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A B See
Next on the alphabet book shelf is the first of many board books, not surprising since the expected target audience for such books is often small readers. This one is a beautiful book of illustrations and text by Elizabeth Doyle called A B See…
Beginning with A Apple Pie
So with our Butterfly-in-Chief having launched her countdown of the Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time, we figured our Head Alien – that’s me! – needed a series to motivate some more regular contributions as well. So where she’s started something music and numerical, I’ve chosen something book and alphabetical: a tour of my collection of alphabet books, alphabetically by title…
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
We’re back today after our unplanned hiatus to share an acquisition from back in January that finally made it off our TBR list… Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao…
The Eclectic Abecedarium
So if you’re a regular patron of the Butterflies & Aliens Library, you probably know that I have a particular fondness for alphabet books and also miniature books.
Well imagine my delight at discovering that Bruce Peel Special Collections has as part of its collection a miniature edition of The Eclectic Abecedarium by Edward Gorey…
Proof of Life…
So, yeah, it’s been another hot minute since we’ve added something the stacks here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library but life is like that sometimes. And while we’re still in the thick of things, we thought we’d better pop our heads up and at least say hi…
Book of the Month: Notes on a Case of Melancholia, or: A Little Death
Okay, so April may have gotten a bit chaotic for us here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library. We meant to do a bit of an update earlier. We did not.
So we’re going to sneak in this one post as a Book of the Week for the whole month so we don’t completely miss out on posting in April…
Book of the Week: I Do Not Eat Children
For this week’s Book of the Week, yes, it’s a picture book again… #SorryNotSorry
Meet Janice Blaine!
We are loving that it is time for another BALLER Profile! Every Wednesday you can look forward to reading interviews with authors, publishing professionals, library people, readers, and more.
This week it is my pleasure to introduce you to Janice Blaine!
Book of the Week: The Three Little Tardigrades by Sandra Fay
This week’s Book of the Week is my turn to share a picture book, and it’s a new favourite of mine: The Three Little Tardigrades: A Slightly Scientific Fairy Tale, written and illustrated by Sandra Fay, designed by Gene Vosough, and published just days ago by Henry Holt & Company…
Meet Jennifer Windsor!
Welcome to our latest BALLER Profile! This week it is my pleasure to introduce you to my friend, designer and writer and all around wonderful human, Jennifer Windsor…
Bread and representation
Back on October 15, we had a book launch up at the local indie bookstore where our Head Alien hangs one of his many hats on the regular. He arrived to have a fellow bookseller exclaim “Hey! Did you know you’re in the book?”
No, no he did not…
Canadian Born Chinese
Today we’re taking a bit of a deeper dive into one graphic novel in particular. And to the surprise of no one who’s been reading our recent posts about our Comic as Object Project or Drawn Together, this will be doing double duty as an assignment for our Head Alien’s LIS 518 course at the University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies.
As some of you might have already guessed from the title of this post, the graphic novel in question is American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang…
