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Reads tagged with “illustration”

Once Upon an Alphabet: Oliver Jeffers’s Imaginative Illustrated Stories for the Letters
Once Upon an Alphabet: Oliver Jeffers’s Imaginative Illustrated Stories for the Letters

A warm and wonderful celebration of the paradoxes and perplexities that make us human.

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Mister Horizontal & Miss Vertical: A Minimalist Illustrated Meditation on How We Become Who We Are
Mister Horizontal & Miss Vertical: A Minimalist Illustrated Meditation on How We Become Who We Are

A brilliant conceptual graphic story about how we get our stripes of character and identity.

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Pen & Ink: An Illustrated Collection of Unusual, Deeply Human Stories Behind People’s Tattoos
Pen & Ink: An Illustrated Collection of Unusual, Deeply Human Stories Behind People’s Tattoos

Stories that “speak of lives you’ll never live and experiences you know precisely.”

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What There Is Before There Is Anything There: Celebrated Cartoonist Liniers Confronts Childhood Nightmares
What There Is Before There Is Anything There: Celebrated Cartoonist Liniers Confronts Childhood Nightmares

An imaginative graphic novel about the quintessential childhood fear.

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Petunia, I Love You: A Forgotten 1965 Children’s Book Treasure
Petunia, I Love You: A Forgotten 1965 Children’s Book Treasure

A sweet and irreverent reminder that kindness is the most potent antidote to evil.

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My Favorite Things: Maira Kalman’s Illustrated Catalog of Unusual Objects, Memories, and Delight
My Favorite Things: Maira Kalman’s Illustrated Catalog of Unusual Objects, Memories, and Delight

“Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.”

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A Stocking for a Kitten: Beautiful Vintage Children’s Book Illustrations of Domestic Life in Eastern Europe
A Stocking for a Kitten: Beautiful Vintage Children’s Book Illustrations of Domestic Life in Eastern Europe

Entitlement, empathy, and ethics, with a large helping of grandmotherly love.

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Too-ticky’s Guide to Life: Wisdom on Uncertainty, Presence, and Self-Reliance from Beloved Children’s Book Author Tove Jansson
Too-ticky’s Guide to Life: Wisdom on Uncertainty, Presence, and Self-Reliance from Beloved Children’s Book Author Tove Jansson

“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured.”

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Reimagined in Minimalist Graphics by Italian Illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Reimagined in Minimalist Graphics by Italian Illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli

Precision, bold geometric shapes, and repetitive patterns that somehow amplify rather than dull the psychedelic sensibility of Baum’s whimsical world.

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A Sweet Celebration of Connection and Inner Softness in a Culture That Encourages Hard Individualism and Prickly Exteriors
A Sweet Celebration of Connection and Inner Softness in a Culture That Encourages Hard Individualism and Prickly Exteriors

What a baby cactus can teach us about empathy, free will, and the art of finding one’s tribe.

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