With proverbs and precepts, saws, adages and axioms. Polished over years of use, here are thousands of sayings that are truer now than the day they were coined. All collected by Barbara Ann Kipfer, who has the sensibility of a poet, the outlook of a practical philosopher, the obsession of a list maker.
The Wish List is a quirky little gift book that sounds an irresistible call to get out there and start living. In the same chunky format as the authorfs bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List presents a compulsively readable list of unexpected goals. There are wishes large—retrace Odysseus' route around the Mediterranean—and wishes small—find a genuine arrowhead. There…
It’s all here, everything from Bill Clinton and the BBC to those wretched brothers in arms Slobodan Milosevic and Robert Mugabe; from he who enjoyed a tipple or two Boris Yeltsin to Golden Balls Beckham; not forgetting ye aforementioned pasty king himself, John Prescott, the Millibands, John Major and ghastly Mail On Sunday. There’s so much in fact, one cannot help but wonder how the sultan…
This comprehensive guide to painting landscapes in watercolor features the expert tuition of six renowned artists and includes a wide variety of techniques and styles. Easy to follow instructions show how to paint trees, water, seas, skies and buildings as well as mood and atmosphere, and each section is accompanied by beautiful, inspirational paintings. With nine demonstrations and over 300 st…
Welcome to the country fair! You can stop by and find lots of things to count. look to find how many bees in one hive; how many seeds in one pumpkin; how many horses on one merry-go-round. What else can you count?
Grab a bag of Pepperidge Farm(TM) Goldfish(TM) crackers and dive into the fun of this playful, interactive board book for Goldfish lovers of all ages.Shaped like a fish bowl, each page has Goldfish die cuts so readers can make fun-to-eat Goldfish crackers part of the clever rhyming story.Everyone loves snacking on Goldfish, and now they're for snack time, story time, anytime!