Judging a Book by its Cover

October 22, 2007 at 1:07 pm , by Amanda Wolfe

I know I am not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I find that awfully difficult when I’m in a bookstore and oftentimes all I have to go by is my aesthetic taste.  When I stumbled across this blog over the weekend, I felt I had found camaraderie in my love of well-designed books.  Book By Its Cover is a blog by Julia Rothman (an uber-talented designer herself) that groups well-considered books by category. 

In the children’s book category, my personal favorites are When You Were Small by Sara O’Leary and Julie Morstad, Mocking Birdies by Annette Simon, and Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson.

And serendipitously, today I received this amazing book in the mail: How To Make Books by Esther K. Smith that teaches very simple techniques of making all sorts of books from accordion books to mini-zines to luxurious leather journals.

So now go read, or fold, punch, sew and bind…whichever strikes your fancy!

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