An excellent book to help children learn how to illustrate a book with modeling clay. Easy step-by-step directions. Related book where illustrator uses modeling clay: Papa Diego by Benjamin Saenz, illustrated by Guillermo Garcia

The photography in Gardening With Light & Color by Marylyn Abbot, et al is stunning! Great care is taken with the choice of light (such as time of day) the choice of film - (obviously high quality) and the speed at which the image is taken. Truly, a professional photographer, with an eye for color has collected a beautiful journal of some very well planned and groomed gardens.

The artist has an eye for structure and design.

These gardens actually sing!

Because the writer is so conscious of these design elements- they are depicted in the choice of photographs and discussed within the chapters. The size of the garden is discussed and tips to avoid Dull, dreary gardens are discussed chapter after chapter.

These gardens create a mood which will be very helpful to anyone trying to choose what they want to do with their gardening space.

Another book- that I would NOT PART WITH!

The manner of presentation is so objective that you will finish the book almost without realizing that it is perhaps the most effective indictment of how unkosher the Holocaust story is.

This small book has many cute and very well-executed designs for embellishing paper greeting cards with polymer clay objects. Molded and modelled or cut with cookie cutters or templates, the designs are easy to make.

Instructions are clear and well-written and there are adequate photos/diagrams to illustrate the steps and some variations. Many themes included.

I would think this book well-suited for a paper-arts enthusiast who wants to add polymer elements to their pieces but doesn't know where to start, or for any crafty person who is unfamiliar with polymer clay.

I purchased this book with the intention of reading it to a group of 150 impoverished Ecuadorian children in Quito, Ecuador. The children range in age from 5-11. THEY LOVED IT!! They were particularly responsive to the funny,mischeivous antics of Harry as they oohed and aahed after I had finished reading each page! It was a good lesson about how to be yourself too. The children immediately shouted "otra vez!" after the first reading. I obliged with 2 more readings!

This book proposes that even very minute distortions and irregularities in a person's hearing can affect how he acts. It offers what seems to be an effective treatment for dyslexia, depression, autism, hyperacusis, tinnitus, and even stuttering using altered sounds to retrain the hearing. It clearly & simply describes the scientific functions of the hearing process along with the disorders and the actual treatment. Guy Berard comes across as a thorough researcher and a compassionate doctor. It claims a 93 percent cure rate for depression within a 10 day course of treatment, I'd say that's impressive.

This book was purchased as soon as it appeared on the scene. It is a real pleaser. Some books are read and forgotten and then there are others that never lose their luster. I have enjoyed this biography twice. Robert Vincent Remini writes with lucid intelligent. His writing has placed him in the wonderful wizard of words pantheon.

This is the story of Jonathan Alder, who was captured by Indians at the age of nine from his home in western Virginia in 1782. He was adopted and lived among the Mingos for 13 years along the Mad River in Ohio. Alder became a respected hunter and warrior and gives a vivid and detailed account of his life among them. He gives a fascinating retelling of his life in a late 18th century Indian village, in an age when white settlers were beginning to push north of the Ohio River from Kentucky and West Virginia in the years after the Revolutionary War and how that increased conflict between the two groups for possession of the Ohio Country led, eventually, to the loss of Indian lands. After the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, Alder leaves the Indians to live in Pleasant Valley, near what is today Columbus, OH, though continuing to live as an Indian. Around 1805, he is persuaded by a friend to travel to Virginia and is reunited with his white family.

Alder's narrative is truly fascinating in all respects. He gives fully detailed accounts of his life among the Indians, from hunting and cooking, to relations with his Indian family which include a genuinely loving and kind mother and father, as well as an abusive sister who is resentful of the white boy and beats him for any infraction. Alder tells of his participation in several horse-stealing raids in Kentucky as well as his part in the Battle of Fort Recovery in 1794, . After Alder leaves the company of the Indians in 1795, he goes on to tell about his relations with the early white settlers in central Ohio and their often strained relations with the remaining Indian population. Although he is reunited with his white family in 1805, and subsequently drops his Indian dress and lives as a white settler, Alder, it seems, is never fully one of them. He views his neighbors through the eyes of one who lived a life far removed from their daily drudgery and often seems to reflect with nostalgia on his Indian days. One gets a sense of forelorn sadness and loneliness in his later years, as though he is the product of a lost time and place. His relationships with both his white and Indian family are intriguing, especially a poigniant encounter many years later with his Indian sister who abused him as a child.

This is a very intereing book and I recommend it highly.

In How To Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures, "Dollhouse Miniatures" magazine associate editor Kitty Mackey shows how to make polymer clay and cloth-body dolls to enhance miniature scenes and displays. Profusely illustrated, Mackey provides step-by-step instructions for shaping and posing an armature, making hands and fingers, sculpting eyes, mouths, and noses. How To Make Perfect Dollhouse Figures also shows how to use polymer clay-sculpting tools, how to maintain body and facial proportions, and how to paint a the figure for realistic result. Also highly recommended for miniaturists are Kalmbach's The ABC's Of Dollhouse Finishing; Kit Renderings; How To Build Miniature Furniture & Room Setting; Finishing Touches; and Workshop Wisdom: Dollhouse Crafting Tips from "Nutshell News".

Voices from the past, speaking to Olivia: very much in the present. A skeleton uncovered in the garden of Olivia's home leads her into a journey of discovery. A discovery not only of the identity of the skeleton but also the identity of herself. This beautifully-crafted novel is part mystery, part history and part love story. Weaving back and forth Stevie Davies holds the reader from the first page until the last, creating vivid scenes from the Seventeenth Century and interlacing them with scenes from the present. There is much humour in the novel, ranging from bawdy to sarcastic and some just plain 'daft' ! It is a novel which can be read and read again. Each time, the reader will find something new. By the end of the novel you will be hooked on the Seventeenth Century and you will want to find out more. By good fortune, you need look no further than Stevie Davies's non-fiction work of the same era, Unbridled Spirits: Women Of the English Revolution: 1640-1660. It was whilst writing this book that Stevie Davies was inspired to write her novel, Impassioned Clay.