hot men of childrens literature part 32

Hot Men of Children's Literature: Part 32 In a Series

Sometimes a person can come up with a HMOCL entirely on their own, and

sometimes it takes the nominee's publisher to give me a nudge in the

right direction. Today's hottie isn't unfamiliar with being

objectified. After all, he was already mentioned in Paper Magazine's

Beautiful People 2006. Right now I think he's in Prague, so he may not

know about this for some time. You see, I met this particular HMOCL in

the midst of the Narnia movie madness when my library branch at the

time (the Jefferson Market should-really-have-been-in-Kiki-Strike

branch) hosted costumes and props from the film. He does not, sadly,

remember me, which is unsurprising given the circumstances. It was a

busy time for him and I was wearing my patent pending library shelf

camouflage, thus blending in with my surroundings.

I assure you that this fellow is a huge children's literature advocate

and (perhaps more importantly) a lover of libraries as well.

So here, without further ado, is the delightful, the charming, the

rather young...

PERRY MOORE

ATTENTION FUTURE HOT MEN OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: You would do very

well to have a picture of yourself like this somewhere in your

possession so as to pass it along to me. It makes my job just that

much easier.

Here is what Paper Magazine wrote of him back in April. I'm a little

sad that it took me this long to hear about it.

The 34-year-old executive producer is responsible -- along with

director Andrew Adamson and producer Mark Johnson -- for The

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The

movie did so well at the box office that Disney green-lit Prince

Caspian, the second film in the series based on the C.S. Lewis

books. That film should land in theaters in 2007, the same year

that Moore's first novel hits bookstores -- Hero (Hyperion). "It's

your regular, ordinary coming-of-age story about the world's first

gay superhero," Moore says. Like Narnia, it's also the first in a

series. Moore has had previous publishing success: His The Official

Illustrated Movie Companion to the first Narnia film is a New York

Times bestseller. What else? "I'm dying to work with [producer]

Brian Grazer," he says. That's understandable: Hero sounds ripe for

adaptation.

The unbelievably affable New York transplant came to Manhattan by

way of Virginia Beach, Virginia (and the White House, where he

interned during the good old Clinton administration). No matter how

busy he is, he never fails to glow with Southern charm. And busy he

is. Besides the Narnia films and his superhero cycle, Moore's

working on Lake City (a film he co-wrote and will co-direct with

PAPER's Hunter Hill, starring Sissy Spacek) and a documentary about

Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak (co-directed by

Moore, Hill and Spike Jonze).

If he can survive being called "unbelievably affable" he can survive