A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year ***
"An embarrassment of riches." --The New York Times*
An expansive collection of love letters to books, libraries, and
reading, from a wonderfully eclectic array of thinkers and creators.
In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers--writers,
artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers--reflect on the
joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the
ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the
page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or
graphic artist presents that artist's visual response. Among the diverse
contributions are letters from Jane Goodall, Neil Gaiman, Jerome
Bruner, Shonda Rhimes, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yo-Yo Ma, Judy Blume, Lena
Dunham, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Jacqueline Woodson, as well as a
ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor, a pioneering oceanographer,
and Italy's first woman in space. Some of the illustrators, cartoonists,
and graphic designers involved are Marianne Dubuc, Sean Qualls, Oliver
Jeffers, Maira Kalman, Mo Willems, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Ware,
Liniers, Shaun Tan, Tomi Ungerer, and Art Spiegelman.
This project is woven entirely of goodwill, generosity of spirit, and
a shared love of books. Everyone involved has donated their time, and
all profits will go to the New York Public Library systems.
This stunning 272-page hardcover volume features a lay-flat binding to
allow for greater ease of reading.
