Book Listing

[Almas]

Yeah - thanks to both Keith and Tony. They both really are great source of inspiration for all of us!

Tony, I want to send you some Famous Five reviews but will you accept them from a 14 year old??

Almas

[Julian]

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[Ming]

Wow!! The new updates are absolutely brilliant, Tony. It's lovely to see large-sized original illustrations from The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage and The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat.

Must have been hard work for you Tony - and I appreciate it very much.

[Tony Summerfield]

Thanks, Ming! It makes a morning's work worthwhile. I am actually going to do this for all the books that have reviews in the Book Listing - so I only have another 126 to go!

The Find-Outers books only have nine illustrations in each book which makes it possible to show them all, but with some books I will only be able to pick out some of the illustrations. For the moment I will be trying things out all over the place, so keep your eyes open for the updates.

[Kate Mary]

Thank you for all the hard work you are putting in, Tony. It's always a pleasure to see early illustrations. I particularly liked seeing the whole wrap-around jacket, I have a lot of early editions but few of them have dustjackets, so it's nice to see what they originally looked like.

Kate.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Much appreciated, Tony. Like Kate Mary, I'm delighted to have the chance to see the wraparound dust-jackets as well as early illustrations. Great work!

Anita

[Tony Summerfield]

I am actually wondering if the illustrations are a bit too big, as they won't fit comfortably on a page. The ones I have done for Children of Kidillin are a bit smaller, but even they are pushing it a bit. All opinions are welcome, let me get it right before I have too much to change!

[Anita Bensoussane]

I see what you mean. It's necessary to scroll up and down to see a whole picture. In that case it might be better if the illustrations could be made a little smaller. Anyone else have any thoughts?

Anita

[Ming]

Probably adding a "thumbnail" link will do the trick - the image opens in a new window and is automatically scaled to fit the page.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Would that involve clicking on a separate link for each and every image, Ming? If so, I don't think that would be as attractive as the present layout.

Anita

[Ming]

Hmm.... that's true. Perhaps a suitably sized thumbnail which shows the current size?

Or perhaps a pop up window showing all the images?

Really, where is all this leading to?

[Tweenid]

Its simply wizard to see all those smashing original dust-jackets!I am very grateful to be able to see them and to read the excellent plot outlines and reviews.
Great stuff!

[Tony Summerfield]

You can already see each image with a right click, but that is very tedious. I think in answer to your question, Ming, that it is leading to me making the images smaller so that they fit on the page in the first place!

[Lucky Star]

It looks great Tony. Marvellous to see the full dustjackets. Many thanks for all the work you must be having to do.

[Jen-Jen]

Tony, the new additions are wonderful - I love looking at all the original illustrations!! Nice work