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Stonesong shines with two simultaneous titles on The New York Times bestseller list! How Not To Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better by Charla Krupp, debuted at #8 on January 20, 2008 and is still going strong. The Daring Book for Girls, HarperCollins' follow up book to the international bestselling Dangerous Book for Boys has been on the list for months. Our beloved children's series, The Sisters Grimm, spent another two weeks on the The New York Times bestseller list in October 2007. Al Roker chose the first book in the series as his Today Show Book Club for Kids pick. Stonesong Press just made a major deal through Howard Sanders at UTA with New Regency Productions and Josephson Entertainment for the film rights to The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley. Daphne and Sabrina and all the Everafters will be coming to a theater near you in the near future! Baked: New Frontiers in Baking,(Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Fall 2008) by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, owners of Martha Stewart's "favorite bakery," will offer recipes for retro desserts with a twist, including their famous brownies, Sweet & Salty Cake and mouthwatering muffins. A Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green (St. Martin's Press, 2009) by wellness and lifestyle expert Terra Wellington is the first book to teach moms how to care for their families in simple ways that protect both the earth and the health and well-being of their children. We're currently hard at work on design and production for ABC's Dancing with the Stars: Jive, Samba, and Tango Your Way into the Best Shape of Your Life, the TV tie-in book with HarperCollins. The book celebrates some of the greatest performances from the first four seasons plus offers a fun, effective classic dancers' workout to help you get ballroom-fit! We're also working on design and production for The Daring Book for Girls, HarperCollins' follow up book to the international bestselling Dangerous Book for Boys. One of our most recent sales includes Petfinder.com Adopted Dog Bible (HarperCollins, Fall 2008). Petfinder.com, which was recently acquired by Animal Planet, is the #1 global pet-related web property. The book will be the only exhaustive, one-stop resource on the market for owners of the once-homeless hound. We also recently sold The Why Files: The Science Behind the News (Penguin, Fall 2008). The book rockets off the success of the Web's coolest science destination, www.whyfiles.org. What Mental Floss did for condensed, instant, and forbidden knowledge, The Why Files does for the real-life science peeping through today’s news headlines. The Backyard Sports chapter book series for kids ages 6 to 8 (Grosset & Dunlap, 2008-2010) by Michael Teitelbaum is based on the #1 sports videogame franchise for kids. The Backyard Sports games let kids get in the games with the pros! After one of the most spirited sales in our history, Stonesong is excited to announce that Grand Central Publishing's Springboard Press imprint has acquired the world rights to How Not To Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better (Springboard Press, Spring 2008) by Charla Krupp, the Today Show's style expert. Known for her accessible, real woman's approach to looking incredible, Charla presents the best style advice around. Her new book is destined to become the style bible for all types of Baby Boomer women. The DIY Bride: 40 Fun Projects for Your Ultimate One-of-a-Kind Wedding (Taunton Press, Spring 2008) by Khris Cochran, the founder and creator of DIYBride.com, is the first cool, contemporary craft book for modern brides that helps them put a personal stamp on their big day. The wide range of fun projects are easy to follow, include "no-brainer" templates where appropriate, and offer variations to suit a bride's tastes and needs. From invitations to decorations, it's all here in this one-of-kind book! The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years (Crown, Fall 2007), by Dr. Richard M. Lerner presents a visionary wake-up call-to-action so parents and policy-makers can help teens, through their own initiatives, build a better world. The Good Teen is based on Dr. Lerner's 30 years of research and the results of a 6-year longitudinal study he is conducting. Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship and Creativity As a Lifestyle (St. Martin's Press, Spring 2007) by Victoria Colligan and Beth Schoenfeldt with Amy Swift is a uniquely feminine approach that teaches you how to live your dreams and love your life by tapping into your inner entrepreneur, based on the national Ladies Who Launch workshops, web site, and lecture series. In The Scary States of America (Delacorte, Fall 2007) by Mike Teitelbaum aliens, ghosts and monsters haunt the pages of this eerie trip around the Scary States of America. With Jason Specter, the nation's unofficial collector of all things paranormal, as your guide, meet the girl in Illinois who can start fires with her mind, the Skunk Ape of Florida, which knocks victims flat with its stench, and the mischievous Shadow People of Arkansas. You may find yourself checking over your shoulder for the dangerous Jersey Devil or the extraterrestrials who visit Washington State and take human organs as souvenirs. You might even feel sorry for the wailing ghost of a teenage girl trapped forever in an Oregon lighthouse. Some of these visitors from other worlds don't mean to hurt anyone…and some of them do! The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Not So Useless Facts (Alpha Books, Fall 2006) by Dane Sherwood, Sandy Wood & Kara Kovalchik contains nearly 1,000 little-known tidbits on topics from history and nature to music, science, and sports Stonesong is thrilled to announce that The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects (Amulet Books, 2005) spent four weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Look for the paperbacks of Books One and Two in March 2007 and the hardcover release of Book Four, The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime, in May 2007. Books Five and Six will be published through 2008. The following are some links to organizations and authors for which we're producing books:
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