The Wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes

I can think of few books in my library that have had been as perennially popular as Bill Watterson‘s Calvin and Hobbes series. The principled and reclusive Watterson, who, since 1995 has gone on to other things, has the enviable gift of being able to combine sheer visual delight and entertainment with pithy observances like, “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us”. Edd McCracken has gathered Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else for our enjoyment.

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Calvin and Hobbes Facts

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Impressively Tiny Books by Bronte Siblings

“About 20 of these texts took the form of handsewn miniature books two inches tall. Harvard’s Houghton Library has nine of them, given by the poet Amy Lowell. The fragile volumes have just been treated to a painstaking team effort at the library to preserve and protect them.”

Read more at the Harvard Magazine

“It’s hard to imagine tweens today making these books, unless we started forcing them to take needlepoint classes, which apparently did wonders for dexterity, and took away their Hulu.”

Read more at the Hairpin

Changing Technology

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Via Mashable

Dawn Rosendahl’s Altered Books

 

 

See Rosendahl’s Porfolio for more.

 

Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.

Storytelling Opens Communication for People With Dementia and Alzheimer’s

“A method that opens storytelling to everyone by replacing the pressure to remember with encouragement to imagine.”

Read/Listen: Alzheimer’s Patients Turn To Stories Instead Of Memories NPR

Friday Funny: Exam Time

Information is Food

“There is no such thing as information overload, there is only filter failure.”

The Making of a Book Cover: Photoshop Magic!

Via Scoop.it!

John Green on Accusations of Pornography

John Green’s award winning YA novel Looking for Alaska is being embraced by some school boards and banned by others. The author’s response to this controversy is both humourous and enlightening.

Read: Censorship and Looking for Alaska in which pediatrician Joel Singerman discusses the role the controversial scene plays in the novel.