am beginning to see how Julie's and my personalities come through in the different ways we blog and in our choices of subject matter. After Julie's very thoughtful and themed Thursday post about covers on books about civil rights, I (C.) bring you this post, in which I've chosen to highlight an olio (crossword puzzle word) of some very silly book covers and other curious design-related things I've come across recently. Truly, we move from the sublime (Julie) to the ridiculous (moi).
For example, how about that capital "I" at the beginning of this post, huh? The big illuminated letter at the beginning of a manuscript is known as a "versal" (which I just learned and now you did, too). You can get free ones to use on your own blog at the Daily Drop Cap.
Here's a(n undoubtedly very important and instructive) book about nostrils, which comes from Curious Pages, a most awesome blog:
The Curious Pages masthead image is the cover of Struwwelpeter, the ever-charming, ever-frightening children's book of cautionary tales, which alone illustrates what the blog's focus is. Subversive. Here's another cover they dug up for us on that blog, The Man Who Lost His Head by Claire Huchet Bishop and Robert McCloskey, 1942:
Gah!!!! Mommy, why? Don't let Ouack, Nack, and the rest see that.
A little off-topic, but so cool-->This site boasts an archive of every known cover ever made of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds from 1898 through 2009. Here's one I especially liked:
This article from The Spectacle delves into why some covers, The Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman (HarperCollins/Greenwillow) for example, undergo several changes over the course of their lives. It's not particularly silly or curious, except that I know some of us are curious about why covers are changed. (Did you see that? Did you see how I changed the meaning of curious? Gosh, I'm awesome sometimes.)
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Happy Friday to all! It’s been quite a crazy week here in New York but fear not, I still have lots of links to distract you today. Happy surfing.
Why peace activists shouldn’t get discouraged.
Why you should be reading the financial news.
Dirty car art (not that kind of dirty!) (more…)
By: Aline Pereira,
on 8/1/2007
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As promised in a previous post, here are some real recipes for kids. Not a better resource than Lerner Books’ series of Easy Menu Ethnic Cooking. With over 30 titles representing countries all over the world, Lerner provides systematic, lively cooking challenges for responsible young chefs. Featured on the San Francisco Public Library Asian Heritage list, these small-format books offer good illustrations, manageable recipes and an appealing format.
The World Cookbook for Students, another great resource, targets U.S. students in schools where preparing an international dish is a regular assignment. Bobbie Kalman’s Multicultural Meals presents simple vegetarian recipes appropriate for elementary school kids to prepare (with supervision), including curry, pita toppers, greek salad, spinach quiche (with a prepared pie crust), and Thai coconut soup and noodles. Matthew Locriccio’s International Cookbook for Kids has a simple “On your Mark, Get Set, Cook!” format suitable for the somewhat experienced middle schooler. Mollie Katzen, well-known chef for grownups, has two vegetarian cookbooks, Pretend Soup And Other Real Recipes (with educator Ann Henderson) and Salad People and More Real Recipes. Both offer young cooking enthusiasts experience with counting, measuring, and other culinary skills and include advice for supervising adults as well.
Hope these books will inspire the kids in your life to cook up a real multicultural meal!
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