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Today's Living The Index-Journal Monday, July 26, 1993 PAGE 6 Publishers WeekW Publishers WeekW BEST SELLERS BEST SELLERS Celebrates 10th anniversary 'Reading Rainbow' brings children, books together via TV Weeks Last Weeks on List Last Week FICTION NON-FICTION Week on List Days of Grace. Arthur 1 5 Ashe and Arnold Ram-persad. Knopf, $24 The Bridges of Mdi- 1 48 son County. Robert James Waller. Warner, $14.95 2 6 The Fifties.

David Hal-berstam. Villard, $27.50 The Night Manager. 2 2 John le Carre. Knopf, $24 3 47 el pel like Water for Choco- 5 15 pssal late. Laura Esquivel.

Women Who Run with the Wolves. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Ballan-tine, $20 Doubleday, 17.50 Pleading Guilty. Scott 4 8 Turow. Farrar, Straus Giroux.

$24 Eat More, Weigh Less. 6 4 Dean Ornish. HarperCollins, $22.50 The Client. John Gns- 3 19 ham. Doubleday, $23.50 A Woman's Worth.

9 12 Marianne Williamson. Random House, 1 7 5 she said. "In the process, they develop the fun 'habit' of reading for themselves; a skill that will never let them down throughout their lives." Books are chosen for their story lines, illustrations, topics and adaptability to television. Liggett said the program looks for books that not only have meaning to children, but also represent different cultures and ethnicities. "We are dealing with life full of all of the diversity as it exists in the world," Burton said.

"Children's literature has caught up with that" Among the featured books: Eve Bunting's "The Wall," a book about the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Ann Turner's "Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies," a book ab out adoption. "We share with audiences about what it means to grow up in this time and place," Burton said. "We're really dealing with key issues; the challenges of children growing up in the '90s." Burton is a producer of "Reading Rainbow," president of Eagle Nation Films and does voice work on "Captain Planet," a cartoon series that urges kids to be environmentally responsible. Eighty-five "Reading Rainbow" shows are rotated to accommodate weekly airings on PBS stations. Ten new shows will be added this fall.

"Reading Rainbow" is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kellogg the National Science Foundation and public television viewers. Cnwl and Unusual. Pa- 7 tncia D. Comwell. Scnbners, $21 The Way Things Ought 4 44 to Be.

Rush Limbaugh. Pocket, $22 Pigs in Heaven. Barba- 9 6 ra Kingsolver. HarperCollins, $22 Recngweering the Cor- 7 9 poradon. Michael Hammer and James Champy.

Harper-Business, $25 LeVAR BURTON "Reading Rainbow" is not hardsell. "It's a half hour of really subde messages: books are great and reading is fun." "Our goal in producing the series is to catch the spirit of what good books can do: spark kids' curiosity, and encourage them to look at their world in new ways," The Scorpio Illusion. 6 8 Robert Ludlum. Bantam, $23.95 5 48 Harvey Penick's Little Red Book. Penick Bud Shrake.

Simon Schuster, $19 8 12 Gai-Jin. James Clavell. Delacorte, $27.50 8 19 Honor Among Thieves. 1 2 2 Jeffrey Archer. HarperCollins, $23 Beating the Street.

Peter Lynch with John Rothchild. $23 Embraced by the Light. 14 9 Betty J. Eadie. Gold Leaf Press, $14.95 Young readers tour ocean floor in 'Magic School Bus' 1993 Publishers Weekly 1993 Publishers Weekly By SALLY WILLIAMS COOK For AP Special Features Exploits of female spy basis of WWII book School Bus series that will air in the fall of 1994 on public television.

The other books in the series are "The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks," "The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth," "The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body" and "The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System." said. "I wasn't a math student, but she made logic beautiful, her face would shine from the beauty." Cole said that for her, Ms. Frizzle is a composite of many enthusiastic teachers in East Orange, who made science fun. Cole and Degen work as consultants to Scholastic Productions in planning an animated weekly television program based on the Magic By CAROL DEEGAN Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) The music and words to the opening theme song are familiar to millions of children. "Take a look it's in a book a Reading Rainbow!" Now celebrating its 10th anniversary of bringing children and books together through television, "Reading Rainbow" airs on nearly 330 PBS stations five days a week, 52 weeks a year.

The 30-minute program has an audience of about 8 million children, ages 5 to 8, including 4.2 million children who watch it in their classrooms. Using narration, animation and on-location settings, one book is featured during each 30-minute program. Topics of interest range from quilting to coral reefs, mummies to mommies, sports to sea cows. The program also includes three reviews by children of related books. Celebrities such as Pete Seeger, Bill Cosby, Julia Child, Jane Pauley and James Earl Jones often serve as readers.

