World Book Night Gifts

'Tsk! I don't recall reading anything about that!'

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

'The history of Glue. It's impossible to put down.'

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"You're going to hate yourself."

Accelerated reading. Slowpoke reading,

First Novels.

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

"Tracey, this is Gene. He also read the Nancy Reagan book in unbound galleys."

Author of 'The Big Pop-up Book' popping up out of a folding table.

Isabel Allende

To read or not to read?

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

It was the best of times, it was the wasrtn blanfil trmsl... It was the bnarfy foodel pook. Arghh! Darn reader's block.

Catalogue of little books.

Kid to boy in library: 'Oh, we came at the busiest part of the day ... it's a reading frenzy.'

'Have you got the book 'After the end of the world'?'

'It was a play on words...and a bad one at that!'

The Very Stressed Caterpillar

'The Lemming Book Store'

Homage to Hans Christian Andersen

"Hemingway! Is he any good?"

Library

Book market

Men reading Tall Stories, and Short Stories in a Library

Getting the bus back into town from the Bologna Children's Book Fair...

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

"Before the library cuts I was well-read now I just have ill-informed opinions."

Universe of reading

'A book very interesting'