The official Minecraft Annual 2017 is a celebration of the game and its community. Inside you'll find challenges set by the Mojang team as well as famous YouTubers like Stampy Cat and FyreUK. There are build battle ideas, survival strategies and challenges, Story Mode and Realms features and step-by-step guides to recreate builds from your favourite YouTubers' worlds. And you can read about the ways in which Minecraft has changed the world, from the charitable Block-by-Block foundation, to the epic MineCon event. With all this and more, Minecraft fans will be enjoying the official Annual well into 2017.
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball." Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.
Illustrators Annual 2020 is the 2020 edition of Chronicle Books' yearly publication celebrating artists featured at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Selected by the year's jury at the fair, these illustrators represent the most daring, exciting artistic minds working across the world. Celebrating debut and storied talent from around the world--talent poised to engage a whole new generation of book lovers--this glorious compendium can be read cover-to-cover or browsed through at random. * An annual publication that brings groundbreaking art from around the world to the English-speaking market * Inspires readers to marvel at the brilliance of the gifts shared by children's book illustrators * Provides a fascinating peek into the world of global children's book illustration A highlight of the time-honored gathering of children's publishers in Bologna, Italy, the Illustrators Annual is juried every year from the finest art at the show. Every year a new issue is published, each filled with art that represents the best of illustration today--and to come. * A must-have inspirational source for illustrators, artists, designers, and art fans alike, as well as educators, librarians, independent bookstore employees, and hardcore fans of children's books * The Bologna Illustrators Annual has long been a prized resource for artists, illustrators, and designers. * Great for those who enjoyed Illustrating Children's Books: Creating Pictures for Publication by Martin Salisbury, Writing Picture Books: A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication by Ann Whitford Paul, A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day by Andrea Davis Pinkney
The Tallowmere Annual is a unique collection of words, sound, and ink paintings by musician and artist Keaton Henson. This special limited edition hardback, mixed-media book tells the fragmented story of a town that never existed---Tallowmere---seemingly empty, showing only outlines of living things, words once spoken, and the sounds of distant mourning. The first of its kind, the book's front cover holds an MP3 pack embedded with an audio jack for headphones and sound controls. Readers can plug in and listen to a recorded score created specially by Keaton as an accompaniment to reading the book and viewing the artwork. Visit welcometotallowmere.com for more information.
An expanded and updated edition of a reference annual providing information of value to libraries in acquiring, maintaining, and expanding their video collections. Reports from the Field presents the best selections from the literature on video, while the Statistical Survey of Video Collections in U.S. Libraries provides analysis of data gathered from a national survey of all types of libraries. New to this edition is Annual Reports from Organizations Working with Video. Other sections are devoted to festivals and awards, associations and organizations, calendar of video-related events, resource materials, and distributors and producers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
