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Reviews from Pink Me: Children's books reviewed for grownups.
Skippyjon Jones and the big bones by Judy Schachner
Last year, Big Man's kindergarten teacher said of the Skippyjon Jones books, "I feel like I'm sort of being manipulated to like these books, and I really just don't." She couldn't put her finger on what she didn't care for, and it's a tough call - LOVE the chalky, colorful, detailed illustrations that are both quirky and technically accomplished; I like the title character, who is both independent and imaginative, and his tattletale little sisters and no-nonsense mom, with their fun names; and I adore Schachner's use of Spanglish ("Hola, dudes!") throughout. Hell, there's even a song or two. I think what always bugs me about these books is the plot, weirdly enough. Accompanied by his crowd of Chihuahua friends, Skippyjon Jones assumes his alter ego, Skippito Friskito the great sword fighter, and goes on an imaginary adventure in his closet. And I swear, it's the adventure story that always falls apart. Even my kids get confused looks on their faces during the part where Skippito battles the giant bee / dances with the dinosaurs / whatever. I keep reading these books though, because Skippyjon and his family are great characters and I love saying their names. You guys want to start calling me Mama Junebug Jones, you go right ahead.
A closer look, by Mary McCarthy
A neato book about observation and scale for the youngest pairs of eyes. VERRY reminiscent of Steve Jenkins, with strong colors and paper collage art.
Water Boy by David McPhail
A nice, weird book about a boy's relationship with water - the water in his body, the water in his bath, the water in the environment. Like a caring teacher, David McPhail's characteristically quiet, rich watercolors get right down in front of the boy to observe his reactions to the ordinary and extraordinary manifestations of water in his world.
Calendar by Myra Cohn Livingston, illustrated by Will Hillenbrand
The sparse text here was a little abstract for my four year old, but the energetic, slightly minimalist illustrations almost made up for that.
Meet the meerkat by Darrin Lunde, illustrated by Patricia Wynne
Patricia Wynne keeps showing up as the illustrator of books produced by employees and alums of the American Museum of Natural History, and while her somewhat clumsy mice and hominids in books such as Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle's Bones, Brains and DNA make you feel like maybe she's overworked, the keenly observed drawings of meerkats in this book by mammalogist Darrin Lunde show you what she can do given a single subject. This is a great little book about a popular little beast, a rare item in the Easy nonfiction area.
Bean Thirteen by Matthew McElligott
The faux-woodcut illustrations in this buggy book about division are just fantastic. Chunky, hip, and expressive, with a sophisticated, punchy palette. The story? Meh.
Phooey! by Marc Rosenthal
Where Once Upon a Banana does cause-and-effect with road signs, Phooey! does it with onomatopoeia. A bored kid kicks a can, which disturbs a cat, who jumps on an elephant, etc. All the while the kid, complaining that nothing every happens around here, walks right past all the exciting action. Rosenthal, who calls Celesteville "my utopia" in his dedication, displays a love of clean line and clear color worthy of Babar.
Tap dancing on the roof by Linda Sue Park, pictures by Istvan Banyai
Linda Sue Park here does for sijo what Andrew Clements recently did for haiku - her clear, funny examples of this short poetic form in effect show kids how it's done. After reading poems like
Pockets
What's in your pockets right now? I hope they're not empty:
Empty pockets, unread books, lunches left on the bus - all a waste
In mine: One horse chestnut. One gum wrapper. One dime. One hamster.
...it's almost impossible to not want to try it yourself. And Istvan Banyai? Do I really have to say it? The Goran Visnjic of illustrators.
For our anniversary, my husband surprised me with a trip to Barter Books, a used bookstore in a converted train station in Alnwick, England.
This was what I bought to keep for myself.
This week's Books-As-Art class was about photographing books and things. I did a few different ones, considering the limitation of materials and time.
I like this one, but it could be better, I guess. I dunno how. I used a mirror and focused on the mirror image.
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As the storm came in this morning the different glass of Mansueto gave some cool reflections. Tried to get a good shot and a filter that best showed the reflection of the bookstacks.
after learning that Borders may be closing I took a book picture of the re-released & redesigned classics. it's hard going considering I read lots & lots & lots of genre fiction. :D
penguin classics - www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/pubsetpages/clothboundcl...
coralie bickford-smith (the book designer) - www.cb-smith.com
eta: this is the US collection of the Penguin Classics. the first series of the collection released in the UK is numbered on the sides (1-10) the US collection does not book #1 Madame Bovary or #8 Crime and Punishment. instead the US collection has 24 books, while the UK collection has 26!
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It's a coincidence that I put up the Kindle in front of the book "The Dark Side". (It's actually "The Dark Side of Love" by Rafik Schami.)
21st cake. Thomas is an avid reader so his mum and I came up with the idea for a stack of his favorite books. The top USA book is for his upcoming year in the USA. There is also happry potter, michael connolly, enid blyton.
The upright book is a book from his childhood. And I think makes the cake.
This was my last cake for the year.
This was drawn fromthe imagination so the perspective and shading is a bit off but I was just having some fun.
Man, I wish I had time to get to these -- they look really interesting. I've only read the intro book to semiotics and the reference guide to terms in philosophy for theology. The rest are things I really need to read, though.
