Creator: Philippe Legendre
Publication date: 1997-01
Dewey code: 741
Price: $3.95
Review Kids Can Draw Birds of the World (Kids Can Draw Series) / Walter Foster Publishing:A series of six titles which aims to teach children how to transform simple circles, squares and triangles into works of art with easy drawing methods. This features children's favourite subjects, such as dinosaurs, fairy tales and animals, with each book showing how to draw nine pictures, described in rhymes that relate to simple geometric shapes. Beginning techniques are demonstrated as the series looks at composition, proportion, shapes and lines.
Publication date: 1999-10-29
Review Sand Art (Mini Masters) / Design Eye Publishing:
Publication date: 1980-01
Price: $8.95
Review Unbuilding / Houghton Mifflin Company:This fictional account of the dismantling and removal of the Empire State Building describes the structure of a skyscraper and explains how such an edifice would be demolished.
Publication date: 1994
Price: $81.71
Review Addams Family Fun Pack / Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc.:
Publication date: 1992-01-30
Review Practise Handwriting (Practise Books) / Ladybird Books Ltd:
Creator: Tony De Saulles
Publication date: 1993-03-31
Review Clothes and Costumes (Starting Geography) / Hodder Wayland:Explains the many and varying influences on the clothes that are worn by people around the world, including climatic, cultural and manufacturing influences. Illustrated with colour artwork and photographs a new title in the STARTING GEOGRAPHY series.
Publication date: 2000-07-21
Review An Early Start to Drama (An Early Start to ...) / Simon & Schuster Education:
Publication date: 1999-09
Review Maximus Mouse's Christmas Card and Other Christmas Plays / Scripture Union Publishing:
Publication date: 1989-08-31
Review Pop Music (Inside Story) / Hodder Wayland:This book which is part of a series conveying information on a variety of subjects in the style of popular youth magazines, reveals the world of pop music. Using varied presentation techniques including first and third person narratives and question and answer interviews, it draws on the experiences of stars such as Rick Astley and Climie Fisher, record producers, technicians, managers disc jockeys and musicians explaining how people "make it" in the business. There is advice on career opportunities and qualifications needed. The book aims to stimulate further reading and to encourage the young reader to approach a career in this industry in a positive way. Fiona Gibson has written extensively for the youth market.
Publication date: 1989-10-31
Review Television (Inside Story) / Hodder Wayland:From the series that adopts the stye and format of the popular youth magazines, this book concentrates on television, from information and personal experience to careers advice. It also covers controversial topics, such as the expansion of cable and satellite television and whether more choice for the public will mean a drop in standards. Both authors have experience in the field of television. Tim Byrne worked as an editor for a number of years, and is now a researcher with TVS. Tony Gregory is famous as a presenter with "Motormouth", the weekly children's programme and has worked with "Network 7", the Channel 4 news and current affairs programme for teenagers.
Publication date: 1998-08-01
Dewey code: 390
List Price: $89.95
Price: $89.95
Review Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas (Dress, Body, Culture) / Berg Publishers:For ninety years, young society women in San Antonio, Texas have donned custom-designed dresses and trains to take part in the Coronation of a queen and her court. These royal robes, which weigh fifty pounds and more and cost an average of $18,000, are highly embellished with rhinestones and beads. The Coronation is part of the ten-day, century-old festival celebrating the final battle of the 1836 Texas revolt against Mexico. This book provides a significant contribution to the study of social elites in Western society through a material culture analysis of the Coronation costumes worn by the Euro-American debutantes. Set against the backdrop of a city undergoing many demographic, socioeconomic, and political changes, the themes of Coronation pageants represent the mythologized ethnic and class history which reinforces the hierarchical positioning of its participants. The royal robes serve as the canvas upon which this theme is carried out. The Coronation, held in a city with a Hispanic majority, has come under attack for its elitism, but participation in it is still important for the old Euro-American aristocracy and for a very few extremely wealthy Hispanic families. Integral to the continuation of this increasingly contested tradition is the emotional appeal that wearing these intricately decorated gowns holds for participants.
