Author: Robert Goolrick
An interesting story, but too full of the author's presence. I hate being addressed directly in the first few pages, and found that the style was far from my favorite - too much lolling around in words. I made it through though, because the story was interesting.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Dear Toni
Author / Illustrator: Cyndi Sand-Eveland
Hackmatack winner.
A journal assignment in class - to write for 100 days to a grade 6 student 40 years in the future.
Great story, dogs, best friends, gifts and a little brother.
Hackmatack winner.
A journal assignment in class - to write for 100 days to a grade 6 student 40 years in the future.
Great story, dogs, best friends, gifts and a little brother.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Maybe Later
Author / Illustrator: Philippe Dupuy & Charles Berberian
A comic book journal about the lives of two guys collaborating on a comic book. Grateful for the insight to the insecurity and especially grateful for this quotation:
"I came to believe, like an archer with closed eyes, that thought is both the arrow and the target and that worrying about the nature of the arrow and the target is useless and distracting, because it's enough to draw the bow, without releasing the arrow."
From Rezvani: The Painter's Second Thoughts
(he gave up painting for writing 30 years ago, he took up 17 unfinished canvases to complete them now)
'It's that we don't do things for practical reasons only, but also for the beauty of the act.'
A comic book journal about the lives of two guys collaborating on a comic book. Grateful for the insight to the insecurity and especially grateful for this quotation:
"I came to believe, like an archer with closed eyes, that thought is both the arrow and the target and that worrying about the nature of the arrow and the target is useless and distracting, because it's enough to draw the bow, without releasing the arrow."
From Rezvani: The Painter's Second Thoughts
(he gave up painting for writing 30 years ago, he took up 17 unfinished canvases to complete them now)
'It's that we don't do things for practical reasons only, but also for the beauty of the act.'
Masterpiece
Author: Elise Broach
A beetle that lives behind a kitchen cupboard plays with a lonely boy's ink and paper and ends up copying a Durer masterpiece, to allow it to be stolen to help the F.B.I. track the theft ring.
All beetle POV, a great story.
A beetle that lives behind a kitchen cupboard plays with a lonely boy's ink and paper and ends up copying a Durer masterpiece, to allow it to be stolen to help the F.B.I. track the theft ring.
All beetle POV, a great story.
Tam Lin
Author: Pamela Dean
Fantasy meets coed college in this tale of mortals that knew Shakespeare, wandering the campus of Balckstock College. Loads of references to reading things that I've never touched, and better still reading in the original language, greek or latin.
Still the story comes round and the old ballad is lived through again, with a hint of dark foreboding that should have spawned a sequel.
Fantasy meets coed college in this tale of mortals that knew Shakespeare, wandering the campus of Balckstock College. Loads of references to reading things that I've never touched, and better still reading in the original language, greek or latin.
Still the story comes round and the old ballad is lived through again, with a hint of dark foreboding that should have spawned a sequel.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
The Heart and the Bottle
Author / Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
First read this as an iPad app and was dissatisfied with the ending, so found a paper copy in the library.
Gorgeous illustrations and much better uninterrupted flow of text and image on paper.
The app is great, except for one misstep at the end.
First read this as an iPad app and was dissatisfied with the ending, so found a paper copy in the library.
Gorgeous illustrations and much better uninterrupted flow of text and image on paper.
The app is great, except for one misstep at the end.
Friday, April 1, 2011
The Creative License
Author / Illustrator: Danny Gregory
A guidebook for the creatively inhibited, bought for the simple pleasure of illustration and text sharing the page and filled with useful exercise and inspiring quotes and art.
A guidebook for the creatively inhibited, bought for the simple pleasure of illustration and text sharing the page and filled with useful exercise and inspiring quotes and art.
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