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Wallpaper | Thao Lam
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New from the creator of Skunk on a String comes Wallpaper, a wordless picture book in Thao Lam's signature paper collage style. It tells the story of a young girl whose family moves into a new house. Outside, she can hear other kids playing, but she's too shy to say hello. So she picks at the old wallpaper in her room--revealing an entryway to a fantastic imaginary adventure world behind the walls. There, she runs between the vibrant and varied environments--surrounded by birds, swimming in a frog pond, in a herd of art-deco sheep--as she finds herself chased by a monster. He is frightening at first, until it becomes clear he simply wants to be her friend. When it comes time to go back to reality, the girl feels inspired with the courage to approach the other kids and say hello. Full of humor and heart, this book delivers exquisite illustrations in a lively fantasy narrative that will inspire thinking about bravery and overcoming obstacles.
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GatheringBooks
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#LetsTravelAugust Day 21: Reminiscent of Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, Mina‘s White Canvas by Hyeon-Ju Lee, Jeremy Draws A Monster by Peter McCarty and even the Journey series by Aaron Becker - this is a touching story of a young girl who has given birth to the birds and beasts of her #imagination. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kiu

OriginalCyn620 👌🏻📚❤️💫 5y
LibrarianRyan I loved this book! 5y
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laur89
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I love seeing these pictures every time I use my phone.

The left one is a picture I took myself of all my most favorite/comfort reads, and it‘s my lock screen.
The right is an #etsy print I bought & then took a screenshot of, and it‘s my home screen.

I‘d love to see any literary/bookish computer or phone screens you have!

Megabooks My wallpaper is of colorings I did while listening to audiobooks. 😁 5y
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Lindy
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I highly recommend this #picturebook because:
🌷#Wordless
🌷Told in a series of panels like a #graphicnovel
🌷Cheerful, whimsical paper collage art
🌷Imaginative adventure story
🌷Can be appreciated by all ages
🌷Reassuring & relatable for any child who has experienced moving to a new place.

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Lindy
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I love to see so much care in the design of picture books. The story in this one starts right on the endpaper, with foreshadowing that something will happen under a layer of wallpaper. The half-title page shows a moving-truck being loaded. The title page shows its arrival at the new house, and the following 2-page spread includes a panel of the newly-transplanted girl shyly peeping out her window at other children next door.

Reviewsbylola What a cool looking book! 5y
Lindy @Reviewsbylola It is indeed. 😁 5y
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Blue Owl Books bathroom 3

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Birdsong28
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Look UK Littens what you can get in Wilkinson's

https://www.wilko.com/fresco-wallpaper-bookcases-multicoloured/p/0436934

Caroline2 😯 I want it!!! 5y
squirrelbrain Ooh! Want! Need! ❤️ 5y
Mitch Love it! 5y
TrishB Wow 😮 5y
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MrBook
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You see before you...my work computer‘s new wallpaper!

It‘s dandy, no?

Just can‘t figure out which store this is... 🤔

Any Littens know???

kspenmoll Just so perfect! 5y
Hooked_on_books I googled a bit. Looks like it‘s Libreria Bookshop in Amsterdam. 5y
MrBook @Hooked_on_books Oooh! 😁👏🏻👏🏻 5y
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BookBabe Lovely! 😍 5y
Gennic What a cute shop! 5y
Eggs ♥️♥️♥️ 5y
scripturient I have this image on a postcard on my office wall. :) Maybe it says where it is on the back. Will check tomorrow. 👍🏻 5y
BibliOphelia 😍 Oh, I want to be there now! (edited) 5y
scripturient Ok, the postcard only says ‚bookshop‘. 🙄🤣 I did find out, however, that it is in Amsterdam. :) 5y
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TheKidUpstairs
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(Totally non- book related, sorry!)

@saresmoore I'll definitely share a before/after once it's complete! But I thought this was cool. When your kitchen is in the party of the house that dates to the 1870s, you find some funky wallpapers when you start demo-ing!

knittedgnome I love that orange floral!! 6y
Kaye The orange floral looks like the 70s colors. Funky gold, olive green and rust. Every house I was in during those years had that “ decor “. The 70s were bad for color and clothing . 6y
Lcsmcat We used to live in a house built in 1920 and when I scraped the wallpaper we found some amazing layers from the decades. 6y
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TheKidUpstairs @Kaye It is very 70s colouring! Growing up in the 80s, everyone had a "basement couch" in those colours that was a clear left over from the 70s. 6y
TheKidUpstairs @Lcsmcat It's such a fun way to travel through the history of the house! 6y
saresmoore How cool! Thank you for sharing! 6y
TheKidUpstairs @knittedgnome it's neat, eh? My favourite is the ships, the bottom middle picture (hard to see, but super cool!) 6y
knittedgnome Oh that one is cool! You should frame a small bit of each. Love the history of it. 6y
mabell Oh the ship one looks very cool! 6y
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AmyG
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#LinsyLovesLitsy #giveaway

I am going to give this one a spin. The word SHIMPING is a family word. It was made up by my son when he was 3. We were getting rid of the old wallpaper in order to paint. He was Mr. G‘s assistant and an A+ shimper. We still use this word today.

@Linsy Thank you so much for this fun giveaway!

Linsy Adorable! I love family words. My husband have so many between the two of us, we‘re sure our kid is going to learn the wrong English language. 😂 6y
JoScho So cute! I hate shimping wallpaper! 6y
AmyG @JoScho We hire people to shimp now. ;) 6y
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AmyG @Linsy Don‘t be surprised if a word pops out here and there. Our son was an adult before he learned that Shimp isn‘t a word. 6y
Bookish_AF Ha I love this! I had a recent experience shimping wallpaper and good lord what a nightmare. 6y
AmyG @whippoorwill815 Shimping, depending on how the paper was put up, can truly suck. 6y
Linsy Poor kid 😂 Honestly, if he‘d used it with his friends, they‘d probably just assume he had a better vocabulary than they did. When I first saw it in your post, I was convinced it was a dictionary-approved word. 6y
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LibrarianRyan
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5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a fabulous wordless graphic novel. Yes, a graphic novel, with amazing paper cut graphics. It tells the story of the new girl in town how goes on a grand adventure through the wall paper in her room. It‘s amazing. Pick it up, you and your kids won‘t be disappointed.

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