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 03 Jul 2010, 12:03 #92701 Reply To Post
Edgar Rice Burroughs estate backs new series of children's books by author Andy Briggs, designed to bring the bare-chested jungle hero up to date

Jane has an iPod and Tarzan is facing up to environmental catastrophe: following literary excursions into the childhoods of James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, readers are now set to venture into the teenage years of a 21st-century Lord of the Jungle.

Tarzan first swung onto the page in 1912 in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes. After his parents Lord and Lady Greystoke, marooned in west Africa, were killed, their baby was adopted by a great ape and raised as one of them, before falling for another castaway, Jane Porter. The star of 24 books by Burroughs, the bestselling story of the "brown, sweat-streaked, muscular" Tarzan has also been adapted for film, comics, television and radio.

Now the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate has backed a new children's series about the bare-chested hero, set in modern Africa and aimed at nine to 11-year-olds. View Guardian article
Joe 90
 03 Jul 2010, 12:49 #92706 Reply To Post
Quote: Book News, Saturday, 3 Jul 2010 12:03
Edgar Rice Burroughs estate backs new series of children's books by author Andy Briggs, designed to bring the bare-chested jungle hero up to date

Jane has an iPod and Tarzan is facing up to environmental catastrophe: following literary excursions into the childhoods of James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, readers are now set to venture into the teenage years of a 21st-century Lord of the Jungle.

Tarzan first swung onto the page in 1912 in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes. After his parents Lord and Lady Greystoke, marooned in west Africa, were killed, their baby was adopted by a great ape and raised as one of them, before falling for another castaway, Jane Porter. The star of 24 books by Burroughs, the bestselling story of the "brown, sweat-streaked, muscular" Tarzan has also been adapted for film, comics, television and radio.

Now the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate has backed a new children's series about the bare-chested hero, set in modern Africa and aimed at nine to 11-year-olds. View Guardian article


1912. That makes Tarzan...98? Hope his colostomy bag is able to take the G forces.

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AntCity
 04 Jul 2010, 00:40 #92738 Reply To Post
I'd swing with most of the Janes.
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