Miniatures Books

This is the book I give to friends. It has beautiful photos and abundant information on a wide array of netsuke. Highly Recommended

I have her first book and let me tell you this book is like a second eddition to the first but better. She gets into 3d shapes and designs as well as uses different types of threads including silk. The edgings and mats are a continuation to her first book. She also gets into harder things for you to make.The baby shawl in this book is truely a beautiful pattern that anyone who makes lace would love to have included in their dollhouses.This book also has the section which shows you how to do each stitch which very rarely is found in other books. A must have for anyone into dollhouse bobbin lace making.

Adults and children (recommend age 10 and up) can enjoy this project together, as we did on a winter afternoon. The result is a 4-room Spanish style New Mexico adobe home with many pieces of authentic furniture and details. It also includes substantial historical information about the house and it's contents. Great for people who enjoy paper crafts. Would also make a wonderful project and learning experience for a group of students in the upper grades (4-8), with adult assistance.

This book is great-it's a head above most of the other MinPin breed books which contain just a few pages of specialized information on the Miniature Pinscher, and a lot of general dog care sections. This book covers "the old greats"...one of the neatest things is seeing photographs of Carlee's Nubby Silk and "Little Daddy" then finding them in your pet quality pups pedigree. Contains a good deal of lore, and a really neat conversation between two "old school" MinPin breeders. Discusses the breed standard and how it's changed over the years. I don't breed, so I can't speak for breeders, but I would think that breeders, future breeders, pet owners and just plain MinPin fanciers would find this book as good a read as I did.

We wanted a book to prepare our three year old for our upcoming puppy. This book does exactly that. It goes through the process of preparing for puppy, going to the breeder ( not pet store ) to see all of the puppies and selecting one. Then at home, it shows how puppy needs to sleep in the kitchen on newspaper, and that puppies have accidents. It is great for introducing the "new arrival" ( similar to a book on being a new sibling ) to a toddler. We would highly reccomend this book.

Japanese dolls are more than just collector's items: they've planed an important cultural role in Japan's society as talismanic figures, festival centerpieces, medical study tools, and more. It's surprising, therefore, that Ningyo: The Art Of The Japanese Doll is the first comprehensive book in English to cover antique Japanese dolls. Six categories of dolls - palace dolls, Girl's Day dolls, Boy's Day dolls, costume and theatrical dolls, and those connected with health, were made during the Edo period: color photos from private collections detail these dolls and provide historical background as well as lovely, full-color photos. A 'must' for any studying Japanese doll history and art.

This is really creative book. I love it and I bought it even though I do not have a garden. I simply love to look at it and imagine that maybe some day, if I will ever have a garden, a balcony or even a patch of grass, this is how it will look.

Donne was a writer of extraordinary intellectual grasp and tremendous creative power. His metaphysical poetry linked together images from the most diverse realms and created a new form of metaphoric seeing. Donne combined a true feel for the material , sensual realities with a deep ideational adventurism. His passionate religious feeling also seemed to bring at its best a new level of insight and feeling.
Nowhere is that more apparent in the famed 'No man is an island speech'.in which the experience of an individual's death serves as means for binding all humanity together.
"Do not send to ask for whom the Bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

Richly satisfying artwork, with text that rhymes. Out of a large basket of small books, our kids choose "Noah's Ark" by Amy Flynn & Linda Hayward to be read time and time again. A classic "chunky book".

Without doubt, all parents are sometimes (or often) guilty of ignoring the requests of their children for attention because the parents are trying to accomplish some (to them) important task. 'Not Now, Bernard' illustrates the folly of this policy and the disastrous consequences for both Bernard's existence and for a moster's self-respect