Eiffel Tower Patrick Girouard was assigned the task of creating the visuals for the 2013 Illinois Library Association's iREAD® Summer reading project. The theme was "Have Book Will Travel" and here is his journey around the world. Big Ben Leaning Tower of Pisa Bookhenge Easter Island What a trip! Girouard's blog post on the project
Dr. Seuss as a political cartoonist
Dr. Seuss is forever entrenched in the upper pantheon of children's books writers. Many of the 46 children's books he wrote still have a place on our kids bookshelves. From Cat In The Hat to Hop on Pop to Green Eggs and Ham his stories are part of the fabric of many a childhood. His books have sold over 600 million copies, and appear in more than 20 languages. In 2000, Publishers Weekly compiled a list of the best-selling children's books of all time; of the top 100 hardcover books, 16 were written by Dr. Seuss! World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna. For...
The Beat Generation in the Big Apple
Carl Solomon, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Gotham Book Mart, New York City, 1977 Calling all tour guides... The latest New York-centric map from Constantine Valhouli features the haunts, hangouts and related places of interest for the Beat Generation. From the library in Ozone Park, Queens where Jack Kerouac started planning his seminal road trip to the West End bar across from Columbia University which became "a college bar for the Beat poets" and all points in between. The map highlights 123 spots of interest with most falling within the boundaries of NYC. Link to...
The Definitive Guide to Banned Books Vol. 1
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Shakespeare Altered: Imagining other looks for the Bard
Everyone knows who he is and everyone has an image in their mind of what he looks like. Now let's open our mind and enjoy a sampling of what Shakespeare would look like if... The wonderful site Érase una vez compiles a selection of images featuring some of the "most picturesque, comic, absurd or ironic" images of the Bard. From Top Gun to the Terminator here is Willie in all his glory. More images here: Hey, William, is that you? (The other faces of Shakespeare)