The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals–It’s Here!
So, we got our copies of the Kosher Guide the other day. It looks beautiful. Tachyon did a great job with it. It should be available at online sources and in bookstores by April 1st, at the latest.
It’s a fun, deeply silly little book that’s not meant as anything at all serious, but it does pack a lot into 96 pages. Not only Evil Monkey’s discussions with Ann, but an intro by Joseph Nigg, who did the OED’s definitive book on fantastical beasts, an ending section where Ann and Ace of Cakes’ Duff Goldman talk about recipes for imaginary animals, and, of course, descriptions of 34 different creatures, from ET to a headless mule, Sea Monkeys to the Pope Lick Monster. All of this given vision and style by master designer John Coulthart. (We even slipped in an Ian Miller illustration.)
Io9, Bibliophile Stalker, Jewcy.com, SF Site, and Foreword Magazine have all done nice features. It also appears the Jerusalem Post will do a review of the book.
There’s also talk of a very short-run, 34-copy limited edition from Tachyon, for those who collect books.
March 17, 2010 at 12:33 pm
I wonder who would win in a fight between Borges and the Pope Lick Monster?
March 17, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Looks beautiful. I’m a great fan of little books.
March 17, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Not sure if you’ve seen this yet, but Alisa gives her first impressions of the book in episode 2 of our new podcast at http://www.galacticsuburbia.com
March 17, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Am so getting a copy of this for a cantor I know.
March 17, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Thanks, all. Hope you like it!
March 18, 2010 at 4:59 am
yup……chalk this one up for me to chase after during my school break…
good on ya mate
peace and love…..
March 19, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Ingram lists the pub date as 30 April, I notice. Don’t know if that will actually affect anything, but there you are.
March 19, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Yeah…sigh. This should be a bestseller, but these delays…still, they’re wrong. it’s in the warehouses and on its way.
March 20, 2010 at 8:24 pm
My copy arrived in the mail today from Amazon. Very nice.
March 30, 2010 at 4:21 am
My daughter (age 8) was browsing the book at the kitchen table and asked what it was about. I explained the concept briefly, and she was intrigued. Her response, “When I grow bigger and learn English, I want to read this book” So, another fan waiting just for learning a second language…
October 29, 2010 at 4:15 pm
i would like to learn more about the english language specially the english grammar “”
November 16, 2010 at 11:41 am
learning english is quite easy, there arem any tutorials on the internet and some audiobooks too ,:.
June 7, 2011 at 1:09 am
It’s a wonderful, wonderful book. I think I bought it 3 or 4 times, always like a gift to my grandsons