My Favorite Things

This book is incredible. It is very high quality and of excellent print material. The pictures are vivid and the text is wonderful to read. It is a nostalgic look at her life when she was young and one can easily relate to how rooms and things mean so much to us because of what took place there or what we did/where we took those objects. I find this book introspective and thoughtful. Definitely worth a reread over and over again. I loved this so much I also gave one as a gift. An excellent buy and super gift if you know someone who loves her stuff!Other thoughts: The quality of the actual book is excellent. The binding is of very high quality and has the nice added touch of being red fabric, lending itself to feeling like an old library book rather than a modern print. This went along perfectly with the books point of recalling memories and old objects. Also, each page has just the right amount of text and pictures on it--one does not overshadow the other. It is not crowded which is important given the artist's funky text type. This is by far my favorite one of her books and I love to curl up with it on a rainy day and reminisce about my won childhood memories!

I do really love this artist and author, so I often buy her books either for myself or gifts. This is the second copy that I have purchased and it was perfect as promised by seller.

I loved this book.A friend gave me a copy for Christmas and I bought my Amazon copy for my best friend's 97th birthday. And SHE loved the book. Maira Kalman is marvelous, funny, witty, clever, perfection. Her art is fresh and utterly appealing. One of my favorite books in my entire collection. A person cannot go wrong in purchasing "My Favorite Things."

When I feel 'down' I pick up this book and turn to ANY page. I am instantly taken to the world of entrancing details in life that make all the troubles melt away. Maira Kalman understands the 'childs-heart' in every adult and how to show us memories we never had through just the right painted illustrations. She is 'pixilated' to the max! My kinda gal!!

A lovely thing, this book. Contemplative, tender, amusing, droll, perceptive. Ideal for those with magpie minds who like to mull things over and have their own collections of memories - and wish they had the wit and talent to gather them together in similarly creative ways. Writers, artists and curators of all things whimsical will delight in these pages. Kalman's hand-writing is also a delight - not a whiff or Arial, Verdana or Times New Roman in the whole thing.

I have long been a Maira Kalman fan, but in this book she has moved to a new level of genius! Gertrude Stein said that it was hard being a genius since you need to sit around all day doing nothing. Well, not sitting around and doing something--walking, observing, collecting, drawing, painting, writing, curating, thinking, remembering, LIVING ( and I'm sure occasionally sitting on broken chairs found on the street!), have taken Maira Kalman to the level of Genius +.This book is to read and read and read and give and give and give. Tried reading the e book version, but it's not the same.Buy the real thing.

I love the illustrations, but was surprised that her short snippets and stories, especially about her mother actually made me cry.A really great reading experience.

NIce book. I thought it would be a little quirkier than it was, but it's a lovely idea. It turned out not to be what I had hoped to give as a gift, but it's great on the coffee-table for guests/family/friends to pick up and thumb through.

Como os outros livros da autora, ilustrações, algumas fotos e reflexões. Envio fotos de exemplo, inclusive com o conteúdo e as divisões do livro. Observar que na parte II são suas coisas favoritas de um museu em NY chamado "Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum".

Fabulous - wonderful, quirky. As always. Great gift, too.

私はMairaさんの作品をFood rules で知りました。とても素敵で、この本も買いましたが、これより Food rulesにある彼女のイラストがとても素敵です。

I just bought 4 of Kalman's books after seeing one of them mentioned on a philosophy blog. They are beautiful, touching, a bit "off the beaten path", philosophical and funny. Every one of her books gives you something special to think about.

Maira Kalma is THE best, so of course this book is totally great.