Ian Sansom on The Truth About Babies: When we first had a baby and still had money in our pockets I could not find a single baby book that I wanted to read.I found that I didnt want a manual or a reference book, and I didnt want a joke book. I didnt want pictures. I didnt want a book about fatherhood or motherhood. I didnt want a novel, and I definitely did not want an anthology of poems. I did not want advice, and I did not want other peoples complaints, or statements of their own good intentions. I didnt want sludge, ...
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Ian Sansom on The Truth About Babies: When we first had a baby and still had money in our pockets I could not find a single baby book that I wanted to read.I found that I didnt want a manual or a reference book, and I didnt want a joke book. I didnt want pictures. I didnt want a book about fatherhood or motherhood. I didnt want a novel, and I definitely did not want an anthology of poems. I did not want advice, and I did not want other peoples complaints, or statements of their own good intentions. I didnt want sludge, slurry, emotional slither or sentimentality. I didnt want to be patronized, and I didnt want self-help. I didnt want Technicolor, but I didnt want black and white either. I think what I wanted, what I was after, was some kind of benediction, but I also wanted someone to tell me the truth. I wanted someone to make the true seem beautiful and the beautiful truejust the usual.I wanted something that I could give to friends without embarrassment and say "This is what its like." I wanted feeling, and conscience. I wanted someone to capture the charm of a person. I wanted a book that had the attraction of fiction with none of its disadvantages: characters, plot, long plodding descriptive passages. I wanted more than a pious statement of hopefulnessmore than a preface. More than a catalogue of experiences. I wanted no aesthetic mistakes.I still havent found it.This is the alternative.
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Newey, Gail. Good. No dust jacket. A Child's Book of Faeries (Hardcover CONDITION GOOD-) COPYRIGHT 2002-PUBLISHED BY BAREFOOT BOOKS-by Stella Blackstone, Tanya Robyn Batt-ILLUSTRATED BY GAIL NEWEY-Influenced by writers and artists from the Victorian era, this book... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 64 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. A Child's Book of Faeries (Hardcover CONDITION GOOD-) COPYRIGHT 2002-PUBLISHED BY BAREFOOT BOOKS-by Stella Blackstone, Tanya Robyn Batt-ILLUSTRATED BY GAIL NEWEY-Influenced by writers and artists from the Victorian era, this book introduces children to all kinds of faeries-elves, pixies, leprechauns and hobgoblins. The collection of stories, poems and snippits of faerie lore come from Britain and Ireland.
