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Mockingbird Book Shop's primary goal was to promote a lifelong love of reading. We wanted a friendly, non-intimidating environment where locals could come in and look at great books, talk about books or just drop in for a chat and a coffee. When it existed in Mont Albert Village between 2006 and 2008, the shop contained a small, but carefully selected range of quality literature for adults and children. The staff, including James, Carole and Chris, were skilled at helping customers select just the right book. We were also known for tracking down difficult to locate and out of print books. We hosted many terrific book signing events with Melbourne authors and participated in all of Mont Albert Village's community activities. Even though we were a small bookshop, we supported local schools by making donations. Mockingbird Book Shop also did fund raising work for The Learning for Life Autism Centre (www.learningforlife.com.au) and People for Fair Trade (www.fairtrade.asn.au).
People who can't resist indie bookshops, authors, book lovers, film buffs, music lovers & people in general who don't take themselves too seriously.
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A few favourites: Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady, all Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Raising Arizona, The Big Leibowski, Napoleon Dynamite, The Castle, The Dish, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Annie Hall, American Beauty, This is Spinal Tap, Team America (Fuck, yeah!), Shaun of the Dead, The Piano, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars films, Casablanca and pretty much anything featuring Cate Blanchett, Daniel Day Lewis or Geoffrey Rush or directed by Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, the Coen brothers (Joel & Ethan) or Jared Hess.
Black Books, Summer Heights High, ABC's First Tuesday Book Group, Colbert Report, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Chaser's, Thank God You're Here, Mythbusters, music video channels, Spicks and Specks, The IT Crowd and SpongeBob Squarepants, Red Dwarf, Glass House, old Chaser's, Office (UK) & Little Britain. It's scary, but I'm starting to get hooked on Robot Chicken.
The Little Prince, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Confederacy of Dunces, Gone With the Wind and Little Women are re-readable favourites. I'm partial to authors from the US South including William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Walker Percy & Robert Penn Warren.I've always been crazy about children's literature. Favourite American children's authors include Dr. Seuss, Leo Lionni, Maurice Sendak, Virginia Lee Burton, Dav Pilkey, Kevin Henkes & Tomie dePaola. Since moving to Australia, I've fallen in love with the work of Shaun Tan, Andy Griffiths, John Marsden, Gillian Rubenstein (Lian Hearn), Carole Wilkinson, Jackie French, Stephen Michael King, & Alison Lester. Favourite English children's writers include Lauren Child, Roald Dahl, Babette Cole, Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler.
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