PICTURE BOOKS: Your Pet Book Blog

Mise en page and mise en texte for Euclid’s Geometry (1546) by Becka For some reason, I am unable to add any photos to this blog post due to “not enough space to upload”, so I apologize for the descriptions of images that my readers cannot see and will have to rely on my previous … Read more

This delightful and compact volume — 1928’s The House at Pooh Corner, written by British poet, playwright, and children’s book author Alan Alexander (A.A.) Milne — is very visual. That may sound patently silly, as most every book* is “visual,” comprising symbols and images that convey the book’s content and messages.  But The House at Pooh Corner … Read more

Cook books are interesting to me because they are meant to be used, not just as reading material, but as a guidebook on how to make something. Therefore, the way a cookbook is put together and laid out has to be practical. The expectation is that someone who is cooking from the book should be … Read more

At a glance, PPKG gives off ‘big head, tiny face’ meme vibes. Each page is grandiose – 28.25 x 22.25 cm – but the space isn’t maximized by the text. The text-block is one column about a third of that height and length. It’s left-aligned and justified, without line breaks, giving the impression that the … Read more

            This book is made up of folios, full printmaking paper size folded in half, with 4 pages an extended size folded in (these measurements are detailed in the first blog post).  I appreciate that the heft of this book, perhaps “cumbersome” to some book-lovers, is reflective of the heft I feel for extinctions of … Read more

Mise-en-page and mise-en-texte is really the reason that I chose Yoko Ono’s Acorn as my Pet Book Project. There is a fluidity and simplicity to the way that the text and page is presented that lends itself to a peaceful experience while reading this book. The general step up of the book is that the … Read more