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July 28, 2008
NYRB Classics: Not Just for Grownups
While I had always planned on passing NYRB Classics books down to my progeny one day, I've just discovered that I may get to do that sooner than I had anticipated. NYRB Classics has a line of children's books, the NYR Children's Collection.
One of the latest to come out under the imprint is James Thurber's The 13 Clocks with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and illustrations by Marc Simont. The new book provide fodder for Sonja Bolle's sentimental (in a good way) essay in the LA Times.
The 13 Clocks is the first book I remember loving, and it is one of the few books I managed to wrest from my family's library and preserve through all the mundane disasters of my life. Everything about it is dear to me: The texture of the cover, the cloth spine now in shreds, the gorgeous endpapers with the Duke's shadowy castle on the hill overlooking the sunlit town.Young readers - and the older readers who are trying to get young readers to read good books - will likely find many more such discoveries among the NYR Children's Collection.
- C. Max Magee @ 10:44 PM ~ comments: 1 ~ Links to this post
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Funny to come across this after just sending Pecos Bill & another book to one nephew for his 8th b-day and a D'Aulaire's gorgeous fold out animal book and their car book (a retelling of the tortoise and the hare) to another nephew for his first.
They are very pretty, well-made books to boot: the kind of books to help children have a sense of a personal library. So yes, I totally agree!
They are very pretty, well-made books to boot: the kind of books to help children have a sense of a personal library. So yes, I totally agree!
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