Children's book illustrator Emily Gravett used a very unusual tool in making the drawings for her latest title, Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears: rat urine. There's no actual urine in the printed books, mind you. Instead Gravett encouraged her two pet rats Button and Mr Moo to chew on and piddle on her drawings … Continue reading Don’t Lick the Pages, Kids
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Keeping It Local
I haven't yet been able to track down a copy and confirm this with my own eyes, but Magers and Quinn is the setting for part of Alison McGhee's latest young adult novel Julia Gillian (And the Art of Knowing). McGhee tells School Library Journal,"Magers & Quinn? It’s my favorite bookstore. I set the story … Continue reading Keeping It Local
Show Me Books
Following the writing school advice "Show it, don't tell it," the Kansas City public library makes itself known to citizens with a wall of books along its main facade.There was something similar done during construction of a library in Cardiff, Wales, but it seems to have been only temporary.--David E
Musings from Magers and Quinn 