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Curious Correspondence
We love tiny things - the tinier the better. Seriously, what’s cuter - a full grown adult or a baby? Dog or puppy? Actual house or a dollhouse? Jumbo marshmallows or mini marshmallows? You get my point. So when I learned about th...
Gorey ABCs
It seems befitting the Halloween season that we give a nod to the brilliant and wee bit dark (an understatement to some) writing and illustration of Edward Gorey. His special brand of kiddie macabre is filled with twisted humor, but he is famously ...
Over in the Hollow
I’m pleased as a pumpkin to share that our ever industrious pal (and Junior Society member!) S.britt has illustrated his first children’s book! Creatures who might typically give us goosebumps live Over in the Hollow where their family ...
Letterforms
Very few words in today’s post, but a whole lot of letters. Sharing images from some special vintage alphabet books. To see a complete set of larger images for each book, click on the respective titles. A Railway ABC by Jack Townsend, not dat...
Pump Up the Volume
One of the funniest, albeit unintentionally so, vintage books I have in my library is a little tome entitled A Treasury of Play Ideas for Tiny Tots by Caroline Horowitz. Perhaps in 1947 activities like ‘Button in My Box’ (Place a button i...
Book Bonanza
Heads up! I’m happy to pass along info on Chronicle Book’s BIG Friends & Family Sale that starts today and runs through August 5th. A whopping 35% off all purchases and free shipping! Click on the link at the bottom of the post for...
Visual Overload
The heavens cracked open spilling blinding white sunbeams around my feet. Accompanied by a chorus of unearthly song a copy of Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities descended from on high, floating on a pillow of cumulus clouds...
Word Play
In 1999, renown graphic designer Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich created Bembo’s Zoo as a Christmas gift for his daughter Viva. This high concept picture book features a menagerie of animals made from Bembo type characters - also known as calligrams. ...
Little Miss Crafty
Hip, hip, hooray! And a warm congratulations to our pal and JrSoc member Helen Dardik on the release of her new book this month. Embroidery for Little Miss Crafty: Projects and patterns to create and embellish features 12 projects for the first tim...
Books Gone Wild
So, for all of you in my neck of the woods - a reminder that this weekend is the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the UCLA Campus. I look forward to this event every year as an opportunity to hear authors lecture and read their own work…...
Mama Mia!
It’s likely you’ve visited the little town of Chewandswallow during nightly bedtime stories and fans of Judi Barret’s absurdist tall-tale Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will be interested to know that Sony Pictures Animation has ...
Kicked Out of the Club
While I certainly had heard about Pluto’s demotion from planet to member of the Kuiper belt, it wasn’t until I heard this story on NPR last month that I became aware of the turmolt this reclassification had caused…especially among g...
Paper Plates
I think if there were a 12 step program for book fanatics my friends and family would probably stage an intervention and force me to attend. Last summer the book population in our home swelled to the point where all shelves were double stacked and I...
What Color Was Your Day?
Mother and pediatric occupational therapist Jennifer Hallisey recently featured a post on her blog The Write Start about creating writing rituals for younger kids. Her son Jack who is a ‘pre-writer’ has started sitting down in the evenin...
Pop Goes D V-S-L
I love a good pop-up book and Parisian designer Marion Bataille has created a beautiful one. She is a widely published graphic artist and illustrator who also works for the Pompidou Centre, Le Monde and all the best French Publishers. While not sla...
