Look what’s coming this May!
The Pocket Daring Book For Girls: Things To Do will be out officially on May 6, but it’s available for pre-order online now! It features some of our favorite “to-do” chapters from the original Daring Book (in a more portable version), plus new and fun content — including that backyard zip line! Keep your eye out for the companion Daring Pocket Book of Things To Know, coming out this fall.
Daring a UK hit
The UK edition of The Daring Book For Girls has debuted on the Sunday Times bestseller list in its first week on sale! The book also garnered a review in the Times, which points out the book’s “strong bluestocking vibe,” notes that “the authors also demonstrate a perfect understanding of the need for practical and social competence,” and calls the book “an admirable project.”
“Girls Will Be Girls Again”
Kind of thoughtful that the two pieces out this weekend had such complementary titles. This variant on girls being girls is from the Sunday Telegraph: Girls Will Be Girls Again. The UK version of the book comes out next Monday!
“Girls Will Be Girls”
This weekend’s New York Times Magazine talks about The Daring Book for Girls, and the issue of finding “the ideal mix of feminism and femininity.”
And in other news, Daring is now in its 14th week on the New York Times bestseller list; the UK version of the The Daring Book For Girls comes out Feb. 18; and look what else we’ve been working on: The Pocket Daring Book For Girls: Things To Do, which comes out in May.
NPR’s Weekend Edition on Daring
I had the pleasure of talking this week with John Ysdtie and five grade-school girls about The Daring Book For Girls in a segment for NPR’s Weekend Edition. (I wrote about the experience for the Powells.com blog.) It aired this morning, and in case you didn’t catch it, you can listen to the piece online right here. It might just be the most giggly piece ever aired on NPR.