The Twig

(via drowninginlaughter)

susanandherbooks:

Favourite Covers Friday- Aesop’s Fables 

For previous Favourite Covers see here: http://susanandherbooks.tumblr.com/tagged/Favourite%20Covers%20Friday

Which is your favourite?

myimaginarybrooklyn:

E. J. Harvey Darton. Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1906. Irish-born artist Hugh Thomson’s cover design is a fabulous introduction to Chaucer’s characters.

bookriot:

Shakespeare, Poe, Emily Dickinson & Robert Frost, among the greats in these 10 Impressive Author Statues

“In late June, the Fentress Indicator reported that the temperature was 106 degrees in the middle of the street outside the newspaper office. The paper did not mention the temperature in the shade. I wondered why not, as no one in his right mind spent more than a second in the sun, except to make smartly for the next patch of shadow, whether it be cast by tree or barn or plow horse. It seemed to me that the temperature in the shade would be a lot more useful to the citizens of our town. I labored over A Letter To The Editor pointing this out, and to my great amazement, the paper published my letter the following week. To my family’s greater amazement, it began to publish the temperature in the shade as well. Reading that it was only 98 in the shade somehow made us all feel a bit cooler.” 

terriwindling:

Brother and Sister

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cajunmama:

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(via teachingliteracy)

“It probably all started almost twenty years ago, when I wrote a book called The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish. It’s about a boy who swaps his dad for two goldfish. It is quite funny. 

This is what the dad does in the book: He is swapped for things; he does not notice he has been swapped for things; he reads his newspaper. At one point, near the climax of the book, he eats a carrot. It’s not really a positive portrayal of fatherhood, is it? 

And people have been giving that book to each other as Father’s Day gifts ever since. 

I have felt guilty. As a father. As a human being. People were reading my book, and learning from it that fathers were oblivious, newspaper-reading, occasionally carrot-eating lumps of distraction. 

I resolved to do something about it. I would write a book in which a father did all of the sorts of exciting things that fathers actually do, in teh real world. 

In this case, he would go and get the milk for his children’s breakfast cereal.

Also, he should do the other things that go along with going out to get the milk. Things like escaping from globby green aliens, being made to walk the plank in teh eigheenth century by pirates, being rescued by a time-travelling prefessorial stegosaurus in a hot-air balloon, being nearly sacrificed to a Volcano God, being attacked by Wumpires, and, of course, saving the world.”

Neil Gaiman, in the preface to his new book Fortunately, the Milk, out in September 

awesomepeoplereading:

Olivia de Havilland reads.

(Source: valentinovamp, via malapropsbookstore)

beautifulbookcoversdotcom:

Graphic designer Igor “Rogix” Udushlivy had the brilliant idea of using bookmarks to extend and improve cover art.  

Check out his full gallery to see more of the process, or pop on over to his Tumblr account for more great design work!