In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makerswriters, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophersreflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or graphic artist presents that artist's visual response. Among the diverse contributions are letters from Jane Goodall, Neil Gaiman, Jerome Bruner, Shonda Rhimes, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yo-Yo Ma, Judy Blume, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Jacqueline Woodson, as well as a ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor, a pioneering oceanographer, and Italy's first woman in space. Some of the illustrators, cartoonists, and graphic designers involved are Marianne Dubuc, Sean Qualls, Oliver Jeffers, Maira Kalman, Mo Willems, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Ware, Liniers, Shaun Tan, Tomi Ungerer, and Art Spiegelman. This project is woven entirely of goodwill, generosity of spirit, and a shared love of books. Everyone involved has donated their time, and all profits will go to the New York Public Library systems. Edited and introduced by Maria Popova, who has been writing since 2006 about what she reads on Brain Pickings (brainpickings.org), which is now included in the Library of Congress archive of culturally valuable materials; Edited by Claudia Bedrick, publisher, editorial and art director of Enchanted Lion Books.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 10 years.

There are 280 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by Enchanted Lion Books .

David Seymour studied Spanish and History at university in the UK and then, after an introductory TEFL course at IH, taught in Bilbao for a year before moving back to London. He joined Hackney College in 1997, where he now teaches ESOL and IT to a huge and diverse community of learners. As well as being the co-author 700 Classroom Activities I am the author of Real English for Real Situations (Macmillan) at entry level 2 and have contributed various worksheets to Inside Out (Macmillan) at beginner and pre-intermediate levels. Maria Popova is co-author of 700 Classroom Activities.