Friday, February 22, 2013

WEEKEND LINKS 09



Brian Selznick's 2013 Children's Book Week poster is here, beautiful, and available to order (free)! (via Scholastic)

10 Shifted Perspective Novels I Would Totally Read  (via Book Riot)

Announcing the sequel to The House of The Scorpion! Called The Lord of Opium. I love stand-alone books, especially in this world of series books, and for a long time there The House of The Scorpion was a stand-alone . . . but really, I could not be more excited to get more of this story. It's so relevant in today's world. 


Oooh la la...Mark Twain and other writers without shirts on(via Daily Beast)

With the 200th anniversary of “Pride and Prejudice,” scenes from Austen’s novels are being commemorated as stamps.  (via Pageturner)

Some new punctuation marks . . . makes you wonder how you survived without them. (via EnglishComp)

In honor of the Oscars on Sunday . . . . . .

5 of the films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar are based on books. (via Book Riot)

Is the book really better than the movie? Just in time for the Oscars, a look into the data (via Goodreads)

Some famous movies I'll bet you didn't know were books. Jaws, really?! (via Shelf Awareness)

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