Next 76 Deadline, Kids' 76 Boo-Boo's, Another Ad Kudo, and Sleepers From the Bestseller Data

By Carl Lennertz

IMPORTANT! Before the deluge, please get me your January/February 76 nominations by Friday, November 22. Thanks!!!

Winter Kids' 76 boo-books:
I was on deadline for the Winter Kids' 76 and made too many mistakes; sorry!

• Busy Monkeys is published by Tricycle Press, not Ten Speed Press
  
• Alphaboat - ISBN should be 0374302448
  
• The Range Eternal - ISBN should be 0786802200
  
• The Frog Princess - Price should be $15.95
  
• Bloody Jack - ISBN should be 0152167315
  

Publisher Ad Kudos:
Many, many, many thanks to all the publishers who advertise with us in our ad format, and to those who mention Book Sense in their own ads. Please, give these books an extra look.

• Random has a full-color Book Sense ad in the December 16 issue of The New Yorker, on stands December 9, for November/December 76 pick: Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing From Around the World and Throughout History, edited by Mark Kurlansky (Ballantine, $26.95, 0345457102)
  
• Several full page ads for The Thief Lord from Scholastic have included mention of its number-one 76 selection status -- The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House/Scholastic, $16.95, 0439404371)
  

A few sleepers gleaned from the bestseller data this week:

Trade paper fiction

• #43 The Christmas Letters, by Lee Smith (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $9.95, 156512376X)
  
• #52 Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor, $11.95, 1400031354) -- sequel to the fantastic, Autumn Mystery 76 number-one pick The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  
• #57 Frida, by Barbara Louise Mujica (Plume Books, $14, 0452283035) -- a fictionalized account; the Perennial bio is also selling very well.
  
• #68 Paris Stories, by Mavis Gallant (New York Review of Books, $14.95, 1590170229)
  

Trade paper nonfiction

• #39 Uncle Boris in the Yukon: And Other Shaggy Dog Stories, by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (Harcourt, $12, 0156027151)
  
• #50 Get Your War On, by David Rees (Soft Skull Press, $11, 188712876X)
  

AND…
After a brief pause, USA Today is running our 76 picks in the Wednesday Life section Snapshot area. The Winter Kids' 76 ran there last week; the November/December 76 top five to come next week. Thank you!

Any Ian Rankin fans out there? I bet a bunch; the new one, Resurrection Men (Little,Brown), is great, isn't it?

Carl
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