{"id":41931,"date":"2024-03-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41931"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:19:37","slug":"real-friends-washi-tape-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/real-friends-washi-tape-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Friends \/ Washi Tape Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Books That Belong On Paper<\/strong>\u00a0first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair.<\/em>\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get the issues a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A GRAPHIC MEMOIR ABOUT HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND YOUR REAL FRIENDS\u2015AND WHY IT\u2019S WORTH THE JOURNEY.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Real Friends<\/em>
by Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)
First Second
2017, 224 pages, 5.1 x 0.3 inches, Paperback<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do not judge this book by its cover. If you did, you might guess that Real Friends<\/em> is a bright, optimistic, underdog story in the girl power, kill \u2018em with kindness, best friends forever vein. I like to think this was a subversive move on the part of the book designers to lure book-buying parents who are searching for titles through the rose-colored lenses of age and distance. Or, better, to serve as a true cover for the kid reader who recognizes her best-bright-self in one of the girls on the outside of the book, only to realize later that the story inside, the inside-story of feelings and hopes and fears and the many changing faces of friendship, is one she is so relieved to see here, in full-color validation and print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shannon Hale\u2019s graphic memoir of navigating childhood life and relationships is brought to life through LeUyen Pham\u2019s illustrations, which carry the story in and out of young Shannon\u2019s experiences, both real and imagined. It is perhaps unfair to say imagined, as it is clear to any reader, young or old, that experiences (especially these early ones of friends and family) are simply understood as they are. And that understanding (of oneself as a super sleuth, or a loner lost at sea) is as real, maybe even more so, than the person or event as it appeared to be. Hale and LeUyen perfectly portray the complexity of finding one\u2019s identity amidst, and in relation to, friends, family, and our own feelings. Real Friends<\/em> is a must-read for anyone who was, is, or loves a young girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Marykate Smith Despres<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WASHI TAPE CRAFTS: 110 WAYS TO DECORATE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Washi Tape Crafts: 110 Ways to Decorate Just About Anything<\/em>
by Amy Anderson
Workman Publishing Company
2015, 320 pages, 6.7 x 1.0 x 6.3 inches, Paperback<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026And she does mean just about anything. Your nails, your garage floor, your keys, your sunglasses, your T-shirt, other pieces of washi tape, it\u2019s all ripe for taping over and onto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know how The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat<\/em> is interesting not just for the case stories, but for the glimpses it gives you of Sacks\u2019 writing process and how his brain works? That\u2019s how I feel about Washi Tape Crafts<\/em>. I picked it up thinking I was going to find interesting projects to do on rainy days, but there is so. much. more. going on here. Read it as a how-to for easy, interesting DIY projects, or imagine it all happens in a lost weekend and read it as a novel about one woman\u2019s descent into pastel-colored insanity. Comes with ten rolls of washi tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Sara Lorimer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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