Last week Alex Scheffler, the artist who together with the author Julia Donaldson created The Gruffalo, was in our town to celebrate the beloved monster’s birthday. He drew and read the book to several hundreds of children. He also introduced their new book about Zog, a dragon who works with flying doctors, and a princess who’d rather be a doctor than just a princess.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply books.
Not even a year ago, we got a new kitten. Henry wasn’t quite new but our house was new to him and everything was exciting and worth observing to him.
New things can tire a little cat out, so once he was sure it was safe, he fell asleep.
He’s grown since then and even has his own blog (being a cat he has staff so he doesn’t write it himself).
For A Photo A Week: Something new. More new photos or photos of something new can be found on Nancy Merill’s photography site.
Behind the fence there is a garden with a stall selling drinks and snacks.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Garden.
Linked to Simply Snapes: Simply Lines.
“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
Robert Frank
Linked to Travel with Intent. Visit Debbie’s site to find more posts inspired by the Frank quote.
… because. books.
Open bookcases where anyone can take or bring books are seen all over the place these days. Sometimes they are found in sturdy cupboards,
sometimes in display cabinets,
often they are built into old telephone boots.
There are always people perusing the shelves to see if some book whets their appetite.
And sometimes they leave already poring over the first pages of their new reading material.
Some readers need a proper place and other creature comforts before they settle down with a book.
Some people need company, even if it is inanimate.
A sculpture of a reading girl in front of a bookstore in Michelstadt,
and another one in front of the public library in Ladenburg.
And this is Peter Schöffer.
Who was he? You heard of Johannes Gutenberg who invented movable type printing. But he had help – hardly any great inventor can do without – and today we recognise that Peter Schöffer of Gernsheim was more than an assistant but a highly educated inventor in his own right who improved on Gutenberg’s design and was to a large extent responsible for the economic success of book printing and thus the spread of books to the masses.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: books and paper.
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