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A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, usually on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto page of a book. [1] In some ancient editions or in modern luxury editions the frontispiece features thematic or allegorical elements, in others is the author's portrait that ...
The success of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps horror novels inspired a flood of children's horror books, including this Choose Your Own Adventure spin-off series. The same year, Goosebumps began the Give Yourself Goosebumps series under a similar concept. Some of the following titles have been made into computer games/movies by Multipath Movies
In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following leaf in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous leaf. Right-to-left language books: recto is the front page, verso is the back page (vertical Chinese, vertical Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew). In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following leaf in a book and ...
The Bookano books are considered the first, true pop-up books for children [citation needed] because the pop-ups can be viewed from a full 360 degrees, not just the front side facing the viewer. There were seventeen Bookanos before the series came to an end with the death of Giraud in 1949.
Students in a reading circle are invited to the principal's birthday party. Their teacher suggests they write the principal a "Happy Birthday" card . While trying to write the card, one of the students realizes his letters will sometimes be back to front, sometimes upside down and sometimes won't look like letters at all.
Other older books may have bibliographic information on the colophon at the end of the book. [2] The Bulla Cruciatae contra Turcos (1463) is the earliest use of a title on the first page. [3] Margaret M. Smith's The Title-Page, Its Early Development, 1460-1510 [4] provides the genesis and development of the title page. [5]
Last Yang heard, close to 10 kids in the Plainedge district had opted out of reading Front Desk. "I think that the parents are uncomfortable with a book about a young Chinese immigrant, and they ...
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.