Presents a collection of practical ideas for creating personal pages using a variety of art supplies and materials and includes hundreds of suggestions from contemporary artists on design and style using paint, fabric, stamps, and other objects.
A library book, sitting on a shelf day after day, recalls a time when he was popular, visiting different homes and having great adventures, but when he is finally checked out again, he finds the experience not quite as exciting as he remembered.
When Olivier uncovers an unusual book filled with arcane and fascinating information, he realizes the book is alive and filled with strange things that lead Olivier on a grand adventure.
Traces in text and photos the process by which wood, glue, and ink are brought together to make books, covering such aspects as cover design, printing, page trimming, and binding.
Fourteen-year-old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices.
A listing of five hundred works of literature frequently found on high school and college reading lists that provides information on each work's title, author, date of first publication, type of work, and content.
Every night for two years Peter searches in the library for the lost book on how to live forever, and when he finds it, he makes an important decision.
Mr. Wiggle uses his book as an example to teach beginning library rules. He invites children to come to the library, check books out and return them on time.
the art of upcycling, deconstructing, & reimagining the book
Thompson, Jason
2010
Photographs and step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to create unique crafts using books, combining the techniques of woodworking, bookbinding, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts to transform ordinary books into extraordinary objects.
Three friends and the librarian in a Massachusetts town must help each other to free the ghosts that have been imprisoned in books by a professor on a fantastical island many years ago.
