Download or read book Clay Play written by Terry Taylor and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With full-color illustrations and uncomplicated directions, this book shows children how to make 24 clay projects.

Download or read book Shadow Hand Tales of Goldstone Wood Book 6 written by Anne Elisabeth Stengl and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about blood. And love. And the many things that lie between. By her father's wish, Lady Daylily is betrothed to the Prince of Southlands. Not the prince she loves, handsome and dispossessed Lionheart, but his cousin, the awkward and foolish Prince Foxbrush. As her wedding day dawns, Daylily flees into the dangerous Wilderlands, her only desire to vanish from living memory. But Foxbrush, determined to rescue his betrothed, pursues Daylily into a new world of magic and peril, a world where vicious Faerie beasts hold sway, a world invaded by a lethal parasite. A world that is hauntingly familiar.

Download or read book How to Draw AMAZING Hands written by Karen Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing hands is extraordinarily difficult, even for accomplished artists. This book teaches you a very simple and straightforward way to draw truly amazing, completely realistic-looking hands, and all in 6 simple steps! In her typical, laid back, easy-to-understand and conversational teaching style, Artist Karen Campbell once again makes it both easy and enjoyable for artists of all abilities to first understand and then successfully execute even the most hand difficult drawings in this book. Using a combination of humor and easy-to-follow steps, Karen teaches you ways to develop muscle memory, sharpen your observational skills, and draw and shade realistic hands in graphite. The 25 different hand gestures include a wide variety of poses from people of all ages (from babies to old men) so there is literally something in here for everyone. Artists of all abilities will also learn to successfully and easily create the look of those troublesome hand details that seem to always pop up like wrinkles, veins, creases, bumps, bones, tendons, arm hair, long nails and more...and all with just a handful of supplies! Never heard of Elephant Skin or The "Poodge" show up on people before? Well get ready, because not only are you about to learn what those are, you're about to learn how to draw them too!

Download or read book The Shadows written by Jacqueline West and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Small Spaces, Coraline, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and James Howe's Bunnicula classics comes the first book in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series. This house is keeping secrets . . . When eleven-year-old Olive and her parents move into the crumbling mansion on Linden Street and find it filled with mysterious paintings, Olive knows the place is creepy—but it isn’t until she encounters its three talking cats that she realizes there’s something darkly magical afoot. Then Olive finds a pair of antique spectacles in a dusty drawer and discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside the house’s spooky paintings to a world that’s strangely quiet . . . and eerily sinister. But in entering Elsewhere, Olive has been ensnared in a mystery darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. With only the cats and an unusual boy she meets in Elsewhere on her side, it’s up to Olive to save the house from the shadows, before the lights go out for good.

Download or read book Hortense and the Shadow written by Natalia O'Hara and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting, original fairy tale from two dazzling debut picture book talents, in the spirit of Neil Gaiman and Carson Ellis. Hortense is a kind and brave girl, but she is sad--even angry--that her shadow follows her everywhere she goes. She hates her shadow, and thinks her shadow must hate her too. But one cold, dark night, when bandits surprise her in the woods, Hortense discovers that her shadow is the very thing she needs most. This stunningly illustrated story stirs the soul with its compelling, subtle exploration of self-esteem, self-identity, and finding inner strength.

Download or read book Sleepy the Goodnight Buddy written by Drew Daywalt and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible not to crack up while reading this all-dialogue bedtime story by Drew Daywalt, the New York Times #1 best-selling author of The Day the Crayons Quit. Scott Campbell's expressive illustrations bring home the hilarity. Roderick hates going to bed, and the young boy has become quite resourceful in coming up with ways to delay the dreaded hour when the lights must go out. Roderick's loving parents -- fed up with the distractions and demands that have become his anti-bedtime ritual -- decide to get him a stuffed animal to cuddle with and help him wind down. However, Sleepy quickly proves to be a bit high-maintenance. Just when we fear the night may never end, Sleepy's antics become too exhausting for Roderick to bear.

