This volume describes the emergence of written communication in Deuteronomy, and carefully examines the poetics of powerful analogy: Deuteronomy is a book that tells of the birth of a book - Moses' Torah book.
It also captures the voices of key influencers from publishing, printmaking, bookfair-organising, and bookshop-owning standpoints, as they continue to play a crucial role in keeping the book-making industry alive in the future.
The Book of the Book
"In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what"--
A little while later, when we said goodnight, Thumper gave me a big, sweet hug. Almost as if to say she knew where I'd just been. "You're alright Johnny," she said for the second time that night. “Don't worry so much.
These books changed the relationship between pictures, words, and format in both productive and troubling ways.
In this clever rom-com debut a teen obsessed with nineteenth-century literature tries to cull advice on life and love from her favorite classic heroines to disastrous results.
A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to PBS's ambitious summer 2018 series.
The kind who know every ugly, slimy trick in the book. ... peas or The two of them sat at a park bench outside an ice cream shop—Sundae School, har har—eating a couple cones. Rocky road for Dad, and for Oliver, rainbow sherbet.
The Aleph's hand crept across the moss like a small burrowing animal looking for warmth. Benny heard it coming, felt it brush against his arm and travel down into his sleeping bag past his wrist to his palm. He felt her fingers twine ...
Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas."—Henry Petroski, author of The Book on the Bookshelf