Presley’s ‘Love Me Tender’ inspires picture book
One of Elvis Presley’s biggest hits is the latest song to be turned into a picture book, and part of an effort to introduce the King to a new generation.
Dial Books for Young Readers told The Associated Press on Wednesday that a book based on “Love Me Tender” is coming out Nov. 13. “Elvis Presley’s Love Me Tender” will be illustrated by Stephanie Graegin and include an endnote by Presley’s widow, Priscilla Presley. Dial Books is calling the new release “a heartwarming ode” to the parent-child bond. Presley died 40 years ago this summer, and representatives for his estate are planning a merchandise program for infants and toddlers.
Other songs inspiring children’s books in recent years include “This Land is Your Land,” ”Imagine” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
Paddington bear creator Michael Bond dies at 91
Publisher HarperCollins said Michael Bond, creator of globe-trotting teddy Paddington bear, has died at 91. The publisher said Bond died Tuesday at his home after a short illness.
Ann-Janine Murtagh, executive publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books, said the duffel-coated, Wellington boot-wearing bear “touched my own heart as a child and will live on in the hearts of future generations.” The marmalade-loving bear who traveled from “Darkest Peru” to London’s Paddington station first appeared in “A Bear Called Paddington” in 1958. He went on to star in some 20 books and a feature film.
The books have sold some 35 million copies worldwide.
Oprah picks ‘Behold the Dreamers’ for book club
Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick is an acclaimed first novel by Cameroon-born author Imbolo Mbue.
Mbue’s “Behold the Dreamers” was published last year and won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, an honor previously given to Philip Roth and Ann Patchett, among others. The book tells of an immigrant from Cameroon who becomes the chauffeur for a Lehman Brothers executive not long before the 2008 financial crisis.
The selection was announced to The Associated Press on Monday by Winfrey’s OWN network and “O” magazine. Winfrey said “Behold the Dreamers” was both topical and timeless. “It’s about race and class, the economy, culture, immigration and the danger of the Us vs. Them mentality,” she said in a video. “And underneath it all comes the heart and soul of family, love, the pursuit of happiness and what home really means.”
— Associated Press
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