Tag archive: books

Top five Halloween books for children.

26 October 2012

It’s nearly Halloween – time for scary stories, scary costumes and scary anything. If you’ve been following our newsletter, you already got some ideas for fun and creepy decorations, snacks and games, but your kids may be looking for scary stories too.

And so it’s with great excitement (and serious goosebumps) that we share with you our Halloween special selection of top five scary children’s books.

#5 – The little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, illustrated by Megan Lloyd

With a pumpkin on its cover, this is a proper Halloween classic: it’s the story of an old lady whose fearlessness is tested by a pumpkin head, a tall black cat, and other scary creatures that follow her in the dark woods. [read more]


Top five Roald Dahl books.

13 September 2012

It’s Roald Dahl Day! To celebrate the birthday of one of our favorite writers, we ran a quick survey amongst our readers to determine his top five books. Here is the result, in pictures and (our) favorite quotes – share your comments!

#5 – The Twits

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

(Roald Dahl, The Twits)

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Every single page of Moby Dick. Illustrated.

1 August 2012

Today is Herman Melville’s birthday. He was born on August 1st, 1819 – happy happy!

This is an excellent excuse to pick up Moby Dick, one of our all-time favorite books. It’s always so nice to read parts of it, or the whole thing, again.

But you know what’s possibly better? A collection of 552 incredible illustrations for the classic, one for each page of the Signet Classics paperback edition.

All images courtesy of Matt Kish.

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Write and illustrate your own book. Online.

31 May 2012

It’s called The Adventures of You and I, and it’s an online app by UnderConsideration through which you can create your own customized book.

You can make the main character look like you or whoever you want, choose an adventure with dinosaurs, space travel, a distracted ogre (our favorite) or other fabulous things, then order a book and receive it at home, individually printed and hand bound.

And it’s not just a simple book. It’s a great one! Look:

 

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Rue de L’Articho

11 January 2012

For Editions Thierry Magnier‘s latest book, they asked 16 illustrators to each create a shop for an imaginary street. Rue de L’Articho is a fantastic collection of fruit stands, pharmacies, flower shops and restaurants. Going through its pages, you will feel Parisian even without knowing a single word of French.