The Places You Will Go

Beasts and their Beauties

I'll never look at paintings by any of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the same way again!

Desperate Romantics (reviewed in The Times) is a book, by Franny Moyle, about the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and John Ruskin; and the women (mostly models, like Jane Morris and Lizzie Siddall, who appeared in their work) in their lives. Basically, there was a whole lot of sharing and swapping going on, but considering the number of suicides and suicide-attempts, the women weren't particularly thrilled by the arrangements (surprise, surprise!).

Hot Men of Children's Literature: Oliver Jeffers

In Tots to Teens today, I linked Fuse #8's final entry for her Hot Men of Children's Lit series. I'm starting my own list on this blog and choose Oliver Jeffers as my first Hot Man :-D!

Jeffers is an artist, designer and illustrator. He has written and illustrated four picture books: How to Catch a Star (2004), Lost and Found (2005), The Incredible Book Eating Boy (2006) and The Way Back Home (2007).

Jeffers is also a founder-member of the art collective OAR, along with Rory Jeffers, Mac Premo and Duke Riley. OAR's exhibitions so far include 9 Days in Belfast, book and the award winning BUILDING.

Jeffers was the official World Book Day illustrator for 2007.

He is from Northern Ireland and has a degree in visual communication from the University of Ulster. He lives in Belfast.

Old but Always New

The late Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time deserves to be introduced to a whole new audience. Forty-four years after it was first published its contents still ruffle feathers.

Endearing Memoir

First published on 14th June 2002 in StarTwo.

Review by DAPHNE LEE

ELEGY FOR IRIS

By John Bayley

Publisher: Picador, 288 pages

(ISBN: 978-0312421113)

Junior Reading Room

It's graphics galore in this week's Junior Reading Room. Cut out the coupon (available only in the newspaper) to enjoy 25% discount, on the featured comics, autobiography and picture books, at Kinokuniya Bookstore.