I enjoyed reading this book about her loosing her first tooth. It is a good book to read, because it makes you think about when you lost your first tooth. In the story, little rabbit looses her first tooth and doesnt really know what to do with it. Her mom tells her about the tooth fairy. She still is not sure if she wants to put it under her pillow or not. If you read the book, you will find out what she does with the tooth.

This was a childhood favorite of mine and now that I'm grown I would like to have a copy for my own children. Wonderful story, your kids will love it too!

Edward Fella's book of 1134 Polaroid shots of vernacular signs gives a flavor of what can be seen in most US public places, these are the roadside typographic shouts of local commerce. Because the business of America is business signs are everywhere, usually colorful and just asking to be captured by any passing photographer. To avoid looking like other photo books of public lettering and signage the author deliberately goes for a tight shot and most of the photos only show letter parts but as Lewis Blackwell says in his introduction, Fella is not interested in what the letters say.

With the tight photo cropping and a dull layout (all the photo pages are the same: nine, three by three inch Polaroid's, including their white border, butted up to each other, no captions or page numbers) I think this ends up as a very boring looking but nevertheless intensely personal book of public typography. The best images are the ones that have been produced by sign makers, or are obviously commercially printed. Vernacular signs, where someone has painted or scrawled some letters, are mostly produced by amateurs, who given the choice (and money) would much prefer to have something that looked professional, where any repeat letters look identical, have even spacing and all sit on the same base line. Vernacular neon signs do not exist because they can only be made by professionals.

Between the photos there are twelve sections showing the author's own creative typography, loosely based on the vernacular letters he has photographed and consequently showing the same amateurish feel and more critically in my view, a high degree of un-readability. This individuality to type is also reflected in the books production. The few text pages with two columns per page appear to have been pasted up so that paragraphs do not line up, the imprint page and the cover flaps have type that is deliberately unaligned This silly messing about with the text stops short of doing anything to the back cover barcode though, commerce wins in the end!

If I hadn't been so lazy, or thought this had been done already, or thought maybe no one would care to publish this, then I might have done this book myself a few years ago. I wanted to do something similiar but didnt.
However, I don't think I would have done as good a job as Ed did here. This is NOT a bunch of random snaps. The continuity of the medium and the cropping are what makes this a discplined, artful and well-done study. Nice work , Ed!
(So-follow your dreams like Ed did)

I love books like this. I bought it after seeing some of his Polaroids in a recent issue of Dazed and Confused Magazine. He photographs and collects letters the way some do rare birds. This beautifully designed and edited book reproduces over a thousand of his snapshots as well as examples of his own uniquely personal approach to typography. It's an amazing testament to all the unseen hands that have left a mark on the American landscape.

Somehow this book captures the stubbornness and imagination of a small child pretending to drive. They say it's out of print? That's terribly sad. Georgina should be a classic.

"Be Brave, Baby Rabbit" is really not a tale about Halloween although it takes place at that time. But dressing up and going trick or treating is just the middle part of this tale. it begins when Baby Rabbit tries to jump over a basket of apples in the orchard just like Little Rabbit. But Baby Rabbit does not make it and bangs his nose. On Halloween night Baby Rabbit dresses up as a lion and Little Rabbit is an Indian princess. That night they see a witch and a monster and Baby Rabbit learns to be brave, which means another attempt at jumping over the aforementioned basket of apples. However, the beginning of the story sure makes it look like the problem with jumping over the basket of apples is not that Baby Rabbit is scared, but rather that he is even smaller than Little Rabbit. So while I certainly appreciate the attempt to tell a funny and tender tale about overcoming his fear and tries again, the set up here just does not warrant this particular lesson. More importantly, young children might think the lesson to be learned from this story is that they should try to do things they are not old enough or big enough or agile enough to do. So while the pictures by Diane De Groat are pleasant and the sibling relationship is nicely captured by Fran Manushkin, I would be careful reading this book to young children.