The New York City Children's Book Council has been dedicated to promoting reading and the enjoyment of books for young people since 1945. Celebrating a century of children's book illustration in one glorious volume you will discover how Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) created an iconic poster with the title Hooray for Books! In a fantastic gallery with poster headlines like Free to Read, Fuel Your Mind, Get Carried Away...Read!, Oh, the Places You'll Go, Any Time is Book Time, Share the Adventure, Reach for a Book, Change Your Mind, Any Time Any Place Any Book, Books Alive!, Book Magic, Read All About It, Live! Read!, Books Wow!, This is the Age of the Book, Go Places with Books, Book Power (1969), Take Off with Books, Sing Out for Books and more. There are butterflies and animals and cats and many a magical moment captured in this stunning artwork right from Jessie Willcox Smith's inaugural 1919 poster of a girl reaching for a book to 100 years later in 2018 with a Canadian artist's poster. Index of Illustrators and Index of Slogans which are brilliant! A beautiful collection showcasing the conceptual and iconic images that have defined children's books for generations of young readers. All in colour, 128 large pages, 26.2 x 26.52cm. Colour.
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What do Aldous Huxley and Jacqueline Kennedy have in common? Each had a personal ex libris, also known as a bookplate. These fascinating miniature artworks were commissioned by writers, artists, politicians, nobles, and everyday readers to adorn their books and signify ownership. The Ex Libris journal, illustrated with more than 60 brilliant, historic bookplates, is the perfect place for notes and musings. This lightly lined notebook features 60 full page colour vintage bookplates. Perfectly sized to toss in your bag for book group or to take to your favourite café, this journal is as appealing to the lover of ephemera and graphic design as it is to the literature lover. Bookplates featured include those of luminaries such as Jack London with a wicked wolf face, John Fowles with feathered friends, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Greta Garbo, Bing Crosby, Harry Houdini, Jacqueline Onassis, and Edith Wharton. A tipped-on bookplate on a cloth cover and a ribbon marker complete this bibliophile's dream notebook. Ruled notebook, quality 216 pages. 6½ x 4¾".

After 20 years running The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, Shaun Bythell's life is spent roaming the bookshelves picking online orders, poetry nights by the log fire, and frequent drop-ins from friends and former colleagues with the latest gossip from the small town. Mostly. Apart from the familiar stream of antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard trainspotters, and toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to urinate, Shaun must contend with Granny's antics, the frantic rush to organise the Wigtown Book Festival, and the town's only pub changing hands. To say nothing of Sandy the Tattooed Pagan. Customers come and go, whether they've paid or not, but there's never a quiet moment and Wigtown's Pepys gives us the lowdown, a perfect read for every bibliophile. The daily diary records online orders, books found, till total and number of customers per day. Crammed with literary nuggets and musings, for example on Walton's The Compleat Angler with its one page printed upside down so two singers can face each other while singing together! Shaun could find a copy online from a New York dealer at a price of £47,221.25. 377pp.

A literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, the book mirrors the format of Wigglesworth's live quizzes, so there are lots of multiple-choice questions, some amusing answers, clever red herrings, little-known facts about authors, and some of the much-loved Say What You See picture rounds. There are fixed and variable rounds including Blankety Books with one word missing from the title, always with a theme, Literary Links and lists connecting, 2 of a Kind where the name of the character and the author share the same initials. Plus real or made-up Dickens names, Shakespearian insults and a Book Bingo where you identify the correct number. There are also more standard rounds such as First Lines, Working Titles and Banned Books. Which of these was published first: A) Born to Run by Michael Morpurgo, B) What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami or C) The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe? This anagram is an author's name: I am a full wrinkle. 278pp with answers and many line illus.