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Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Published on Sunday, Jun 22, 2008
In between gigs, a gaggle of celebs have jumped into writing children's books with nice, innocent messages and morals. Some of the latest on shelves:
• Henry Winkler: Fonzie's leather jacket is hung up, the thumbs put away. These days, the 62-year-old actor is devoting himself to a series featuring a fictional fourth-grade dyslexic boy named Hank Zipzer. The most recent is Who Ordered This Baby? Definitely Not Me! Winkler, who has the learning disability, says, ''I was told I was lazy, stupid and would never be an actor.''
Lesson: It's not cool to let anyone make fun of you.
• Bernadette Peters: The heavenly voiced Tony Award winner, 60, has just released Broadway Barks, about a lonely dog who tries to make it on the Great White Way. Broadway Barks is also the name of an annual event she throws with Mary Tyler Moore to find homes for abandoned animals.
Lesson: Don't ditch your dog.
• Josie Bissett: The Melrose Place alum hasn't gone into hiding, she just moved back to her hometown of Seattle. Now divorced from former co-star Rob Estes, the 37-year-old mother of two recently came out with Tickle Monster, about an alien from the Planet Tickle whose mission is to make kids giggle.
Lesson: Laugh, don't cry.
• Kimberly Williams Paisley: The Father of the Bride star, now hitched to country star Brad Paisley, penned Henry & The Hidden Veggie Garden to help introduce her baby son, Huck, to vegetables.
Lesson: Broccoli is better than chocolate.
• John Lithgow: The 62-year-old thespian and former Akron resident sure has stayed active since his Third Rock from the Sun days. Not only will he appear this fall with Katie Holmes in Broadway's All My Sons, but he's written his seventh book for the younger set. Mahalia Mouse Goes to College is the tale of a rodent who attends Harvard, Lithgow's alma mater. (Trivia: He shared a dorm with Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones).
Lesson: Stay in school.
— Madeleine MarrMcClatchy Newspapers
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