Essential cookery, cookbooks, mixed with some rich literature, fresh children’s, and a bent towards what’s local/novel. Always a joy to visit and shop. Finds galore. One very smart cookie.
GOOD EGG
267 Augusta Avenue
Kensington Market
Photos: KIRBY
*A phrase my grandmother used to say describing something exceptionally good. For example, a piece of cold stuffing with a slab of butter.
Pictured: My beloved “How and Why Wonder Book”
Dinosaurs (and one big bear), Children’s floor
The blanket that protected me from Godzilla.
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CHRISTIAN JACKSON (Square Inch Design) describes his current special project series as “Hyper-minimalist poster designs of the classic children’s stories we’ve grown to know and love.” I call them exquisitely rendered wonders of beauty. Buy them here.
[thx Justine]
So rare to find real treasure. Awe-inspiring. Magical. Classic.
Nesquens, Daniel. MY TATTOOED DAD. Trans. Elisa Amado. Ill. Sergio Mora. Toronto : Groundswell, 2011.
New found joy at yesterday’s yard sale (and my first vid).
‘B.C.’ ‘Before Computers’ … ‘Beyond Computers’
Wonder.
Pictured: Two of the children’s story rooms at the Main Branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library (nary a computer terminal in sight).
Photos: KIRBY [click on images to enlarge]
One of the most memorable moments at the OLA SuperConference was, when happening upon the marvelous tinlids booth in expo, meeting the warm and generous Maria Martella and their ingenious “What Kind of Book Are You?” buttons. I was immediately taken with the pretty, pink “I am poetry” one, and Maria was so kind to gift me hers. Maria, you are the reason I work in libraries. May we be surrounded by such in our profession.
You can ‘make your mark’ at expo. It’s never the gift, it’s in the giving.
