The Wild Swans recounts the story of a princess who sets out to rescue her eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their wicked stepmother and forced to fly away. The tale was first published in 1838 in the compilation Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection by Hans Christian Anderson. An amazing new wordless version of the famous tale is now available. Illustrated by noted toy designer Thomas Aquinas Maguire and published by Simply Read Books. Maguire has transformed the literary tale into a unfolding visual feast. Bound accordion style the book extends to over 60 feet! The...
A Determined Reader and Book Patrol at 5
from the 2008 production Traces from the French Canadian theater company Les 7 doigts de la main.It has been a little over 5 years since I got a crazy idea to start blogging about books and their place in our world. The pace of change in the book universe has not slowed one bit since my first post and neither have the options for sharing and responding to the plethora of information about books that permeate the internet. While the pace of blogging has slowed somewhat recently it is not for lack of engagement nor interest - the availability of...
The Life and Death of the Great American People’s Library
It started innocently enough. A place where the demonstrators and occupiers could feed their mind while they did their duty to try and bring about a just, sane society. Before long the smattering of books had evolved into a fully-functioning public library. Books were coming from everywhere, there were readings, events and even a reference desk to help with the most basic and complex questions. It was a library that would have made Andrew Carnegie proud. Carnegie, whose gracious donations were responsible for the building of over 2500 libraries in the late 19th early 20th century, believed that giving to...
Lifecycle of a Book
A worthy project from Publishing Trendsetter featuring young book professionals, in their own words, on the state of the publishing trade.view larger pdf here
A Pedophile’s Memoir. Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story
As the Penn State child rape saga continues to unfold and the horrors committed by former defensive coordinator and accused serial pedophile Jerry Sandusky come to light there will be a lot of second guessing and soul searching as to how such a tragedy was allowed to continue for so long.One of the most telling signs and one that is almost impossible to believe is the title of Sandusky's memoir that was published in 2001, Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story.The 'about the author' section on Amazon further states that "Sandusky is the founder of The Second Mile, a charitable foundations...