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"You don't read Audre Lorde, you feel her." - Essence An intersectional feminist before the term was coined, Audre Lorde was an embodiment of convergent identities: poet, feminist, mother, cancer-survivor, theorist & philosopher. The quotes in this notecard set are drawn from a range of her most essential prose, theory, poetry, and speeches. The striking package and its sweeping color blends reflect ideas that are central to Lorde's thinking - soft and hard, dark and light, male and female. Lorde's insistence on radical love and self-care is everything we need in these trying times.

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Cat Box is a colorful set of 100 postcards in a unique format: featuring ten pieces of artwork each from ten talented artists, this collection contains a rich variety of mediums, styles and feline personalities. Affectionate or aloof, active or sleepy, straightforward or mysterious - this whimsical box of one hundred cats features one hundred feline-themed postcards from ten artists working across the globe: Marie Afeldt, Yelena Bryksenkova, Bono Kim, Kathy Lam, Emma Morton, Miroco Machiko, Endre Penovac, Agathe Singer and Naomi Wilkinson. The box features something for every cat person: cats near houseplants, futuristic embroidered cats, block printed kitties, whimsical cats in dreamy colors, impossibly fluffy black cat. Cat Box is the perfect gift for every kitty lover.

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Celebrate the bold, modern, and colorful art of the Otomi in the Otomi Notecards. Vibrant patterns leap off the page with fully embossed designs that mimic the raised texture of the traditional embroidery of the Otomi people, who are indigenous to central Mexico. A perfect all-occasion set, Otomi Notecards includes four stunning designs paired with four different envelopes, each with a flash of color inside, and a historical description of Otomi embroidery, which is both a current trend and an enduring art form.

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Julia Child transformed American cooking, on television and in home kitchens across the country, with joy, passion, humor, and a deep commitment to her craft. This notecard set celebrates Julia Child's unique personality and sense of humor with four iconic quotes that are equal parts funny, empowering, bold, and cheerful. The envelope designs feature stills from her famed TV show and capture the immense joie de vivre she brought to her work and her audiences. The design of the box pays homage to Child's groundbreaking first cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and the collection includes a folded insert with a biography and additional information that puts her contributions in context. The set is the first title in a special collaboration with the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts and the Smithsonian.

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Beloved by literary types as well as everyday writers, gardeners and dreamers, Emily Dickinson is a seminal American poet and household name. This lovely journal includes a three-part binding with mustard-colored cloth spine, delicately lined pages and a yellow ribbon marker. Replicas of Dickinson’s own pressed-flower collection adorn the front and back covers.The interior pages feature a single specimen on every other spread, sixty images in total, and six of Emily Dickinson’s richest garden and plant-inspired poems interspersed throughout 160 pages.

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A guided sketchbook with templates for telling stories like a graphic novelist, with tips and tricks from ten comic artists. This guided journal is both template and mini-course in graphic storytelling. The notebook includes 160 pages of comic templates and is filled with exercises and insider tips from ten established comic artists. With differing styles and backgrounds, the artists offer illuminating and insightful ideas to expand anyone's drawing and storytelling skills. The book includes funny & engaging exercises for how to convey emotion, time, and perspective through drawing, sequencing and storytelling.

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The beloved Grids & Guides family gets a bold new addition with Grids & Guides Orange. Like its best-selling predecessors, this new orange edition is a stylish and durable notebook that features eight classic grid pages interspersed with eight engaging charts and infographics, on hazard symbols, chromosomes, human muscular systems, cetaceans, gears, world data, particle physics, and sound and hearing. Cloth-covered and handsome, this notebook makes a great gift for architects, designers, creatives, and left-brainers and right-brainers alike.

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A new Grids & Guides “notebook for visual thinkers.” Like the original, this deluxe, cloth-covered Grids & Guides offers 144 pages of graph paper in eight designs (including two new designs!). Interspersed throughout are eight pages of informational diagrams. Encased in the same cloth-wrapped cover, this time in red.

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Sunflowers, roses, succulents, ferns, wildflowers — this rich bouquet of postcards features one hundred botanical postcards from ten celebrated artists from around the world. The colorful cards, in our popular postcard box format, are ideal for correspondence or display. A booklet about the artists highlights their creative processes, influences, and favorite houseplants.

