book illustration - Jane Audas

Paris

10 May 2017

Paris is Shelf Appeal’s favorite city. Not simply because they do the best fashion and toy exhibitions there. Not only...

17 February 2016

Shelf Appeal tries not to collect children’s books. For where would that end? Buckling shelves and a collecting headache,...

7 October 2012

You see before you a booklet called Penguins Progress from Easter 1947. It has a yellow cover. Of course it...

15 August 2011

I have surprised myself. I thought I must have written about Barbara Jones on Shelf Appeal. But no. I think...

24 July 2011

In the way I am in denial about collecting King Penguin books (10 doesn’t a collection make, surely?) I am...

18 April 2007

Mid-April and the weather is still making its mind up. This time of year feels quintessentially English to me. The...

14 March 2007

Sometimes the internet delivers on its promise and you find a joyous, rare and free delight. I can’t remember where...