Maeve Dermody and Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteFour out of five indigenous children in the remote areas of Australia are illiterate. To help break this horrific reality marie claire magazine has enlisted some of Australia's leading stars.marie claire asks some of the country' leading entertainers "to evoke the spirit of books that mean a lot to them." The project is called The Wonder of Words.Vanessa Amorosi and Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertThe campaign lasts through the month of February and benefits the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (which also benefited from Ikea's recent construction of the world's largest outdoor...
Books on Shirts
The company is called Out of Print and they are out to celebrate the "world’s great stories through fashion."They've just released a new line of t-shirts emblazoned with iconic dust jacket art from the classics of yesteryear.They come in at a hefty $28 a pop but they are done legitimately with the proper licensing fees going to the publisher's, artists and authors. Out of Print will also donate one book for every t-shirt they sell to Books For Africa. The first t-shirts will be ready to ship in mid February. They are launching with men's sizes only and hope to...