Puffin is celebrating their 70th anniversary with redesigned editions by six design and style icons. My favorite is illustrator Lauren Child’s take on The Secret Garden. I love how Mary’s discovery of the locked door beneath overgrown ivy is re-created for the reader in the peeling back of layers of paper to see the garden beneath.
Some of these limited anniversary editions are already sold out, but you can view the entire collection here.
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As more people consume pages in pixels, we wondered why does society still adhere, quite literally, to the analog, page-turning model? What happens when the reading experience catches up with new technologies? What opportunities might arise for authors, publishers, and retailers with major structural changes in the industry?
Have ideas on the future of the book? Join IDEO’s open conversation on Facebook.
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Remember back in April when I introduced you to a cute, book-haired decimal named Dewey? He’s back to help another library in need.
I dare you to say no to that cute face. Double-dog-dare you.
The Village Learning Place (VLP) is a dynamic 501(c)3 nonprofit library, learning center, and community garden in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore City. The VLP’s mission is to promote literacy, cultural awareness, and lifelong learning, offering free, high-quality educational, cultural, and outreach programs that are specifically designed to meet the diverse needs of neighborhood residents and to unite and strengthen the community.
So whether it’s because of Library Card Sign-up Month, Banned Books Week, International Literacy Day, or your love for your local library, head over to Dewey Donation System and give some bookworm love to the VLP.
Can a book text or tweet? Those are just two of the questions asked in IT’S A BOOK, the latest from writer and illustrator Lane Smith.
The story features a book-loving monkey and a tech-savvy donkey whose conversation about Treasure Island pokes fun at the great print vs. digital debate. To add to the humor, the book is being promoted with its own trailer.
Check out Smith’s site and his recent interview with The Wall Street Journal to learn more about how the book came to be.
Editors are not infallible, no matter how hard we strive for perfection. Luckily, there’s a delightful adage for the times we make mistakes: Muphry’s Law.
(a) If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written;
(b) If an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book;
(c) The stronger the sentiment expressed in (a) and (b), the greater the fault;
(d) Any book devoted to editing or style will be internally inconsistent.
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The book is alive. The book is paper, it’s print, it’s digital, it’s online, it’s on your phone, it’s in your purse, it’s under your pillow. The book is everywhere. The book is changing. What will we design next? We’ll keep designing the book, we’ll keep reinventing what it is, find new ways to read, new ways to write, new ways to publish, new ways to spread information.”
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