Category: Favorite Things

Our Favorite Things #3: A Dog Genealogy

Our Favorite Things #3: A Dog Genealogy

This little book is a list of the names of all the champion hunting dogs owned by a great English book collector, who also had a Gutenberg Bible, etc.

Our Favorite Things #2: Zelda Fitzgerald’s Jacket

Our Favorite Things #2: Zelda Fitzgerald’s Jacket

Encountering this jacket, you can’t help but think about Zelda as a flesh and blood person. A person with a *body* who wore jackets — not just a character in someone else’s story; not just a person defined by their brain.

Our Favorite Things #1: A Young Mathematician’s Notebook

Our Favorite Things #1: A Young Mathematician’s Notebook

The illustrations in this volume are amazing. One of my favorite things about history is seeing how similar humans have always been despite how much the world has changed, and who hasn’t doodled on their math homework before? Whether I’m poring over the depictions of various creatures or trying to figure out exactly what math is going on, every page of this manuscript piques my interest.