Alex Johnson's Blog, page 6
January 15, 2020
The rise of the booknook
The concept became popular on Reddit, with the r/booknooks subreddit going from zero to 7,900 members in just two days. The website defines book nooks as "mini worlds created within your bookshelf", usually as a diorama of an alley. The idea seems to have originated in 2018 from a Japanese artist called Monde. They created a "back alley bookshelf" made to fit alongside paperback books. The tweet has been liked 179k times since.
BBC (pictured, Alby Martin's booknook)
January 13, 2020
Superhero bookshelf
A special bookshelf that gives a 'floating-on-air' feeling. The superhero character seems to easily stop the books from falling down to the ground.
Artori Design
January 9, 2020
Lego bookshop
Recreate the charm of a backstreet bookshop that you might discover in any quaint village or town with this LEGO® Creator Expert collectors’ toy. The 3-storey bookshop and adjoining modular town house building is filled with fun building techniques and surprising details, including a display window, reading nook and an open-out design.
Lego
December 4, 2019
Sit.Choose.Read.: an octagonal bookcase
Starting from the octagon, the author creates an interior space to isolate himself and focus entirely on reading.
Manel-Song Ollé Chin
December 1, 2019
Troy bookends
A cut metal bookend depicting the fighting warriors of the Trojan War. Part of a range to accompany the Museum’s current major exhibition, Troy: myth and reality.
November 20, 2019
Llama Bookshelf
Plywood CNC milled Llama with three cut outs for books or plants and one shelf.
Measures 4’ 3” × 2’ × 4’ 9”
Ashley Fuchs
November 11, 2019
Save 50% off Edward Lear and the Pussycat: Famous Writers and Their Pets
The British Library is giving its online shop a new look and as part of the reorganisation my latest book Edward Lear and the Pussycat: Famous Writers and Their Pets is now available for a limited time only for a mere £5, a whopping 50% off. Click here to avail yourself of the offer.
Rotating bookshelf for children
Children can get books from suitable position easily by rotating bookshelf. The inside of the bookshelf is made of recycled waste bicycle rubber tyres to fix books of different sizes and to ensure the books do not fall out when rotated.
Xue Feng
November 5, 2019
November 4, 2019
BookTrust Christmas Appeal
BookTrust is appealing to the public to dig deep this Christmas and help send special book gifts to children who are vulnerable or in care. The UK’s largest children’s reading charity needs to raise enough money to send over 12,000 children in the UK a special Christmas gift.
Christmas can be a hard time of year for these children, but a surprise book gift can bring them joy and show them that there’s someone’s out there thinking of them. Just £10 will send a vulnerable child a surprise Christmas present to unwrap and treasure this December.
BookTrust has carefully chosen six beautiful hardback books for children aged three-13 in the Letterbox Club, BookTrust’s programme for children who are vulnerable and looked after.
Each parcel contains one specially chosen hardback book, a letter from award winning author and current Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, a poster and bookmark created by Neal Layton, and a postcard.
Cressida Cowell, best-selling children’s author and current Children’s Laureate said: “I am so happy and proud to be included in the Christmas gift parcel this year, and thrilled children are being sent a book in this parcel as a present! Books make the BEST presents, because they help you dream big, and make your own magic. I hope this Christmas parcel puts a smile on every child’s face and makes them feel special and important – as all children should.”
Children who are looked after are more likely to experience home or school moves, and these parcels, which are delivered directly to them wherever they’re living, provide a sense of continuity and stability, which is very important throughout the year but even more special at Christmas time.
Diana Gerald, CEO, BookTrust says: “This time of year can be extremely tough for vulnerable children and at BookTrust we want to make this time a little easier for them if we can. A £10 donation can send a book gift to one child, and go some way to brighten their Christmas and help them feel special.”
Money raised from the appeal will also support sending book gifts during 2020 and BookTrust’s work with vulnerable children throughout the year.
For more information or to donate to BookTrust’s Christmas appeal visit booktrust.org.uk/xmas
