Robert Payne's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
"I wouldn't paddle out there." That is what the guy who worked at the kayak rental shop told me when I asked about sea kayaking to Egmont Key State Park. Why, I asked? "Full moon, out-going tide; it's like Niagra Falls out there right now," he said. Well, I ...
Ypulse (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
'Florida School District Bans Avi Book' (The Fighting Ground about a 13-year-old boy soldiering in the Revolutionary War.) (SLJ) - 'Dead is the new black' (Zombilicious..check out some new books about the "new literary medical condition sweeping the nation.") (Not...
Read Roger (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
In our latest podcast Roger brings us along for an evening in New York with Elizabeth Law (Vice President and Publisher, Egmont USA), Douglas Pocock (Executive Vice President, Egmont USA), and Newbery Medalist Richard Peck. After a lively discussion about what draws adults to read young adult books, Roger talks to Richard Peck about his current project (here's a hint: "I'm bring Grandma Dowdel back")....
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Egmont MP Joe McGuire is back on P.E.I. following a top secret visit to Afghanistan.
Ypulse (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Walter Dean Myers signs a multi-book contract with Egmont (and continues a long relationship with Egmont's new executive editor, Regina Griffin.) (The Examiner) - Jezebel's Fine Lines: The Girl with the Silver Eyes (A break in my run....I've never read...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Egmont USA announced that Walter Dean Myers, winner of two Newbery Honors and five Coretta Scott King Awards, will have two books on their Fall 2009 launch list. First is an historical novel. The second will be a picture book illustrated by Christopher Myers. This is the fourth picture book collaboration between this father-son team whose books include the Caldecott...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
PRO LEISURE TOUR II - Kings of Leisure
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Now that's what I call a long tail. Roy Of The Rovers , the boy's comic strip about a wholesome footballer that started in 1954, is being added to the line-up of ROK Comics , the ROK Entertainment unit that offers short comic strips on mobile phones. Rok has worked with Roy's publisher Egmont to get the strip, which has also been running on Setanta Sports' website since October. Roy started in '54...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
The threat of embalming fluids contaminating the water supply has prompted New Plymouth District Council to cut plans for a super cemetery in half. The council paid $500,000 for 7 hectares of land near Egmont Village, 12km southeast...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
RE: Viennese Masters: Egmont & Eroica, RLPO concert, Thursday, May 8: Last night was it! The time! The place! The whatever! I was witness to a truly brilliant performance by the city's greatest new striker, Mark Simpson.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
RE: Viennese Masters: Egmont & Eroica, RLPO concert, Thursday, May 8: Last night was it! The time! The place! The whatever! I was witness to a truly brilliant performance by the city's greatest new striker, Mark Simpson.
Costa Rica News, Travel and Reviews (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
The Egmont Group is an an informal gathering of Financial Intelligence Units In the 1995 G8 meeting, the G8 countries formed the Egmont Group to share intelligence information from Financial Intelligence Units (FIU's) and monitor suspicious or unusual financial transactions. However after many years as part of this organisation it appears that Costa Rica [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
PEEP! PEEP! All aboard as HIT Entertainment and ThemeSTAR proudly present Thomas & Friends Live! On Stage. It's a brand new 90-minute musical stage show starring Thomas and his engine friends Percy and Diesel, the Fat Controller and engineers from the magical Island of Sodor.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Stephen Kovacevich, with the London Mozart Players, continued his Beethoven cycle with an impressive performance of two symphonies. The programme opened with the vibrant Egmont Overture, yielding triumphant highs and poignant lows. Silence was handled like a dangerous dog on a tight leash, and the instrumental skill expressed restrained desire, heightening the heroic and tragic elements of the piece....
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
A barge carrying thousands of barrels of fuel oil was freed Friday after it ran aground Wednesday three miles west of Egmont Key.