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"There's a better option out there. I've tasted the fine wine and I can't go back… It is the Princeton Architectural Press Grids & Guides Notebook, and it is not like Other Notebooks." —The Strategist, NY Magazine The perfect notebook for creative thinkers: Much more than a standard grid notebook, Grids & Guides notebooks combine a variety of eight different grid patterns so you can find the perfect starting place for creative thinking. Forget your grid dot notebook and see what ideas emerge with a coordinate map grid, an isometric grid, a point grid, and more, made for sketches, lists, data, and dreams. Interspersed with infographics: Find inspiration in the cool infographics interspersed throughout the notebook. Unexpected and informative, the notebook includes 16 pages of charts, infographics, table, and other scientific resources, covering a wide range of topics, from weaving patterns and pulley systems to map projections and cell biology. A sleek cloth-covered hardcover that's highly portable: The Grids and Guides Navy notebook is the perfect size to throw in your backpack for a day hike, or to use as a lab notebook. The textured hardcover design is luxurious and sturdy. Creatives will love the versatility of the different grids, combined with the professional look of the cover. A great gift for designers, engineers, architects, and anyone in a creative industry.

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Nearly 100 delicious and seasonal recipes, along with what beers to pair them with, from the country's best independent breweries. The Craft Brewery Cookbook is an instructional cookbook for what to cook, and how to pair those recipes, with every style of beer. The book is organized into ten chapters according to type of beer-Hoppy Ales, Lagers & Pilsners, Wheat Beers, Belgian-Style Ales, and more-with a short essay on each beer style and flavor profile, followed by 6 to 10 recipes (with photographs) per chapter, that pair with that beer type. Each recipe is contributed from a different brewery around the country. Equal parts cookbook and beer pairing guide, The Craft Brewery Cookbook navigates the intricate world of food and beer by providing a helpful guide to understanding the multitude of contemporary styles. The 80 recipes feature bright, fresh, and bold flavors, capturing the current state of beer and food pairings.

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She Heard the Birds tells the story of pioneering birder and activist Florence Merriam Bailey, whose compassionate approach to nature influenced modern bird-watching and inspired a lasting sense of curiosity and respect for the world's feathered creatures. Spending much of her life outdoors, Bailey studied birds in their natural habitats by quietly waiting, watching, and listening. Bailey was a passionate advocate for kindness toward birds and all wildlife, and her efforts encouraged many others to raise their voices in support of animal welfare. Following A Life Made by Hand, the beautifully illustrated biography of artist Ruth Asawa, Andrea D'Aquino's colorful illustrations and lyrical text animate the birds Bailey sought to celebrate and remind us to look up into the sky and listen.

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Starting with Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Nature," Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, philosophy, and more. Compiled by editor and poet Stuart Kestenbaum, the contributors represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, each honoring nature's power to heal, inspire, guide, amaze, and strengthen. Activist Maulian Dana of the Penobscot Nation writes on the intertwining relationship of motherhood and Mother Earth. Biology professor David Haskell tells the story of the resilient Bristlecone pine trees, living to be as old as 2,100 years. Iranian scholar Alireza Taghdarreh speaks to her experience of translating Emerson's "Nature" into Farsi. A previously unpublished 1962 speech by Rachel Carson complements the collection of more than twenty essays, each inviting the reader into a quiet space of reflection with the opportunity to think deeply about how they relate to the natural world.

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There's a rainbow of ways to think about colors. Colors pop and shine. Cool colors make us shiver, while warm colors heat us up. They can even express our moods, from feeling blue to being tickled pink. What Can Colors Do? introduces children to color through vibrant artworks that inspire curiosity, joy, and surprise in young learners. Colorful paintings, sculptures, and objects from the Philadelphia Museum of Art help children think about how artists use color. How can colors express feelings? Can a color be loud or soft? As children learn the basics of color theory, from mixing to contrast and color wheels, they answer engaging, thoughtful questions that bring the world of art and their own experiences together. A series of activities for kids to complete on their own—from a scavenger hunt to a color-inspired way to meditate—helps them to appreciate the beauty and complexity of the hues around us.

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Steven Holl celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of his landmark book Anchoring with Compression, a collection of thirty-five major projects from the past decade. Holl applies concepts from neuroscience, literature, social science, and philosophy to develop the idea of compression: the condensation of material and social forces to create meaningful and sustainable architecture. A diverse roster of international works includes an expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston ; academic facilities for Columbia University, Princeton University, and the Glasgow School of Art; urban plans; a harbor gateway for Copenhagen; and an extension of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. All demonstrate Holl’s poetic attention to light, space, and water; a subtle and tactile employment of material and color; and an awareness of architecture’s potential to connect people through inspiring public spaces.

