FELIX EVER AFTER Will Be Adapted Into TV Series
Amazon Studios and Field Trip Productions will be adapting Kacen Callender’s Felix Ever After novel into a TV series! We’ll get to see Felix Love, a Black transgender teen, navigate his identity and marginalizations while falling in love for the first time on the big screen–of your TV. Bonus: while we wait for the adaptation, Callender has a bunch of backlist titles: Hurricane Child; King and the Dragonflies; This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story; Queen of the Conquered.
Channing Tatum Wrote A Children’s Book
Actor and director Channing Tatum (Magic Mike; 21 Jump Street; Dog) has written a children’s book: The One and Only Sparkella. The book, set to publish May 4, 2021, encourages kids to embrace their individuality after a young girl is teased for her love of all things that sparkle. Tatum has already started the ad campaign, which is a delightful picture of him in fairy wings reading his book to a unicorn.
Dictionary.com Has Biggest Update Ever
2020 definitely feels like the year that would break a dictionary’s record. And it has. Between the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests against police violence and racism, there have been a lot of searches, new terms, and change in language. Dictionary.com is here with the resulting updates which is huge: 650 new entries; 2,100 new definitions; 1,200 new etymologies; 1,700 new pronunciations; more than 11,000 revised definitions; more than 7,000 revised etymologies.
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