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The Joy of Children’s Books

January 25, 2014 by still a dreamer

BoyReadingYou can Kindle all you want, but I think I will always want a book in my hand. And the joy of reading with a book in hand is never more important than for a child.

I subscribe to an e-mailed newsletter from the biggest children’s bookstore in NYC, Books of Wonder. Each week, into my Inbox comes a colorful announcement of the latest books for children across all genres, and photos of authors and illustrators who will be doing book visits and signings. I don’t subscribe to many things like this because I am already overwhelmed with work-related e-mails, but I always look forward to their newsletter. The Books of Wonder e-mails keep me in touch with children’s books, where I continue to devote time to writing and illustrating, whet my appetite for something new, and keep me apprised of what’s selling in picture books. middle grade, YA and more.

This Friday, something even more exciting arrived, a video … a video of a young girl perusing the shelves of the bookstore, running her fingers along the spines of the books. (This so reminds me of Liesel in Ilsa Hermann’s library in The Book Thief and makes it even more meaningful, but that’s for another post.) When the girl picks up a book, we hear the sounds of the subject, a train whistle from a locomotive story, the whinnying of a horse, cackling from the Oz books, and all with Strauss in the background. It’s brilliant.

I believe you’ll enjoy the YouTube video from Books of Wonder, and please visit their website for the latest that’s happening in children’s books, and/or to sign up for their newsletter:

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Posted in Art, Authors, Books, Children's Books, Creativity, Good Reads, Illustration, Novels, Writing | Tagged books, Books of Wonder, children's books, children's bookstore, NYC | 4 Comments

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  1. on January 25, 2014 at 6:54 pm home, garden, life

    Amen sister!
    I just edited my cookbook proposal which will go to a publisher! I want readers to feel, smell, and prop it open! 😉

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    • on January 27, 2014 at 4:11 pm still a dreamer

      Exactly … and with lots of gorgeous photos. Good luck – keep me posted. Jeanne

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  2. on February 22, 2014 at 4:31 pm 47whitebuffalo

    Ha! What a lovely video–smiling girl reading beautiful books,complete with music and sound effects. Someone had fun making it.
    The Art of Books–in all their forms–though like you, having grown up with hardcopies in hand it’s difficult to transition to ‘technology’ in a little box for reading.

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    • on February 23, 2014 at 5:36 pm still a dreamer

      Wasn’t that cool? I loved the cackling from the OZ books! This is another field trip one of my fellow children’s book friends and I have talked about.
      And it alllll waits `til Spring (or Summer.)

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