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Attic Door Loves Books: Attic Door Loves Picture Books: A First Installment
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Attic Door Loves Books. Thursday, June 24, 2010. Attic Door Loves Picture Books: A First Installment. The mid-year holidays have inspired in me not only an appreciation of the fine work of Oliver Jeffers, but of picture books in general. Here are just a few of my personal picture book keepsakes. Are renowned for their beautiful and timeless children's classics, and Little Beauty. The gorilla becomes "more and more upset. and then very ANGRY. I broke the television! Olivia Saves the Circus. I challenge an...
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little attic: Once there was a boy, and a bear, a penguin, and a heart in a bottle - A Blog in Two Parts on the Incredible Book-Making Oliver Jeffers
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Book reviews for children and childish grown-ups! Monday, June 21, 2010. Once there was a boy, and a bear, a penguin, and a heart in a bottle - A Blog in Two Parts on the Incredible Book-Making Oliver Jeffers. I am inherently a fan of things by nature. Once I discover a favourite illustrator/author/musician/you-name-it, it doesn't take me long to accumulate their work, at times a little over zealously too. And after The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Less than a week later. It was The Great Paper Caper.
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little attic: Once there was a boy, and a bear, a penguin, and a heart in a bottle - A Blog in Two Parts on the Incredible Book-Making Oliver Jeffers
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Book reviews for children and childish grown-ups! Sunday, June 20, 2010. Once there was a boy, and a bear, a penguin, and a heart in a bottle - A Blog in Two Parts on the Incredible Book-Making Oliver Jeffers. Once there was a girl who, trawling as she liked to do ofttimes for little treasures in her favourite bookshop, found in a pair of hands a very special treasure indeed: Oliver Jeffers. The Incredible Book Eating Boy. A declaration of circus proportions in bold, star-marked letters. It is after eati...
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Attic Door Loves Books: Art, Beauty, and Magic Soaked into Every Single Page
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Attic Door Loves Books. Saturday, February 20, 2010. Art, Beauty, and Magic Soaked into Every Single Page. I raised my proverbial glass and gave three cheers this past weekend for Mr.Barry Ronge's. Tribute to the irreplaceable joys of a "real book" in his Sunday Times Magazine. Column, " Book me in, I'm staying. A much-adored member of the Fogarty's Bookshop. Clan recently bestowed one of the greatest honours upon me: entrusting me with her much-adored copy of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. A brand-spanki...
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little attic: March 2010
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Book reviews for children and childish grown-ups! Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Art, Beauty, and Magic Soaked into Every Page. I raised my proverbial glass and gave three cheers this past weekend for Mr. Barry Ronge's. Tribute to the irreplaceable joys of a "real book" in his Sunday Times Magazine. Column, "Book me in, I'm staying. It is in the spirit of his homage to the visceral pleasures of the world of beautiful books that I would like to 'pay it forward', by reiterating these sentiments in this. A bran...
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little attic: April 2010
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Book reviews for children and childish grown-ups! Monday, April 12, 2010. The Peg-Legged Shadow That Goes Bump in the Night. I'll be the first to admit that I get as much pleasure out of a little harmless shadow-boxing as anyone. Metaphorically speaking. The villains we loved the most (or at least remember the most vividly! Were the ones who struck fear into our tiny little hearts and imaginations, like a cold and vicious lance. Take Disney, for instance. I mean of course, uncompromisingly dastardly!
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Attic Door Loves Books: My Mosts of the Moment
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Attic Door Loves Books. Tuesday, July 5, 2011. My Mosts of the Moment. Most Eagerly Anticipated…. As you might know from previous blogs. I am a HUGE fan of Jeffers and this latest offering has only fortified my fanship! Jeffers returns to us that lovably odd pair of friends, of boy and penguin, from the earlier. His work always touching without being corny or sentimentally syrupy,. Is true to this storyteller's art. To read an extract.). Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School. And when the story ends wi...
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Attic Door Loves Books: February 2010
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Attic Door Loves Books. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Interrogating the ‘Natural Food Chain’ in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals. Some friends and I have often lamented the bizarre state of question that is 'Why are you reading? Not 'what', not 'who', but ' why. The frustation that such a question presents to me must not be unlike that which my dearest friend, Nicole. Must go through on a weekly basis, when justifying her response to 'But why. Are you a vegetarian? But, as I said, I can relate. Fo...
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Attic Door Loves Books: A Box of Magic Pencils
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Attic Door Loves Books. Thursday, May 5, 2011. A Box of Magic Pencils. I had my doubts though. London wasn’t ready for the crazy South African fleeing the scene of the British Library gift shop with an armful of Alice-in-Wonderland stationery and a demented but satiated look in her eye. ‘Bobby Dies of Lead Poisoning’. Peruse it was then. And it was in these two hours of perusing/penny-less loitering (potato, tomato)that I fell in love Italian-born illustrator Sara Fanelli. Thank You. As always, you a...
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