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  • A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader

A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader

Publication Date
December 31, 2018
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Format
Reference Book
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader

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Description

A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year

"An embarrassment of riches." --The New York Times

In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers--writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers--reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character.

On the page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or graphic artist presents that artist's visual response. Among the diverse contributions are letters from Jane Goodall, Neil Gaiman, Jerome Bruner, Shonda Rhimes, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yo-Yo Ma, Judy Blume, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Jacqueline Woodson, as well as a ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor, a pioneering oceanographer, and Italy's first woman in space. Some of the illustrators, cartoonists, and graphic designers involved are Marianne Dubuc, Sean Qualls, Oliver Jeffers, Maira Kalman, Mo Willems, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Ware, Liniers, Shaun Tan, Tomi Ungerer, and Art Spiegelman.

This project is woven entirely of goodwill, generosity of spirit, and a shared love of books. Everyone involved has donated their time, and all profits will go to the New York Public Library systems. This stunning 272-page hardcover volume features a lay-flat binding to allow for greater ease of reading.

Publication date
December 31, 2018
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781592702282
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
BISAC categories
JNF029010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Language Arts | Composition & Creative Writing
JNF034000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Literary Criticism & Collections
JNF063000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Books & Libraries
Library of Congress categories
Books and reading
Teenagers
Children
Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year
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