Thanks to an errant Tumblr post, I recently found myself reminiscing on my childhood obsession with Ancient Egypt. Books, video games, movies-- I devoured anything and everything related to pharaohs or pyramids with zeal.And of course, like any aspiring eleven-year-old archaeologist, I had a copy of...
Egyptology is presented as a scrapbook of an amateur archeologist, Emily Sands, who traveled to Cairo and beyond in 1926 in search of a lost tomb. She was in possession of a rediscovered papyrus with a map, and intended to discover the tomb of the god, Osiris. The book looks as if it has been...
This lavishly illustrated work is just so tactile and it's about dragons, what more could I ask for? Full of little bits to delight the eyes and the senses it's written as if it's a serious science work about dragons with samples of skin and blood and everything.
town mouse country mouseTown Mouse, Country Mouse by Helen Ward: Now, there are a zillion* different editions of this story out there, but Helen Ward’s vivid and detailed illustrations set this one apart. It also focuses on the country mouse, while most versions tell the story from both points of vi...
Ward's fine art illustration style draws out the irony of the town mouse's boasts about city life even before the country mouse leaves home. As should be true for Aesop's familiar fables, we see the message coming a mile away but the illustrations provide a fresh look. The virtues of the bucolic are...
Originally reviewed on my blog guiltlessreading with tons of photos!Have you ever heard of the Ology World series? The Ology World series are beautifully illustrated fantasy books presented like they were encyclopedias with letters and flaps and folds galore. The first in the series is Dragonology: ...
There are dragons everywhere but no one notices them. George also feels unnoticed, and begins to care for his fellow outsiders. He researches (!!) dragons at the library to learn how to properly care for them. He eventually decides that they need to go to a safe place, so he builds a machine to hel...
Re-reads will tell me whether I can use these books as references for any dragon novels I may (will) end up writing eventually. Either way, they're fun, beautiful and sometimes all you need is whimsy.
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