Little house

At the NYRB blog, April Bernard on Laura Ingalls Wilder.

"Direwolf, direwolf"

Game of Thrones as an Eric Carle picture book.

Illustrated editions

Nice piece at the TLS by Paul Tankard on a little-known series of illustrations for Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Invisible libraries

Still fairly grumpy - I am mostly recovered from my cold, but lungs remain slightly congested and I have a slight headache I can't seem to shake. Devoutly hoping I will feel significantly better when I wake up tomorrow morning!

Belatedly, some pictures of the lovely Invisible Library exhibit executed by the INK collective and inspired by Ed and Levi's Invisible Library blog (other pictures can be found here)...



I might see if I could buy a couple of the original paintings to hang on the naked walls of my apartment (only I like blank walls):


Tantalized by the novels of Harriet Vane!

Amazing rare things

The illustration to another NYRB piece, taken from here (it is Maria Sybilla Merian's illustration of a common or spectacled caiman with a South American false coral snake!):

Death and the maiden

A Journey Round My Skull posts a lovely image of death and links to a longer post, with stunning illustrations, at Adventures in the Print Trade.