Flavorwire shares 30 vintage Ray Bradbury book covers.
Poetry on the dust jacket
A sampling of dust jackets in honor of National Poetry Month via DPLA courtesy of New York Public Library
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Gilded book covers from the turn of the 19th century. Find more at The Retronaut.
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Notable book covers of the month, including this 3-D rendition of Brave New World.
#TBT and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
From the NBF Archives: DCAL Medalist Ray Bradbury’s personal account of how THE HALLOWEEN TREE came to be
“More than thirty years ago IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN, appeared on TV. It was a very nice cartoon, but I was dissatisfied with it, as were my daughters who ran over and kicked the TV set when the show was over. The main problem was that they were promised "The Great Pumpkin” would appear and he never did.
The next day I had lunch with Chuck Jones, the animator of Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, and the rest, and I expressed my dissatisfaction with The Great Pumpkin.
Chuck then said, ‘Why don’t we do a cartoon feature about Halloween and tell the real story?’
I said, 'That would be great. Wait right here.’
I ran home and brought back to the lunch a three-by-two-foot illustration of a tree full of Halloween pumpkins, which I called THE HALLOWEEN TREE.
Chuck looked at it and said, 'My God, there’s the genesis of Halloween, going back thousands of years in history and coming up through time. Will you write the screenplay?’
'I will,’ I said, and promptly sat down and did a history of Halloween, starting in the cave, moving up through ancient Egypt and Greece, the movement of the Church through northern Europe to Ireland, and over with the Irish immigrants to America where the Irish traditions and the European traditions of Halloween persisted and grew.
When I finished the screenplay and turned it in, MGM Studios, for whom we were working, closed down its animation unit and fired Chuck Jones and me and all the rest of us. We were thrown out on the street.
I then sat down and wrote the book of THE HALLOWEEN TREE, based on my screenplay.
Over the years I tried to sell the screenplay again and again; it was optioned by various studios but was never made.
The book was finally published and has had a good success in the publishing field.
Finally, about ten years ago, the Turner Broadcasting people did a sixty minute animated feature of THE HALLOWEEN TREE that won many awards, including the Emmy Award for myself and my teleplay.
The book has had quite a history, and it is still around every Halloween to remind us what the holiday is really about.“
Good wishes to all of you,
Ray Bradbury
Because everything is better with butter. Even books.
BRILLIANT illustrations for this fun list of critically disparaged classics. More this way.
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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