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"PreSchool-Grade 2 A delightful tale told in rhyme and supported by captivating color illustrations. In an adventure to the moon and back, the bears and their pooch cope with weightlessness, meteor showers and moon dust. They explore, plant a flag, take notes and collect moon rocks. The Berenstains have once again produced a winner for beginning readers. Anne Wirkkala, Springfield Center Central Sch . , N.Y. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc." - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

I have fond memories of the super silly ones where Papa is a bit of an idiot (Learn to Ride a Bike?). But the simply rhymed ones (Bears in th Night) are great too. I absolutely hate the more complex ones with the moral spin. - Jen (SquirrelGirl) from iPhone

"Beautifully illustrated in two distinct styles, this book introduces readers to a Zen approach to the world, wrapped in a story about three siblings and their new neighbor, a panda. One by one, the children visit Stillwater, enjoying his company and listening to him tell a brief tale that illustrates a Zen principle. Each time, there is a link between the conversation shared by Stillwater and his visitor and the story he tells; it's somewhat tenuous in regard to the two older siblings, quite specific in the case of Karl, the youngest. The tales invite the children to consider the world and their perceptions from a different angle;" - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

found this in our local library this week; love the book! my favorite story is the third one. that's 'cuz i often carry things waaay too long and need the reminder. great book for kids and adults, too. thanks for the pointer! - MikeAmundsen

Yes, my kids liked it a lot. I wasn't quite feeling the story, though I get the point. I did love the illustrations. Those were impressive. I'm hoping to run across it at a Goodwill or something. My daughter had borrowed it from her school library. - Admiral Anika

I always try to keep in mind that he was sick while writing this, but there's sooooooooo much mindless repetition in the book, that it's almost like they're placeholders and whoever proofread the book didn't catch on to that. Take out the repetitious crap and probably could have shaved 135 pages off the book. - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

Ugh... awful book that was. I loved Ilium, but this just killed it for me. - Adrian

"The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world. Over the last decade, a company called "Octavo" digitally photographed some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. These books were photographed at very high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page). This site contains all of the books (about 400) that have been digitized to date. These range over a wide variety of topics and rarity. The books are presented so that the viewer can examine all the pages in medium to medium-high resolution." - Amira from Bookmarklet

Throughout the history of literature in the West—from Homer to the present—authors have sung or written extensively about what are called the visual arts. They can be defined in various ways, for example, the arts of design, that is, the interrelated spatial arts Vasari treated in his monumental sixteenth-century Lives of the painters, sculptors, and architects—those individuals who gave shape to space, made objects that filled such space, or created the illusion of space. Art can also be defined even more broadly as the class of artifacts or things made with skill, knowledge, or imagination. Clothing, jewelry, weapons, furniture, and various household objects are examples often displayed in museums as art. - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Above, on the left: the autobiography from Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, set to be released on November 17. And on the right -- and slated for release the exact same day -- a collection that looks to be critical of the high-profile Republican, subtitled, as it is, "Sarah Palin: An American Nightmare." Note that in the above paragraph, "left" and "right" are meant to denote image locations only, not political perspectives. The book covers bear no small resemblance to each other. So, too, the titles: Sarah Palin's book is "Going Rogue," a phrase taken from her deviation from John McCain's views during the 2008 campaign. The other book is entitled "Going Rouge," a phrase that comes from nowhere except a switcheroo of the letters "u" and "g" from Palin's title. (And is being used by a coloring book, too)." - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

I agree with Glen that Palin's people will probably try to get a restraining order / lawsuit because that's the way they roll. I'm not sure they will succeed, and it certainly won't create the good kind of publicity for Going Rogue. A parody book like Going Rouge is probably best ignored because it gains buyers through notoriety. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

""The Rainbow Fish" really gets me. This is a story about a fish with beautiful scales who realizes that the only way he’ll have friends is if he gives away his prized scales to the fish who don’t have them. At first I thought, that’s great. It’s about sharing, about not being vain and selfish. But then I thought, what’s wrong with keeping your beautiful scales? Why do you have to share everything? More important, the book seems to be saying, “Don’t be unique. Don’t be special. Don’t be different.” "The Rainbow Fish" is mild, though, compared with some other classics. I discussed them with children’s book author Laurel Snyder, who conducted a survey on her blog about her three most-hated picture books: “The Runaway Bunny,” “Love You Forever” and “The Giving Tree.”" - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

As a child my mother (who is clingy) read me the Runaway Bunny over and over. It wasn't until I was 18 and re-read it for myself that I realized the mother bunny was not, in fact, stalking her child. - Soup

"This immensely popular children's story is told from the point of view of a dog named Harold. It all starts when Harold's human family, the Monroes, goes to see the movie Dracula, and young Toby accidentally sits on a baby rabbit wrapped in a bundle on his seat. How could the family help but take the rabbit home and name it Bunnicula? Chester, the literate, sensitive, and keenly observant family cat, soon decides there is something weird about this rabbit. Pointy fangs, the appearance of a cape, black-and-white coloring, nocturnal habits … it sure seemed like he was a vampire bunny. When the family finds a white tomato in the kitchen, sucked dry and colorless, well … Chester becomes distraught and fears for the safety of the family. "Today, vegetables. Tomorrow … the world!" he warns Harold. But when Chester tries to make his fears known to the Monroes, he is completely misunderstood, and the results are truly hilarious. Is Bunnicula really a vampire bunny? We can't say. But any... more... - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

++ Lindsay - The Celery Stalks at Midnight was one of the books our teacher read to us in 3rd grade (afterward I made my mom get me the original at the library). Loved it! - Jennifer Dittrich

