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Many Little Mermaids: Hans Christian Andersen's Classic Fairy Tale
Posted Jun 27, 2022 at Arts & Culture
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A Book About a City: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge
Posted May 16, 2022 at The Buzz...About Books
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A Book About Mental Health: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge
Posted Apr 25, 2022 at The Buzz...About Books
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An Illustrated Book by an Indigenous Creator: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge
Posted Apr 11, 2022 at The Buzz...About Books
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Mathematical Marvels: Five Children's Math Books from 1817 to Today
Posted Mar 21, 2022 at Arts & Culture
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Amazing Abecedariums: Eight Alphabet Books from 1672 to 2010
Posted Dec 10, 2021 at Arts & Culture
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Children's Book Series at Our Osborne Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Franklin, Little Tim and More
Posted Nov 8, 2021 at Arts & Culture
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A Book About Love (Not Just the Romantic Kind): Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge 2021
Posted Sep 27, 2021 at The Buzz...About Books
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Hand-Held Alphabets, a "Grammatico-Allegorical Ballad" and Other Early Educational Books for Children
Posted Aug 30, 2021 at Arts & Culture
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A Book About Fame: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge 2021
Posted Jun 28, 2021 at The Buzz...About Books
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12 Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Favourites
Posted Jun 7, 2021 at The Buzz...About Books
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The International Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh
Posted Apr 12, 2021 at Arts & Culture
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder: Canada's Science Fiction Beginnings
Posted Feb 26, 2021 at Arts & Culture
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The Three Bears Before Goldilocks: The History of a Fairy Tale
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at Arts & Culture
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Hi JB, Here is our TPL Reading Challenge 2020: A Year in Review blog post: https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/bookbuzz/2021/01/2020-tpl-reading-challenge-a-year-in-review.html
I will pass on your feedback about our contest entry process to the TPL Reading Challenge team.
A Book that is Someone Else's Favourite: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge 2021
The TPL Reading Challenge is back for 2021! And we're kicking off our category booklists with "a book that is someone else's favourite". The question is... favourite what? Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Priestdaddy is my favourite memoir and one of my most frequently recommended books. It ...
Hi Ann, We do not know how many people participated overall. But we did create a TPL Reading Challenge 2020: A Year in Review blog post, which has some information about our participants and the books they read. https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/bookbuzz/2021/01/2020-tpl-reading-challenge-a-year-in-review.html
A Book that is Someone Else's Favourite: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge 2021
The TPL Reading Challenge is back for 2021! And we're kicking off our category booklists with "a book that is someone else's favourite". The question is... favourite what? Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Priestdaddy is my favourite memoir and one of my most frequently recommended books. It ...
Hi JB. Thanks for your comment. We haven’t had the opportunity to complete the 2020 prize draw yet and contact winners. We hope to do that next week. We will put up a post on our Facebook Group once that has been completed. For privacy reasons, we won’t be able to share their names, but they can certainly do so if they’re interested! We’re also working on getting together a recap of the 2020 Challenge which we’ll be sharing late this month or in early February. Hope this helps!
A Book that is Someone Else's Favourite: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge 2021
The TPL Reading Challenge is back for 2021! And we're kicking off our category booklists with "a book that is someone else's favourite". The question is... favourite what? Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Priestdaddy is my favourite memoir and one of my most frequently recommended books. It ...
A Book that is Someone Else's Favourite: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge 2021
Posted Jan 8, 2021 at The Buzz...About Books
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Canada’s Wartime Science Fiction and Fantasy Pulp Magazines
Posted Jan 4, 2021 at Arts & Culture
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Very jealous that you've been able to visit The Edward Gorey House! Since researching our post and exhibit, a visit to Massachusetts and The Edward Gorey House is at the top of my post-pandemic travel list.
Gorey Tales: The Art and Stories of Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was an artist, writer, designer and eccentric. Dubbed the "the granddaddy of Goth," Gorey’s work continues to influence and inspire readers. The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1997) by Edward Gorey. Our Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books at Lillian H. Smith Branch ha...
Loved the painting in this exhibit. As an East Ender, Four Seasons Cleaners is a sentimental favourite.
Toronto Revealed | Exhibit Digest
This post reproduces the introductory panel and selected captions from the Toronto Revealed exhibit, which was on display in TD Gallery at Toronto Reference Library from February 10 to April 22, 2018. The exhibit presents art that captures Toronto's quickly changing streetscape from the mid-tw...
A Book About Climate Change: Picks for the TPL Reading Challenge 2020
Posted Nov 6, 2020 at The Buzz...About Books
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For England it would have been "the lifetime of the author plus 7 years, or for 42 years from first publication" in 1897. There is actually some interesting information about Dracula's US copyright status. A lot of sources say Bram Stoker didn't complete the US copyright paperwork in time and the book was in the public domain in the US. But, there is a blog post from a Library of Congress librarian, who found records suggesting Stoker did copyright it in time: https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/02/copyright-and-dracula/
Dracula: A Bloody Good First Edition
Since its release in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has become an icon of vampire and horror literature. The story of Count Dracula's blood thirsty crimes in Transylvania and England is read around the world. But the book’s journey to global fame was not straightforward. Books in our Merril Collect...
Dracula: A Bloody Good First Edition
Posted Oct 23, 2020 at Arts & Culture
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Hi Mac,
Glad you enjoyed the blog post! The use of long s definitely slowed down my reading a couple time as I was researching this post. Luckily for modern readers, Cobwebs to Catch Flies was her most popular book and there are several later editions which use the more easily readable "short" s. We have an edition from the 1870s, which might make easier reading for modern children and adults: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-37131009530916D&R=DC-37131009530916D
Vintage Homeschooling Advice by Ellenor Fenn, aka "Mrs. Lovechild"
With physical classrooms closed and students at home, parents are feeling the pressure to help their children learn. Parenting philosophies have changed over the centuries, but stressing about your child’s education is nothing new. Out of curiosity, I turned to our Osborne Collection of Early Ch...
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