Two goose books
In 1994, George Bodmer made a picture book for his daughter. And now she has made one for him.
No Sleep
What’s wrong with Go the F**k to Sleep?
“Share Curiosity. Read Together.”
With apologies to H.A. Rey, Margret Ray, and the gummint.
Most frequently challenged books
“The logic of book-banners would seem to dictate that the Penguin House itself be closed to children, no?”
Amazon Kindle with Euphemism
Amazon has introduced a cheaper Kindle with Euphemism.
Garry Wills review
Of Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly’s All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age.
For dummies
A Google search that led someone to Orange Crate Art: the mixed up files of Mrs basil e. Frankweiler for dummies.
A Borders executive on Borders
Six reasons for Borders’ bankruptcy
Borders files for bankruptcy
The Wall Street Journal reports that Borders Group Inc. has filed for bankruptcy.
Borders and bankruptcy
“It’s sad: everything the company has done to bring in more money seems to give the dedicated reader less reason to feel good about going to Borders.”
Edward Tufte auction
Rare books at auction
On One Morning in Maine
Elaine Fine's favorite book from childhood
BUCK TO READING: DROP DEAD
No books in this principal's school!
Students and books
The appeal of paper
The Lonely Phone Booth
For wistful 4- to 8-year-olds
Penguin Great Ideas, fifth series
New covers
New England Mobile Book Fair
Amazing bookstore
Ernie Pyle in the Library of America
World War II writing, from the Library of America
Penguin Books postcard
Celebrating seventy-five years of Penguins
The Old Trading Post, Lisbon, New Hampshire
Tracking down a bookstore from a postcard in a library book
Review, Made by Hand
Review of Mark Frauenfelder's book
"[T]he social value of reading"
Verlyn Klinkenborg on what the iPad and Kindle do to the social value of reading
Roger Lathbury and Hapworth 16, 1924
How the publication of a Salinger novella came to naught
Brookline Booksmith
Independent bookstore, just outside Boston, fate up in the air
Jay Bennett (1912–2009)
He wrote one of the best books of my youth
The Streak
A father and daughter reading
Children, “best readers in the world”
Novelist Katherine Paterson on her readers
Clifford Hicks’s new Alvin Fernald novel
Alvin Fernald forever
Stealing books
Margo Rabb essay on bookstealing
Library slip (1941, 1992)
Due dates, 52 years apart