Product Description: Book by Azarian, Mary

Product Description: Discover how this transitional season can reveal both the abundance and the limitations of our everyday lives.Autumn, with all its traditional images of colorful trees, frost-covered pumpkins, and piles of wood stored up against winter's cold, can be a season filled with anticipation...read more

Because she's looking for something special, the great barn cat notices but shows no interest in the activities of the animals which can be counted around her

Because she's looking for something special, the great barn cat notices but shows no interest in the activities of the animals which can be counted around her.

Take a journey back in time to an era of simplicity where no telephones or electricity exists in order to experience the Christmas celebrations of one family in a rural town where sleigh rides, family stories, and moonlight skating on an ice pond are cherished elements of their special holiday tradition.

Shares traditional recipes for fruit, grains, vegetables, meat, game, and desserts, and describes the author's life growing up on an Indiana farm during the thirties

Product Description: Filled with the fascinating words of Charles Darwin—designed as handwritten entries—this picture book biography reveals the assembling of a profound idea: the survival of the fittest. Two hundred years after his birth, 150 years after the publication of his ORIGIN OF SPECIES, this thought-provoking, splendidly ilustrated account invites us into the private thoughts, hopes and fears of a soul who forever changed the way we see the world...read more

Product Description: NORWAY, 1894Olav -- son of Erik Bjørnsson -- seventeen,swung his father's scythe and dreamed:The singing scythe Grandfather Bjørn had madeand honed each time he found a bit of shadeand passed on to his oldest sonto pass on to his oldest sonto pass until there were no longer sons --the scythe hissed like the grains of sand on the beachthat hiss when a wave falls back and the bubbles burst...read more

An alphabet book of woodcuts featuring activities and objects associated with New England farm life, from Apple, Barn, Cow through aX, Yawn, Zinnia.

Ever since (and well before) Godine published her first book, A Farmer's Alphabet in 1981, Mary Azarian has been hard at work cutting soft pine in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Last year she was awarded what she richly deserves: the Caldecott Medal. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged (as seems logical to us) according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. In all, we have reproduced fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.It would be unfortunate if Mary's acheivement was relegated to the realm of "illustration." She is not an "illustrator" but an artist who works in wood, in a technique that has been all but forgotten by modern practitioners. She does it as well as anyone of her generation, and this ambitious, oversize book will show the full amplitude and genius of her work.

Filled with stunning woodcut illustrations, a fascinating picture book captures life on the farm throughout the year, from chores such as chopping wood in the fall and weeding in the summer, to fun activities such as night-swimming in the pond in the summer and skiing off the barn roof in the winter. Reprint.

Bringing the wonders of gardening to life, a charming alphabet book details the many refreshing and rejuvenating qualities of gardens and depicts flowers, vegetables, and trees with beautiful woodcuts. Reprint.

Product Description: Book by Hayford, James

All throughout the year, everyone in town can depend on Darrell to stop by and lend a hand in any of their many projects, but when he is called out to plow a steep driveway on a snowy afternoon and gets stuck far from home in the middle of a storm, the neighbors quickly jump into action to show their appreciation for their devoted friend.

Product Description: In her first book since Where the Deer Were, Kate Barnes probes and penetrates more deeply and more profoundly into her special world of friendships, of rural Maine, of seasons, and of lives slowly, inexorably coming to an end. This selection of her strongest work from the past decade displays a poet at the height of her power compassionate, compelling, and possessed of an ear for words, images, and rhythms that is almost pitch perfect...read more

Product Description: Full of sage advice from recognized herbalists around the country, Llewellyn’s Herbal Almanac  explains how you can benefit from nature’s most versatile plants. Learn how herbs can boost your immune system,used to create craft items, add zest to your food, nourish your skin, and bring some natural magic into your life...read more

Louisa May Alcott finds a friend in her elder neighbor, Henry David Thoreau, and learns from him how to capture one's thoughts and find one's own inspirations on paper, in a charming picture book set in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.

Product Description: Includes a paperback and cassette tape. A complete instructional book for the mountain dulcimer by this noted teacher and performer. Lorraine's expertise is unmatched in the dulcimer community, and she has distilled her 20 years of playing and ten years of teaching into this primer, text, and mini-thesis...read more

Product Description: People still appreciate a good-looking note card on which to write personal messages. Here is a selection of images from A Farmer's Alphabet, sure to delight that lunatic fringe that still believes that a handwritten note, on good paper and contained in a classy envelope, says something about the sender and is more welcomed, absorbed, and remembered than an e-mail...read more

Describes Indiana farm life during the thirties, and gathers traditional recipes for breads, soups, salads, meat, chicken, vegetables, desserts, and holiday meals