Random House Seeks Kids' Peter Pan Artwork!

I wish I could enter this one!

If you’ve got artistic youngsters at home aged 7 to 12 , you might want to have them break out the paper, supplies and turn on their thinking cap.

Random House wants a kid’s drawing to grace the cover of their latest printing of Peter Pan.

There’s plenty of time to enter, the contest started March 30th but runs through July 24, 2009. But don’t let your chance go out the window!

The link that will start you naviagting to more info is here.

Have fun!

* The picture used here is artwork by Jen Singh. I found it surfing one day and loved it. No, she's not a child of 7 through 12, but her style is appropriately child-like. (Meant as a high compliment.) Find out more about her here.

Scraping the Barrel of Scrutiny

Two interesting recent developments in the storytelling domain :

It's "funny" how a company that has built an empire on ransacking the public domain and obtaining the rights to others' work is so concerned with protecting their own work. Not that I don't understand the desire to hold on to what they have - but again, what they have largely came from elsewhere!

For instance, I know of a "Mom & Pop" shop owner who had his windows painted with Disney characters. He received a "cease & desist" letter from the Disney corporation. The "corker" is that he'd had them painted to promote the fact that he had their officially licensed party goods of their latest movie in stock.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mickey22-2008aug22,0,3228580,full.story

How paranoid are we, anyway? It's bad enough that we speculate on the morality and behavior of authors past from shreds of evidence. Do we have to have such a clause as this one?

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/08/childrens_writers_dont_misbeha.html