The Clueless Librarian

schoollibraryjournal:

SLJ blogger and New York City librarian Betsy Bird and blogger and elementary school librarian Travis Jonker have a conversation entirely in picture books.

Get your Center for Cartoon Studies Schulz Library Tote at the Norwich Bookstore (Norwich, Vermont) or online.

Go Away, I’m Reading book covers by Sarah Enni. You can print out your own!

[via Galley Cat]

How very clever … a hanging bookcase that has its own bookmarks and can serve as a table if (gasp!) you’re okay with setting items on the book spines. Designed by Raw-Edges Design Studio (I couldn’t find a direct link to this particular project).

[via The Bookshelf blog]

Tutorial on how to use old books to make simple, yet beautiful, shelves.

Happy Lunar New Year from Neil Gaiman (posted one day late by me).

[via Neil’s blog]

If you’re a children’s literature fan, check out the nail art for Harry Potter (slide 2), The Hunger Games (slide 9), Tintin (slide 11), Where the Wild Things Are (slide 12), Alice in Wonderland (slide 13), and The Little Prince (slide 15).

Nail polish inspired by authors like Dickens and Grimm. Not only is the subject matter appropriate for me, but these variations on black are my favorite color of nail polish for pedicures.

Dickensian Volume made by StrangeBeautiful.

[via January 10, 2012 Shelf Awareness]

Donna Meyer’s Daily Journal of a Challenge: to make a book a day for a year.

[via January 10, 2012 Shelf Awareness]

Cecilia Levy’s tea cups are made from recycled book pages.

[via January 10, 2012 Shelf Awareness]