%, high water level by 1.5%, and hazard proxy (water level + 1/2 significant wave height) by 9.1%. The uncertainty in water level and waves is quantified using a system to model tide‐surge‐wave conditions, Delft3D‐FLOW‐WAVE in a series of eight model simulations for four historic storm events. Coastal zones worldwide are subject to combined effects of astronomical tides, meteorological storms surges, waves, and wind during storms and hurricanes, which can lead to flooding, property damage, and casualties. Coastal communities and critical infrastructure rely on accurate water level and wave forecasts to mitigate these combined hazards. Forecasts utilize hydrodynamic numerical models, which need to accurately represent these hazards and how they interact with, and feedback to, each other. This study uses a model, Delft3D‐FLOW‐WAVE, to calculate how tides and waves from four historic storm events combine to contribute to water level, wave height, and hazard proxy (water level + 1/2 wave height) in the Severn Estuary, southwest England. Additional simulations are run to show how local winds can further contribute to the hazard. Results show that including locally generating winds in simulations of water level, wave height, and hazard proxy is most important for accurate representation of physical processes that contribute to coastal hazards. Excluding locally generated winds from numerical model predictions could mean that flood alerts, warnings, and evacuation orders are missed, or coastal protection schemes are underdesigned, potentially leading to more flooding. Delft3D‐FLOW‐WAVE is used to quantify uncertainty in water level and waves in a hypertidal estuary due to coupling and forcing processesExclusion of locally generated winds underestimates significant wave height at high water by up to 90.1% in the outer estuaryLocal atmospheric forcing is vital in coastal hazard predictions for timely flood warnings and to avoid underdesigning protection schemes

Interviews with the authors and illustrators of a variety of books being released this season The Land To call Mildred D. Taylor's latest novel, The Land, a 'prequel' is misleading. [...]

Panels and titles were plentiful for children's booksellers IT WAS A BUSY BEA FOR CHILDREN'S booksellers, with a full complement of sessions and panels; on the convention floor, a multitude [...]

PW: From your very first novel, Running Loose (Greenwillow, 1983), you have dealt with adolescent outsiders. What first attracted you to the kind of fringe characters who emerge as heroes [...]

The story of Olivia (Atheneum/Schwartz, Oct.) begins with a real-life Olivia: Ian Falconer's three-year-old niece. At least, that's how old she was when Falconer started doodling pictures of a pig [...]

No stranger to children, Julie Andrews Edwards is known to millions as Mary Poppins and Maria Von Trapp. But she has also gained her share of young fans through her [...]

The creators of Curious George fled WWII Paris with a fifth, previously unknown, manuscript The story of H.A. and Margret Rey's narrow escape from the Nazis by bicycle, their manuscripts [...]

In September, Abrams will publish Laurent de Brunhoff's Babar and the Succotash Bird, and will also reissue his backlist titles starring Babar beginning next spring. Here he talks with PW [...]

In 11th grade, Jerry Spinelli traded his baseball bat for a pencil. The two deciding factors: his dreams of being a shortstop for the major leagues were, in his words, [...]

Her name is Kate DiCamillo, and three winters ago when temperatures in Minneapolis hit 30° below, as pieces of her car door were falling off due to the freezing cold [...]

But plenty of other strong titles were in evidence KID WIZARD HARRY POTTER may have been out of sight during this BEA, but he was certainly not out of mind. [...]

At a happy show, books and new technology mix easily For the first time in almost a decade, BookExpo America, nee ABA, held June 2-4 in Chicago, lacked any of [...]

One night, Laurie Halse Anderson awoke to the sound of a child crying. After checking on her own two children and finding them asleep, she realized that what she had [...]

A visual artist first and foremost, Kevin Henkes creates a world that appeals to the five senses even when he is using words as his paintbrush. For fans of his [...]

Like the illustrious vehicle in Karen Romano Young's fresh and funny novel, the framework for The Beetle and Me (Greenwillow, May) had been around for awhile and just needed some [...]

Children's booksellers were a-buzz about two impatiently awaited sequels The hero of Hogwarts (and of American and British bestseller lists) was the hot topic among children's booksellers, as they anticipated [...]

This year's Children's Book Week, which starts today, is shaping up to be a typically low-key event. As in past years, it is being celebrated mostly by teachers, librarians and [...]

In the plaza outside HarperCollins, Jim Fox, a white-haired, bright-eyed man wearing glasses, a blue Oxford button-down shirt and a bow tie, is enjoying a lunchtime cigarette. He greets each [...]

A debut YA novel that defies categorization created such a stir that 13 foreign publishers bought the rights before this year's Bologna Book Fair. Does Twilight belong in the horror [...]

Readers familiar with Maurice Sendak's 1963 classic, Where the Wild Things Are, will look at the cover of the new edition of Ruth Krauss's Bears (HarperCollins/di Capua, June), and ask, [...]

Known primarily for her fantasy books infused with science-fiction, Nancy Farmer started The Sea of Trolls (Atheneum/Jackson, Sept), an epic Viking tale, 'as a vacation from my last two books [...]

