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A book you can eat…

…and a book you can smoke.

And while their strong voices differ in style, at the core Freedom and the Lorax are the same book: an urgent message about environmental stewardship, delivered by a ubiquitous curmudgeon. A literary guide for the new parent.

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Call for Entries for the 2012 Text Prize

The Text Prize is going from strength to strength, as the publisher continues to choose winners that push the boundaries of young adult fiction.

Junior Bookseller+Publisher

Founded in 2008, the Read more

Text Classics visit Japan

Text Classics admire the first cherry blossom of the season

Text Classics find a trip to the A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima a sobering experience

Text Classics think this giant Buddha would look nice in the backyard next to the gardenias

Text Classics—more powerful than a bullet

Friday Links

Some more cool and unusual bookshelves. (via @GriffithREVIEW)

The Art of Google Books catalogues some of the beautiful and serendipitous things captured when old books are scanned and digitised.

In defence of the thesaurus.

Friday Links

Amazing embroidered book clutches.

Hauntingly pretty pop-up books by Andreas Johansson.

A German club offers a night of book reading and electro music.

The Hanged Man is suspended, upside-down, by his still-incomplete thesis. Lit scene tarot.

Friday Links

Amazing image of 5,000 books vomited out of a window in Spain. (via @danielle_binks)

A world record attempt for book dominoes.

Adorable Domus bookends shaped like little houses.

A list of Ernest Hemingway’s favourite books.

Scrabble, the typography edition.

Vikki Wakefield wins the Adelaide Festival Literary Award for YA

Vikki Wakefield with Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean

Vikki Wakefield’s debut novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the Young Adult category of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

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Friday Links

Everyone’s a critic.

A bookmark that follows you as you turn the page: for the forgetful reader.

10 of the most powerful women characters in literature. Twitter consensus is that the absence of Jo March from this list is nothing short of a travesty.

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Got My Swag On

Here’s Sales and Marketing Director Kirsty Wilson posing with a beautiful new Text Classics bag, which just arrived in the office.

Friday Links

A skirt made out of books. There’s a total of 20,000 pages here, each folded by hand. Suffer for fashion, indeed.

The greatest books of all time, quantified and ranked, a process that subjective art really calls out for, right?

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