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A tiny chimp invokes the universal language, uniting his friends in a group hug to end all group hugs. Just try to resist Jez Alborough's latest charmer!
Bobo needs a hug. But his friends don't seem to understand. "Hug," he implores, time and again. Time and again his puzzled pals--from the smallest chameleon to the tallest giraffe--shrug and cuddle with their jungle mothers. As the lonely chimp's plea escalates, his friends grow concerned. Can the elephants lead Bobo to his heart's desire?
Jez Alborough, the acclaimed author-illustrator of WHERE'S MY TEDDY?, IT'S THE BEAR!, and MY FRIEND BEAR transforms a total of three words--and some of the most tenderly expressive animals ever created--into an endearing tribute to love and belonging.
Bobo needs a hug. But his friends don't seem to understand. "Hug," he implores, time and again. Time and again his puzzled pals--from the smallest chameleon to the tallest giraffe--shrug and cuddle with their jungle mothers. As the lonely chimp's plea escalates, his friends grow concerned. Can the elephants lead Bobo to his heart's desire?
Jez Alborough, the acclaimed author-illustrator of WHERE'S MY TEDDY?, IT'S THE BEAR!, and MY FRIEND BEAR transforms a total of three words--and some of the most tenderly expressive animals ever created--into an endearing tribute to love and belonging.
When her family moves to New York from Hong Kong, Mei Mei finds it difficult to learn the alien sounds of English.
Toddlers will delight in identifying colors and animals in this joyful procession!
When life starts to get her down, Ellen at first wants to climb into bed and never get out again. Then she decides she's not going to take all this lying down, after all, and she sets out for some comic revenge with unintended consequences.
This colorful volume of Thoreau's writings brims with photographs of one of America's most idyllic locations. Relish the acclaimed philosopher's musings, for the first time illustrated with images of the area that inspired him. Award-winning photographer John Wawrzonek, a resident of the region, has long made Thoreau and "Walden" the special focus of his work.
Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930's and 1940's, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents.
The Collectors Series edition of In Focus is simply the existing book at a smaller trim size. This magnificent collection of 280 photographs by many of the world's greatest photographers tells the tale of portrait photography over time in page after page of arresting images. Each photograph stands proudly on its own, yet taken together, they tell a much more complex and subtle story of the ever-evolving art form in constant creative response to new ideas, new eras, and new technologies.
The third volume of the rousing "Richard Bolitho" adventures of the late-eighteenth century British Navy. Action under sail from the master storyteller of the sea.
Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages--and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world. From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras, Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure as primal as eating is criminalized, there is often an astonishing tale to tell. Among the foods thought to encourage Lust, the love apple (now known as the tomato) was thought to possess demonic spirits until the nineteenth century. The Gluttony "course" invites the reader to an ancient Roman dinner party where nearly every dish served--from poppy-crusted rodents to "Trojan Pork"--was considered a crime against the state. While the vice known as Sloth introduces the sad story of "The Lazy Root" (the potato), whose popularity in Ireland led British moralists to claim that the Great Famine was God's way of punishing the Irish for eating a food that bred degeneracy and idleness. Filled with incredible food history and the author's travels to many of these exotic locales, In the Devil's Garden also features recipes like the matzo-ball stews outlawed by the Spanish Inquisition and the forbidden "chocolate champagnes" of the Aztecs. This is truly a delectable book that will be consumed by food lovers, culinary historians, amateur anthropologists, and armchair travelers alike. Bon appétit!
Grab your snorkel and splash along with outrageous underwater creatures!
in the swim.
Children will delight in the playful, witty language of twenty-one lively poems while they learn about their ocean and freshwater friends.
in the swim.
Children will delight in the playful, witty language of twenty-one lively poems while they learn about their ocean and freshwater friends.
Inarticulate Longings explores the contradictions of a social agenda for women that promoted both traditional roles and the promises of a growing consumer culture by examining the advertising industry in the early 20th century.
Dirk Pitt is the world's greatest adventure hero-- a man of action who lives by his wits and daring. As Special Projects Director for the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), he is cool and courageous, with a love of fast cars and extreme danger.
A death-defying rescue of two drowning scientists plunges Dirk Pitt into a whirlpool of corruption and betrayal. Sinister criminals have traced a long-lost treasure-- worth almost a billion dollars-- from the Andes Mountains to a chamber on the banks of a hidden river that flows beneath a desert. Driven by burning greed, the criminals are racing to seize a golden prize... and to terminate the one man who can stop them: Dirk Pitt!
Learn to think, talk, buy and sell like an expert!
- Learn what to collect, how to recognize a fake and how to evaluate the price of a watch.
- All the information you need to understand the differences among watch brands, the different parts of a watch, and how a watch works.
- Indispensable resource guide lists major auction houses, organizations and clubs, and how and where to buy and sell.
- Learn what to collect, how to recognize a fake and how to evaluate the price of a watch.
- All the information you need to understand the differences among watch brands, the different parts of a watch, and how a watch works.
- Indispensable resource guide lists major auction houses, organizations and clubs, and how and where to buy and sell.
A provocative work that explores the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through diverse cultures and time. "An intellectually dazzling view of our past and future."-- "Time" magazine
Texas.
The state line stretches for 2,842 miles. There are coasts and mountains and rivers and lakes and cities and towns and disappearing towns and fields of wildflowers and hills and wide-open places.
The state of mind has no borders. And the 140 Texans in this book are about to show you why.
Want to make good dates great? Mediocre dates more fun? Bad dates better? Let the experts at It's Just Lunch, the dating service responsible for over 2,000,000 fun first dates, tell you how. The It's Just Lunch Guide to Dating in Chicago provides a fresh, light-hearted approach to dating-plus it includes a Zagat-style guide to over 150 of Chicago's best places to date.Find out the ten biggest dating blunders - Secret signals your date sends that when they're interested (and when they're not) - Where to go in Chicago to put you in the dating mood, meet people and start dating - The hottest places to go for first dates, second dates, creative dates, special occasions and much, much more. This book is part of the 50-book It's Just Lunch Guide to Dating series."Great dating advice & great ideas for dates. Buy one for yourself and all your single friends!" -Trish Bergin, Inside Edition
Italy truly is a traveller's dream destination. Some of the most fascinating and perfectly preserved ancient monuments existing today are just begging to be explored. There is something for everyone from the gourmet food to the wealth of museums to some of the most elegant resorts in the world.
He would be a symbol of power, grace, and tragedy-but before he was JFK, he was sickly and scrappy, troubled and charming; he was a boy called Jack.
To Jack, it seemed as if his brother Joe, not quite two years older, would always triumph-in school, on the playing field, in his father's affections. Jack was the sloppy second son, the witty, disorganized dreamer who could never seem to stay well long enough to muster his talents-a risky failing in the success-driven Kennedy family. Young readers cannot help but be fascinated by this sympathetic portrait of a complex youth who, as he struggled with the pressures of father-son dynamics and the shadow of ill health, discovered within himself an intensity for living and a profoundly ironic humor.
To Jack, it seemed as if his brother Joe, not quite two years older, would always triumph-in school, on the playing field, in his father's affections. Jack was the sloppy second son, the witty, disorganized dreamer who could never seem to stay well long enough to muster his talents-a risky failing in the success-driven Kennedy family. Young readers cannot help but be fascinated by this sympathetic portrait of a complex youth who, as he struggled with the pressures of father-son dynamics and the shadow of ill health, discovered within himself an intensity for living and a profoundly ironic humor.