In Britain, “publishers and bookstores have decided the spy thriller is the ideal way to capture elusive teenaged boy readers, with a new generation of secret agents for children,” reports Louise Jury in a story for The Independent. She says booksellers are excited about several forthcoming books in the genre, including “the first of five planned adventures with a junior James Bond sanctioned by the estate of Ian Fleming“; Jimmy Coates: Killer, a book about a boy spy written by “a young Cambridge philosophy student, Joseph Craig“; and the newest in a popular spy series by Anthony Horowitz. Says W.H. Smith children’s fiction buyer for Rachel Airey, “Everyone has worked the magic wizard thing to death and now they have started to say, ‘What else can we do?'” Plus, she says, “There’s a huge amount of pink girly stuff in the market so this is quite refreshing.”