BookSpeak Poems About Books Author:Laura Purdie Salas Laura Purdie Salas, the acclaimed author of STAMPEDE!, is back with another collection of wild and weird, wacky and winsome poems about all the magic to be found on a single bookshelf. In BOOKSPEAK! each poem gives voice to a group who seldom get a voice...the books themselves. In "I've Got This Covered," a dust jacket makes a case for just how ... more »important it is--after all, everyone judges a book by its cover. And in "Lights Out at the Bookstore," we get a sneak peek at the raucous parties in the aisles, when all the lights go out. The cookbooks cater the affair, the music aisle is a regular dance hall--all the books do what they do best. Illustrator Josee Bisaillon's mixture of collage, drawings, and digital montage delivers page after page of richly colored spreads filled with magic. Together, Salas and Bisaillon deliver a unique collection brimming with ideas as much about spines and dust jackets as they are about adventure and imagination.« less