By: Sally Murphy,
on 10/31/2008
This is the last in my series of links to sample pages from my books of blackline masters, published by ready Ed. Today's featured title is The Book Book, a book all about books, for use in primary school classrooms. Enjoy the sample pages.
By: moonrat,
on 2/14/2008
called "Garfunkel's book fetish" Book geeks, rejoice! We have among us a pop icon: "Art Garfunkel is a compulsive reader, says Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker. Since June 1968, Garfunkel has read a grand total of 1,023 of the greatest works of literature. He knows this because he has compulsively been keeping track--chronologically listing each title, first on sheets of loose-leaf paper and
By: Betsy Bird,
on 3/25/2007
Nothing short of small sharp crowbars keeps me from reading children's books and only children's books for pleasure these days. Now Oz and Ends and bookshelves of doom have conspired to inform me of a book that I simply must read and pronto. I've already placed a hold on it (though there are a paltry 2 copies in all the New York Public Library system). Growl. Fidget. Grumph.
I've always been an Ukridge fan myself.
Love your tag for this.
I'm so glad you got that. Now, however, I'm singing the song that way in my brain.
Don't worry about falling off the kids'-book-only wagon. Wodehouse invented Psmith in his public-school novel Mike, later broken into the volumes Mike at Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith. So even though Psmith grows up into a young man, his roots lie like cress in the soil of children's literature.