This great little stop-motion film, The Joy of Books, was done at the Type Bookstore in Toronto. When the owner is away, the books shall play!
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It’s that time of year again when five great Canadian books (backed by 5 renown Canadians) do battle debate style for the Canada Reads title. This year’s twist, the books are all non-fiction: The Game by: Ken Dryden Defended by: Alan Thicke On a Cold Road by: Dave Bidini Defended by: Stacey McKenzie Prisoner of [...]
Each Spring, The Alcuin Society holds an annual competition for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. The 30th anniversary of the Alcuin Book Awards will be held this coming March 31st and is open to all Canadian book designers. The Alcuin Society encourages students, private presses and self publishing artists to participate in this [...]
Be still, thy beating heart…for we are back in business!!!* After a rather lengthy hiatus, due to the unrelenting assault from malevolent spirits of the Internet who seek out humble book blogs in which to infest and spread their disease from (coupled with an epic bout of procrastination on my part to actually deal with [...]
What: Devonshire Community Public School Book Sale When: June 11th and 12th. The doors open on Friday at 3:30, and along with the books, there will be a silent auction, bake sale table and BBQ. Saturday morning, from 9am to 12pm, will be the book sale only. Where: Devonshire Public School is located at 100 [...]
The blog of the Providence Public Library which I came across a couple months ago, Notes For Bibliophiles has great regularly posts of new acquisitions and other interesting items from their collection, often with great pictures of pieces (particularly Americana) not often seen. A great example of a library making available and sharing it’s collection virtually with book lovers from [...]
Hope to see everyone there!!
Once again this year, Elgin Street Public School (310 Elgin-directly across from Minto Park) will be holding their annual used book sale on: Thursday & Friday, June 16th & 17th 3:00-9:00pm; Saturday, June 18th from 9:00am - 4:00pm; and Sunday, June 19th from 10:00am – 3:00pm Happy Hunting!
Nigel Beale, who’s biblio interviews I’ve posted here before, has recently started an online venture The Literary Tourist. After recently purchasing the Book Hunter Press (publishers of the Used Book Lover’s Guides and owners of a massive online database providing traveling bibliophiles with instant access to info on over 8,000 used bookstores worldwide), Nigel has merged it with his already successful [...]
The Porcupine’s Quill has just released a wonderful new edition of Alice in Wonderland lavishly illustrated with wood engravings by George Walker and with a new introduction by Alberto Manguel. Following in the tradition of the Chesire Cat Press edition published nearly 25 years ago by Bill Poole, George Walker and Joseph Brabant (one of [...]