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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Born in Saint Petersburg and based in Rome, artist Ekaterina Panikanova uses the pages of old Italian and French books founds in flea markets as canvas for her paintings.
“I like working on old books. I like the way the wear and tear, underlinings, notes, and scribblings enable me to perceive the personalities of the people who have read them,” says the artist.
Gilded book covers from the turn of the 19th century. Find more at The Retronaut.
Born in Saint Petersburg and based in Rome, artist Ekaterina Panikanova uses the pages of old Italian and French books founds in flea markets as canvas for her paintings.
“I like working on old books. I like the way the wear and tear, underlinings, notes, and scribblings enable me to perceive the personalities of the people who have read them,” says the artist.
USING BANNED BOOKS TO SELL READING TO KIDS
Justin Stanley founded the Uprise Books Project with a very simple mission: distribute banned or challenged books to underprivileged kids to encourage them to read. A Winner of our 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize, Stanley shares his personal experiences of poverty, the difficulties of championing banned books to schools, and how an Innovations in Reading Prize is helping propel his important work forward.
National Book Foundation: What inspired your Innovations in Reading-winning program?
Justin Stanley: My family didn’t have much when I was a kid. My younger brother and I were raised by a single mother and when we were in elementary school we were completely dependent on government and community help to make ends meet. I knew what government cheese tasted like and the various ways people looked at you when your mom pulled out a book of food stamps in the grocery store line, what it was like to be we-have-to-skip-the-electric-bill-this-month-if-we-want-to-eat poor.
I also remember the day in second grade when I came to school to find a group of strangers from some place called “RIF” standing behind a table of books, telling us kids that we could have one. For free. I couldn’t tell you what specific book I chose that day, but I’ve never forgotten how great it felt to bring it home.
Continue reading Justin’s interview here.
Want to know more about NBF’s Innovations in Reading Prize? Click here.
Censorship is most often being used not to challenge racism and sexism and homophobia, but to reinforce it.
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50 tattoo tributes to the books you’ll (hopefully) love forever.
More National Book Award Winners and Finalists that are among the most frequently challenged in the books. Follow Banned Books Week here.
We all know how important it is to inspire a love for reading early on in young children — and one place that owns this space is Barbershop Books, a community-based program started in Harlem that creates child-friendly spaces in barbershops across the U.S. for young boys to read in.
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