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An ordinary day turns into an extraordinary adventure for three friends lying in the grass watching the clouds pass by as Zip, Trik, and Flip set off to find where the world ends. The trio journeys across fantastical landscapes—a lakeside city on stilts, a mysterious and magical forest, a snowy mountaintop—with countless delightful details for young readers to discover. Along the way, they encounter helping hands and discouraging doubters, and each time they think they have reached the end of the world, it seems to move further away. The three friends maintain their spirit and determination, enjoying the journey as much as the destination before returning home again.

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Gregarious or shy, curious or placid, playful or retiring, all the animals in Traer Scott’s newest collection have one thing in common: a sparkling personality! This whimsical, soulful, and personal photo collection focuses on the lives of the farm animals we often take for granted. Scott introduces us to barnyard animals both familiar and lesser known, from cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens to Dolly the wooly llama, Bianca the Sicilian miniature donkey, Percy the Indian peafowl, and Justice the yak. Some of the animals are kept as pets; others are denizens of farm sanctuaries that Scott has visited. She shares her anecdotes about a Texas longhorn steer whose best friends are a trio of goats, a turkey who likes to snack on grapes and watermelon, and many others. Lively captions provide information on each breed, to round out this enchanting tribute to our four-legged (and winged) friends from the farm.

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Leading architects, designers, materials scientists, and health officials reflect on the influence of COVID-19 on buildings and cities—and propose solutions to safeguard the built environment from future pandemics. COVID-19 caused a significant global disruption of human activities with striking consequences for the built environment, causing an abrupt fear as it relates to architecture and building design. Buildings became magnifiers of contagion instead of shelters for protection. Immunizing the built environment against contagion is a monumental task requiring a variety of approaches and disciplinary expertise at multiple scales of inquiry. In this book, 60 of the world’s leading architects, designers, engineers, materials scientists, and public health experts contribute to an expansive overview of inoculation strategies for today’s world. These approaches are organized according to the primary sites of exposure, generally arranged by scale: surface (materials and tactile interfaces), system (mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and lighting assemblies), space (interior and exterior environments), and society (cities, regions, and the general public). This broad collection of perspectives elucidates the transformations underway in the built environment— and offers design strategies to limit the severity of subsequent pandemics. In this way, the book aims to serve both as a multidisciplinary snapshot of COVID-19’s effects and a guidebook for future-proofing architecture against widespread disease.

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A collection of 60 short essays by best-selling author and culture and design critic Akiko Busch, in her classic style of observation, that reflect on the human condition and offer the promise of calm and insight. Akiko Busch writes on the topics of culture, design, and nature. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for 20 years and has also written regular columns and essays for such publications as The New York Times, House & Garden, Architectural Record, Dwell, New York Magazine, and Travel & Leisure, among others. She offers intimate, reflective observations of the human condition in this collection of short works, touching on themes of faith, love, loss, disaster, anticipation, obscurity, and utility. These sixty short pieces explore the mystery of place, memory, and what it is about domestic life that is both settling and unsettling alike. In a world of text messages and instant information, Busch’s style of observation reminds the reader to slow down, take in, and live in the moment.

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Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga, explores the home and woodland paths imagined by Russel and Mary Wright in Hudson Valley New York; a modernist haven that allows for ambiguity, and the natural world where the spirit could flourish. In the era of TV dinners and suburban conformity, Russel and Mary Wright were individualists. The Wrights rejected rigid modernism that did not allow for ambiguity, let alone the natural world. Here we find multiple binary factors: New York City and the sublime Hudson Valley landscape, commercial mass production and handmade nuance, Japanese aesthetics and American ideals, queer attraction, and family yearnings. Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga traces a journey, beyond an exploration of space, but a way of life, the story of the creation of a haven where the spirit could flourish. Our understanding of the Wrights's architectural, design, and environmental achievements, synthesizes four archives, including the estate of the Wright family, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Russel Wright Design Center at Manitoga, and the Russel Wright Papers at Syracuse University. With a clarion voice, we examine this partnership, revealing new understandings and cultural relevance.

