In was sometime in the late 1980's when Tom Congalton, the proprietor of Between the Covers Rare Books, and cartoonist, book collector Tom Bloom struck a deal. They agreed to swap books for art. Now, some 20 years later, Tom Bloom's illustrations have graced the covers of over 100 catalogs for BTC. His work has also appeared on numerous lists issued by BTC and is a seminal element of their website.Bloom's work has also regularly appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Village Voice. His cartoon illustrations have also appeared numerous times on the front page...
ABC’s of Book Collecting : Almanac
ALMANACA calendar, usually in pocket-book (more rarely sheet) form, augmentedwith Saints’ days, fair-dates and astronomical and meteorologicaldata; a bestseller from the start and protected by jealously guardedpatents, the different titles, hot rivals in the 17th century, were allfinally swallowed up by Dr Francis Moore’s Vox Stellarum, familiarlyknown as ‘Old Moore’s Almanack’.Previous ABC's of Book Collecting postsCarter, John & Nicolas BarkerABC's of Book Collecting. 8th EditionNew Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2004Buy a copy
Liz Moody’s "Burgeoning Blossoms/Fairy Tales"
Brightest in the Garden #1, 2008The work of Liz Moody is featured in the inaugural exhibit at the Shooting Gallery.From the artist's statement:Liz Moody is inspired by her mother's old vogue dress patterns, the magic and texture in the pages of vintage children's books, and the profusion of blossoms when spring finally arrives in the Northwest. Liz uses acrylic paint, India ink, collage, and pastel to build up layers of texture in each piece. She loves brilliant, saturated color and playful organic shapes that reveal small mysteries of text and paint.The show, titled "Burgeoning Blossoms/Fairy Tales," showcases Moody's multi-layered work...
BoysRead.org is on a Mission to Transform Boys into Lifelong Readers
Here are the cold facts:America's boys are the most violent in the industrialized world. 50% of all minority male students drop out of school. 87% of boys play explicitly violent video games. 92% of convicted violent felons are male. Seattle-based BoysRead.org is an organization of parents, educators, librarians, mentors, author that believes that "male literacy is part of the solution."In 2004 the NEA study, "Reading at Risk: a Survey of Literary Reading in America," found that reading by young men plummeted from 55 percent to 43 percent; by working to develop a lifelong passion for reading in boys, which includes...
The Perfect Shelf for Your Kindle, IPhone or E-Book Reader
The folks at Not Tom design studio have done it; perhaps unintentionally.The good old book has become the fodder for what might be the perfect charging station for your electronic reading devices.Here's how the design came about:The idea for the Book Book Shelf came from the realisation of how many books are discarded on a regular basis. These particular books were to be thrown out at the end of a jumble sale and we wondered what more could be made of them. We like the idea that value can be added to many discarded items through ingenuity and redefinition of...