From top-to-bottom:
- Nihilism Before Nietzsche, by Michael Allen Gillespie
- How to read Nietzsche, by Keith Ansell Pearson (series editor: Simon Critchley)
- Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ, by Frederick Nietzsche
- The Birth of Tragedy/The Genealogy of Morals, by Frederick Nietzsche
- Beyond Good & Evil, by Frederick Nietzsche
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Frederick Nietzsche
- Jacques Derrida: Live Theory, by James K. A. Smith
- Discipline & Punish, by Michel Foucault
- The Archaelogy of Knowledge, by Michel Foucault
- The Order of Things, by Michel Foucault
- Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault
- 101 Key Terms in Philosophy and their Importance for Theology, by Kelly Clark, Richard Lints, and James K. A. Smith
- What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism? by A. K. M. Adam
- The Postmodern Condition, by Francois Lyotard
- Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islamn, Modernity, by Talal Asad
- Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre
- The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
- The Matrix and Philosophy, edited by William Irwin
- More Matrix and Philosophy, edited by William Irwin
- Introducing Semiotics, by Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz
- Introducing Modernism, by Chris Rodrigues and Chris Garratt
- Introducing Postmodernism, by Richard Appignanesi and Chris Garratt
- Get a Grip on Philosophy, by Neil Turnbull
The British Museum Reading Room, located at the heart of the Great Court, was designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 to house the growing library of the British Museum. Constructed of cast iron, concrete, and a papier-mâché dome inspired by the Pantheon, the room’s circular design accommodated thousands of books and readers, with surrounding iron bookstacks and forty kilometers of shelving. It served as the principal reading room of the British Library until the collection relocated to St Pancras in 1997. After restoration, the Reading Room reopened in 2000 for general visitors, later hosting major exhibitions from 2007 to 2013 before closing for archival use until reopening in 2023.
The British Museum, located in Bloomsbury, London, was established in 1753 and opened in 1759 as the world’s first national public museum. Originally housed in Montagu House, it now occupies a grand neoclassical building designed by Sir Robert Smirke, constructed between 1823 and 1852 on the same site. The museum’s encyclopedic collection of over eight million objects spans over two million years of human history, with major highlights including the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and the Sutton Hoo treasures--many of which remain the subject of ongoing repatriation discussions.
The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is the largest covered public square in Europe. It is a large space enclosed by a spectacular glass roof with the world-famous Reading Room at its center.
In the original design of the British Museum, the courtyard was meant to be a garden. However, in 1852–7 the Reading Room and a number of bookstacks were built in the courtyard to house the library department of the Museum and the space was lost. In 1997, the Museum’s library department was relocated to the new British Library building in St Pancras and there was an opportunity to re-open the space to public. An architectural competition was launched to re-design the courtyard space. It was eventually won by Norman Foster.
File name: 08_02_002725
Box label: Public buildings: Libraries
Title: Boston Athenaeum. Interior
Alternative title: Boston Athenaeum: Beacon St. interior
Creator/Contributor: Marr, Thomas E. (photographer)
Date issued:
Date created: 1901
Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.
Genre: Photographic prints
Subjects: Boston Athenaeum; Athenaeums; Libraries; Buildings; Interiors; Bookstacks
Notes: Number on image: 5606
Provenance:
Statement of responsibility: T. E. Marr
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated.
Bookstack, top to bottom:
Hildafolk by Luke Pearson
The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
An amazing book store in Halifax. We wandered in because the site of piles and towers of books stacked in the windows made us curious. There were towers up to the ceiling, windows cut out through books, stairs lined w/ books. There were narrow corridors and twists and turns - some you could not even get through.
This is for Kate's Brilliant Photo A Day Challenge - the theme is "the last thing you bought" (this book, for Homesong Book Club, that is, if we're not counting bus tickets and groceries...).
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The good thing about being in Germany is that amazon works here. Norway leaves something to be desired when it comes to having books shipped to your home.
This here is my last haul, plus two Norwegian books I'm saving for a blue day. Currently reading Vernor Vinge.
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Sterling Memorial Library is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut. Opened in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus. It is elaborately ornamented, featuring extensive sculpture and painting as well as hundreds of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit. In addition to five large reading rooms, a Music Library, and courtyard on the ground floor, the library's tower has fifteen levels of bookstacks containing over 4 million volumes. It connects via tunnel to the underground Bass Library, which contains an additional 150,000 volumes.
For National Poetry Month, we invited library users to send us poems "written" using book titles. April 2013.
John Paul Jones - Evan Thomas
Eight Men Out - Eliot Asinof
The Way to Bright Star - Dee Brown
Write It When I'm Gone - Thomas DeFrank
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon
The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston
River of Doubt - Candice Millard (not pictured)
Fraud of the Century - Roy Morris Jr.
Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor
Cod - Mark Kurlansky
Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Indian Wars - Bill Yenne
Robbing the Bees - Holley Bishop (not pictured)
The Boys of '98 - Dale Walker
The Somme - Peter Hart
Fire and Brimstone - Michael Punke (not pictured)
The Great Bridge - David McCullough
The Burma Road - Donovan Webster
18 books, bit of an improvement over 2008 and a personal record. Sadly, now that I'm going back to school, 2010 is likely to take a dramatic drop. As always, lists and links are here.
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My Toes Are Cold
It's been cold these last couple of weeks at night (well duh it's winter). I keep wearing thicker socks but my toes are always cold until I got to bed. Our heater isn't that great at making the apartment warm (not in the least bit).
I decided to do this one after really liking the one I took in the bookstacks at one of my school's libraries a few days ago. I really do like taking pictures of people's feet and shoes.
