Please note: There have been about 40 new reviews since this page was posted in late November, 2004. The new ones should be posted by June 10, 2005. Thanks for your patience.

"If this is not the most gorgeous book you have ever actually held in your hands, then I would like to see what you think is better." . . . go to full review
Lawrance M. Bernabo
Online instructor & Amazon.com Top 10 Reviewer
Duluth, MN

"From the stance of one committed to the arts, this book is a revelation. Read it for the discovery itself, for the sheer beauty of design and content, for the product of a successful dreamer. This book will be around for a long time as an aid to teachers, readers and other disciples of Valerie Kirschenbaum!". . . go to full review
Grady Harp
Museum curator and writer, & Amazon.com top 100 reviewer

"Ms. Kirschenbaum has written and designed a masterpiece. . . It touches on History, Design, Literature, Creativity and so many other areas with a zeal and passion that is rarely seen these days. It also is one of the most beautiful books just to page through as well." . . . go to full review
E. Alexander Gerster
Editor of the online review, www.singularity.com
Miami, Florida

"This is a rare and wonderful book on par with some of the masterpieces of centuries past." . . . go to full review
Beth Hartford-DeRoos
Amazon.com top 100 reviewer

"Goodbye Gutenberg is one of the most beautiful and visually exciting modern books I've ever seen.. . . go to full review
Ruth Henriquez-Lyon
Amazon.com top 1000 reviewer

"This is not just a book- it's an accomplishment. . . . It's sort of like a big book of lavishly illustrated fairy tales for those of us who dream in Photoshop and paint with our digital cameras." . . . full review
Chel Micheline
Graphic Designer
Marco Island, Florida

"A personal and ambitious attempt to encompass the visual history of the universe and its relationship to writing. Bursting with information and ideas."
Milton Glaser
World-renowned graphic designer

"Goodbye Gutenberg is a book on imagination, creativity, and the path of intellect, research, design, color, change and history. It is a book to be treasured over time and to be explored in relation to one's own thinking and ideas." . . . full review
Dr. Daniel J. Maloney
Marian College School of Education
FOnd du Lac, WI

"Valerie Kirschenbaum may well be the pioneer of a whole new genre of 21st-century authors... A feast for the eyes and a challenge to the way we think about writing. This should be required reading for all educators -- I give it ten stars!". . . full review
Rabbi Yonassan Gershom
Author of 'From Ashes to Healing' and 'Jewish Tales of Reincarnation'

"This impressive and lavishly illustrated book should be shared with any teacher you know, and with any parent you know whose children are in school. This effort by a most dedicated teacher should be applauded, praised and looked at with an eye for gifting young minds with the joy of reading, learning and understanding." . . . full review
Marilyn Rondeau
Reviewer for www.historicalromancewriters.com
Chicopee, Massachusetts

"This is a superbly created, one-of-a-kind book that is an absolute treasure. MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.". . . go to full review
Joanna Daneman
Artist & amazon.com top 10 reviewer

"There are very few nonfiction books - or for that matter, many books - where so much of the author's inner being is revealed ... The author provides both a wonderful way to write for today's author, as well as a solid methodology to encourage young readers in an era of visual dominance." . . . full review
Steven K. Szmutko
Ewing, New Jersey

"This book is truly a work of art. True to its subtitle, it represents a marriage of Art, Literature, Education and Technology. Beautifully written and illustrated, it issues a clarion call to publishers to rethink their book designs." . . . full review
Craig L. Howe
Multimedia Consultant
Stamford, CT

"Ms. Kirschenbaum is a great punster, both verbal and visual. She sold me on this book when, in first thumbing through it, I found a delightful visual pun at the beginning of the footnotes.". . . full review
Foster Corbin
Attorney and former English Instructor
Atlanta, GA

"Ms. Kirchenbaum… stands in the center of a long tradition, sidetracked by the limitations of Gutenberg's printing press, but not entirely
forgotten.". . . full review
Lloyd A. Conway
Lansing, MI

"This book realizes left and right-brain integration in a most delightful way. I especially enjoyed the color graphics where Medieval, Greek and Renaissance characters are shown to be writing and on closer inspection, you see that they're using computers ... One can only hope that Valerie Kirschenbaum's name will still be remembered long after her thesis has become a new canon." . . . full review
Pam Hanna
Thoreau, NM