'Water' world: On Tuesday, two pretty faces —Robert Pattinson's and Reese Witherspoon's — will begin gracing the jacket of Water for Elephants as the movie tie-in paperback edition hits stores. The film isn't in theaters until April 22, but advance publicity has helped boost sales of the 2006 novel about a traveling circus. This week it's No. 8 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. The highest the novel has been is No. 4, in August 2007, after it was first released in paperback. Publisher Algonquin says the star-studded new jacket will have an impact: "I expect we'll see a huge increase in sales of all available editions, including e-books and audio," says associate publisher Ina Stern. Meanwhile, the paperback of Gruen's 2010 novel Ape House will be released April 5.
Oh 'Baby'! For almost a decade, kids have panted for the sequel to The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby. This opus burst onto the list at No. 10 in 2002. Although the cover credits "George Beard and Harold Hutchins" as the authors, kid-lit superstar Dav Pilkey wrote and illustrated Baby, which boasts more than 3 million copies in print. Now the long wait is over. The sequel Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatcherswill hit stores June 28 with a 1-million-copy first printing. Baby is part of Pilkey's wildly popular "Captain Underpants" series. The reason for Pilkey's success: a Rabelais-like zest for bathroom humor. "Rip Van Tinkle," anyone?
Numbers game: Actor Alex Pettyfer is evidently good for book sales. Pettyfer stars as an alien teenager in the movie version of I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (a pseudonym for James Frey and Jobie Hughes), which reaches No. 13. It opened at the box office last Friday. Pettyfer also stars in the movie adaptation of Beastly, a modern take on Beauty and the Beast, which arrives in theaters March 4. It enters the list at No. 39. I Am Number Four, the first sci-fi novel in a series geared toward the young-adult crowd, is from what New York magazine calls Frey's "fiction factory," in which he hires young writers to turn out novels in the Twilight vein. Frey became infamous for fabricating his memoir A Million Little Pieces and being publicly scolded by Oprah.
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