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Explore the artistry of Japanese tea from buds to brew in this comprehensive illustrated guide to the tea industry that includes the Japanese growers, their craft of tea making, and how the tradition of tea has had an influence on cuisine, art, design, and health. This visual exploration of one of the world’s most popular beverages tells the stories of tea and tea making in Japan: how it is grown, harvested, and dried, as well as how it is prepared and enjoyed. Through interviews with tea growers, information on health benefits from Dr. Andrew Weil, and amazing recipes from chefs David Bouley, Hirohisa, and Cesar Ramirez, you will discover all there is to know about Japanese tea. This perfect gift for tea lovers shares the stories of tea from its origins to the present, packaged in a beautiful photographic book compiled by Zach Mangan, the founder of Kettl, a New York City- and Fukuoka-based tea and teaware company.

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This ideal gift for gardeners features a photographic collection of beautiful, innovative, ecologically friendly gardens that will inspire and inform anyone with a green thumb, from backyard gardeners to accomplished landscape architects. Through eighteen distinctive projects set across urban, suburban, and rural spaces, Beyond the Garden explores how thoughtful design and awareness of local ecology can make gardens both beautiful and sustainable. Featuring interviews with designers in the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey presents the stories and lessons behind inspirational garden projects, including stormwater conservation in the high desert of New Mexico, native woodlands restoration in coastal Maine, and land stewardship in England's Hampshire county, this comprehensive survey of eco-conscious garden designs offers guiding principles to make your landscape "greener" and will spark curiosity about the natural systems just outside your front door.

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Big Data Big Design defines and explores what every designer needs to know about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), all the while inspiring designers to harness this technology and establish leadership via thoughtful, human-centered design. It’s not just about the algorithms, it’s about what we do with the data once received. Ellen lupton says, “ Important and accessible!” Readers will explore the principles and cultural context of Ai and ML, as well as gain an understanding of the design opportunities and pitfalls that arise as designers incorporate predictive algorithms into their practice. Designers will walk away from this portable, friendly book inspired by practical and theoretical knowledge that will allow them to make thoughtful decisions as this technology unfolds.

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Color has captivated artists, designers, scientists, and philosophers for centuries. From early principles of color theory to color wheels, great thinkers study and use color to explain and illustrate their ideas. Color is a sketchbook with thick, blank 140 gsm (~95 lbs.) pages and a full-color appendix with striking vintage illustrations from rare books on color theory. The textured cover features a tipped-in color wheel. Inspired and inspiring, this journal is the perfect jumping off point for creative expression.

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"A marvelous invitation to anyone with an interest in creativity, invention, and design." (Michael Bierut) This colorful, handy card deck presents fifty-two exercises and activities to jump-start your creative juices, free you from creative block, start a new project, or finish an existing one. Each exercise offers insight into the innumerable small decisions involved in design: How to establish a pattern, continue a series, how to say it without words, how to name a project, what fits, and what doesn’t? These cards benefit established practicing designers or creatives in any field with activities that are sometimes playful, sometimes challenging, but always enlightening. Each activity is estimated to take 15 minutes.

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Butterflies, with their transformation from hungry caterpillar to beautiful flying flower, are among the most fascinating animals for children. Observing butterflies and moths introduces them to a wide range of colors and patterns, to the concept of camouflage, and to a colorful habitat of flowers and other plants. Butterflies of the World introduces different types of butterflies and moths through a range of interactive activities and stickers. This activity book will keep children entertained for hours through fun activities, such as sticking on the missing wing of a comet moth or coloring in the wings of a Large Blue butterfly. In the process children learn how caterpillars turn into butterflies, what they eat, how they trick predators, and other interesting facts. A quiz at the end of the book tests their knowledge.

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Traer Scott's new collection of 35 portraits of rescue dogs and their stories, featuring full-color close-up photographs of dogs and their riveting tales of rescue and adoption. In Forever Home, featuring 35 full-color close-up portraits, we meet dogs from around the country, and learn their unique stories. Most importantly, we see how the journey to forever isn't always a straight line, and along the way, we fall in love with the adorable dogs who've traveled this arduous path. A follow up to Shelter Dogs (Merrell) and Finding Home (PAP).

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In challenging times and joyful times, connectedness keeps us grounded and makes us more thoughtful about the ways we are linked. Connected Notecards features the meditative and interconnecting patterns of California artist Serena Mitnik-Miller. The soothing pastels and mesmerizing artwork make these contemplative cards perfect for reaching out to friends and loved ones nearby and far away. The set includes ten flat cards and envelopes in a Wibalin-covered keepsake box.

