OK Potterities, time for a little eye candy. The Telegraph has gathered a healthy sampling of graphic art inspired by everyone's favorite wizard. Here's a taste of some of the graphic wizardry: This post originally appeared on Book Riot
Take Your Poet to Work Day
"Why should kids have all the fun? Your poet wants to go to work with you too." We're only days away from Take Your Poet to Work Day courtesy of tweetspeak. Poe, Dickinson, Neruda, Eliot, Rumi, Basho and others are all waiting for you...
In the Stacks: The Tokyo Sightseeing Photo Club
The latest installment of In the Stacks takes us through the Flickr archive of the Tokyo Sightseeing Photo Club, a group of photography enthusiasts who snap and click their way through the city. Here is a bookish sampling of their handiwork from their cache of almost ten thousand images: Previously on In The Stacks: First Visit to The New Digital Library of America Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Playing Cards at the Beinecke National Library of Ireland The Astor Free Library at the NYPL Women's Travel Diaries at Duke University Charles Darwin's Library The National Archives...
Up All Night: A History of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
The National Book Foundation has created an online exhibit featuring the 228 titles that have won or were nominated for the prestigious National Book Award in the Young People's Literature category. Beginning in 1969 with the first winner, Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert DeJong, to last year's winner William Alexander for Goblin Secrets, Up All Night offers endless opportunities to find a quality read for both you and the kids. Not all are still in print but hopefully that will change soon.
Finn Dean’s illustrations for ‘Brave New World’ take top prize
Finn Dean has won this year's Book Illustration Competition. The annual event, co-sponsored by the non-profit House of Illustration and The Folio Society, invites artists and illustrators from around the world to focus their energies on illustrating the same book. This year over 500 entrants from 30 countries were asked to illustrate Aldous Huxley's classic Brave New World. Deans winning set of illustrations will be published in a new Folio Society edition of Brave New World due out in September. h/t with more photos from the finalists at Creative Review