Oliver Jeffers talks about himself.
Illustration
January 19, 2013
December 01, 2012
Children's Literature Map of Britain
From the Literary Gift Company, via Nathalie Foy, who is doing a bookish advent calendar. Love! Sara O'Leary, we need one of these.
October 19, 2012
Friday Nights
This is called "Friday Nights" by Deborah Dewit and it is my idea of the perfect Friday night date. Alas, my night tonight isn't going to look like this and it's doubtful my Friday nights for the next little while are going to look like this, either. I suppose we could hire a sitter but how exactly to explain? And how to keep the children in other rooms, so they aren't leaping from our stomachs and over the back of the couch and blowing out the candles in between? I guess we could take a hotel room...
July 18, 2012
Six-Year-Old Judges Books by Their Covers
Over at babble, Sunnychanel posts the covers of various well-known books and her six-year-old daughter's comments on what they might be about. Here's her take on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:
"I think it’s a book for kiddies, it’s a colorful book. I think it’s about a tiny bird that flew over a cuckoo bird's nest, that is why it’s named that. It looks like a really sweet kiddy book."
Love this, will probably join in with Luke and Vivi's assessments of some of our books. Watch this space. Via the fascinating Marina Endicott on facebook (and the mysterious Henry Giallo.)
July 10, 2012
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
June 17, 2012
Best Dad In the World
It's official. David is the best dad in the world. But don't worry, your favourite dad can be the official best dad in the world, too. After seeing a similar design for sale on a British site (at the scary, scary price of $41 plus shipping) I asked Lisa, the graphic designer who did Sylvie's birthday invitations, to make some up for me and she's now offering them to everyone at the bargain price of five bucks!
May 02, 2012
Taschen's The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Sara just alerted me to the existence of this book and it is definitely going on my wishlist. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
May 01, 2012
Drink the Wild Air
Ralph Waldo Emerson, found on Lauren Cerand's How I'll Spend My Summer pinterest board. (It's way more fun to plan how you'll spend your summer than to recap it once you're back "in school.")
April 25, 2012
Are You My Mother? Maud Interviews Alison Bechdel
Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
AB: One of my earliest, most powerful memories of my mother is playing this game where I would be a crippled child like the kids I would see at the orthopedic wing of the hospital when I would go to get my fallen arches checked up on. I was just fascinated with these children, with their external signs of disability, their crutches and braces and big shoes. There was something about that that I needed to reenact, and my mother entered into that imaginary space so willingly with me and in such an encouraging way. Even though I knew there was something weird about having this fantasy about disabled children, she didn't sensor it. She encouraged me to go with it, and I feel like she probably did that with me in lots of imaginary games as a kid but for some reason this is the one that I remember the most vividly. And I speculate in the book that it's because it was a fantasy that she shared to a certain extent as well.
BNR: And when your OCD was making it really difficult to keep the diary, your mom would write down your entries. I remember that from Fun Home, too, and both times it gave me chills. The devotion implicit in it.
AB: Oh my God, that was another pivotal moment. She would sit there and write down everything I said. It was amazing. It also becomes weirdly this template for my relationship later with therapists, other women who would sit there and take down notes on what I was saying.