It's time once again for Book Phantom to return her library books, which means another bookmarking caper! This month, I bought my bookmarks from Save the Whales, and proceeds go to protect these intelligent and graceful giants. I won't publish the bookmark fronts on my blog due to copyright, but here's the
link so you can order some yourselves (the bookmarks are at the bottom of the link page). There are eight different whale designs to choose from, and at only fifty cents each, you can order them all for less than a cup of Starbucks or a bargain paperback. Below are the messages I left on the backs of the bookmarks for unsuspecting book borrowers.
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| Gray Whale Bookmark for Grayson. It's a memoir, so the quote about time and memory seems proper. |
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| Sperm Whale bookmark for Moby Dick. I'm placing this in Chapter 32: Cetology, where Melville debates whether a whale is a fish or a mammal. |
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| North Atlantic Right Whale bookmark for Galore. This mark is just right for a story set in the North Atlantic island of Newfoundland. The story begins with the removal of a man from a beached whale. |
Although I don't promote my blog by placing bookmarks into children's books I borrow, I'm putting my Save the Whales sticker (a lagnaippe that came with my bookmark purchase) into
Nightbirds on Nantucket. Just a little surprise for one of the younger readers out there.
