Product Description: A lyrical coming-of-age story about a boy, a girl, and a horse - and how a chance encounter can lead to a life of intrigue and learning, a life beyond imagining.When Thomas Rose first spots the girl hidden by the roadside, she looks as drab as a lark, with only her red kerchief giving her away...read more

Product Description: A lyrical coming-of-age story about a boy, a girl, and a horse - and how a chance encounter can lead to a life of intrigue and learning, a life beyond imagining.When Thomas Rose first spots the girl hidden by the roadside, she looks as drab as a lark, with only her red kerchief giving her away...read more

Product Description: Set in colonial India, this richly layered coming-of-age tale follows a spirited young artist on a journey up the Ganges — and through the enigmas of her past.How can Anila Tandy, left to fend for herself after her mother's death, dare to apply for a job that is clearly not meant for a woman? But somehow the "Bird Girl of Calcutta," art supplies in hand, finds herself on an eye-opening journey up the Ganges, apprenticed to a gentleman scientist...read more

Product Description: Accomplished woodcarver and teacher Mary Finn guides readers through the creation of five colorful pin designs: a sunflower, cardinal, bunny, Santa, and rose. Includes methods for creating blanks, carving the piece, adding texture and other details, painting, finishing, and attaching a pin to the back...read more

Product Description: Accomplished carver and teacher Mary Finn shows how to create all kinds of charming animals, each "born" from a commercially available wooden egg. Egg animals can come out of the egg in any direction and can be made standing, sitting, or lying down...read more

Product Description: Starting with commercially available wooden eggs, Mary Finn shows how to transform them into all kinds of delightful characters, each with a unique personality. Using detailed, step by step instructions and color photography, this book shows how to create both "big headed" and regularly proportioned egg people, carve whole figures or partial figures, and add legs or go without...read more

Product Description: Out & About in Dublin includes chapters on Rivers and Canals, Shopping, Museums, Galleries, Medieval Dublin, Parks and Gardens, Beaches, Islands, Where to Barbecue, Summer Camps, Youth Organizations, Hobbies and Skills, Arts anti Crafts, Sports, Wildlife, Free Entertainment and where to get the best views of the city...read more

Product Description: This book is the perfect start for anyone interested in learning how to carve detailed faces. Mary Finn uses her "practice stick" method to show you how to carve each feature - eyes, nose, closed mouth, open mouth - with step by step directions that even beginners will find easy to follow...read more