As the story is told, the book's illustrations come alive on the screen. Host LeVar Burton (star of "Roots" and "Star Trek: The Next takes young viewers on a variety of related adventures. During his 10 years as host. Burton has gone scuba diving, played baseball with the Oakland A's and taken a lion for a walk. "We started with a radical idea: getting kids excited about books through the very medium that everyone says is reading's nemesis," Burton said.

"Reading Rainbow" has become a decade-long success because "first, we point out that reading is fun and is enjoyable to do," be said in an interview. "Second, kids watch a lot of TV; four to seven hours a day, not counting Nintendo." Burton was in New York City to accept a certificate from Joyce Dinkins, wife of Mayor David Dinkins, at the mayor's Grade Mansion home. The certificate acknowledged "Reading Rainbow's" 10th anniversary and Burton's contribution to the promotion of children's literacy. This year, "Reading Rainbow" received the George Foster Pea-body Award for excellence in television production and content and a daytime Emmy for outstanding children's series. In an interview, executive producer Twila C.

Liggett said Summer book delight for a young child The little girl in this story loves her sunny, fun-filled summer days on an island, but Fridays are the best. That's when "The Daddies uxr Bee (innings Offered by Dana S. McCravy, Kindermuslk Instructor A Music Program for Children Age IB mos, to 3Vi yra. and a parent. Kin derm us ik exposes young children to various musical activities which enhances their total development instructor Qualifications: B.

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She's a one-of-a-kind science teacher. And her name is Ms. Frizzle. Ms. Frizzle is the star of Scholastic's Magic School Bus series.

And the bus is truly magical. In the latest book, "The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor," Ms. Frizzle's yellow school bus turns into a submarine, a submersible, a glass-bottomed boat and finally, a surfboard. "Science is a creative process rather than about fact," said author Joanna Cole. "I saw bow you make the humor character driven, you could have the teacher give a serious lecture, but she could be funny, too." "The reason this series has been so well received is that it's not just a pile of facts," she said.

"I took subjects that some kids find boring and made them fun." When Cole wrote her first book for the series, "The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks," Scholastic brought in illustrator Bruce De-gen. Since then, the two have worked closely together on the series. They have created an adventurous teacher who has guided her class inside the earth and the human body and through the waterworks and the solar system. Cole and Degen meet regularly, bounce ideas off each other, and work hard to incorporate a vast amount of material into a small amount of space. Though the subject matter of the series is geared toward third-graders, Cole and Degen receive letters indicating that children of all ages read the books.

"Kids elaborately illustrate and write their own 'Magic School Bus stories and send them to us," Cole said. For Degen, Ms. Frizzle or "The Friz," as she's called by her class, is based on his 10th-grade geometry teacher. "She was 4 feet 10 inches and had blonde frizzy hair," Degen David Aaron, a former Deputy National Security Advisor and author of the acclaimed thrillers, "State Scarlet" and "Agent of Influence," has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "a pretender to Ludlum 's throne." Aaron's new novel, "Crossing By Night," is based on the extraordinary true-life exploits of Elizabeth Pack, perhaps the single most important secret agent of World War II. Pack, a beautiful young American debutante married to a British diplomat, changed the course of history by stealing the Enigma machine, the Germans' supposedly indecipherable coding device.

Pack's implacable resolve, razor-sharp instincts, and willingness to use her sexuality in the service of her cause led Time magazine to describe her as "a blonde James Bond who used the boudoir the way 007 used the Beretta." Indeed, Ian Fleming knew of Pack's adventures, many of which are still classified as top secret by the British government, and used her as the model for his world-famous character. With State Scarlet and Agent of Influence, Aaron earned high praise both for his firsthand knowledge of international affairs and for his storytelling skills. "This is the best new thriller I have read in quite a long Aaron is the one you will hide in the desk drawer at work and sneak out when the boss isn't looking," wrote Robin Winks in the Boston Sunday Globe. In "Crossing By Night," Aaron shifts his focus from the present day to Europe on the brink of World War II, drawing on his contents in the intelligence community for authentic detail. He brings a remarkable woman vividly to life, dramatizing Elizabeth Pack's astonishing story while remaining true to historical fact.

He tells how her early marriage to a dull, hidebound British diplomat soured al- A By Bob Edmonds McComtick County historian most immediately, and how her husband forced her to give up her first child. Posted to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Pack inadvertently began her espionage career by risking her own life to save the staff of the British Embassy from annihilation at the hands of the Spanish Fascists. Pack's heroic actions in Spain brought her to the attention of Winston Churchill and British spy-master William Stephenson, who later described her as "World War II's greatest unsung heroine." By the late 1930's Churchill and Stephenson were convinced that war with Germany was inevitable, yet knew that Britain's armed forces were not match for Germany's. Britain's only hope was to break the German military communications code. To do so, however, the British had to get their hands on the Enigma encoding and decoding machines a task of heroic dimensions that was entrusted to Elizabeth Pack, an amateur spy still only in her early twenties.

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