Author was on NPR recently. This book sounds fascinating. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

"For those of you who can't wait another moment for Dan Brown's next blockbuster, Slate has your fix: an interactive Dan Brown plot generator that takes a city and a shadowy organization and spits out the plot of the next volume in the Robert Langdon chronicles. You can either select a specific city and/or group from the dropdown menus at the top of the tool or leave it on "random" and let the computer decide. Make sure to hit "refresh"—even the same city and group have multiple story lines." - T. Brent, technopeasant from Bookmarklet

I got:A mysterious labyrinth deep beneath the streets of Ottawa. A shadowy cult determined to protect it. A frantic race to uncover the Mounties' darkest secret. - T. Brent, technopeasant

Popular fairy tales and folk stories are more ancient than was previously thought, according research by biologists. They have been told as bedtime stories by generations of parents, but fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood may be even older than was previously thought. “Over time these folk tales have been subtly changed and have evolved just like an biological organism. Because many of them were not written down until much later, they have been misremembered or reinvented through hundreds of generations." - Amira from Bookmarklet

I heard this is what is that myth has its origins in India would be a fairy tale , the Bible and all stories. All kinds of prose are the kind of 36 , it can be classified as prototypes and archetypes. - Ami Iida

Haruki Murakami: "When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at 4:00 am and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for 10km or swim for 1500m (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at 9:00 pm. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind." - Amira from Bookmarklet

Haruki Murakami has deep knowledge of jazz and classical music and is also working on translation of foreign literature. He also likes movies in his college times, he was going to the theater every day. - Ami Iida

"Since 1953, when the first issue of the magazine appeared with an interview of E. M. Forster, our Q&A encounters with the great writers of our times have come to be recognized as a sort of literary genre unto themselves: the Paris Review interview. More than fifty years—and more than three hundred interviews—later, the archive continues to grow with each new issue of the magazine. (...) In tandem with this publishing project, we offer here online a complete index of every interview ever published, searchable by author and by date—as well as a substantial sampling of the archive’s finest interviews, posted in their entirety. Taken together, these conversations with novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, biographers, journalists, and critics constitute what Salman Rushdie calls “the finest available inquiry into the ‘how’ of literature.” (...) Interview series offers authors a rare opportunity to discuss their life and art at length; they have responded with some of the most... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

I have read the book by written by Capote and the movies. http://www.youtube.com/watch... I'm familiar with this works. It's too avant-garde for me to read William Faulkner's style . - Ami Iida

"A treasure house of stories of every kind, annotated and categorised for easy reference. More stories are here on this site. For comprehensive information and links to the art of storytelling itself." - Amira from Bookmarklet

In my school life I read half of the Arabian Nights. It's a Japanese translation, I read in bed a little bit every night. The prototype of this story is a simple little story Shîrâzâd remonstrate the king. And the last story it's so called one thousand and one night is happy end.　by the way Poe wrote one thousand and two night story, it is tragedy for Shîrâzâd,irony. - Ami Iida

This site is dedicated to providing you with a wide range of illustrations scanned from old books. Most of these pictures are wood engravings or woodcuts, fewer are etchings or metal engravings; visitors looking for nineteenth century or victorian clipart might just find it here. - Amira from Bookmarklet

"While there is much effort & focus on deploying educational hardware in the developing world, much less hype and attention is focusing on the content students will use once these systems are in the hands of hungry young minds. How can educational systems, and the stakeholders that support them, adapt existing and new content onto these devices? Will this adaptation be able to challenge the existing income streams and vested interests of current content production & dissemination models?" - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

I bought this book in '06, a little bit before we actually purchased our house. The first official night in our new home, we used it twice. This book has saved me so much money and energy by helping me create and/or repair things around my property. - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

looks like a cool book. Maybe I'll pick it up. Hope I can find it at a real bookstore to give it a glance, though. 8^) - Chieze Okoye

"A story posted online at ArkansasSports360.com on Friday reported that Atlanta author E. Lynn Harris has died at age 54 during a west coast book tour. A blog update posted at the Arkansas Times newspaper reported on its website that Harris suffered “a serious health set back” Friday morning and then updated it with news of the writer’s death. They quoted an unnamed personal assistant and referenced Twitter posts. They reported that Harris was found in his hotel room. When contacted by the AJC Friday, the author’s reps at Doubleday in New York could not confirm the author’s passing and were investigating two media calls into their offices Friday at noon." - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

There's a lot of buzz about this, but no confirmation apparently. - Admiral Anika

"Summer is the perfect time of year to dive into a good book! Please bring books you'd like to share and leave with some brand new summer reading material. All remaining books will be donated to the Mar Vista branch. Author Lisa See will also be at the event signing her new book, Shanghai Girls! This swap is in partnership with Young Literati (a fund raising organization for the Los Angeles Public Library). If you are interested, you can join this members-only organization at the end of this event. Space is limited, so please RSVP here on Goodreads AND shoot an email to literati@lapl.org mentioning that you are a Goodreads member and you'd like to be put on the list!" - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

Possibly the first time in 5 years that I haven't bought a science-fiction, Discworld or political book. - Admiral Anika

I finally got around to reading The Good-by Day to the kids last night. Sad. It's about a little girl moving away from her best friend. Everyone was depressed by the end of that story. - Admiral Anika

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. - Amira

h/t to Miss Something (http://friendfeed.com/misssom...) They're purses made from books. - Admiral Anika from Bookmarklet

The monastery system in Anathem was like the Jedi Council. They took young kids who had "it" away from their families to train them. - Admiral Anika

Well. I guess you saved me from having to read 960 pages, then. - Victor Ganata