Word: imprints
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...doesn't stop there. A VeggieTales book imprint was launched this month, the first VeggieTales computer game will appear in September, and the mouthy little vegetables are currently doing the last few performances of a stage show that has been touring for six months. There have been two spin-off series: Larry Boy and Penguins 3-2-1, and this summer about a million kids will attend VeggieTales church camps, where they will learn about Jonah and the whale. This should prime them nicely for Jonah: a VeggieTales Movie, which is slated to hit more than a thousand movie screens...
More recently, returning to older passions, he has started directing plays for his local theater, recording voice-overs for documentaries, writing a cookbook series, running his own publishing imprint and dabbling in the software industry...
...book, The Cat Who Couldn’t Meow, which he says follows “the saga of our blue chartreux,” one of the seven foundling cats his wife has collected over the years. In conjunction with his writing, he has founded his own publishing imprint, Zzyzzyx Press...
Another professor who challenged our ideas was B. F. Skinner, the noted behaviorist. In those days it was fervently believed that babies were born without any imprint whatsoever. They were a “tabula rasa” and the parents had two years in which to form the personality. Professor Skinner was such a fervent believer in this notion that he invented a box (with holes in the bottom and screening on all sides) in which to place a baby so as to have total control over the baby’s stimuli...
...Jesus series (Thomas Nelson) is the largest brand of Christian teen books and Bibles in the world. Started in 1999, the company has so far sold 1 million books and Bibles. The books, including journals and fiction, are to regular religious literature what skateboarding is to skipping, and the imprint plays up the association with extreme sports. "Church has been made too easy," says Extreme's brand manager, Hayley Morgan. "Kids are looking for something they might fail at initially, but eventually get. The books are a call to action; they're like a coach. They're asking...