Challenge 43 - The Secret Garden

Quiet Please Crafters! You’re in The Library now.

You can be inspired by :

The cover

or

The title

or

The story

This challenge we have a visiting librarian , Jo aka Dotty Jo , and she's chosen The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Written in 1911,and set in Yorkshire, England, The Secret Garden has become a well-loved children's classic. 

Jo 

more details on Jo's blog

Marina

more details on my blog 

This challenge will close on 19th October . 

 Challenge 42 (I'll Take Manhattan) will remain open for another week.

I hope you'll join The Library.

Librarian's Choice - Reader's Choice

What fabulous entries into The Library's first ever Reader's Choice challenge. What interesting books were chosen! What creative ideas were shared! 

Here are a few that caught my eye:

Shirley chose To Kill a Mockingbird 

Kathy M chose All Booked Up

Ginny chose Mr Popper's Penguins

I hope you will copy the badge (above) to your blogs.

The current challenge, I'll Take Manhattan , is open for another week, and come back tomorrow when a Visiting Librarian will be bringing a secret something. 

Challenge 42 - I'll Take Manhattan

Quiet Please Crafters! You’re in The Library now.

You can be inspired by :

The cover

or

The title

or

The story

'I'll Take Manhattan ' is a family saga set in the glamorous world of fashion magazine publishing, written by Judith Krantz, who died earlier this year. Krantz was famous for her 1980's  'sex and shopping' novels, which also included Scruples and Princess Daisy. Most of her books were made into TV miniseries. 

Here's what The Librarian came up with: 

More details on my blog. 

This challenge will close on 6th October . 

 Challenge 41  (Reader's Choice ) will remain open for another week.

I hope you'll join The Library.

Librarian's Choice - Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

The Library stock-take is coming to an end but The Librarian has been busy agonising over the display of entries from this challenge - they were all great! But finally, the display is up:

Smilyn Stef gave us a birds-eye city view:

Jen's cas design incorporated all the elements of the cover:

Jenny's pigeon is not a pigeon:

I hope you will copy the badge (above) to your blogs.

The current challenge, Reader's Choice, is open for another week, and come back tomorrow for some 'sex and shopping' at The Library. 

Challenge 41- Reader's Choice

Quiet Please Crafters! You’re in The Library now.

This week,The Librarian is busy with a stock-take at The Library, so she wants YOU to choose your own book. 

As usual, you can be inspired by :

The cover

or

The title

or

The story

When you link up, please state which book inspired you and you could even add a picture of the book to your blog post, especially if you're taking inspiration from a cover. 

This challenge will close on 21st September . 

 Challenge 40  (Don't let the Pigeon drive the Bus) will remain open for another week.

I hope you'll join The Library.