Mo Willems
He lives in my neighborhood!
I can't wait until D is old enough for Knuffle Bunny and I can take him to see where all the background pictures were taken.
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jessica - Jun 16, 2008 10:30:38 am PDT #6223 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Pix - Jun 16, 2008 10:31:59 am PDT #6224 of 28370
The status is NOT quo.
Knuffle BunnyI just read this as "Kerfuffle Bunny" and had all kinds of amusing mental images. I think the KB would look like the rabbit in Holy Grail.
DavidS - Jun 16, 2008 10:33:17 am PDT #6225 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mo Willems
He lives in my neighborhood!
I'm mildly peeved at Mo's literary success because I preferred his animation work.
Aims - Jun 16, 2008 10:35:04 am PDT #6226 of 28370
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy is his newest and it is LOVE.
Miracleman - Jun 16, 2008 10:35:15 am PDT #6227 of 28370
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Knuffle Bunny
I just read this as "Kerfuffle Bunny" and had all kinds of amusing mental images.
It's like "Plot Bunny" melded with "Kerfuffle".
"Kerfuffle Bunny." For when you absolutely, positively have an inspired need to start a fight on the Internet.
Kathy A - Jun 16, 2008 10:37:16 am PDT #6228 of 28370
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I love David Wiesner. His books are all about the illustrations, and my favorite is Tuesday. (How can anyone not love frogs flying on their lilypads?)
Susan W. - Jun 16, 2008 10:41:15 am PDT #6229 of 28370
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy is his newest and it is LOVE.
I'll have to get it soon. Especially because I think The Annabel wants a puppy. We regularly drive by a cat adoption center and often admire the kitties while waiting at the red light, but AB knows her daddy is severely allergic and therefore we're not getting a cat.
Saturday they had a poster on their door with a picture of a dog and a cat. AB noted it and said, "DOGGIES don't make Daddy sneeze." And she was all for getting him a puppy for Father's Day.
Hayden - Jun 16, 2008 10:44:22 am PDT #6230 of 28370
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Mo Willems is a favorite at our house, too. Li'l Sphere's into the Elephant and Piggie books, now, which are fun because they're quick and comic book-y. He also loves Knuffle Bunny, Too.
Also, I agree that the digressions in Moby-Dick are essential to the story, which is all I'll say on the subject.
hippocampus - Jun 16, 2008 10:52:25 am PDT #6231 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
Oh we love Kuffle Bunny.
Jessica - tell me a little about Glasshouse?
Frankenbuddha - Jun 16, 2008 11:02:31 am PDT #6232 of 28370
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
You should try The Confidence-Man sometime. It reads more like late-60s John Barth than the work of a writer in the late 1850s.
We read that too. It was a VERY intensive Melville class - almost an immersion rather than a clase. We read:
Mardi
Pierre (that one was absolutely of-the-rails lunatic; almost a parody of a Wuthering Heights type of novel, but I'm not sure Melville was kidding)
Moby Dick
A volume of short stories (including Bartleby and Billy Budd) and
The Confidence Man
Which I really need to dig up my copy of and re-read. I really enjoyed it, but I'm sure I didn't get close to a quarter of what's in that book.