Left in the care of their strict grandmother, the four Linnet children find a much happier home with their Uncle Ambrose, his one-legged gardener, and the people of a small English village, where they
Sarah and Simon do all they can to help their parents, but when their father, an artist, needs red paint to complete his masterpiece and the art store owner refuses him credit, they do not know where
The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the Eng
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russia's greatest writer, wrote much more than his novel in verse Eugene Onegin. In this selection of five of his finest narrative poems, all his essential qualities are
This is the story of a man who had always been fascinated by the Arctic and its hardy inhabitants. I )espite a passion for mountaineering, Robert Leonard Reid had never set foot north of the 55th para
Nestled in Vermont's Lake Champlain Valley is a cultural institution unlike any other: among the first and Hnest museum collections devoted to American folk art. Shelburne Museum, founded in 1947, wa
Beard was one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America and was also an illustrator, naturalist, and teacher of animal drawing. This is a facsimile reprint of the second edition (1930) of his 1920
In order to teach Tom a lesson for always playing, his aunt calls in Captain Najork to teach him a lesson, who with a team of four hired sportsmen challenges Tom to rounds of womble, muck, and sneedba
Anyone who has spent any time messing around with boats - and wooden boats in particular - knows that those cunning curves, endless seams, and rotting wood hold more than practical challenges. All bo
An 1890 manual of pastimes which includes instructions for making kites, fishing poles, a blow gun, boats, and theatrical costumes, and for raising dogs, stuffing animals, stocking an aquarium, and ca
A reprint of a gay nineties publication for young ladies instructing them in such hobbies as fancy needlework, handmade dolls, china painting, painting in oils, heraldic painting, preservation of wild
When chaos reigns among the birds, the oldest and wisest birds declare a contest to determine who will be their king. Includes key to all of the birds pictured.
A collection of linked short stories set in mysterious Larkin Mills, a peculiar town filled with dark secrets, a big dose of death, and a tug-of-war between darkness and light.
“There was a long bench in the living room of our house. And it was full of paper, crayons, watercolors—all the essentials for creating art.” And so begins Allen Blagden’s account of his career, train
Little Old Farm Folk, Godine’s first-ever board book, fondly evokes memories of Old MacDonald and his farm. In sweet rhyme, we are taken through the daily tasks of running the farm: milking, egg colle
Riptide may be an unusual name for a dog, but it is one that suits this one well. Rip is resolutely drawn to the salty ocean breeze, and the crash of the waves, and he simply cannot be discouraged—eve
Who doesn’t love dogs? Answer that question in the negative and find yourself contradicted by the countless dog-lauding quotations compiled here by James Charlton and wackily illustrated by Arnold Rot
The three interrelated sections of poetry in Fair Sun explore the primary importance of connection, both with other human beings and with the natural world. In the first section, the poems are wide-ra
Last spring the world lost one of the greatest practitioners of the graphic arts of the past century. Hermann Zapf, born in 1918, died in his sun-and-book-filled studio in Darmstadt at the age of 96.
In 1984, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, George Gibson and I picked up Peter Bowler's first Superior Person's Book of Words for the princely sum of $500. With 650,000 copies sold and now in its 32nd print
What would you do if your doodles became real? If they rose right off the page, turning tangible, and through them you could fly to the moon, discover the deep sea, or visit remote jungles? In Rocket
Inspector Mantis, Dr. Hopper, and their creeping, crawling coterie return for another series of thrilling tales in this long awaited sequel to Trouble in Bugland-and this time they're facing more dead
In this beautifully illustrated alphabet book, Wendell Minor presents the people, places, and events of the Revolutionary War by reimagining the inn and tavern signs that would have dotted the roads b
"Let the buyer beware." Flush with $400,000 dollars from selling his great great grandfather's correspondence with Victorian authors, Larry Dickerson, retired bank clerk, amateur editor, and
Farnsworth has collected examples of metaphor in the work of some of the best known and revered writers of Modern English and set them within his account of the use of metaphor as an element of rhetor
