Featuring exquisite watercolor illustrations, this joyful primer on the pleasures of bird-watching captures the forecasting call of the mysterious cuckoo as well as essential characteristics of more than 20 commonly seen North American birds.
Endorsed by all major vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and SAP), SOA has quickly become the industry standard for building next-generation software; this practical guide shows readers how to achieve the many benefits of SOA. It begins with a look at the architectural principles needed to create successful applications and then goes on to examine ...
This poem about ending world hunger is accompanied by illustrations by such artists as Floyd Cooper, Diane Goode, and Chris Van Allsburg. For each book published a donation is made to "Share our Strength", a nonprofit organization committed to ending world hunger.
Nine-year-old Michael has always admired the carved wooden figures created by his older African-American friend Elijah. One year, during the winter holiday season, Michael is surprised when Elijah presents him with one of the carved figures for his very own--an angel. While Michael appreciates the gift he wonders if it is wrong for him, a Jewish ...
Leonard's striking illustrations are what children will notice first. Each luminous acrylic painting focuses on a different denizen of a pond environment. Insets in each double-page spread, beginning with one picturing a person's eyes, depict the creature whose world we enter. This peek at pond fauna has been accomplished with considerable ...
A companion to "Parade" magazine's Great American Bake Sale, "Baking from the Heart" provides sweet inspiration with its 100 recipes for bake sale favorites and other classic desserts.
In this first volume of a new biannual series, 45 great literary humorists trade jabs, spoofs, satire, and tirades--such as John Updike on cross-dressing with J. Edgar Hoover, Fran Lebowitz on the richness of money, David Ives on being Degas for a day, and Garry Trudeau on re-retranslating Madonna. Syndicated radio feature.
Horses have inspired devotion, awe, and love in their human companions for millennia; in Horse People more than forty acclaimed writers and artists share their own passion for these magical, mythical animals. Horse People includes deeply moving reminiscences and stories as varied as Jane Smiley's memories of her return to riding and Rita Mae Brown ...
One of the greatest humorists of the 20th century, Thurber was also a major dog lover. Here are some of his finest illustrations and writings on his favorite canine subjects.130 illustrations.
Many people "feel incomplete without the company of a dog or two," as Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee tells us in this anthology to the joys of canine companionship. Editor Michael J. Rosen has assembled a sterling line up of writers to reflect on how dogs enrich our lives. Among the other notable contributors are Jane Smiley, Ann Beattie, ...
This wickedly funny compendium of today's top humorists combines just the right mix of brevity and levity. Includes anecdotes, rants, lists, and rulings on various pet peeves and annoyances by Henry Alford, Andy Borowitz, Merrill Markoe, Bob Smith, and others.
Food and memory provide the mix in this unique cookbook, in which 100 top chefs provide a beloved recipe and remember where it came from--usually a mother or grandmother, often with an ethnic slant. Contributors include Alice Waters, Daniel Boulud, Emeril Lagasse, Joyce Goldstein, and Gordon Hamersley, with recipes such as Moroccan Poached Halibut ...
The VW Beetle became the unofficial emblem of a generation, an automotive icon. This was a vehicle of a thousand stories, and MY BUG presents some of the best of them. Essays, poems and love letters, plus cartoons, treasured photographs, and illustrations recall the highs and lows of the golden days of Beetlemania. No self-respecting boomer can ...
A collection of essays about gardening by authors and illustrators of children's books. Contributors include Eve Bunting, Angela Johnson, Jane Ray, and Dan Yaccarino. Also included is an activity section that includes 33 gardening projects. Color illustrations accompany the text.
Thurber continues to flourish with his suspicious, civilized, unsettling wit. Included are a dozen works of prose and more than 75 drawings by the only cartoonist who could claim to draw "abstract things like despair, disillusion, despondency, sorrow, lapse of memory, exile . . . sometimes in a shape that might be called Man or Woman".
Expand one of the best-loved children's books into endless new dimensions with this hour-long CD packed with story readings, games, music, and activities. Pick one of the most treasured contemporary children's tales, listen to a dramatic reading accompanied by music and sound effects, and get ready for a whole new story experience! This ...
When Isabel arrives from El Salvador, she is welcomed into the home of her adoptive family by their loving dog, Bonsey. The two of them become the best of friends, and share many a meal together until the day when Bonsey doesn't respond to the food that she sneaks under the table to him. In the end, Bonsey's death provides Isabel with a way to ...
A light-hearted look at the future of the dog in the 21st century. How will dogs fulfil their evolutionary potential in the new century? What place will humans hold in the new Dogdom? Michael J. Rosen posed these and other provocative questions to more than 50 accomplished, articulate, opinionated writers and artists. Their surprising, witty ...
Nutritiousness aside, May Contain Nuts provides 100% of the daily recommended amount of that essential life-enhancer, laughter. With more than 70 contributors and 150 shots from the loose canon of American humor, it's a stellar edition with plenty of real stars from stage and screen(writing): - Seinfeld's Peter Mehlman - Hairspray's Mark O ...
In this alphabet book, a boy throws a snowball which, through a series of extraordinary events, becomes an avalanche. Collage and mixed media illustrations accompany the text.
As Edward Albee puts it in this timeless collection of pieces about dogs, there are "those of us who feel incomplete withoutt the company of a dog or two." Those same people will feel incomplete without this book, now in paperback. Along with portraits of dogs are ruminations by such dog-devoted authors as Anne Beattie, Nancy Friday, and Jane ...
This lyrical story recaptures all the Sundays Michael J. Rosen spent fishing with his father at their favourite holes. He listens to his father's advice on how to bait, cast, and be patient. Years down the road Rosen watches his father pass on the same lessons to his grandson. A story of wonder and discovery for young anglers, a gift of nostalgia ...
Did you know? In just one minute the Earth travels 1,100 miles around the sun. Cartwheel champ Brianna Schroeder turns 48 cartwheels. 28,824 photographs are taken (822 of them at Disney World). Over [pound]50,000 is spent on eBay. You lose 8 brain cells, 40,000 skin cells, and one taste bud. A ladybird flaps its wings 60,000 times. 6,805,555 e ...
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