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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

25 Spectacular, Never-Before-Seen Designs for Rainbows of Fun

From the authors of the instant bestseller Loom Magic! comes a second amazing project book with twenty-five totally new and extreme designs! Rainbow Looms are taking the world by storm, with devotees of all ages accessorizing their wrists, backpacks, and rooms with fun and creative projects. These super imaginative, out-of-this-world projects will take your rubber band loom projects to the next level. Here are kid-tested step-by-step instructions and bright color photographs to show you how to make the coolest rubber band projects out there, including: Twisty headband Bouquet of flowers Octopus Decorated ponytail holder Fashion jewelry stand Glow-in-the-dark stars Zipper decoration Hockey stick Bloodshot eyeballs Black bat And many more!

Loom Magic Xtreme!

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.

The Wright 3

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New Jersey

The Art and Life of Jean Stafford

Maurine Stuart (1922&¿) was one of a select group of students on the leading edge of Buddhism in America: a woman who became a Zen master. In this book, she draws on down-to-earth Zen stories, her friendships with Japanese Zen teachers, and her experiences as a concert pianist to apply the inner meanings of Buddhism to practicing the basic ethics of daily living-nowness, unselfishness, compassion, and good will toward every living being. She emphasizes that inner growth comes through our own efforts and intuition, especially as we cultivate them through meditation practice. We can then take what we have learned in meditation and use it to respond to our daily lives in a straightforward and creative way, guided not by concepts or dogma, but by direct insight into the reality of the present moment.

The Interior Castle

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Linda Barker

Virginia

Napkin Folding

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Help little cottontails get to school, lead a hungry bunny to some carrot cake, show another the way to a bubble bath, and more. 48 puzzles with solutions.

Bunny Rabbit Mazes

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Blue Balliett

Washington

When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

Chasing Vermeer

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Summer has started in idyllic Sag Harbor, and for Emma Mapson that means greeting guests at the front desk of The American Hotel. But when one of the town's most famous residents, artist Henry Wyatt, dies suddenly, Emma learns he has mysteriously left his waterfront home -- a self-designed masterpiece filled with his work -- to her teenage daughter, Penny.




Back in Manhattan, legendary art patron Bea Winstead's grief at her lifelong friend and former business partner Henry's passing turns to outrage at the news of his shocking bequest. How did these unknown locals get their hands on the estate? Bea, with her devoted assistant Kyle in tow, descends on Sag Harbor determined to reclaim the house and preserve Henry's legacy.




While Emma fights to defend her daughter's inheritance, Bea discovers that Henry left a treasure trove of sketches scattered around town. With Penny's reluctant help, Bea pieces them together to find a story hidden in plain sight: an illustration of their shared history with an unexpected twist that will change all of their lives. Drawn together in their battle for the house, Emma and Bea are forced to confront the past while facing a future that challenges everything they believe about love, fate, and family.

New York

Drawing Home 

Michigan

A thorough look at this very versatile medium, offering imaginative demonstrations of the many ways colored pencils can be used.

Complete Colored Pencil Book

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

When his beloved younger wife and protégé is rendered a top player in the international art scene, proud Marius introduces her to a leading journalist to cover her life story, unaware that an instant connection between his wife and the journalist will ignite powerful secrets. By the author of A Woman of Substance. 200,000 first printing.

Playing the Game

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Michael Medearis

Texas

Pairs of fiction and nonfiction books share high-interest topics and encourage children to compare and contrast, distinguish between fact and fiction, and make the transition between fiction and nonfiction reading strategies.

Artists and Their Art

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Akiane Kramarik

Foreli Kramarik

California

Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry

Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.
Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to Christianity and the world's attention. Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry is a collection of the best of Akiane's full-color paintings and poetry created from ages 4 to 10, along with details of her family and the amazing stories that surround each unique artwork. Already a media professional, Akiane has been interviewed on programs such as Oprah, World News Tonight, Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN, and Schuller's Hour of Power. Akiane will be one of twenty visual artists participating in the October "Listen" event raising money for the world's needy children. Today Akiane's art is available online at www.artakiane.com.

Akiane

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Neat art themed volume! Perfect for homeschool or other art study! 

The How and Why Library

Childcraft: Look Again (Volume 13)

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A step-by-step guide

Drawing

Prina Sketchbooks - Sealed

Kathleen Krull

Catherine Chermayeff

A Young Artist's True Story

The diary of a twelve-year-old girl living in New York City in 1912, with sidebars describing the author/illustrator's life and family and significant events of the year and the city.

