Posts Tagged: book love

For the Love of Books.

Type Bookstore, Toronto. Bravo.

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Unputdownable. (Or, Confessions of a Cupcake-a-holic)

 

un·put·down·a·ble/ˌənˌpo͝otˈdounəbəl/

Adjective:

(of a book) So engrossing that one cannot stop reading it.

I just returned from NYC with twelve ten cupcakes. (Hey, if your flight was delayed at LGA and you sat next to a dozen freshly baked

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I’ve Fallen

Again.

I have fallen – and fallen hard – for a new middle grade. Every. Single. Line is perfect, witty, and chosen with care. It’s no surprise, as the author is my hero. (The illustrations are spot-on, too.)

So, THE

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Librarians, avert your eyes.

If you’re doing Christmas on a shoe-string budget (like me) and are or know book lovers (like me), you must check out Living with Lindsay‘s fabulous tutorial on making your own book wreath. (That’s her wreath above.)

It’s

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Am giddy.

I ordered this book so I’d have some *light* reading over the holidays. All I need now is a cupcake.*

*Red velvet with cream cheese frosting, please.

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Today in History

Author of Frog and Toad, Owl At Home, and many other classics, Arnold Lobel, was born.

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I’m Not Jealous

Really, who’d want a room like this with PICTURE BOOK ART on the walls?

Who needs an insanely colorful collection of recycled, found objections and spunky, one of a kind pillows? Me.

A painted red gate for a headboard? Me.

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In which I bake. . . a lot.

Something about being snowed in makes me want donuts or cinnamon rolls. Maybe since that’s what my mom and the neighbor kids’ mom always served up on sledding days. Who knows. I’ve baked entirely too much these last three days. … Read More

A Study on Voice

And sight.

I highly recommend this book.

It was in my top three of amazing reads of 2009. Frankly, it changed the way I view the world.

Rumor has it movie in the works.

It’s for grown-ups.

And it’s

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Paris Bookstore, Plus an Author Interview

Click here for a fabulous interview with Johanna Wright, Illustrator and Author of children’s books, in which she talks about her writing and painting process. Her most recent work is The Secret Circus (Roaring Brook Press, March 31, 2009).… Read More