num_pages: 272
description: In these pages some of todays most wonderful culture-makerswriters artists scientists entrepreneurs and philosophersreflect on the joys of reading how books broaden and deepen human experience and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the page facing each letter an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or graphic artist presents that artist's visual response.Among the diverse contributions are letters from Jane Goodall Neil Gaiman Jerome Bruner Shonda Rhimes Ursula K. Le Guin Yo-Yo Ma Judy Blume Lena Dunham Elizabeth Gilbert and Jacqueline Woodson as well as a ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor a pioneering oceanographer and Italys first woman in space. Some of the illustrators cartoonists and graphic designers involved are Marianne Dubuc Sean Qualls Oliver Jeffers Maira Kalman Mo Willems Isabelle Arsenault Chris Ware Liniers Shaun Tan Tomi Ungerer and Art Spiegelman. This project is woven entirely of goodwill generosity of spirit and a shared love of books. Everyone involved has donated their time and all profits will go to the New York Public Library systems.Preface by David Remnick editor The New Yorker; Edited and introduced by Maria Popova who has been writing since 2006 about what she reads on Brain Pickings (brainpickings.org) which is now included in the Library of Congress archive of culturally valuable materials; Edited by Claudia Bedrick publisher editorial and art director of Enchanted Lion Books.
language: English
title: A Velocity of Being: Letters to A Young Reader
publisher: Enchanted Lion Books