Charming original illustrations re-create domestic architecture and interior design of a typical Victorian home. Exterior, front porch, parlor, kitchen, library, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, more.
Tongue twisters abound in this classic Dr. Seuss Beginner Book!“Bed Spreaders spread spreads on beds.Bread Spreaders spread butter on breads.And that Bed Spreader better watch out how he’s spreading…o
45 excellent illustrations of trees, including close-up details of distinctive features such as fruit, bark, leaf, and more. Learn to identify White Ash, Quaking Aspen, Balsam Fir, Cottonwood, and oth
When you know "the other way to listen," you can hear wildflower seeds burst open, you can hear the rocks murmuring, and the hills singing, and it seems like the most natural thing in the world. Of course it takes a lot of practice, and you can't be in a hurry... In fact, most people never hear those things at all, but this book tells you about two people who did -- one who was very good at it and one who took a long time learning. As in their other books, Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall bring us close to the essence of the natural world. Thanks to their unique talents, their books are for us the experience about which they write and draw.
A fictionalized account of the British scientist's life contrasts his lack of formal education with his creation of such important inventions as the electric motor, the transformer, and the generator
The bee and the fox, the sheep and the ox--two of each kind trudged aboard Noah's famous vessel. Peter Spier uses his own translation of a seventeenth-century Dutch poem about this most famous menager
Brilliant, colorful paintings depict children of the Yukon at work and play: snaring rabbits, feeding ravens, racing on snowshoes and hunting moose, panning for gold in famous Bonanza Creek, and explo
Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC's, for they are constantly comparing and classifying things and events the
Ferocious, authentically drawn pirates from many countries await your colors in this swashbuckling coloring book: Khaired-Din Barbarossa, Henry Morgan, Bartholomew Portugues, Captain John Avery, Pierr
Included here are all of Pound’s concert reviews and statements; the biweekly columns written under the pen name William Atheling for The New Age in London; articles from other periodicals; the comple
How do you keep a rhinoceros from charging? Take away his credit cards. “Over 2,000 riddles of all kinds, from simple to complex, for all ages. Written by a children’s librarian, this is
Outstanding selection of 43 drawings by Swedish art firm Tre Tryckare depicts classic locomotives from 1805 to 1963, including: the English Rocket (1829) and Evening Star (1960); the American Pennsylv
