CHILDREN'S NEWS: Briefs.

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    Bookseller. 2/3/2006, Issue 5215, p9-9. 1/5p. 2 Color Photographs.
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      This article presents news briefs related to the children's book industry in Great Britain. The film of Cornelia Funke's book "The Thief Lord" will be released nationwide from May 26, 2006. The big-budget movie will be directed by Ian Softly and will star Brendan Fraser, Kathy Bates and Robert Downey Jr. The Poetry Book Society is celebrating the relaunch of the Children's Poetry Bookshelf with a special event at the Unicorn Theatre in London. The Branford Boase Award for most promising children's book by a first novelist will be sponsored for a second year by children's laureate Jacqueline Wilson.