Publication date: 1990-08-01
Review Under the Hammer (Power Plays) / Nelson Thornes Ltd:
Publication date: 1983-08-25
Review Jenny Learns to Swim (Problem-solvers) / Hamish Hamilton Ltd:
Creator: Ellen Reilly
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-02-14
Price: $28.00
Review The Wright Three / Listening Library (Audio):In this intricate, magnificently imagined sequel to Blue Balliett's international bestseller, Chasing Vermeer, supersleuths Petra and Calder, along with Calder's old friend, Tommy, are cryptically drawn into another art mystery–this time involving a Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpiece, the Robie House. When the kids' sixth-grade class attempts to save the Hyde Park landmark from demolition, eerie events are reported: voices float out from within, shadows shift behind the art-glass windows, even the roof moves! Suddenly, a well-meaning art restoration project turns into a frightening search for ghosts, hidden treasure, and a coded message left behind by Wright. In this tangled web where life and art intermingle with death and danger, can the kids pursue justice and escape with their lives?.
Publication date: 1997-09-04
Price: $82.87
Review Bugs Bunny: Activity Book (Warner Activities) / Egmont Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-08-30
List Price: $7.95
Price: $81.81
Review Sing-along Songs: All the Brainy Baby Songs You Love!:
Publication date: 1999-10-29
Review Sand Art (Mini Masters) / Design Eye Publishing:
Publication date: 2002-10
Dewey code: 770
List Price: $82.65
Price: $92.44
Review Photography: A Cultural History / Laurence King Publishing:This is the first survey of international photography to examine the discipline across the full range of its uses by professionals and amateurs. Each of the eight chapters takes a strict time frame of, say, fifteen to thirty years in which to examine the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, mass media and individual practitioners. The coverage is truly global including rarely seen work from Latin America, Africa, China, Japan, India, and Russia as well as the more established canon of Europe and the United States. Seminal figures, from Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman, are profiled, but the emphasis is more on key ideas than individuals. So the reader follows such debates as the nature of discovery/invention, the effect of mass media on morality, the use of imagery as a tool of Western colonialism, and the role of the photograph in advertising, radical politics and family life.
Publication date: 1989-08-31
Review Pop Music (Inside Story) / Hodder Wayland:This book which is part of a series conveying information on a variety of subjects in the style of popular youth magazines, reveals the world of pop music. Using varied presentation techniques including first and third person narratives and question and answer interviews, it draws on the experiences of stars such as Rick Astley and Climie Fisher, record producers, technicians, managers disc jockeys and musicians explaining how people "make it" in the business. There is advice on career opportunities and qualifications needed. The book aims to stimulate further reading and to encourage the young reader to approach a career in this industry in a positive way. Fiona Gibson has written extensively for the youth market.
Publication date: 1983-06
Review Magic Circus / Blackie Children's Books:
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Kids Can Draw Birds of the World (Kids Can Draw Series), Sand Art (Mini Masters), Unbuilding, Addams Family Fun Pack, Practise Handwriting (Practise Books), Clothes and Costumes (Starting Geography), An Early Start to Drama (An Early Start to ...), Maximus Mouse's Christmas Card and Other Christmas Plays, Pop Music (Inside Story), Television (Inside Story), Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas (Dress, Body, Culture), Under the Hammer (Power Plays), Jenny Learns to Swim (Problem-solvers), The Wright Three, Bugs Bunny: Activity Book (Warner Activities), Sing-along Songs: All the Brainy Baby Songs You Love!, Sand Art (Mini Masters), Photography: A Cultural History, Pop Music (Inside Story), Magic CircusTop headlines: Doris Lessings Nobel Prize: The unpredictable curmudgeon has written about everything from feminism to sci-fi to cats (twice). ›15:18 12 Oct, Fri Painting the desert red in the Wild West: Where else but in charmingly offbeat New Mexico can you find people living in "earthship" homes or a Wild West town where outlawsand ghostsare said to have roamed? ›15:38 Erik Estrada to patrol with Indiana police: Erik Estrada has returned to Muncie to take part in overnight police patrols in the city where he starred in the short-lived reality series "Armed & Famous." 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