Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
(Source: mydollyaviana)
“Then what is magic for?” Prince Lir demanded wildly. “What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?” He gripped the magician’s shoulder hard, to keep from falling.
Schmendrick did not turn his head. With a touch of sad mockery in his voice, he said, “That’s what heroes are for.”
Err… Disney? You might want to rethink that title.
As usual, the Marketing department did not have a 12 year old on staff. I believe all PR depts should have 12-15 year old boys on staff at all time. Things like this would never happen.
“When I was growing up, I was a voracious reader; I loved sitting in my house and jumping into new worlds. But more important, I loved meeting new people. Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you’ve met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave. When you read stories about triumph and about struggle and people coming to terms with how scary life is, you begin to think, “What could I take? What could I do? What would I do in that moment?”
-Amy Poehler
I want my hat back-The Doctor Edition
After seeing the original, by Jon Klassen, I instantly thought of The Doctor. Then after seeing someone do a Professor Layton and Tiger and Bunny I had to do one. I just spent the last 8 hours drawing this….
LOL! I LOVE THIS! I adore the real book for it’s randomness but THIS IS EVEN BETTER!!!!! :)
I love the ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Nancy Drew series. The bagpipes one is my favorite from this set for sure.
Once a month a lumbering green van pulled up in front of our tiny school. Written on the side in large gold letters was State of Maine Bookmobile. The driver-librarian was a hefty lady who liked kids almost as much as she liked books, and she was always willing to make a suggestion. One day, after I’d spent 20 minutes pulling books from the shelves in the section marked Young Readers and then replacing them again, she asked me what sort of book I was looking for.
“I thought about it, then asked a question—perhaps by accident, perhaps as a result of divine intervention—that unlocked the rest of my life. ‘Do you have any stories about how kids really are?’ She thought about it, then went to the section of the Bookmobile marked Adult Fiction, and pulled out a slim hardcover volume. ‘Try this, Stevie,’ she said. ‘And if anyone asks, tell them you found it yourself. Otherwise, I might get into trouble.’
—Stephen King, reflecting upon his discovery of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in the Telegraph’s edited version of King’s introduction to an upcoming centenary edition of the novel
Words to live by…
The book, ‘And Tango Makes Three’, is a children’s book based on a true story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo who for six years formed a couple. The book follows part of this time in the penguins’ lives. The pair were observed trying to hatch a rock that resembled an egg. When zookeepers realized that Roy and Silo were both male, it occurred to them to give them the second egg of a mixed-sex penguin couple, a couple which had previously been unable to successfully hatch two eggs at once. Roy and Silo hatched and raised the healthy young chick, a female named “Tango” by keepers, together as a family.
This book is banned because it features two same sex penguins raising a penguin together. It’s shit like this that I hate about the world we live in.
Seriously wtf?
BUT IT’S SO FUCKING ADORABLE… WHAT THE FUCK?!
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Having trouble forming words. Anger + adoration mixing has left me with little comprehensibility.
I NEED TO READ THIS.
But seriously though, stop banning books about gay couples when I know 10 year olds who play Call of Duty. I’m pretty sure they can handle it.
Stupid world.
Who banned it and where? I checked my public library and we have 4 circulating copies! We librarians HATE censorship and the ALA fights against it. If you say to me “ban this book”, my first reaction is to request we buy more! :)
I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
From Bossypants by Tina Fey
