Leigh

The company we hired to do some landscaping for our new house gave us a copy of this book and I can't recommend it enough. Don't be turned off by the outdated cover design, this book has great pictures, is easy to read, and taught me a lot about how our backyard works (and isn't working). If you have any green space, please give this book a read. We can make a positive impact on the future of our planet through what we plant around us.

I started reading art books because I love the movies, but I kept reading them because they are fantastic motivation for my own work. Hearing about how many iterations a story went through and the amazing teamwork that brought these works to life pushes me to keep going - that was especially true of this book and the art book for Zootopia. I could always stand for the book to be five times longer than it is, but have to respect the constraints. This book was well organized and offered a lot of interesting insight. Sometimes the text was hard to read on the “parchment” background, but otherwise I enjoyed the layout.

I really enjoyed Jenny Colgan's Bookshop on the Corner, which I now feel is like the better final draft of this book, Little Beach Street Bakery. While the location and the main character's occupation were different, there were too many other similarities in plot and characters for me to really enjoy this book so soon after reading Bookshop on the Corner. There was also some random and distracting head-hopping that I don't remember being part of the writing in Bookshop on the Corner.