SURE, THE WEEKEND'S GREAT weather and quality programming contributed to the high-octane energy level of this year's BEA. But fiction, including the latest trop of fantasy novels, and a spate [...]

'Heart and Humor: The Picture Book Art of William Steig,' on view through April 25 at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., was planned long [...]

'Teaching made a writer out of me, because it was in teaching that I found the readers,' says Richard Peck. With his deep, commanding voice and lean, tall stature, he [...]

Yuma, Ariz., on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1950. Nine-year-old Nancy Farmer works at the desk of her family's hotel, surrounded by truck drivers, fruit packers, cowboys, railroad workers, even Grand Ole [...]

'My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline Amanda Woodson.' Woodson sits comfortably in an overstuffed chair [...]

Estuarine salt intrusion greatly threatens freshwater supply in surrounding lands. Physical barriers, which reduce the estuary length (L), are widely constructed to control salt intrusion. Yet, the role of Lin salt intrusion remains unknown. Using a process‐based, idealized, semi‐analytical three‐dimensional model, we systematically investigate for the first time this unknown for tide‐dominated, periodically weakly stratified estuaries. Results show decreasing Lsignificantly reduces salinities for short estuaries (L< Lw/4, with Lwthe dominant tidal wavelength), but not for long estuaries. Tidal pumping remains a key salt importer in most estuaries, regardless of L. However, substantial decreases in Lrelative to Lw/4 can change the dominant landward salt importer from tidal pumping to horizontal diffusion. The latter, together with gravitational circulation, weakens responses of salt intrusion to changes in tidal and river forcing in short estuaries. This study highlights the importance of considering Lto understanding and mitigating salt intrusion. Salty seawater can enter rivers through estuaries, where rivers meet the sea, thus affecting the surrounding freshwater supply and the healthy functioning of estuarine ecosystems. To mitigate the adverse impact of salt intrusion under aggravating climate change and human activities, expensive salinity barriers are commonly built around the world. These barriers result in an abrupt change in the estuary length and can substantially affect estuarine salt intrusion. This study uses a simplified computer model to understand the dependency of salt intrusion on estuary length in estuaries with small top‐to‐bottom salinity differences. Our results show that estuary length substantially influences the salinity distribution and estuaries of different lengths can respond to changes in tides and river flow contrastingly. Our study highlights the importance of considering the impact of estuary length to effectively mitigate estuarine salt intrusion. Estuary length strongly affects tidal propagation, residual circulation, and salt intrusion in periodically weakly stratified estuariesThe dominant salt balance may change when substantially reducing estuary lengthSteady lateral shear dispersion can reduce responses of salt intrusion to forcing changes in short estuaries with weak stratification Estuary length strongly affects tidal propagation, residual circulation, and salt intrusion in periodically weakly stratified estuaries The dominant salt balance may change when substantially reducing estuary length Steady lateral shear dispersion can reduce responses of salt intrusion to forcing changes in short estuaries with weak stratification

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, whose president and publisher Rick Richter expressed hopes last fall that the Children's Book Council would beef up its marketing efforts, has not renewed its [...]

You're a middle-school English teacher in New Jersey. Do you ever get ideas from your students? I get tons of ideas from my students. I'm on leave this year in [...]

Grandfather's Dance (p. 59) brings to a close the five-book series that began with Sarah, Plain and Tall, winner of the Newbery Medal and inspiration for a series of films [...]

You have written many articles for adults, but this is your first book for young people. What inspired you to write this novel? The material is what really drew me. [...]

Your first interview with PW was shortly after Olivia's debut [for a Flying Starts feature in the fall of 2000]. Since then, you've written three other Olivia adventures; so far [...]

Weetzie first burst onto the YA scene in 1989 (in Weetzie Bat). What prompted you to return to her after all this time, and why in a book for adults [...]

ORLANDO TEMPERATURES were sweltering during the American Library Association annual conference last week. Further heat arose from discussions prompted by a showing of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11; a keynote speech [...]

Christopher Bing--and Handprint Books, his publisher--burst onto the children's book scene three years ago with an eye-popping interpretation of Casey at the Bat that garnered a 2001 Caldecott Honor. But [...]

PW: Your book Jesus: What He Really Said and D/d (reviewed above) adapts your The Gospel According to Jesus (Harper Collins, 1991) for a teenage audience. How did the new [...]

Salley, storyteller and professor emerita of children's literature at the University of New Orleans, has written her first book, a retelling of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, set on the [...]

His discoveries in rare bookshops have yielded a crop of books for children THE FIRST THING Walter Dean Myers does when he arrives in town for a book signing is [...]

Acquiring the tools of the children's book trade is a process of give and take PUBLISHING IS a business largely based on apprenticeship, in which the role of a mentor [...]

His illustrations are a tribute to a lifelong friendship ERIK BLEGVAD loves his work, and his passion shows in his hooks. He says he's 'extra lucky to make an income [...]

A recent novel about a teenage killer eerily parallels real events WHEN AUTHOR Virginia Walter sat down to write about-and try to make sense of-a teenager's slaying of a bicycle [...]