I love words... long words, short words, stuffy and pretentious or pithy and scurrilous. Turns of phrases, metaphors, idioms, homilies and cliches. Regionalisms, colloquialisms, alliterations, figures of speech....
So why in the flippin hell does it take me at least three hours and 12 drafts to write a couple of short and (hopefully) grammatical paragraphs?
...meanderings of a children's bookseller on the subject of books, book collecting and running an out of print book business in the internet age.
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- I'm not superstitious, but....
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
- Symeon Shimin Revisited
- Words 'n Pictures
- Words 'n Pictures
- Symeon Shimin- Illustrator
- (Another) One that Got Away
- even as x-libris
- Lewis E. Theiss Biblio Checklist
- condition Report
- even as x-libris
- Word For the Day
- Book Scouting Children's Books-mini tip
- Reference Books- Picture Books
- Favorite themes- Juvenile Fairy Tales Retold
- Taylor's Antique Mall
- even as x-libris
- Children's Book Awards
- Boston Globe- Horn Book Awards
- Oh piffle!
- Newbery and Caldecott Award Prices
- A Dinosaur Laments.....
- One That Got Away....
- Didacticism
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