January 26, 2007
Children's bookplates
Great for adults too: a series of colour and black-and-white bookplates by various children's illustrators. Print them out and stick them in your home library.
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Excellent set of illustrators - nice to have a bookplate that actually matches the illustrations in your book.
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Nice, but didn't we do bookplates once before? Or maybe I just surf a lot more than I should.
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We have had a bookplate post once before, but I believe it was more a "look at these really old bookplates that are worth a lot of money" than a get-your-own post. I remembered it too, but I love these bookplates.
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The Monkeybashi can do what she likes, Granma. How I envy her!
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Not oonce but tworce. Now if only I had some books worthy of the plating. One of the pleasures of buying a used book is finding somebody else's bookplate in the front cover. Bonus points if it's in a very childish hand.
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I think nice bookplates deserve more than one thread - and these are really nice. It's almost a roll-call of serious children's illustrators. Non-parents may not realise how stellar this lot is.
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*raises hands and backs up slowly No, no, I likes. I LIKES! It was just a comment, O Mighty Traculon! *quakes and shivers
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I really like these, and they do come up on almost every site I read sooner or later. I found them around 2002-3 myself, and as such, I feel it only fair to warn you: They're screen resolution, not print resolution. They don't print out that nicely, and you have to be careful what you use to glue them into a book, since inkjet printouts aren't waterfast. (I'd do photocopies before using them, myself.) They may have changed that bit about resolution in the last few months, but for me, the fact that they printed blurry and with poor detail was a big disappointment. There were a few I really wanted to use.