JK Rowling is on Oprah this Friday (October 1, 2010). Just thought you might like to know. After all, we love Harry Potter. And it is Banned Books Week (how appropriate). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZFWA2KDbw] Sorry, you have to go to YouTube to see this – but it is worth it.
In case you haven’t heard it is Banned Books Week. You may wonder, what exactly is this? Well, it celebrates the freedom to read whatever you want. It reminds us about the importance of freedom of information. And reminds us about censorship. That is when you can’t get the information, […]
Don’t know why but this bookcase reminds me of a Dr. Seuss book or maybe Salvador Dali’s paintings. Weird?!?!?!?!?!
What do we like most? Books ✓ Stop Animation ✓ Paper arts✓ What do you get when you combine all three? A really wonderful video. Have a great weekend!!
Do you know what today is? No, we didn’t either. September is a month that is not really remarkable with events (if you exclude back to school, Labor day and several religious events). But hidden inside this month is quite a special day ~ September 22. It’s Hobbit Day! September […]
There are old books, and there are OLD BOOKS. Have you ever noticed how the old books look so interesting? and how they feel? The paper is different. The covers too. Have you noticed how new books feel? The covers have ink that leaves some sort of impression on your […]
Books are a wonderful thing. They are fun to read, they are wonderful to hold, and they are interesting to look at. But unfortunately not that many people read books anymore. In 2007 (I know that is a long time a in the past but…) MSNBC did a poll to […]
This person must really love their country.
phew…..what a week! First full week at school (always a challenge for kids and parents) and BBAW filled with lots and lots of visiting and visitors. Lots of good feelings are going around, so upbeat the toes are tapping…..so here, enjoy! Try and see if you can name some of […]
This is what you all have been waiting for. The Cat Pictures of Lenore’s 2 kittens she will be getting and Emmy, the older cat. Well here they are and I hope they are as cute as you all hoped they would be. Read the full interview below. Enjoy! If […]
I signed up to do an interview swap on BBAW’s website and my partner is Lenore from Presenting Lenore (click here to see her blog.) Interviewing another blog writer is a good experience and this was a lot of fun. So I asked her 10 questions and here is what […]
Summary Wow! Dan Brown has created yet another enthralling novel. This is the second one in the series with Robert Langdon (Angel’s and Demons being the first.) In this thrilling book Robert Langdon is called in to decipher a code written on a dead mans body(!). The weird thing is […]
The domino effect.
Funday Friday! Think IKEA is just about furniture? Think again! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCB7RqGS684&feature=player_embedded
Summary *From School Library Journal Review on Amazon.com Parallel stories follow teenagers Spence Morgan, a farm boy from Utah, and Dieter Hedrick, a farm boy from Bavaria. Stirred by complex feelings of patriotism and adolescent insecurities, both young men find themselves fighting for their respective countries in World War II. […]
Summary Robert Langdon is a symbologist and he has been sent some information that the secret society known as the Illuminati – a group devoted to science since the time of Galileo and condemning Catholicism since then too – is actually still in existence. When Max Kohler, director of CERN, calls him […]
The first in an occasional series of weird and wacky bookcases or book related things. Try and top any of this. But how do you get to the books which are in the center of the circles?????????
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This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. [Post was updated October 2019] Summary “As the German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the […]
