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  • So, as far is the trailer "giving things away", anyone having briefly browsed the bookflap of the originating novel would be acquainted with the outline of the novel, and hence- the movie.

    Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones Movie Trailer | /Film 2009

  • Mary Williams herself, we learn via bookflap, has worked for such organizations as the International Rescue Committee and UNESCO.

    Review of the Day: Brothers In Hope fusenumber8 2006

  • When I read the bookflap of this book, by the way, I learned that cat lives in the country.

    Archive 2006-05-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • On the bookflap we learn that Kadohata's father was held at Poston during WWII and that his experiences provided the impetus for this book.

    Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • The bookflap of this title describes the poem as a, "gently provocative text", which seems like wishful thinking on the publisher's part.

    Review of the Day: There Is a Flower At the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me fusenumber8 2006

  • Publishers would do well to remember that to illustrate under your bookflap is to limit the view for a lot of kids.

    Archive 2006-11-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • Now according to his bookflap bio, Larry DiFiori has apparently, “illustrated over seventy-five books for young readers, eleven of which he also wrote”.

    Archive 2006-06-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • It gets more nutty still when you see that a motorcycle couple watching the now disappearing primate have inadvertently driven right onto the front bookflap of the book.

    Review of the Day: Once Upon a Banana fusenumber8 2006

  • And there, on the BACK bookflap, are Laurel and Hardy continuing a visual gag you may not have even noticed nine pages before the end of the book.

    Review of the Day: Once Upon a Banana fusenumber8 2006

  • She found this amazing create-your-own-cover site that appeals to my bookflap fetish.

    Archive 2006-11-01 fusenumber8 2006

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