Celeb Children's Book Blog?

You know, someone needs to start a blog devoted exclusively to celeb children's books. Just think, you could post each new publishing deal and even review their product. Seriously review their books. Fun, no?

Here's the latest: Kelly Rowland

I have to say I'd read said blog. I'm not up to writing it though. Any takers out there?

BACA altert!

Guess which celebrity has "a children's book in him?" You'll be glad to hear it's Jim Carrey.

Joel Stein writes, for Time, "he's also got a children's book in him. 'It's called Cynthia's New Friend. It's about how we hate change. We hate people to change because we're afraid they'll fly away.'"

Sounds like a good one, no? It has a message! We all love that.

Adele Geras responds to the celebrity book kerfuffle

Children's author Adele Geras asks the following questions in today's Guardian blog:

• "But why on earth devote the two front pages of G2 to promoting most spectacularly the very books and writers (or non-writers) you're slagging off? Goodness knows, even with the best efforts of the Guardian Review, there is precious little space devoted to proper criticism of children's books, so to throw away 2,000 words on not-very-good books seems... well, quite barmy. Why not, instead, use this prime site to promote six or seven very good picture books coming out in time for the festive season? Or six or seven picture books which have been unjustly neglected? Or six or seven picture books which we know are classics? Or anything at all really, rather than highlighting rubbish? Why would you want to do that?"

I thought Pilkington's article was rather good, but Geras asks some great questions, especially when we keep in mind that the Guardian is one of the only papers to consistently cover children's books.

More on celebrity authors

Leila at Bookshelves of Doom pointed out Ed Pilkington's awesome article on celebrity authors in the Guardian yesterday and I hope you all had time to read it. The reviews of a few celebrity titles are really worth the time. Here Pilkington's assesment of Madonna's latest venture for your snarky reading pleasure:

• The English Roses: Too Good to Be True by Madonna
  "Bloated, vapid, frivolous, silly .. need I go on? OK, I will, with one last observation: the writing is painfully bad. 'Dominic de la Guardia was quite a spiffy dancer, but all eyes were on Miss Fluffernutter. She was dancing like a whirling dervish.' Spiffy? Spiffy?"

Whoopi Goldberg and Jamie Lee Curtis fare better.