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Reads tagged with “illustration”

The River: A Watercolor Serenade to the Inner Seasons of Human Life
The River: A Watercolor Serenade to the Inner Seasons of Human Life

A beautiful reminder that despite its occasional cruelties, life is mostly joyful, radiant, and above all ever-flowing.

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The Hating Book: An Illustrated Vintage Parable About What Every Friendship Needs
The Hating Book: An Illustrated Vintage Parable About What Every Friendship Needs

“You’re ugly and dumb. Being with you was never fun.”

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Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown’s Charming Illustrated Allegory about Curiosity, the Imagination, and the Subjectivity of Observation
Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown’s Charming Illustrated Allegory about Curiosity, the Imagination, and the Subjectivity of Observation

What children’s imaginations reveal about our relationship with reality.

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Herman and Rosie: An Illustrated Ode to Finding a Sense of Purpose and Belonging in the Big City
Herman and Rosie: An Illustrated Ode to Finding a Sense of Purpose and Belonging in the Big City

Why life is like jazz on a New York City rooftop.

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Sir Quentin Blake’s Quirky Illustrated Alphabet Book
Sir Quentin Blake’s Quirky Illustrated Alphabet Book

“A is for apples, some green and some red, B is for breakfast we’re having in bed.”

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Shackleton’s Journey: A Lovely Illustrated Chronicle of History’s Most Heroic Polar Expedition
Shackleton’s Journey: A Lovely Illustrated Chronicle of History’s Most Heroic Polar Expedition

“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”

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Maira Kalman on Curiosity, Courage, Happiness, and the Two Keys to a Full Life
Maira Kalman on Curiosity, Courage, Happiness, and the Two Keys to a Full Life

“What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? … Work and love.”

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Original Watercolors for “The Little Prince”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Original Watercolors for “The Little Prince”

“The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it.”

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Some of Today’s Most Beloved Children’s Book Illustrators Each Draw Their Favorite Animal
Some of Today’s Most Beloved Children’s Book Illustrators Each Draw Their Favorite Animal

A menagerie of loveliness from some of the world’s greatest illustrators.

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Lord Byron’s Epic Poem “Don Juan,” Annotated by Isaac Asimov and Illustrated by Milton Glaser
Lord Byron’s Epic Poem “Don Juan,” Annotated by Isaac Asimov and Illustrated by Milton Glaser

Three of history’s greatest geniuses converge around some of the finest satire ever written.

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