The Care and Traning of Your Pet R̶o̶c̶k̶ Book
Pet Book Blog Post# 4 – Before & After-lifeA Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare with Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London, Heinemann ; New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908 While many illustrated editions of individual plays have been created: Arthur Rackhams’ 1908 edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream may be the most widely known and … Read more
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Conclusion/Overall Thoughts: Reflecting on my Pet Book project, I think I enjoyed looking more closely at this book. I think it has taught me to just in general look more closely at books. For example, I was at the library today and noticed a spine of a book was in velvet which led me to … Read more
“… Most of you are probably not the intended reader for your pet book. Those working on children’s books are not children themselves …” Oh, but I am the intended reader of The House at Pooh Corner — and I have been since 1960, when I turned four and the book was first read to me … Read more
My PET book is, according to World Cat, held in 23 libraries. Most are in the United States, 10 are in New England, PA, NY, and Mid-Atlantic state liberal arts colleges; 5 are in major southern state universities and 3 in CA; one in Illinois, as well as one at the library of Congress. There … Read more
Pet Blog Post #4: Afterlife Investigating the materials and construction of Winnie-The-Pooh through my first blog post, I quickly recognized that the book is in impeccable condition. The pages are consistently smooth and cleanly white, and despite some page corners being slightly wrinkled, perhaps due to water, heat, or poor handling/storage, I noticed no other … Read more
Pet Book Blog Post #3 The images on Death Masks are visual representations of the dead subject. They are sketched out and then impressed on the paper. This is a relief process. In the book Death Masks by Stuart Denenberg, and etcher, Leonard Baskin, the illustrations and the text do not cohabit on any single … Read more
Pet Book Blog Post# 3A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare with Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London, Heinemann ; New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908 As you may recall from my first blog post, the motivation for choosing this codex as my pet book was because of my fond childhood memories of Arthur Rackham’s illustrations. … Read more
We’ve reached the end of the Pet book project! Well done everyone. I bet you have learned a lot more from a book than you thought you ever could! While this blogpost will have a theme, please feel free to take some space in your post to reflect on what you have learned and to … Read more
Alan Alexander Milne and Sir Ernest Howard Shepard generated opportunities for their readers and their read-to’s (or their read-along-withs) to transcend the printed page altogether and to enter that fantastical realm — some of them for life, or longer in the memories of others. ~ The endpapers at the front and back of The House at Pooh … Read more