Susan Cooper

MOVIE: The Dark is Rising

As an adaptation of the second book in Susan Cooper's epic fantasy series, which plunges a 14-year-old boy into a titanic battle between good and evil, The Dark Is Rising is starved of suspense, excitement, action and magic.

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Favourite children's books we should never have loved

It's an unsettling experience to discover just how bad some of the books one adored as a child actually were I visited the offices of Pan Macmillan last week to interview William Horwood , he of Duncton Wood fame, and in the...

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Detroit Free Press Tom Walsh column: Cranbrook campaign raises $181 million [Detroit Free Press]

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 15--Despite stiff economic headwinds this entire decade, the historic Cranbrook community of schools and museums in Bloomfield Hills is to announce today that it has raised $181 million in a...

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Pet Sitters International Announces 2009 Take Your Dog To Work DayContest Winners

As the winning photo of the 2009 Pet Sitters International's PSI Take Your Dog To Work Day174 photo contest attests it's not easy working like a dog Danielle Kangalee captured the photo of her Brittany spaniel Holly napping in...

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Pet Sitters International Announces 2009 Take Your Dog To Work Day Contest Winners

Working like a dog pays off for professional pooches around the globe King, NC October 9, 2009 -- As the winning photo of the 2009 Pet Sitters International's (PSI) Take Your Dog To Work Day® photo contest attests, it's not...

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Kids Begin Receiving Swine Flu Vaccine

Le Bonheur Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and Wishard Health Services in Indiana were among the very first hospitals in the nation to receive vaccines on Monday. They vaccinated about 150 and 100 staffers respectively. Both said...

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Children Begin Receiving Swine Flu Vaccine - ABC News

MiamiHerald.com Children Begin Receiving Swine Flu Vaccine ABC News The first doses of H1N1 flu vaccine were given to children today, a day after health care workers began getting doses in what is likely to be the largest flu...

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Seasonal, H1N1 flu shots may be hard to find this fall

Everyone urged to get both By Christina E. Sanchez • THE TENNESSEAN • September 27, 2009 Doctors want people to get two flu shots this fall to protect against the H1N1 virus and the seasonal flu, but when and where people can...

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TN health chief takes own advice while battling flu

By Christina E. Sanchez • THE TENNESSEAN • September 26, 2009 Susan Cooper practices what she preaches. For months, Cooper, along with doctors nationwide, has told the public not to rush to the doctor at the first sign of the...

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Bank up with books

Books could be your best friends. Open up and you are swallowed up into a world of drama, mystery, adventure and learning. Books are friends who’ll take you wherever your mind commands. Satyajit Ray’s Feluda series is full of...

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