News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Walt Whitman’s lost novel The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle found. (The Guardian) Oxford English Dictionaries add “clicktivism” and “haterade” as new words for angry… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is All about the visuals: Graphic Novels, Comics, or in my case, Top Ten Favorite Picture Books It was really hard to come up with my top ten, because there are so many… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare’s collaborators. Using textual analysis, a group of 27 scholars are now certain Marlowe had a hand in writing… Read more »
Illustrator: Frank Godwin If you enjoy classic illustrated children’s books, you’re probably familiar with the work of N. C. Wyeth. But have you ever heard of Frank Godwin? Godwin was an illustrator, commercial artist and comic strip artist who worked from around 1915 through 1959. Between 1920 and 1931, he… Read more »
Happy Birthday to author-illustrator Jan Brett! Her beautifully illustrated books have been favorites of ours since well before our daughter was born – though it was Robin’s birth that gave me the excuse to start buying them. Brett was born on Dec. 1., 1949, making her 65 today. . …. Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Bookish Things (That Aren’t Books) That I’d Like to Own. So I’m not exactly lusting after all of these, but I would really like to own them (not necessarily… Read more »