Anne Elizabeth's Diary

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Art Linkletter

George Bishop

Hobo on the Way to Heaven

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Bestselling author Javier Sierra takes you on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind European art-complete with gorgeous, full-colour inserts of artwork by da Vinci, Boticelli, and other master artists.

Presented as a fictionalized autobiography,The Master of Pradobegins in Madrid in 1990, when Sierra encounters a mysterious stranger named Luis Fovel within the halls of the Prado. Fovel takes him on a whirlwind tour and promises to uncover startling secrets hidden in the museum's masterpieces-secrets that open up a whole new world to Sierra.

The enigmatic Fovel reveals how a variety of visions, prophesies, conspiracies, and even heresies inspired masters such as Raphael, Titian, Hieronymus Bosch, Botticelli, Brueghel, and El Greco. The secrets they concealed in their paintings are stunning enough to change the way we think about art, uncovering mysteries about historical facts, secret sects, and prophetical theories. It is these secrets that lead Sierra to question his entire understanding of art history and unearth ground-breaking discoveries about European art.

At once a captivating novel and a beautifully illustrated reference guide to Madrid's famed museum,The Master of the Pradois full of insights and intriguing mysteries. Sierra brings historical characters alive in this astounding narrative filled with dazzling surprises that will entrance you as much as the pictures within.

The Master of the Prado

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Brand new, in original sealed packaging. Audio book on CD.
For children aged 7 - 9.  
Grade Level 4 - 7
1st book in series

Audio books are a great way to get kids to read. Perfect for long car rides!

This bewitching first novel is a puzzle, wrapped in a mystery, disguised as an adventure, and delivered as a work of art.
Chasing Vermeer joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!

When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI?

Chasing Vermeer - Audio Book on CDs

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The mysterious Mona Lisa could use a little grooming--so go ahead and brush her long black hair! Continue with the Old Masters by touching the large, lacy collar of Frans Hals’ The Laughing Cavalier, petting the horse’s tail in Velazquez’s Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback, and arranging the snappy elastic hair in Boticcelli’s The Birth of Venus. Other paintings come from Vermeer, de la Tour, Raphael, and Van Eyck.

Brush Mona Lisa's Hair

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Louisiana

Home is Where the Heart Is makes an ideal gift for Thomas Kinkade fans and collectors, friends who have just married or moved into a new home, and anyone who delights in the joy and comfort found in their own haven of home. Kinkade brings the beauty of changing seasons and bygone times to life in his Lighted Path Collection.

Home Is Where the Heart Is

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Daniel Silva

The Rembrandt Affair

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The Rub Book

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Art Literature, Science, and Mythology

The rainbow is the most universally enthralling phenomenon in nature. It appears in art, myth, and literature around the world as a potent symbol -- of hope, peace, and sometimes evil. The Book of Rainbows: Art, Literature, Science, & Mythology is a beautifully illustrated and substantive survey of the rainbow as it appears in science and culture through the ages, from Noah to a modern artist who built a rainbow over the United Nations. The book opens with the science of rainbows, from Aristotle to the twentieth-century discovery of the extra color, and goes on to discuss mythology and symbolism, and the rainbow in literature and art. The literary survey includes more than 50 quotations from the likes of Ovid, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson. And the illustrations include the most glorious depictions of rainbows in the history of art. Among the dozens of artists represented are Rubens, Hokusai, Monet, Seurat, and Kandinsky. This uniquely beautiful and expansive book is as appealing as its subject.

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John McCann; Becky Thomas; Monica Sweeney

Loom Magic Xtreme!

Blue Balliett; Brett Helquist (Illustrator)

The Wright 3

Ann Hulbert

The Interior Castle

Linda Barker

Napkin Folding

Suzanne Ross

Bunny Rabbit Mazes

Blue Balliett

Chasing Vermeer

Jaime Brenner

Drawing Home

Bernard Poulin

Complete Colored Pencil Book

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Playing the Game

Michael Medearis

Artists and Their Art

Akiane Kramarik; Foreli Kramarik

Akiane

Childcraft

Childcraft: Look Again (Volume 13)

Barnes & Noble

Drawing

Prina

Prina Sketchbooks - Sealed

Kathleen Krull; Catherine Chermayeff

Anne Elizabeth's Diary

Art Linkletter; George Bishop

Hobo on the Way to Heaven

Javier Sierra

The Master of the Prado

Blue Balliett; Brett Helquist

Chasing Vermeer - Audio Book on CDs

Julie Appel; Amy Guglielmo

Brush Mona Lisa's Hair

Thomas Kinkade

Home Is Where the Heart Is

Daniel Silva

The Rembrandt Affair

James E. Seidelman

The Rub Book

Richard Whelan

The Book of Rainbows

Thomas Locker

The Young Artist