A heart-warming and timeless retelling of a traditional Russian folk tale filled with beautiful illustrations from an award-winning artist. Babushka is busy tidying her house when three unexpected guests arrive telling her they are looking for a baby, a new born king. When they leave Babushka stays behind cleaning and tidying, and preparing a gift for the baby. Next morning when she starts to follow the men she finds that the snow has covered their tracks and she doesn't know which way to go. But she keeps on searching, and as she goes she gives a gift from her basket to every child she passes who is hungry, or cold, or has no toys. With beautiful illustrations evoking folk art traditions and sensitive storytelling, Babushka reminds us that nothing is more important during the Christmas season than taking the time to show love for one another.

This highly successful children's Bible provides a story for each day of the year for 7 to 9 year olds. The artwork is truly attractive and of the very highest quality, warm and bright, giving fresh perspectives on the classic stories. Each story has approximately 250 words is complemented by a matching prayer. The Bible features full Bible references on each page as well as a 'story finder' to help the reader choose a story to suit the occasion, making this a complete resource and enable further exploration of the Bible as the child grows up.

With a foreword by Inuit poet, translator, and politician Kelly Berthelsen.Little Bear is a lyrical retelling of an Inuit folktale, sensitively written by award-winning author Dawn Casey and radiantly illustrated by award-winning artist Amanda Hall. When a lonely old woman finds a polar bear cub with no mother of his own, she adopts him, and cares for him as he grows. The bear cub rides in her hood and sleeps by her side. The old woman loves the bear like her own child, but her heart also knows: bears belong in the wild. A tender story of loving and letting go, Little Bear celebrates the relationship between a human being and a wild animal and will touch the hearts of readers young and old.

A gorgeously illustrated picture book biography about the fascinating life of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, from Michelle Markel and Amanda Hall, the acclaimed team behind The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau. Ever since she was a little girl, Leonora Carrington loved to draw on walls, in books, on paper-and she loved the fantastic tales her grandmother told that took her to worlds that shimmered beyond this one, where legends became real. Leonora's parents wanted her to become a proper English lady, but there was only one thing she wanted, even if it was unsuitable: to be an artist. In London, she discovered a group of artists called surrealists, who were stunning the world with their mysterious creations. This was the kind of art she had to make. This was the kind of person she had to be. From life in Paris creating art alongside Max Ernst, to Mexico where she met Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Leonora's life became intertwined with powerful events and people that shaped the twentieth century. Out of This World is the powerful, stunningly told story of Leonora Carrington, a girl who made art out of her imagination and created some of the most enigmatic and startling works of the last eighty years.

Henri Rousseau wanted to be an artist. But he had no formal training. Instead, he taught himself to paint. He painted until the jungles and animals and distant lands in his head came alive on the space of his canvases. Henri Rousseau endured the harsh critics of his day and created the brilliant paintings that now hang in museums around the world. Michelle Markel's vivid text, complemented by the vibrant illustrations of Amanda Hall, artfully introduces young readers to the beloved painter and encourages all readers to persevere despite all odds.Watch the trailer:

With these 9 traditional tales from cultures around the world, you'll meet King Gull, the musicians of Bremen and other extraordinary animals and will see the importance of caring for the planet.

Come on a journey through the cosmos to witness the wonders of creation with master storyteller Jamila Gavin. In this beautiful volume, cherished Hindu tales are given a new voice, as stories of great floods, evil kings, beautiful princesses and epic battles between good and evil leap from the pages. Illuminated by winning artist Amanda Hall's sumptuous illustrations, which show influences from both contemporary and classical Indian art, this magnificent collection will delight and intrigue readers in equal measure.

This book is a full calendar of meditations, aphorisms and witticisms to greet the day with, or to take in at night.

Despite homelessness, an author presses on with poetry designed to save her and her husband's soul.

This is the collection of three children's stories, told in poetry, that are now being collected for the first time: The Evening Conference of Kung-Fu Kitty, Kung-Fu Kitty in the Kitchen, and Kung-Fu Kitty at Eastern Poetry.