Download or read book Black Ops Shadow Hunters Remington Whimsical Words Publishing written by Becky Wilde and published by Whimsical Words Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author of the Slick Rock, Pack Law and Passion, Victoria series, Becca Van has rebranded to write as Becky Wilde, self-publishing her new books through Whimsical Words Publishing. Blurb Elora Finch didn’t believe aliens existed until one appeared on her farm and started chasing her. She’s saved by a soldier and his team who were fighting more of the creatures, but when she finds out that she has a target on her back and alien DNA in her body, she isn’t sure what to believe. Remington Hadler is entranced by the independent, hard-working, Elora and he knows she’s the one woman who is right for him but convincing her he’s the man for her isn’t going to be easy. Elora realises soon enough that everything she’s been told is true, and when more of the grey’s turn up, she stands with Remington and his team and fights. When she finally stops fighting their attraction, Remington is on top of the world but he’s worried about what will happen to them when he has to go back to base. He isn’t’ sure a long distance relationship will last no matter how much he wants it to. But he doesn’t want to lose her either.

Download or read book The Shadow of the Wind written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

Download or read book Moon Shadow written by Erin Downing and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Lucia Frank discovers that she can become the girl she’s always wanted to be with the help of a little “moon magic” in this charming novel about the value of friendship, family, and finding yourself. Lucia Frank has never had time for her mom’s “new age” nonsense. She doesn’t believe in any of that stuff. All she wants is to figure out how to get her best friend, Will, back and cope with her parents looming divorce. But then something strange happens on the night of her thirteenth birthday. When the eclipsed moon slips into the shadow of the earth, Lucia’s Shadow slips out. Now hidden in a moonstone, the Shadow waits for Lucia to sleep so it can come out to play. Lucia’s Shadow seems unlike her in almost every way: daring, outspoken, and unwilling to let anyone push her around. But it actually isn’t the anti-Lucia…in fact, her Shadow is very much like the person Lucia wishes she could be. At first, Lucia is eager to undo whatever magic happened on her birthday so life can get back to normal. But when she realizes her Shadow is doing and saying things she has only dreamed about, she wonders if maybe things aren’t all bad. With a little help from her Shadow, she’s turning into the kind of girl she’s always wanted to be.

Download or read book Hand Shadow Fun written by Frank Jacobs and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed illustrations depict the formation of 28 images using only hands and fingers. Entertain friends and family with shadow pictures of a bird, bunny, elephant, and other figures.

Download or read book Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell written by Susanna Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.

Download or read book Whimsical and Wild written by Jane Davenport and published by Get Creative 6. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Davenport creates the ultimate art journal for mixed-media artists.

Download or read book Dark Whispers written by Carlos Medrano and published by Carlos Medrano. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a realm of relentless darkness and unsettling suspense in this chilling collection of short stories. Within these pages, you'll encounter the macabre and the mysterious, the supernatural and the sinister. Each tale will draw you deeper into the abyss of fear, where the line between reality and nightmare blurs. From haunted houses to vengeful spirits, from psychological terrors to spine-tingling encounters, these stories will haunt your dreams and keep you awake at night. The characters you'll meet are ordinary people thrust into extraordinary and horrifying situations, and their struggles will resonate with your deepest fears. Prepare to be enthralled by the unknown, to embrace the shivers that race down your spine, and to confront the darkest corners of your imagination. This anthology of terror will captivate your senses and leave you craving for more, long after you've turned the final page. Are you brave enough to delve into the abyss? Dare to read, if you dare to dream... or to scream.

Download or read book Weetzie Bat written by Francesca Lia Block and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Transcendent.” —New York Times Book Review “Magnificent.” —Village Voice “Sparkling.” —Publishers Weekly Francesca Lia Block’s dazzling debut novel, Weetzie Bat, is not only a genre-shattering, critically acclaimed gem, it's also widely recognized as a classic of young adult literature, having captivated readers for generations. This coming-of-age novel follows the eponymous Weetzie Bat and her best friend Dirk as they navigate life and love in a timeless, dreamlike version of Los Angeles. When Weetzie is granted three wishes by a genie, she discovers that there are unexpected ramifications…. Winner of the prestigious Phoenix Award, Weetzie Bat is a beautiful, poetic work of magical realism that is perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, Neil Gaiman, and Kelly Link.

Download or read book How to Draw and Find Your Style written by Karen Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the secrets to unleashing your personal artistic style while learning how to draw fabulous female faces and hands"--Cover.

Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Download or read book Shadow of the Conqueror written by Shad M. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: