Award-Winning
[Monday Reading] Award-Winning Picture Books from the Philippines: Tight Times and Naku, Nakuu, Nakuuu!
It’s Monday, What are You Reading is a meme hosted by Jen and Kellee from Teach Mentor Texts (and brainchild of Sheila at BookJourney). Two of our blogging friends, Linda from Teacher Dance and Tara from A Teaching Life have inspired us to join this vibrant meme. Last Week’s Review and Miscellany Posts Here are a few of the reviews we have done […]
- BHE (53): Book Finds in the Philippines
- [Monday Reading] The ‘delicacy’ in Mitsumasa Anno’s Picture Books
- [Monday Reading] Allen Say and April Winner for the AWB Reading Challenge
- A Boy Genius from the Stone Age and a Peculiar Little Visitor in Raymond Briggs’ “UG” and “The Man”
- Peculiar Families in Picture Books: The Graves Family, My Tattooed Dad, Mars Needs Moms!
Book Reviews
[Poetry Friday] Tim Burton’s Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Our Poetry Friday offering this week is very much in keeping with our current bimonthly theme until the end of April: Oddballs and Misfits, the Surreal and the Peculiar: A Celebration of Beautiful Strangenesses. Our host this week is Liz at Growing Wild. I first found out about this book when I was in Brisbane […]
- [Monday Reading] Strange Little Girls in Picture Books: Matilda, Eloise, and Phoebe
- “Before there was a Mysterious Benedict Society, there was simply a boy named Nicholas…”
- A Collection of the Bizarre, the Absurd, the Intelligently Nonsensical – Amphigorey
- [Nonfiction Monday Reading] Gorey-isms, Cautionary Tales and Melancholy Meditation of the False Millennium
- [Monday Reading] A Shaun Tan and Gary Crew Collaboration – Memorial and The Viewer
Filipino Lit
- Filipino Literature: Of Teenage Angst and Childhood Stories
- It’s a Mens World by Bebang Siy
- AFCC Update 3: Philippine Delegates brought Passion, Music, and Vibrance to the Festival
- Life in the Overseas for Poetry Friday
- Poetry Friday: There Are No Happy Endings [because] We Have Such Solid Measures for Pain // Two Poems by Joel M. Toledo
Nonfiction for Adults
BHE (20): The Day I Went to Book Off and All Hell Broke LOOT
Hooray for our 20th Book Hunting Expedition!! Today I’m going to share with you the loot I got from Book Off, when I went book-hunting a few weeks ago. After a delicious late Korean lunch with three of my girlfriends, I headed straight to Book Off to browse books. Lies. Book hunter fact #1: Book […]
- Nonfiction Monday: Show me a Story! By Leonard S. Marcus
- BHE (12): Home Away From Home
- A Woman’s Life: A few thoughts on Lost and Found
- Nonfiction Monday: A Different Kind of Love in Ralph Helfer’s Modoc, The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
- IMM (24): Loot From Book Off and the Science Fiction Book Club
NYRB
GatheringBooks Asks: Myra
Happy New Year One and All! Thank you Mary for coming up with this idea. This is really cute. And as you warned when you emailed me and Fats, the post might possibly be a long one, and yes it’s like a soliloquy of sorts, but in good taste, not to worry. It is about […]
- An NYRB Children’s Classic – Rumer Godden’s The Mousewife, Pictures by William Pene du Bois
- NYRB Reading Week: A Reflective and Summative Postscript
- NYRB Reading Week: The Magic Pudding written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay
- NYRB Reading Week: A 2in1 Special – James Thurber’s The 13 Clocks and The Wonderful O as Illustrated by Marc Simont
- NYRB Reading Week: The Company They Kept
Picture Books
BHE (50): Delicious Book Finds Featuring Margaret Atwood, Mo Willems, and Dave McKean Among Others
Still under stress, I decided to splurge not on food this time but on books! (Probably the smarter thing to do, eh?) I went out with a couple of friends two nights ago. We stopped by Book Off before having dinner. We only had about half an hour to browse books (too short!!!!) so I […]
- The Circus is Where It’s At: Oddballs and Misfits in Henrik Drescher’s Klutz and Maira Kalman’s Roarr Calder’s Circus
- Anthony Browne’s Willy: His Dreams and Pictures
- [Monday Reading] Love for Anthony Browne – Zoo plus Me and You
- You Are What You Choose to Be: Learning A Valuable Life Lesson from Deborah Diesen’s The Pout-Pout Fish
- Fitting In or Standing Out: How Being Different is a Matter of Perspective
Young Adult (YA) Literature
Boxes, Labels, and Imaginary Friends in E.L. Konigsburg’s (George)
