In 2023 and 2024, Cardinal Media published three series of “Perfect Picture Books“. They encourage us to “Read and enjoy Chinese stories in English! Beautifully written and lovingly illustrated by some of China’s favorite authors and illustrators, these stories have traveled across the world a...
and these are then ‘designed’ into pages that look like each other (and like pages we have previously seen). An imaginative book, by definition, attempts to realize something else with syntax, with format, with pages, with covers, with size, with shape, with sequence, with structure...
The Breadwinner, by Deborah EllisIt’s a book that feels strangely prescient (有先见之明的), even though it was first published more than 20 years ago. And it's a story of a young Afghan girl named Parvana whose family lives under Taliban rule. And it's really just the remarkable ...
Though this book is meant for grades 3 to 6 (illustrated by Eric Velasquez), it can really be enjoyed by “children of all ages,” and is a wonderful way to learn about an amazing, under-appreciated personage in American literary history....
The bad news is that April was a slow reading month for me. My major projects were caring for a new puppy and battling a bronchial infection. As I stood coughing under an umbrella, pelted by hailstones and waiting for said puppy to take care of business so I could put him to bed, ...
Original drawing by Paula Steere; graphic rendering by The Book & Paper Gathering Fig. 20 – Paring in progress: the thickness of the leather under the central black line will remain as is, and the leather will be pared to taper towards F and B, which indicate the width of the text ...
In our new history books section, we keep track of some of the books coming out by Five Books interviewees and frequently recommended authors. We're also scanning catalogues and highlighting interesting new history books being published that come to our attention. It's impossible to cover all ...
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Ursula Parrott already had two movie adaptations under her belt, with her 1929 best-seller, Ex-Wife, made into The Divorcee and Strangers May Kiss filmed under the same name in 1931, both starring Norma Shearer. Polan Banks. Banks’s first novel, Black Ivory, was a turgid potboiler set ...
Filed under Books Tagged as Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Claire Dederer, Eliza Clark, Fiction, Literature, Non fiction, Novels, Orla Owen, Peter Ross, Reading, Reviews March 19, 2024 · 6:29 pm Books I Read in February 2024 A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs is a blend of...