Authors on the Air: Pam Grier; Laura Bush; Scott Turow

Today, both The View and The Leonard Lopate Show hosted actress Pam Grier, whose memoir Foxy: My Life in Three Acts (Grand Central Publishing, 978-0446548502, $24.99) pubbed last week. PW wrote "In this prickly autobiography, the iconic actress is almost as hard-nosed toward lovers as her filmic alter-ego was toward enemies."

Authors on the Air: Skinny Italian; The Council of Dads; Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre

Authors on this morning's Today show included Teresa Giudice, one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, whose Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy It Live La Bella Vita and Look Great, Too! (Hyperion, 978-1401310356, $19.99) pubs next week. PW wrote "Take away the overblown catch phrases and effusive references to her mama, The Sopranos, and the motherland, and you're left with a solid mid-week Italian cookbook. Then again, perhaps it's the chatty Teresa and her feisty yet playful anecdotes that make this an irresistible, guilty pleasure."

Authors on the Air: The Losers; The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility; What Your Son Isn't Te

PW Reviews 'The Men Who Would Be King'

Authors on the Air: Three Wishes; Hubble, Unwrapped; Superman, Too

This morning, Today talked with BFFs Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones, and Pamela Ferdinand about their book Three Wishes: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood (Little, Brown, 978-0316079068, $24.99).

Authors on the Air: You're Not the Boss of Me; E. O. Wilson; Anchee Min

This morning, the Today show consulted childhood development and behavior expert Betsy Brown Braun, whose You're Not the Boss of Me: Brat-Proofing Your Four- to Twelve-Year-Old Child (Harper, 978-0061346637, $15.99) is just out this week.

Summer Cinema Scoop

Read the book, see the movie: there's certainly something for everyone on the season's screens. Loved the Sex and the City movie? Don't miss the fab fashions and swish settings of Sex 2. Prefer Stravinsky over Sarah Jessica? Check out Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, the provocative tale of a rare pairing.

Movie Alert: Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Movie Alert: ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid'

With 30 million copies in print and near-permanent residence on bestseller lists, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has established itself as a bona fide publishing phenomenon over the last three years. And now its wimpy star, Greg Heffley, is making his move into another medium: film. On March 19, Fox 2000 will release Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on the first book in Jeff Kinney's series, which Abrams' Amulet Books imprint published in 2007. And on March 16, three days before the film's release, Abrams will publish The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, Jeff Kinney's account of the moviemaking process.

Movie Alert: The Lightning Thief

Next month, another wildly popular fantasy series makes the jump from print to the big screen. Following in the footsteps of Harry Potter, Twilight, and the Inheritance Cycle comes The Lightning Thief. Based on the first book in Rick Riordan's bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the film arrives in movie theaters on February 12, with an all-star cast that includes Pierce Brosman, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, and Uma Thurman, with Logan Lerman starring as Percy...

Movie Briefs: 'A Christmas Carol' and 'New Moon'

In this round-up of film news involving the children’s book world, it was a big opening weekend for Disney’s AChristmas Carol, taking in $30 million; and Little, Brown preps for the long-awaited release of the Twilight sequel, New Moon, on November 20.

Movie Alert: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Following in the footsteps of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and The Witches, another of Roald Dahl’s much-loved stories—Fantastic Mr. Fox—heads to the big screen on November 13, reimagined as a stop-motion animated feature from Twentieth Century Fox. And the A-list team behind the project is as fantastic as the title character himself...

Movie Alert: Cirque Du Freak

Two directors - who happen to be brothers - are each responsible for bringing a hot vampire book property to life this fall on the big screen. Twilighters are anxiously awaiting New Moon, directed by Chris Weitz, on November 20. But first, vampire fans can turn to Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, based on Darren Shan's popular series and directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy), which arrives October 23. The Universal film features 17-year-old actor Chris Massoglia...

Page to Screen: A Lauded YA Backlister and Amazon Breakthrough Winner

This week in Page to Screen—PW's column tracking film rights circulating and sold in Hollywood—a Brokeback Mountain producer nabs a YA backlister, and an Amazon Breakthrough Novel winner gets looks in Hollywood.

Movie Alert: Where the Wild Things Are

One of the most anticipated movies of 2009—Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved picture book Where the Wild Things Are—is finally approaching its release date, after a long and tumultuous road to production. With a screenplay co-written by Jonze and author Dave Eggers, the film arrives in theaters October 16; plans to bring Sendak’s picture book to the big screen have been underway for more than a decade.

Page to Screen: Smith-Ready's YA Series and an L.A. Teen's Debut

This week in Page to Screen—PW's weekly column tracking film rights circulating and sold in Hollywood—Curtis Brown moves on Jeri Smith-Ready book, and Gotham shops an L.A.-teen-turned-Harvard-undergrad's novel.

Movie Alert: 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'

Based on Judi and Ron Barrett’s picture book of the same name, an animated film adaptation of 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' hits theaters September 18. The story is set in the town of Chewandswallow (renamed Swallow Falls in the film), which is plagued by food and beverages that rain down from the sky on a daily basis. The film features the voices of Anna Faris and Bill Hader in the lead roles of weathergirl Sam Sparks and luckless inventor Flint Lockwood.

Page to Screen: The New John Irving Slips Out and CAA Shops an iPhone-App-Turned-Novel

This week in Page to Screen—PW's weekly column tracking film rights circulating and sold in Hollywood—John Irving's new one slips to scouts, and CAA goes out with an iPhone app-turned-novel.

Page to Screen: Carman's New YA and Sandell's Graphic Memoir

This week in Page to Screen—PW's weekly column tracking film rights circulating and sold in Hollywood—Patrick Carman’s new YA novel makes the rounds, along with Laurie Sandell's graphic novel.

'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' Reaches Young Readers Again

In 1960, editor Judith Jones couldn't have known how much Mastering the Art of French Cooking would impact young cooks. Yet Nora Ephron, who moved to New York in 1962, says at the time, the cookbook was “standard equipment for an apartment: a couch and a copy of Julia’s cookbook.” Now, Julie & Julia has the chance to make MtA a must-have once more.