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From beloved indie musician Andrew McMahon comes a searingly honest and beautifully written memoir about the challenges and triumphs of his life and career, as seen through the lens of his personal connection to three pianos. Andrew McMahon grew up in sunny Southern California as a child prodigy, learning to play piano and write songs at a very early age, stunning schoolmates and teachers alike with his gift for performing and his unique ability to emotionally connect with audiences. McMahon would go on to become the lead singer and songwriter for Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin, and to release his debut solo album, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, in 2014. But behind this seemingly optimistic and quintessentially American story of big dreams come true lies a backdrop of overwhelming challenges that McMahon has faced—from a childhood defined by his father's struggle with addiction to his very public battle with leukemia in 2005 at the age of twenty-three, as chronicled in the intensely personal documentary Dear Jack. Overcoming those odds, McMahon has found solace and hope in the things that matter most, including family, the healing power of music and the one instrument he's always turned to: his piano. Three Pianos takes readers on a beautifully rendered and bitter-sweet American journey, one filled with inspiration, heartbreak, and an unwavering commitment to shedding our past in order to create a better future.

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A sweet playful story of animal friendship and adventure that will ultimately help young readers overcome their fear of the unknown and being afraid of the dark. One evening, Barnaby and his two friends are out for a moonlight stroll in the woods where they live. Together they overcome their fear of a large moving shadow and discover it’s not a dinosaur, or a witch. It’s just a large bird with a knapsack. Confronting their fear and meeting it head on is a universal experience that every child can relate to, and the warm vibrant illustrations easily draw the reader into this sweet and simple narrative.

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Enter every reader''s dream bookstore in this fun puzzle where literary genres come to life as the pieces come together.Spot each literary reference in this 1000-piece puzzle teeming with bookish activity, but be careful not to get sucked into a mysterious void in horror or swept off your feet in romance. In the Bookstore is the perfect gift for bookworms, writers, poets, and anyone who has ever felt the thrill of stepping inside a beloved bookstore or getting lost in a great book.

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A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year Orange Is an Apricot, Green Is a Tree Frog inspires young learners' curiosity in nature and language through the simple joy of connecting words and pictures through colors. Yellow looks like a daffodil and a dahlia, a lemon and a chick. Blue looks like a dragonfly and an iris, a blue tang and a bluebird. Pascale Estellon's wonderfully detailed gouache illustrations bring the many shades of red, orange, yellow, blue, green, black, and white to life and serve as a beginner's field guide to new words and new worlds. Children will expand their vocabulary and delight in seeing words they already know while learning the names of new animals, plants, and fruits and vegetables through their hues.

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A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite drawings that buoyed the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her story is one of the many told in The Women Who Changed Architecture, which sets the record straight on the transformative impact women have made on architecture. With in-depth profiles and stunning images, this is the most comprehensive look at women in architecture around the world, from the nineteenth century to today. Discover contemporary leaders, like MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, spearheading sustainable design initiatives, reimagining cities as equitable spaces, and directing architecture schools. An essential read for architecture students, architects, and anyone interested in how buildings are created and the history behind them.

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Bumblebees, dragonflies, fireflies, ladybugs, spiders! This sturdy matchbox-style box contains twenty-five wood-backed rubber stamps in an assortment of buggy shapes and textures. A veritable kit of bug parts—heads, bodies, antennae, legs — Stamp Bugs contains everything you need to create your favorite insects or invent new ones! The combinations are infinite.

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A Walk in the Forest introduced the enormously talented Maria Dek, and When I Am Big is a beguiling follow up to her first success. Charming illustrations and text encourage young children to explore what they can do as they grow up. The adventurous child imagines “I will tie my shoes all by myself, make 3 knots with big bows”; to eat twenty pizzas in one sitting, or walk animals, eight at a time, while teaching them tricks. When I Am Big is also an unconventional counting book, as it goes all the way to twenty-five. The result is a book that nourishes a child’s curiosity, confidence, and delight in the world’s wonders.

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12 notecards (4 quotes, 3 of each) and 12 envelopes (4 designs 3 of each)

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A Walk in the Forest is a stunning invitation to discover the woods as a place for both imaginative play and contemplation: collect pinecones, feathers, or stones; follow the tracks of a deer; or listen to the chirping of birds and the whisper of trees. Build a shelter and play hide-and-seek. Pretend the woods are a jungle, or shout out loud to stir up the birds! The forest comes alive in all its mysterious glory in Maria Dek's charming watercolour images and poetic text.

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