Tuesday, April 7, 2009

"If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" brings me back to bedtime storytime.

"If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" reminds me of bedtime when I was little. Before I could read I would memorize my favorite picture books. Adults who didn't know me thought I knew how to read until they gave me a book that wasn't mine. I can almost still recite this though not nessesarily in the order in which it occurs.
I get really excited whenever a little kid comes to check this out at the library.

the book list lives!

21. Free Range Knitter by Stephenie Pearl-McPhee

22. The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead (THIS is what I love about New York!)

23. Gargoyle

24. Cautionary Tales for Children by Hillaire Bellog, rediscovered & illustrated by Edward Gorey

25. Frank Miller's Sin City: Vol 7- Hell & Back

26. The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

27. The Discovery of Chocolate: A Novel by James Runcie

28. An Underground Education by Richard Zacks (Awesome random information.)

29. Letters in the Attic by Bonnie Shimko

30. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary by Xiaolu Guo

31.Fables Vol 3. Storybook Lovey by Bill Willingham, etc.

32. Leftovers by Laura Weiss

33. After School Nightmare Vol. 9 by Shona Mizushiro

34. Snow by Tracy Lynn

35. (As Francesca): A Novel by Martha Baer

36. 500 Handmade Dolls: Modern Explorations of the Human Form, Lark Books (Gorgeous, absolutely.)

37. Parnassus On Wheels by Christopher Morley (Utterly delightful adventure for the joy of books.)

38. How to (Un)Cage a Girl: Poems by Francesca Lia Block

39. Fables Vol. 4 March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham, etc.

40. Fables Vol. 5 The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham, etc.

41. The Diving Bell & The Butterfly by Jean-Dominiques Bauby (The writing is so amazing you might forget how sad the circumstances are.)

42. The Bell at Sealy Head by Patricia A. McKillip (Fantastic & amazing as McKillip almost always is.)

43.Women (photogrphs) by Annie Leibovitz & Susan Sontag

44. X-Ray by Nic Veasey (X-ray photos of common things. Awesome.)

45. Fables Vol. 6 Homelands by Bill Willingham, etc.

46. Mouse Guard, Fall 1152 by David Peterson (If you loved Redwall and wish there was a graphic novel like that, well there's this...)

47. Nightmares & Fairy Tales: Vol. 4 Dancing With the Ghosts of Whales

48. Fables Vol 7. Arabian Nights & Days by Bill Willingham, etc.

49. Fables Vol. 8 Wolves by Bill Willingham, etc.

50. The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar

51. Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of A Life in Poetry by Donald Hall

52. Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I found True Love by Anne Thomas Soffee

53. 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form, Lark Books

54. Someplace to be Flying by Charles De Lint (De Lint never lets me down for inspiring, thought-provoking, dream-inpiring urban fantasy. Love, love, love.)

55. Passive Aggesive Notes: Painfully polite & Hilariously HostileWritings. ed. Kerry Miller