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April 01, 2011
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Martine Leavitt: Heck: Superhero
"It was an unsettling feeling, like he'd just lost track of the spin of the earth. This was how his mom felt all the time, he thought. It must be, for her, like trying to jump onto a spinning merry-go-round."Alexis Deacon: Slow Loris
Miraculously, I met the French publisher of Slow Loris... it's called Le Secret de Loris Lent here. I don't think life could be weirder.Mervyn Peake: Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) dragged his family to the Channel Islands to flee modern society and drew these weird, wonderful pirate pictures for his children. (Charlie Choke was covered all over with dreadful drawings in blue ink.)William Steig: Dominic
"Dear Friends, I am leaving rather in a hurry to see more of the world, so I have no time to say goodbye to you individually. I embrace you all and sniff you with love. I don't know when I'll be back. But back I will be. Dominic."Charlotte Pomerantz & James Marshall: The Piggy in the Puddle
"See the piggy, / See the puddle, / See the muddy little puddle. / See the piggy in the middle / Of the muddy little puddle. / See her dawdle, see her diddle / In the muddy, muddy middle. / See her waddle, plump and little, / In the very merry middle."Phillip Hoose: The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
Imagine a world where we pay our taxes in squirrel pelts and the sun is eclipsed by a billion passenger pigeons flying by...
P.S. I just asked Yolande if she put paper fish on people's backs on April 1 when she was growing up in Paris. She said, "Sur le tien--tu n'as pas vu?" meaning "I just put one on your back, didn't you see?"
Posted by: Karin | April 01, 2011 at 12:12 AM
On April 1, I accompanied my father when he got his hair cut in Lyon (I provide translation services). We were a bit worried that the barber would have too much of a sense of humor, but he just showed us how the media places fake headlines in the paper on Fish Day.
Posted by: Cynthia | May 28, 2011 at 03:35 PM