Boo! With a little bit of cute, dark and funny thrown in! {Anya's Ghost by Vera Brogsol}
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Book Tour: Monsterology by Ernest Drake
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Monsterology - The Complete Book of Fabulous Beasts - fabulous embossed and guilded cover, complete with red gems.
This is the second book tour for the Ology World Series, a very popular series of illustrated fantasy books. If you have a fascination for dinosaurs (come on, everyone does), this series takes it a notch higher -- presenting fictional topics as if they were fact ... in a fun, tactile encyclopedia format.
Monsterology - The Complete Book of Fabulous Beasts by Ernest Drake...Valentines Book Tour: Morning Star by Nick Bantock
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Monday, February 13, 2012
This is my first foray into putting up a video that I actually filmed, so please be nice! :) I simply wanted to show you the beauty of this unique graphic novel and photos just didn't seem to cut it. I haven't read Morning Star yet, so this is just a sneek peak, not a review.
This book was given to me by a good friend who saw that I was totally enamoured with Nick Bantock's work. She had read my...The Venetian's Wife by Nick Bantock
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
About The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis by Nick Bantock: Nick Bantock's illustrated novel, The Venetian's Wife, is part love story, part mystery, and part ghostly tale—and an altogether bewitching brew of sensuality and lost treasures. Thoroughly bored with her job at the local museum, Sarah heads to the gallery to take another look at that new drawing, the one she can't stop thinking about, the one of the Hindu god Shiva,...The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Synopsis of The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik: ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father...The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton
The book in one sentence: A hodgepodge of 23 short poems about the poor lives of misshappen oddities, aptly named what they are - Oyster Boy, Staring Girl, Stain Boy, among others.
Voodoo Girl
Staring Girl
Who would you recommend it to: Those who love Tim Burton and his macabre humor. This definitely isn't a book for kids!
OK bits: Its brevity, its dark humor, its lovely illustrations - all done in trademark Burton style. This...·
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