Raincoast Books

What Will You Read Next?

A Velocity of Being

Letters to A Young Reader

9781592702282

Enchanted Lion Books
Available: 01/10/19
7.63 x 10.25 · 280 pages
Ages 10 years and up
9781592702282
CDN $53.50 · cl

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edited by Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick

A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year
An embarrassment of riches." - The New York Times

An expansive collection of love letters to books, libraries, and reading, from a wonderfully eclectic array of thinkers and creators.

In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers-writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers-reflect 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 fromJane 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 areMarianne Dubuc, Sean Qualls, Oliver Jeffers, Maira Kalman, Mo Willems, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Ware, Liniers, Shaun Tan, Tomi Ungerer, andArt 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.



This stunning 272-page hardcover volume features a lay-flat binding to allow for greater ease of reading.
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Edited and introduced byMaria 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 byClaudia Bedrick, publisher, editorial and art director of Enchanted Lion Books.