At dawn of her wedding day, horsewoman Jacqueline Knoll leaves her sleeping fianc to slip out for an early morning ride. Alone on the country road, she relishes the past year of her engagement, and anticipates a future which looks as open and welcoming as the terrain she travels with her Morgan horse, Fig. A sharp bend in the road leads to an unexpected encounter with a pack of savage beasts who do not share Jacqueline's spirit, or care at all for humanity . . . .

All about living as an artist--that is the quest underlying the scenes you'll read. Can artists actually be artists? Is it too intense for the faint-of-heart? Cheer Authur on as he fights stereotypes and cheapness, in favor of individual expression and quality.

Adherence to the truth, as it may be gleaned by fallible human beings, and stylized perceptions as they may be perceived, by vulnerable and sensitive beings, and loveliness as it may be fashioned and presented, by mortal creatures with a tendency to err-these are the essences of Beauty in Art . . . . ON THE NATURE OF BEAUTIFUL ART: LITERATURE FOR LIFE A paean to Romanticism, Poeticism and Aestheticism, in a Manifesto on the Nature of Art, its place in the world, and on the cultivation of a viable Life of Letters in a Culture of Beauty.

The Morality Plays X: Roots of Wisdom In the final of ten Classical Dialogues, Wisdom and Trickery use their sorcery to impart their respective Dragon's Passion or Spider's Anemia, upon the realm of professional modeling. In poetry of envelope-rhymed and blank verse, Sapphic Stanzas and Chinese Fu, the Virtue and Vice seek to influence the course of aesthetics: Is a beautiful fashion model a cool. pretty exterior, or a three-dimensional being of Beauty in Mind and Soul, as well as Body? The Chorus of Graces presents the Question at Issue and Judgment, in Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode.

The Morality Plays IX: All the Shame In the ninth of ten Classical Dialogues, Pride and Shamelessness watch over two males discussing gifts for their girlfriends. In poetry of envelope-rhymed and blank verse, the Virtue and Vice offer advice about gift-giving: Should one be proud of knowing a partner's soul and speaking to it, or spending a great deal of money in ostentatious proof of material earnings? The Chorus of Furies presents the Conflict and Resolution, in Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode.

The Morality Plays VII: Greens of Envy In the seventh of ten Classical Dialogues, Fairness and Envy cast an aura about two women, with opposite views as to the nature of fairness. Is what one person has-of material, spiritual or intellectual states-that which is taken away from another's body, soul or mind?-or do circumstances pertaining to material, spiritual or intellectual goods exist as a result of an individual's cultivation of them? Will tearing down a beautiful woman raise another woman up? The Chorus of Furies presents the Conflict and Resolution, in Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode.

The Morality Plays VI: Peace of Mind In the sixth of ten Classical Dialogues, Serenity and Wrath cast their spells over the gathering at a beach-front restaurant. With promptings in envelope-rhymed and blank verse, they tempt and warn: Should a caf owner subjected to the raging of an irate customer give in to the angry emotions she could reciprocate? The Chorus of Graces poses the Question and Judgment, in Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode.

The Morality Plays V: Busy Bees In the fifth of ten Classical Dialogues, Industry and Sloth preside over a homemaker's kitchen in which the industrious beekeeper is harassed by her neighbor, of fashionable debt-spending patterns. With aphoristic quips in envelope-rhymed and blank verse, the Virtue and Vice remark upon the situation: Should one fired from her job and in a financial bind be granted a job by the homemaker of opposite approach to skill-development and earning a living? The Chorus of Furies poses the Conflict and Resolution, in Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode.

The Morality Plays IV: Order Up In the fourth of ten Classical Dialogues, Order and Chaos seek to impart their influence on a young man with little interest in finishing his thesis on time or tidying his room. Entreating in envelope-rhymed and blank verse, the Virtue and Vice weigh the merits of the case: Is neatness of environment and thought a needless artifice? The Chorus of Graces presents the Question at Issue, and Resolution, in Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode.

The Morality Plays III: A Generous Helping In the third of ten Classical Dialogues, Generosity and Greed evaluate the behaviors of two merchants with very different approaches to the marketplace; in envelope-rhymed and blank verse, they act to dissuade or goad: Should vendors participate in gossip about competitors, to acquire more in sales? The Chorus of Furies poses the Question and Judgment, in Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode.