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It was the second greatest-selling youngsters's ebook, with 220 fewer sales than writer J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Another image ebook, it was illustrated this time by Stacey Peterson. It became the quickest-selling image e book by a debutant kids's creator. Only one photographer was allowed to take pictures of the occasion, and only the movie crew from the BBC's youngsters's information program, Newsround, was allowed to movie it. Writing for The Guardian, poet and novelist Michael Rosen found The English Roses to be heavier on the moralistic aspect fairly than being ironic, which he felt was the norm for kids's books. A subsequent trial attracted nationwide news protection and provoked a congressional investigation, which concluded with Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of the Navy (and future United States president) Franklin D. Roosevelt being formally rebuked by a Congressional committee. Madonna partnered with Signatures Network Inc. (SNI) and launched a collection of merchandise and products associated to The English Roses sequence out there in the United States at Nordstrom department stores and boutiques. |
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