My Brother's Book
10 best books like My Brother's Book (Maurice Sendak): A Hole is to Dig, Bedtime for Frances, Bears, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?, Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content, Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist (Art Books, Gifts for Artists, Learn The Artist's Way of Thinking), How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum, Tales from Moominvalley, Red Bird, Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business
A wonderful book with humorous definitions for words. A dog is to kiss is a wonderful double page showing children with their dog friends, there are some beautiful illustrations of dogs accompanying children in their play throughout the book. Sendaks illustrations are wonderful and the illustrations...
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 0064434516 |
The big hand of the clock is at 12.
The little hand is at 7.
It is seven o' clock.
It is bedtime for Frances.
It may be bedtime for Frances, but before Frances can sleep, she needs a glass of milk, a kiss from Father, one from Mother, her teddy bear, her doll, another kiss from Father, and...
The main character in this book looks just like Max from: Where the Wild Things are. In fact, I would not be surprised if it was Max, because Maurice Sendak (the Illustrator) has done similar things with books like Chicken Soup & Rice, and One was Johnny. I enjoyed seeing Max in the end finally embracing...
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
| Author | Seth Godin |
| ISBN | 1591846072 |
In Seth Godin’s most inspiring book yet, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art. Everyone knows that Icarus’s father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun. But he ignored that warning and plunged to his doom. We’ve retold this myth, and...
Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
| Author | Mark Levy |
| ISBN | 1605095257 |
When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That’s because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts, so we sound smart and in control, and so that we fit into society. But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking...
Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist (Art Books, Gifts for Artists, Learn The Artist's Way of Thinking)
You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art—through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including industry...
How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
| Author | Keri Smith |
| ISBN | 0399534601 |
From the author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.
Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this...
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 0374474133 |
What a bunch of strange, opaque, elliptical little stories.
This is my first entry into the Moomin world, Jansson's books having passed me by as a child. I was dubious - the pastelly coloured covers of the editions I keep weighing in my hands then returning to the shelves in Unity have put me off...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068926 |
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit,...
Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business
| Author | Meg Mateo Ilasco |
| ISBN | 0811858367 |
"Craft, Inc." is the ultimate guide to turning what you do for fun into what you do for money.
Ready to start a craft business, but you'd rather wield a crochet hook than a calculator? Let crafter-turned-entrepreneur Meg Mateo Ilasco teach you the basics of starting your own company, from developing...
The Handmade Marketplace: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and On-Line
| Author | Kari Chapin |
| ISBN | 1603424776 |
Turn your craft into a successful business! Even the most expert crafters may find it challenging to market and sell their wares, but with Kari Chapin you have an experienced guide at your side. Learn to determine your cost of goods, set prices, identify the competition, and understand the ins and outs...
344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment
| Author | Stefan G. Bucher |
| ISBN | 0321733002 |
The secret to creative success lies not in knowing the right answers, but in knowing how to ask the right questions-and this little book is full of them! A veritable therapy session on paper, 344 Questions is composed entirely of questions designed to help you determine where you are in your life and career,...
100 Ideas that Changed Art
| Author | Michael Bird |
| ISBN | 1856697959 |
From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world of art. Arranged in broadly chronological order, it provides a source of inspiration and a fascinating resource for the general reader...
An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers
Travel + Sketching = Inspiration
When we travel, we don't want to follow the same itinerary as everyone who's come before us. We want to feel like explorers, adventurers in undiscovered territory. And that's exactly what sketching can bring to the travel experience.
An Illustrated...
Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois
| Author | George Lois |
| ISBN | 0714863483 |
Damn Good Advice (For People With Talent!) is a look into the mind of one of America's most legendary creative thinkers, George Lois. Offering indispensle lessons, practical advice, facts, anecdotes and inspiration, this book is a timeless creative bible for all those looking to succeed in life,...
I was very much looking forward to this book but I came away disappointed. I'm a big fan of what MailChimp is doing. Their marketing is excellent and the customer resources are a model for us all. I can't think of a better example of a company putting so much effort into making their customers successful....
The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
| Author | Nick Bantock |
| ISBN | 0399165029 |
The act of creating art, in all its forms, offers us a path to our souls. But the path can be confusing, and getting lost along the way is inevitable. However, maybe that’s the point.
In The Trickster’s Hat, bestselling author of the Griffin & Sabine cycle Nick Bantock invites you to lose...
I'll Be You and You Be Me
| Author | Ruth Krauss |
| ISBN | 0060284595 |
Don't miss the companions, Everything Under a Mushroom, A Very Special House, A Hole is to Dig... well, anything you can find by Krauss. Get the original editions, though - the newer illustrators' works just aren't a great fit.
Now, my assumption is that most of the text is actually collected...
