FEATURE/A World of Holiday Gifts From Barnes & Noble; Holiday Shopping Made Easy With Access To Over One Million Book Titles, Music, Videos, And Special Gift Items

Business Wire, Dec 6, 1999

Julie Andrews weaves her special brand of magic in Bo, a story about a ship's cat who has the most delightful adventures at sea. After being out of print for forty years, Kay Thompson's Eloise at Christmastime is back. Once again, we celebrate Christmas at the Plaza with this wonderfully mischievous stringbean. For Pokemon fans, Mewtwo Strikes Back is a junior novelization of this year's Pokemon movie.

And Harry Potter fans can now listen to an unabridged recording of Harry's first adventure, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Available in audio cassettes or as a CD package, J.K. Rowling's book is read by Broadway star Jim Dale. Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster's popular bestseller, The Century, has been masterfully adapted for eight to 12 year-olds by Jennifer Armstrong. The Century for Young People contains more than 200 photos and a kid-friendly text.

Olympic medallist Michelle Kwan in The Winning Attitude: What It Takes To Be a Champion coaches young readers on how to think and act like a true champion in order to achieve their dreams. Graeme Base's The Worst Band in the Universe tells the story of 13-year-old Sprocc who leaves the Planet Bipp in search of musical freedom and enters the annual Worst Band in the Universe Competition. The book includes a CD of songs recorded by the bands in the story.

Coffee Table Books

From hip hop to science fiction to the cartoon world's most famous mouse, rabbit, children, and men and women, coffee table books have the holiday vibes. Vibe: History of Hip Hop explores the history of rap and hip hop from its inception in the Bronx to the music of Grammy Award winner Lauryn Hill. A CD track by RUN-DMC is bound into the first edition of this book, making it a book collector's item.

With 256 full-color pages, Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History by the science fiction writer Frank Robinson traces this time-winding genre in dime paperbacks, pulp magazines, comic books, and novels from Jules Verne to Arthur C. Clarke. The book also includes the contributions of Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and Rod Serling.

Walt Disney said, "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse." Disney: The First 100 Years celebrates, in pictures and words, the remarkable achievements of that mouse. That's All Folks! The Art of Warner Bros. Animation celebrates the achievements of a rabbit, bird, cat, duck, and a host of other creatures. This animated history of Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Daffy Duck and the whole crew of wacky toons is also a Barnes & Noble bargain book ($19.98).

Peanuts: A Golden Celebration honors 50 years of the comic strip art of Charles M. Schulz. This oversized full-color collection of old and new "Peanuts" includes commentary by the creator of Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and their friends. And the sophisticated wit and style of The New Yorker's famed cartoonists are captured in The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection, the largest collection of the magazine's humor ever published.