ADVISORY/N.K. Stouffer, Creator of Larry Potter and the Real Muggles, to Announce Re-Publication of Children's Books.

Assignment/News Editors

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (March 14)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

While Litigation Brought by Scholastic Inc., Time Warner Entertainment

LP, and J.K. Rowling Continues Over Intellectual Property Rights and

Unfair Trade Practices, Author Secures Publisher

WHAT:   Children's book author N.K. Stouffer, who in the 1980s wrote a
        series of books about mythical characters called the
        Muggles(TM)and books about Larry Potter, will announce
        re-publication of "The Legend of Rah and the Muggles(TM)" and
        unveil illustrations for it. Thurman House, an affiliate of
        Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., a 110-year old Baltimore-based
        company, will re-publish the book in a new format this spring.
        Stouffer and J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books,
        Scholastic Inc., and Time Warner Entertainment, LP, are
        currently involved in litigation in the U.S. District Court
        for the Southern District of New York over intellectual
        property rights which include rights to MUGGLE(TM)and
        MUGGLES.(TM)

WHO:    Children's book author and artist N.K. Stouffer,
        Thurman House President and CEO Allan Hirsh, III

WHEN:   Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11 a.m. - noon

WHERE:  Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th Street, Gallery I, New York

WHY:    The agreement between N.K. Stouffer and Thurman House to
        re-publish her original works is a milestone in Stouffer's
        battle to bring her books back to children. Stouffer had found
        many publishers had shied away from her books because of their
        fears about stepping on the toes of Harry Potter. Stouffer
        remains concerned that many people will not understand that
        her books preceded J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.