Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Christmas is almost here! If you want to be able to track Santa's journey Christmas Eve, then visit this site and read all about it! You can even send Santa an email and see if he received your list this year....my, isn't Santa tech-savvy now? Then on Christmas Eve, go here and track where Santa is at any given moment! Maybe you'll be able to figure out when he's coming to your house...

Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

News for Harry Potter fans today from London! At an auction today at Sotheby's, Amazon.com purchased a handwritten and illustrated, leather-bound, silver-and-moonstone-decorated copy of J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, for an astonishing GBP 1,950,000 (nearly $4 million!). This is one of only seven copies of the small book of fairy tales that appeared prominently in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the proceeds are earmarked for The Children's Voice campaign, a charity Rowling co-founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across Europe. The other six copies of the book were given to friends who were especially supportive to Rowling while she was writing Harry Potter. More details, pictures, and future reviews of the fairy tales can and will be found at Amazon.com's page on the book here.