I fell in love with E.L. Konigsburg back in grade school when I read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. I fell even more in love with her after reading The View from Saturday. Both books earned her Newbery Medals, truly deserving of such an award. In one of my wanderings a […]
- On Ghosts, Freaks and Gorgeous Mohawks: Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks
- Poetry Friday: Classic Tales in Twisted Verses (Ron Koertge’s Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses)
- Poetry Friday: His and Hers for Valentine Week and A Case of You
- Loss, Heartbreak, and the Love in Between: Two Tales of Love This Valentine’s Day
- Of Witches, Fractured Tales, and Braid-Toting Outlaws: A 3-in-1 Gathering Books Special
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[Photo Journal / A-Z Photo Story] U is for Underwater
It’s Tuesday in our part of the world. Time for Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Challenge. I know that I have already posted quite a few photographs from the Oceanarium here in Singapore (reputed to be the world’s largest aquarium), but I simply couldn’t help it. The pictures taken by my husband when we were there December […]
[Pre-AFCC Glitter] Meet Festival Director Kenneth Quek
I am doing a series of interviews with invited guest speakers and other conference attendees: a Pre-AFCC 2013 Glitter, if you will. A shower of golden fairy dust and pixie glitter and virtual confetti to signal the coming of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content this year! Today, I am very excited to feature one of […]
[Pre-AFCC Glitter] Meet Stephanie Wong
I am doing a series of interviews with invited guest speakers and other conference attendees: a Pre-AFCC 2013 Glitter, if you will. A shower of golden fairy dust and pixie glitter and virtual confetti to signal the coming of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content this year! Today, I am excited to have Stephanie Wong in […]
[Pre-AFCC Glitter] Meet Corinne Robson, PaperTigers Lady
I am doing a series of interviews with invited guest speakers and other conference attendees: a Pre-AFCC 2013 Glitter, if you will. A shower of golden fairy dust and pixie glitter and virtual confetti to signal the coming of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content this year! I am very happy and excited to feature one […]
Poetry Friday: Janet Wong Double Feature
The 31st election to the Senate of the Philippines just recently ended. It was held last Monday, April 13th, the same day I was scheduled to fly back to San Diego. Considered a holiday, I made it to the airport in about half an hour. For that, I was grateful! I never got a chance […]
Photo Journal: 안녕하세요, 한국! (Hello, Korea!)
Guess who’s back at Gathering Books? =) I just got back in San Diego on Monday, April 13th, from my two-week stay in the Philippines. It was too short for a vacation but too long to be away from my desktop and writing for Gathering Books. But now I’m back! Yay! For my comeback post, […]
Singapore Book Exchange 2013
It’s that time of the year again! Time for the annual Singapore Book Exchange organized by the amazing National Library Board (NLB). The information I am sharing here is culled from NLB’s Official Website. Date: Saturday 18 May 2013 Time: 8.30am – 6pm Venue: The Plaza, National Library Building 3 easy steps to exchange your […]
Meet the Storyteller: Shaun Tan
Our featured storyteller needs no introduction. While we were supposed to post this interview in time for our Oddballs and Misfits theme, Academy Award Winning and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awardee Shaun Tan is also a perfect fit for our new bimonthly theme From Asia with Love: A Feast of Asian Literature. Think of this as […]
[Pre-AFCC Glitter] Meet Naomi Kojima
I am doing a series of interviews with invited guest speakers and other conference attendees: a Pre-AFCC 2013 Glitter, if you will. A shower of golden fairy dust and pixie glitter and virtual confetti to signal the coming of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content this year! Today, I am happy to welcome our featured storyteller, […]
[Photo Journal/ A-Z Photo Story] T is for Trees
T is for Tuesday! Time for Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Story Challenge. Letter this week is T and I am sharing gorgeous tree photographs from the West Coast Park here in Singapore. I feel blessed that I am living in a country surrounded by greens and I have an entire year of summer to enjoy and […]
