Category Archives: Books

Tolkien vs Sendak (round 1)

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

  Would you like to see an edition of The Hobbit illustrated by artist Maurice Sendak of Where the Wild Things Are fame ? Well, you can’t. It almost happened, but didn’t, and all because that notorious curmudgeon J.R.R. Tolkien … Continue reading →

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Before Treasure Island

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Nearly 135 years after it was begun, the abandoned first novel by Robert Louis Stevenson has been discovered. The incomplete book, titled The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth, was discovered by literary sleuth and Stevenson scholar Michel Le Bris. … Continue reading →

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Reading Group Guides : Top 25 Picks

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

From December 2010 through mid-February 2011, the Reading Group Guides, an online community for book clubs, surveyed reading groups on their month to month picks for 2010. Based on thousands of responses they came up with a “Top 25 Most … Continue reading →

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Anne Frank and Dutch Book Week

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

thanks to Marthe Dijkstra for this suggestion: Each year the CPNB, or Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek, organizes the Dutch Book Week (Boekenweek ) to promote Dutch literature and reading. And every year a specific genre is profiled. This … Continue reading →

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Not Your Childhood Peanuts

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Canadian artist/illustrator/cartoonist Steve Murray, who is probably better known by his nom de plume, Chip Zdarsky, has imagined a brilliant series of posters for Hollywood film adaptations of classic children’s stories.

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Yes, We Love the Infographics

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

 

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How To Read a Tattoo

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

 

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Ne Vous Adore Dumbledore ?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Warner Bros will open its “The Making of Harry Potter” walking tour at Leavesden, England, the production base of the Harry Potter films, in spring next year. The three-hour-long tour will give fans the chance to see sets, costumes, props … Continue reading →

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One for the Books

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

This planetoid, made entirely of books, was created by artist John Marshall, and is prominently displayed at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts As the largest and most comprehensive center of its kind in the nation, Minnesota Center for Book … Continue reading →

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Staff Picks

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

This week, Melville House Publishing announced the inauguration of the Independent Booksellers Choice Awards — the first award for indie publishing judged by indie booksellers. Why yet another book award ? Because independent booksellers are the cognoscenti, who are hooked-in … Continue reading →

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