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This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide

GENEEN ROTH · Scribner
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Inspiring, personal, and often spiritual reflections on how women can find peace, make wise choices, practice everyday joy, and step into their power from Geneen Roth - author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Women Food and God.

From the beginning, Geneen Roth was told...
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Fun Things to Do with Milk Jugs

Marne Ventura · Capstone Press
Format: Hardcover

What can you do with an empty milk jug? Simple, step by step instructions transform ordinary household items into fun DIY crafts and games.
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Old Yeller

Fred Gipson · Harper
Format: Hardcover

When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloIquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable...
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Awesome Edible Kids Crafts: 75 Super-Fun All-Natural Projects for Kids to Make and Eat

Arena Blake · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Easy, Fun and Imaginative Crafts You Can Eat

Arena Blake, founder of the blog The Nerd's Wife, shares exciting crafts that are made out of your favorite things to eat. Never before has it been more fun to play with your food!

Bring out your inner sculptor with Marshmallow...

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Living with a Chihuahua: Book with Bonus DVD

Margaret Greening · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 127
Format: Hardcover

This alert little canine is unfailingly loyal to its masters, but usually does not socialize well with other dog breeds. This book offers detailed information on the Chihuahua. The Living with a Pet series is focused to help inexperienced owners and prospective owners who are thinking about...
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Debbie Mumm's I Care with Quilts

Debbie Mumm · Leisure Arts, Inc.
Format: Paperback

The most giving and caring women on the planet are quilt makers. This book by artist and designer Debbie Mumm focuses on quilts and projects that communicate a message of caring through their design, color choices or concepts. Whether it's to support a cause or charity that's near...
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Picture Smocking With Ellen McCarn

Ellen McCarn · McCarn Enterprises
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback

From the Introduction: "In Picture Smocking, Stacking is the term used to describe working parallel rows of stitches, primarily the cable, lining them up so they touch without overlapping to create solid areas. The stacked cables should be smooth and uniform in size, and like building...
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How to Make Balloon Animals

Megan Atwood · Child's World
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Presents step-by-step instructions about how to twist balloon animals and other shapes, including swords, fish, and dogs.
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Green Crafts: Become and Earth-friendly Craft Star, Step by Easy Step!

Megan Friday · Walter Foster Library
Format: Hardcover

Presents easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated instructions to construct environmentally conscious craft projects using discarded materials--such as cans newspapers cereal boxes and more--to create earth-friendly objects including fanciful tealightsTitle Green CraftsAuthor Friday MeganPublisher...
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Cool Flexagon Art: Creative Activities That Make Math & Science Fun for Kids!: Creative Activities That Make Math & Science Fun for Kids!

Anders Hanson · Checkerboard Books
Format: Hardcover

Teaches about polyhedra and solid geometry through such projects as making flexagons and a star that transforms into an octagon.
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The Kids' Building Workshop: 15 Woodworking Projects for Kids and Parents to Build Together

J Craig Robertson · Storey Kids
Pages: 136
Format: Book

Pass the hammer to a new generation! This kid-friendly guide covers the essentials of carpentry, including the proper way to drive a nail, the safe way to drill a hole, and the importance of measuring. You'll be amazed at how fast your miniature carpenter acquires the skills to complete...
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Creating Thanksgiving Crafts

Dana Meachen Rau · Cherry Lake Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Book

Whether you're looking for something to do on a rainy day or making a personalized gift for a friend, crafts are a great way to pass the time. They also provide an opportunity to learn how to draw meaning from technical texts. The activities in this book push readers to read for comprehension,...
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Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 3: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz

L. Frank Baum · Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Explore the wonder of Oz in this collection of books seven through nine in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy tale series.The seventh, eighth, and ninth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the Munchkins Unc Nunkie and Ojo the Unlucky...
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Draw, Paint, Sparkle: Creative Projects from an Elementary Art Teacher

Patty Palmer · Roost Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

25 kid-tested lessons in drawing and painting - perfect for children ages 5 to 10 Encourage and empower kids to make art! The 25 art lessons in this book present step-by-step drawing instructions paired with a range of painting techniques and styles for endless creative exploration. Designed...
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