Vancouver's Song --- A Kid's Guide to Vancouver, BC, Canada
by Penelope Dyan
Windows! A Kid's Guide to Rotterdam, Netherlands
by Penelope Dyan and John D Weigand
Baby Present combines the inherent love babies have for one another with a tongue-in-cheek take on mindfulness for their parents and caretakers. This is for the perfect gift for the emerging generation of calm, cool, kids and their caretakers! A wide diversity of the most photogenic 6—9 month-olds, all from Oakland and Berkeley, California, has been captured mid-smile while making unmistakable eye-contact with the infants to whom this book will be read. Baby Present celebrates the unadulterated...
Introduces various mountain ranges, how they are formed and shaped, and how they affect vegetation and animals, including humans.
Photographs play a vital role in various parts of the media--newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. They have the unique ability to capture a moment as an image and to convey a message without words.
This title is suitable for children aged 10 years and up. This comprehensive, popular beginner's guide for kids is filled with the most up-to-date information and photos! Fun, easy to follow and visually appealing, it teaches young photographers how to create, edit and share their digital images in imaginative ways, from using basic features like the zoom and flash to changing colour, removing red eye and using the finished photos in cool projects. Sidebars simplify concepts like megapixels and...
Dorothea Lange chose to work as a photographer during a time when family was supposed to come first for a woman. Like so many women, she had a husband and children to take care of
Apples!Apples!Apples!Crunchy and tasty, sweet and tart, in colorful shades of red, yellow, and green -- sometimes all three -- everyone loves apples! In this lively and vibrant book, young readers will learn how apples grow, from the planting of a tree, to the pollination of buds by bees, and on to the harvest. And then comes the fun part as apples are used to tease the taste buds in so many ways -- in pies and strudel, in cider and applesauce, but most of all, in that one simple crunch when one...
From spring's first flower to summer's most luscious watermelon, young readers will learn the facts about the shapes, the sizes, and the dispersal patterns of seeds and how they flourish throughout the year.
Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression’s Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
by Martin W. Sandler
A National Book Award winner mines photographic gold to show—and tell—the story of the Great Depression. In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W. Sandler unpacks the United States Farm Security Administration’s sweeping visual record of the Great Depression. In 1935, with the nation bent under unprecedented unemployment and economic hardship, the FSA sent ten photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, on the roa...
When the sun rises, it lifts the curtain on the horizon, ushering in a brand-new day. And like a new day, each horizon is original. Sun, clouds, sky, water, even skyscrapers shape the distance and offer us new views and the chance to think about what lies beyond. Renowned poet and author Jane Yolen gives us her insights on horizons great and small in fourteen new poems. Inspired by Jason Stemple's stunning photographs of vistas found in deserts, swamps, mountains, and other scenic places, Ms. Yo...
Biography of legendary artist Cindy Sherman.