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Gobble You Up: Ancient Indian Women’s Folk Art, Reimagined as Stunning Modern Storytelling
Gobble You Up: Ancient Indian Women’s Folk Art, Reimagined as Stunning Modern Storytelling

A heartening adaptation of an age-old mother-daughter art form, adapted visionary modern storytelling.

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Vintage Illustrations for the Fairy Tales E. E. Cummings Wrote for His Only Daughter, Whom He Almost Abandoned
Vintage Illustrations for the Fairy Tales E. E. Cummings Wrote for His Only Daughter, Whom He Almost Abandoned

What elephants and butterflies have to do with the failures and redemptions of fatherhood.

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Inside the Rainbow: Gorgeous Vintage Russian Children’s Book Illustrations from the 1920s-1930s
Inside the Rainbow: Gorgeous Vintage Russian Children’s Book Illustrations from the 1920s-1930s

“A lovely primary-colored geometrical wonderland-light sparkling with every conceivable kind of wit and brilliance and fantasy and fun.”

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Need a House, Call Ms. Mouse: Progressive Vintage Children’s Book Starring a Female Architect
Need a House, Call Ms. Mouse: Progressive Vintage Children’s Book Starring a Female Architect

“Henrietta is a world famous home decorator, which means she is — an artist, a designer, a dreamer, a builder, a creator, all that and more, too.”

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Alone in the Forest: Exploring Fear & Courage in Stunning Illustrations Based on Indian Folk Art
Alone in the Forest: Exploring Fear & Courage in Stunning Illustrations Based on Indian Folk Art

Exquisite visual storytelling that speaks both to our crippling fear of the unfamiliar and our ability to transcend it, emerging enriched by the experience.

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Ballad: Beloved French Graphic Artist Blexbolex’s Visual Allegory of Life’s Evolving Complexity
Ballad: Beloved French Graphic Artist Blexbolex’s Visual Allegory of Life’s Evolving Complexity

“It’s a story as old as the world — a story that begins all over again each day.”

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A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design by Iconic Designer Chip Kidd
A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design by Iconic Designer Chip Kidd

“Graphic design needs your willing mental participation, even if it’s subconscious.”

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E. B. White on Why He Wrote Charlotte’s Web, Plus His Rare Illustrated Manuscripts
E. B. White on Why He Wrote Charlotte’s Web, Plus His Rare Illustrated Manuscripts

“A book is a sneeze.”

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Secrets of The Phantom Tollbooth: Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer on Creativity, Anxiety, and Failure
Secrets of The Phantom Tollbooth: Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer on Creativity, Anxiety, and Failure

“Failure is a process… You have to fail over and over and over again to get anything that’s worthwhile.”

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T.S. Eliot Reads “The Naming of Cats,” 1947
T.S. Eliot Reads “The Naming of Cats,” 1947

“A cat must have three different names.”

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