Kid’s books featuring chairs at the Montclair branch include:Ī Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Schwartz at Main.Īlso at other branches, you’ll find more tenuously chair-related books like The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook by Rachel Saunders (Rockridge and others) Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch (Lakeview and others) and Hemingway’s Chair by Michael Palin (Rockridge). While you’re contemplating book chairs, why not check out some books with chairs in the title?įor grown-ups, there’s Sue Monk Kidd’s Mermaid Chair at the Montclair branch, and further afield you can find chair treatises like The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design by Galen Cranz at Rockridge or Please Be Seated: The Evolution of the Chair, 2000 BC-2000 AD by Marvin D.
Further research seems to indicate that building furniture out of books is kind of a thing - I’m really digging this bookstore counter made of stacked books, although I don’t think stacking up books and calling them side tables counts – nice try, Real Simple. While I’m still undecided about how comfortable such a chair might be, it got me thinking about book furniture. Oh it seemed to grin as his hand went in.Ī sip, a sup, a sop, a song.Branch manager Lynne sent me this photo the other day of a cool chair she encountered in her travels – the seat and back are made from paperback books. So now he’ll kneel and try to feel right down the back of the chair. He’s patted himself, and searched the shelf.
The poem is also available in How you doing? a selection of New Zealand comic and satiric verse edited by Harry Ricketts and Hugh Roberts. Borrow Down the back of the chair from our libraries. A picture book version of this poem, illustrated by Polly Dunbar, was published by Frances Lincoln in April 2006.
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