Happy Caturday — National Library Week edition

April 13, 2019

BAMBI

84 CHARING CROSS ROAD

OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS

THE FROG PRINCE

THE WOODLANDERS

BLACK BEAUTY

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES

CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT

LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS

THE SNOW QUEEN

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

PUSS IN BOOTS

SLEEPING BEAUTY

THE RELUCTANT DRAGON

THE SECRET GARDEN

THE RAVEN

SNOW WHITE

THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR

CHICKEN LITTLE

DRACULA

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO YOGA

WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD

THE WIZARD OF OZ

FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW

HARRY POTTER

TREASURE ISLAND

MACBETH

LITTLE WOMEN

THUMBELINA

HANSEL AND GRETEL

CINDERELLA

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

THE HORSE AND HIS BOY

ROMEO AND JULIET

THE JOY OF COOKING

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Bibliophile humor

April 11, 2019

Cartoons for literature lovers from John Atkinson.

See more of John Atkinson’s work at Wrong Hands.

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Happy National Library Week

April 7, 2019

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Wednesday weirdness

January 30, 2019

WARNING: CRUDE LANGUAGE

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Today’s cultural moment

January 28, 2019

In honor of the 206th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, here are a couple of magazine covers that will make no sense whatsoever to anyone who is not a fan of either the novel or the 1995 screen adaptation.

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Happy [cheery, merry, joyful, jocular, gleeful] birthday, Peter

January 18, 2019

A little bibliophile humor today in honor of the birthday of Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), author of Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

December 18, 2018

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