Justin Bieber is getting the comic book treatment from Bluewater Comics. He will join Lady Gaga, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, David Beckham, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Swift in the Fame line of books.  As all of the Fame line of comic books this book will detail Justin Bieber’s life story. How did the...

What happens when wizardry stops working? Can the end of the world as we know it be far behind? The young teen wizards Nita and her younger sister, Dairine, fellow wizard Christopher (Kit) Rodriguez, and his dog, Ponch find out in the eighth novel in Diane Duane’s “Young Wizards” series, Wizards At War....

Demi Lovato and Camp Rock 2:The Final Jam costar Joe Jonas pose together for Teen Vogue. They will be on the August issue cover in promotion of the new Disney Channel original movie. The photos and video from the shoot is at the bottom of this post as they always are. I...

Emily Windsnap is no ordinary girl.  Sure, she has problems with her parents and often has to deal with a mean girl at school, but neither of those troubles makes her any different from other girls.  What makes Emily’s adventures exciting to follow is her ability to change into a mermaid when...

Adam Rex is an amazing illustrator and writer.  His first picture book, THE DIRTY COWBOY by Amy Timberlake, was published by FSG in 2003. His picture book FRANKENSTEIN MAKES A SANDWICH, a collection of stories about monsters and their problems, was a New York Times Bestseller. 2007 saw the release of his...

It is a rare privilege and an honor that one of today’s rising stars of YA literature, Kate Milford, author of The Boneshaker, has agreed to do an interview with me discussing her novel, some of her inspirations, and her life and philosophy in general. The Boneshaker is about thirteen-year-old Natalie Minks...

I have to say that I love when cool stuff just shows up in my mailbox.  Well this is one of those times where I get to share a bit of that fun with the readers of BSCkids.  Listen, I already read the first book, Sound Off!, and I give it the...

Eleven-year-old Darryl is many things for being one so young.  He is a wizard undergoing an interminable Ordeal against the Satanic Lone One.  He is an abdal or Pillar, from whom power flows for all the other wizards of Earth, like from out of a reservoir or a well.  He is a...

Obviously if you get Justin Bieber on the cover of your magazine you can make it a special collector’s issue.  Well the issue of Seventeen Magazine is filled up with all sorts of Justin Bieber fun, plus it seems you can even win tickets to see Justin in concert.  Put that with some...

Wow!  The meaning and the purpose of life?  Was Aristotle exaggerating the importance of happiness?  Maybe.  But there’s no denying happiness is very, very important.  After all, the framers of the Declaration of Independence only listed three unalienable rights: life, liberty, and well . . . the pursuit of happiness. Everyone wants...

Neil Gaiman writes books for everyone; even his children’s books are appealing to adults.  This is one of them.  He walks us through a fairy tale adventure that is short but important because it teaches how to get along in the world by treating others like we would want to be treated...

For some reason I do not think that Miley Cyrus looks as adult on the cover of Dominical Magazine as she does on the cover of Billboard but maybe that is just me.  What do all of you think?  She still looks quite stunning but I think it is the hair that...

Justin Bieber gets the cover of New Zealand  for the June issue of Girlfriend Magazine and all of a sudden we have a great headline.  I wish we could actually get to the Girlfriend New Zealand site, but it seems to be down at the moment.  I think this might be the Facebook...