Emmas Umbrella

Emmas umbrella by Kate Dickson

ALAAB DIC State Library Location Code

   ah this is funny, and fun to follow the story line through the book.  it is a story in pictures of what happened  to Emma's Umbrella 

   A3 colour prints of places in Brisbane & each one has an umbrella attached to it with wire & the umbrella can be dragged across the page as though the umbrella is being blown along by the wind, until it is blown into space & it passes by an alien.

Fun for the whole family.

Sound and Flight of the currawong

 Sound and Flight of the currawong by Wim de Vos 

ALAAB DEV State Library Location Code

This is a cunning little box.  With the print plates in it.  With the book.  Pictures of the curawong's eye view of the landscape.  The prints have embossing on each paper that could be a river or the path of the currawong. Bound with thread.

Thymelaeaceae papers

Thymelaeaceae papers by Ruth Creedy and Heather J. McDonald 

ALAAB CRE State Library Location Code

A lovely little book, with a variety of different hand made papers in it. 20 different shades of brown.  It's delightful to browse through the papers and see all the different textures. Each plant has made a different kind of paper!  All from the different Thyme plants, all plants made paper with different textures.  

Then the are some pages of transluscent computer paper with the story of how the pages and the book came about.  Pictures of the flowering plants are printed onto translucent computer paper.

I want to eat this book.

Wild Cherry Tin Mine

 Wild Cherry Tin Mine by Darren Bryant et al

ALAAB COD State Library Location Code

Nice hand made black paper.  Black printed maps onto black paper for an interesting effect of not being able to quite read it. Torn edges, and some scrapbooking of map scraps onto the pages.  No story or text, just the scrapbooked art. Some pages have the design word for "deckled" onto the paper.  Design is made into the paper in different layers.  White paper pulp piled onto the black paper in a design of text and map. I don't if I've ever seen that before.

No Diving

No Diving by Peter E. Charuk

ALAAB CHA  is the location code within the State Library.

The first thing I notice about this book is the strange print.  It's made of full colour digital prints, and it feels gritty under my gloves.  Full of beautiful blue water and orange things.  Complementary colours, a goldfish, a woman bathing. Concertina folds. The only text is a poem by Leonard Cohen, Suzanne, at the end.  Concertina is glued into the hard covers.

Artist Book

<Artist Book> by Pierre Cavalan
ALAAB CAV is it's location code at the State Library

 SUCH A BEAUTIFUL THING!  Made of cut-outs of tins! Oil tins, Danish shortbread tins, and a Christmas fruit cake tin? Links welded together. The cover is made of something that looks like wood.  A shiny metal badge of books is riveted onto the cover.  It mades a satisfying chunking sound of page on page.

Will definitely look at this one again.

Erupting Volcano

Erupting Volcano  by Lorraine M Brown
ALAAB BRO is it's location code, in the QLD State Library Catalogue.

Basically a book object that looks like an erupting volcano.  Out standing.  I had to lift it out of it's little box, and look at it from all sides.   Multi coloured leaves of paper to represent the lava, grey black orange, yellow-orange, red with the satin ribbons, the lava leaves are folios glued to the binding, folios and ribbons are covered with an end paper.  Black volcano box is made of book binders, and cloth covered board and marbled fly sheet.

I would definitely look at this one again.