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John Grisham's best-selling Theodore Boone children's books are now available as eBooks.

Harry Potter fans will have to wait a bit longer to buy the magic tales in electronic form. The creators of the online Potter portal said Friday that the launch of an e-book store has been pushed back to next year. The seven Harry Potter books had been due to go on sale in October, exclusively through the "Pottermore" website.

Bumble-Ardy, Maurice Sendak’s first full-production picture book since Outside Over There (1981), is both ageless and fresh. Kids will delight in its whimsical, dangerous world—where grotesquery is the norm and anything can happen. Parents will appreciate the tale’s reflection that even wild revelries have their purpose.

Coming two weeks after Election Day, a book from President Barack Obama for some of the nation's nonvoters: inspirational stories for children about American pioneers.

Many kids are ready and willing to read books intended for adults, but selecting books with both kid-friendly style and content can be time consuming. Here are the results I've compiled through a process of trial and error. I decided not to include authors who are generally accepted as appropriate for young readers (J. R. R. Tolkien, Sir Arthur Conant Doyle, Jules Verne).

Actress and best-selling author Tori Spelling is writing a children's book. "Presenting ... Tallulah," the "sweet tale of a young girl who really just wants to be herself," is coming out in September, publisher Aladdin announced Tuesday. Spelling, star of the reality series "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood," also has written the memoirs "Mommywood" and "sTORI Telling."
A third adult release, tentatively titled "uncharted terriTORI," is scheduled for June.

Aladdin is an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Parents may have fond memories of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, "Where the Wild Things Are." But if their social-networking postings are any indication, some are not pleased with the movie.

'Where the Wild Things Are' proved a bigger hit with adult audiences than family crowds as the adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's book debuted at No. 1 with $32.5 million.

Paramount is developing a feature version of the children's tale "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" -- the second theatrical go-round for the book.