photos of the Poplar Picture bookstore in Beijing, designed by Sako in 2005

verymuch:

The Kid’s Republic Bookstore

This space was designed by Sako, Japan’s leading architecture firm, for Poplar Picture Bookstore, Japan’s largest children’s book publisher. (via my modern met)

This is a fantastic kid space. All for books!

Ideal Bookshelf print by Jane Mount (via 20x200)

already have a small print of Bookshelf 20, should I add another to the collection?

A film adaptation of the 1978 children’s book classic, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will hit theaters in Fall 2009.

I’m really looking forward to Spike Jonze’s film adaptation (with Dave Eggers) of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book Where the Wild Things Are.

(film poster found via slash film via Nick magazine)

Eduardo Recife’s photo illustration accompanying the “Generation OMG” article in The New York Times (an unusual but thought provoking article)

“In 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation’s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day — the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would dissect a decade later…Today’s youngest children — the recession babies — are being raised in the same kind of protective bubble as the Depression babies…” —Kate Zernike writes for the NY Times

Letter Monsters illustrations by Joey Ellis
(via Boing Boing via JoeyBlog)

vintage Russian children’s book cover
(via wackystuff)

illustrations by Jan Goeting c. 1947

designgallery:

Vintage Dutch Children’s Books

Just discovered the fun illustration work and website for artist Meomi. (found this via Boing Boing’s short write-up on Meomi’s The Octonauts kids’ books)