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Trendier still is writing in rhyme, at least as evidenced by several of this fall's entries. Actress JAMIE LEE CURTIS follows up her three previous children's books (including the New York Times best seller Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day) with Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery (HarperCollins), which has also made an appearance on the Times list. The book ponders such weighty thoughts about balloons as: "Are they always alone?/ Do they meet up in pairs?/ Do they ever get married and make balloon heirs?" The ebullient watercolor illustrations by Laura Cornell...
KATIE COURIC, Today show co-anchor, weighs in with The Brand New Kid (Doubleday), illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. While Couric might not want to give up her day job, the well-intentioned book (also written in rhyme) deals with the dreaded dilemma of being the new kid in school. "The other kids laughed, gee this new boy was weird./ Too different and strange to fit in they all feared." While the students at first seem almost perversely indifferent to the new boy's discomfort, an act of kindness soon shows them that just giving someone a chance is all that...
...friends like to rhyme my name with something," laughs Ghartey-Tagoe, whose middle name is Yamoaa. "It just stuck with me. My closest friends will call me Grandma...
...guerrillas hunched over computers, rifles hanging off the backs of chairs as they answered their e-mail. (FARC's commanders maintain their own Hotmail accounts.) I was introduced to several FARC commanders, but none was as colorful as Julian Conrado, a balladeer with a goofy mustache who manages to rhyme "Americano" with "imperio romano." He's lost three guitars in battle, he says proudly. "One of my guitars was held up by a Colombian general as a war trophy...
Need a musical goose?/then get off your caboose/and enthuse for a doozical, woozical Seuss/Where the Whos call a truce/And a moose might be puce/When you choose a Carus-ical, musical Seuss. Maybe nobody can twist sounds into balloon animals of rhyme the way Theodor Geisel did, but a Tony-laden team is going to try, adapting some of Geisel's Dr. Seuss books and characters into a Broadway show called Seussical: The Musical. The songs are by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime). Frank Galati, who won two Tony awards for The Grapes of Wrath, is the director...