Back when we were both very young, Godine had the honor of publishing the first two poetry books of Mark Doty, who has since gone on to considerable and deserved fame and fortune, winning the National
The author shares the illustrated letters he sent his friend, historian David McCullough, over the course of three years that depict the homes of former presidents, focusing on the small details of ev
Provides fictional correspondence between the author and Louisa May Alcott in which they discuss a variety of issues, including feminism, war, transcendentalism, nursing the sick, writing, and civil r
When chaos reigns among the birds, the oldest and wisest birds declare a contest to determine who will be their king. Includes key to all of the birds pictured.
A collection of linked short stories set in mysterious Larkin Mills, a peculiar town filled with dark secrets, a big dose of death, and a tug-of-war between darkness and light.
“There was a long bench in the living room of our house. And it was full of paper, crayons, watercolors—all the essentials for creating art.” And so begins Allen Blagden’s account of his career, train
Little Old Farm Folk, Godine’s first-ever board book, fondly evokes memories of Old MacDonald and his farm. In sweet rhyme, we are taken through the daily tasks of running the farm: milking, egg colle
Comfort food indeed! Eating outrageously fine cuisine is the sole activity that stops this young lad from screaming incessantly.But one fateful night, when his parents accidentally burn dinner, the bo
Riptide may be an unusual name for a dog, but it is one that suits this one well. Rip is resolutely drawn to the salty ocean breeze, and the crash of the waves, and he simply cannot be discouraged—eve
Who doesn’t love dogs? Answer that question in the negative and find yourself contradicted by the countless dog-lauding quotations compiled here by James Charlton and wackily illustrated by Arnold Rot
The three interrelated sections of poetry in Fair Sun explore the primary importance of connection, both with other human beings and with the natural world. In the first section, the poems are wide-ra
Last spring the world lost one of the greatest practitioners of the graphic arts of the past century. Hermann Zapf, born in 1918, died in his sun-and-book-filled studio in Darmstadt at the age of 96.
The expression of love has occurred throughout the ages in innumerable fashions. Sonnets, soliloquies, songs; 'countless ways' is the true answer to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How do I love thee? Of
New in paperback for the tenth anniversary! Into the forbidding but beautiful New England winter steps a resourceful farm girl in her scarlet cloak, bound with her basket of presents for her ailing gr
In 1984, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, George Gibson and I picked up Peter Bowler's first Superior Person's Book of Words for the princely sum of $500. With 650,000 copies sold and now in its 32nd print
What would you do if your doodles became real? If they rose right off the page, turning tangible, and through them you could fly to the moon, discover the deep sea, or visit remote jungles? In Rocket
Born in India, Gerald Durrell returned to England when he was three, and five years later, the entire entourage, lead by his intrepid, imperturbable mother, went abroad again, eventually settling in C
The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the Eng
Roughly fifteen years after Gutenburg printed the first book in Maintz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized as among the most beautiful typefaces ever create
Inspector Mantis, Dr. Hopper, and their creeping, crawling coterie return for another series of thrilling tales in this long awaited sequel to Trouble in Bugland-and this time they're facing more dead
In this beautifully illustrated alphabet book, Wendell Minor presents the people, places, and events of the Revolutionary War by reimagining the inn and tavern signs that would have dotted the roads b
On a visit to one of Cape Cod's remote Provincetown dune shacks, photographer Don Krohn turns his attention to the place he calls home. With each of the Cape's fifteen towns represented in this series
"Let the buyer beware." Flush with $400,000 dollars from selling his great great grandfather's correspondence with Victorian authors, Larry Dickerson, retired bank clerk, amateur editor, and
Farnsworth has collected examples of metaphor in the work of some of the best known and revered writers of Modern English and set them within his account of the use of metaphor as an element of rhetor
Bator, a Boston Trustee and trusts and estates lawyer who works in a multi-family trustee office, and Seely, a trusts and estates lawyer, describe the work of individuals who serve as professional tru
Celebrates the power and the beauty of the heartland--the wheat, the cornfield, the green pastures, and a land that endures--despite human intervention.
