Bart King's Blog, page 211
December 10, 2011
Macra-Mates must be eliminated.
"Babs Applegate" wrote the cover story? Of course she did.
Yesterday, my wife saw a guy with a bunch of macramé plant hangers crossing the street .
"Looks like someone's getting his weave on," she said.
And along DIY lines, this is still one of my all-time favorite ads:
Via.
December 9, 2011
A reminder for your shopping list:
Most major U.S. cities have alternative weeklies. Here in Portland, it's the
Willamette Week
. It doesn't ordinarily cover kids books, because not many 11-year olds read alternative weeklies . . . which is why I was triply pleased to see that WW included my favorite bookstore, A Children's Place, in its Holiday Gift Guide.
Bonus: Didja see how it recommended The Big Book of Gross Stuff? Huh? Huh?
Bonus: Didja see how it recommended The Big Book of Gross Stuff? Huh? Huh?
December 8, 2011
December 7, 2011
In the days when children's books ruled the world...
Esquire, February 1958.
Eloise, the girl who lived at the Plaza Hotel, was the
center of four famous books in the 1950s that were written by Kay Thompson and
illustrated by Hilary Knight. She was so famous that despite the fact that Eloise couldn't drive (and was fictional), Renault hired the little moppet to advertise its latest offering, the Dauphine.
(Memo to Nissan and/or GM: If you need a children's author to plug the Leaf or Volt, I'm available.)
December 6, 2011
My Thinking Is Famed. My Authoring? Celebrated!
Celebrated Authors and Famous Thinkers contains selections from Homer ("The Poet of the Heroic
World"), Charlotte Brontë ("A Sober View of Life; Hard Experiences") and a
mysterious figure known only as Baptiste de Bart King ("A Writer of Low Comedies
and High Mirth").
It is with a sense of modesty and pride that I join those who are "the movers of the world with the lever of knowledge."
