Brian Kimberling’s debut novel, Snapper
Nate and his friend Shane (the unfortunate victim of that snapping turtle) decide to while away a rainy weekend with a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook in this excerpt http://www.npr.org/2013/04/09/176577406/exclusive-first-read-snapper-by-brian-kimberling
Snapper will be published April 23.
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The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real
I never knew that part of the Velveteen collection included The Velveteen Principles
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Eye-to-Eye With a Whale in the Ocean
In his new book about his process, out next week, Beautiful Whale
Why is it disturbing? Because, as Austin puts it, the whale challenges him “to reevaluate our perceptions of intelligent, conscious life on this planet.” This mammal’s eye — lens, cornea, pupil, retina, photoreceptors and ganglion nerve cells — is a direct passageway into its brain. And when we look at it, Austin can’t help but see an intelligence there, a connection to a brain that, perhaps, works enough like ours for us to understand each other.
Read more. [Images: Bryant Austin/studio/True Blue Films]
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‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’
‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
E.B. White
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Hans Christian Andersen
Born April 2, 1805: Dutch writer Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales are so beloved that his birthday is celebrated as International Children’s Book Day.
He wrote six novels and several travel books, thirty-five plays and a hundred and seventy-five fairy tales including “The Little Mermaid,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “Thumbelina,” and “The Ugly Duckling.” He remained forever true to his humble background and believed status should be the right of everyone and not the privilege of the aristocracy.
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Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
the children’s section of the bookstore is always more colorful and interesting than that grownup section
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx
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— Umberto Eco
One of those “children’s book” for adults…
You can get a copy of James Thurber’s The Thirteen Clocks as a free download (epub, Kindle, pdf etc.) or in other versions from Amazon
“It’s a modern take on the standard fairy tale… if you liked ‘The Princess Bride,’ you’re going to like this. If you like a book by Jules Feiffer, ‘A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears,’ you’ll like this. If you remember ‘Fractured Fairy Tales’ on Rocky and Bullwinkle, you’ll like this. We suggest, read the beginning. We’re not going to give away the plot, because it’s all in the language with a book like this.” —Daniel Pinkwater, NPR Weekend Edition Saturday
“The great New Yorker humorist James Thurber wrote a few children’s books, the best of which may be The 13 Clocks, a 1950 tale of a wicked duke who thinks he has stopped time. Newly reissued, with an intro by Neil Gaiman — who calls it ”probably the best book in the world” — Clocks is the equal of any modern kid classic. By the time he wrote The 13 Clocks, Thurber was too blind to provide his own usual scratchy but vivid illustrations, so he enlisted his friend Marc Simont to do the drawings. Simont provided beautifully cartoonish yet subtle mini-paintings that convey Clocks’ varying moods of gloom, menace, surprise, and joy.” —Entertainment Weekly
— Oscar Wilde
Time-lapse video of the Phoebe Mermouse illustration from my cousin Eric and Joanna Johnson’s children’s book, Phoebe’s Birthday
Eric spends about 80 hours on each illustration, seen here compressed into just 80 seconds.
Original music written and performed by Eric, who likes to draw at night.
yes, it really is a book, HTML for Babies
when they are a bit older, there’s CSS for Babies
wait a bit longer before buying Introductory Calculus For Infants
Giving Dr. Seuss books more accurate itles for readers (especially parents) who miss the subtexts.
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