Author: Josh Chetwynd
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 076117690X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Nice is the secret ingredient to a better life. It makes us happy. It may even be what makes us civilized—when we say thank you, shake hands, send flowers, we’re doing the nice things that bring people together. ?A compulsive and chunky book for lovers of trivia, popular history, customs, and culture—and a perfect gift to say “you’re nice”—The Book of Nice is an entertaining, quirky compendium of those signs, traditions, and expressions that we so often take for granted, yet turn out to be quite fascinating. It’s about why we cover a yawn (originally to prevent evil spirits from entering our bodies, now to hide the impression that something’s boring us). About holiday traditions—it’s thanks to Guy Lombardo’s December 31 broadcast in 1929 that we now sing “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve. About customary offerings—the wedding cake evolved out of the Roman use of wheat as a symbol of fertility (and it’s much tastier than bits of grain). And about those simple yet essential niceties—how Thomas Edison championed an obscure term, “hello” (if Alexander Graham Bell had gotten his way, we’d all be saying “ahoy”). Why not put a little nice in your day?
The Tiny Book of Tiny Pleasures
Author: Irene Smit
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523502142
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A perfect gift book filled with whimsical, colorful illustrations, short lists, cheerful prompts, recipes, and fun facts, The Tiny Book of Tiny Pleasures is the sweetest reminder imaginable that it’s the little things in life that make us happy. Little things like sharing tea with a friend. An ice cream cone with sprinkles. Finding a forgotten item of clothing in the closet. The smell in the air right after a summer rain. Created by the editors of Flow magazine, The Tiny Book of Tiny Pleasures is a celebration of slowing down and appreciating the simple moments of life—all you have to do is take notice.
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523502142
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A perfect gift book filled with whimsical, colorful illustrations, short lists, cheerful prompts, recipes, and fun facts, The Tiny Book of Tiny Pleasures is the sweetest reminder imaginable that it’s the little things in life that make us happy. Little things like sharing tea with a friend. An ice cream cone with sprinkles. Finding a forgotten item of clothing in the closet. The smell in the air right after a summer rain. Created by the editors of Flow magazine, The Tiny Book of Tiny Pleasures is a celebration of slowing down and appreciating the simple moments of life—all you have to do is take notice.
Flora, Fauna, Botanicals, and Bees Sticker, Color & Activity Book
Author: Editors of Chartwell Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 0785845445
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Celebrate the diversity of life on earth with 500+ stickers, 50+ activity and coloring pages, and instructions for candle making, drying bouquets, and so much more! With Flora, Fauna, Botanicals, and Bees Sticker, Color & Activity Book, you can take a closer look at the things that are living all around you--that's more than 2 million non-plant species (fauna) and nearly 400,000 plants (flora). These numbers merely scratch the surface. Estimates vary, but that figure could actually be millions--if not billions--of lifeforms on the planet that have yet to be identified. With better equipment to help explore the deepest ocean trenches, the densest jungles, and the most remote arctic regions, we're able to find more organisms than ever before reported. But let's not forget about Charles Darwin. His theory of natural selection put forth the idea that all life today came from a few simple organisms that evolved over millennia, weeding out the weak, and promoting the best and strongest traits that helped them adapt to the changing environment. So it's only natural that we've not only found more species, but there are more species to find. Now you can get into the spirit of scientific discovery and partake in some less-scientifically rigorous activities. Relax, explore your creativity, and add fun to your free time with: Exquisitely illustrated stickers: Use them to decorate envelopes, gift wrap, letters, scrapbooks, photo albums, or the floral-infused syrups and vinegars that you can make with instructions in the book. On the backs of the sticker pages are inspiring quotes from naturalists and authors. Enchanting coloring pages, featuring line-drawn images of all kinds of flora, fauna, botanicals, and bees. Each full-page design has a meditative pattern on the back that you can color in any way you like, regardless of your artistic abilities. You could even adorn your finished works of art with the stickers. Word games and activities, such as mazes, connect-the-dots, trivia, matching, scientific name generator, and more! With beautiful foil accents on the cover, so many pages to look at, so many things to do, and so much enjoyment to be had in these pages, Flora, Fauna, Botanicals, and Bees Sticker, Color & Activity Book is the perfect book to have on hand when a free moment strikes. It's also a delightful gift for anyone who enjoys stickers, coloring, word games, and a whole lot of nature fun.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0785845445
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Celebrate the diversity of life on earth with 500+ stickers, 50+ activity and coloring pages, and instructions for candle making, drying bouquets, and so much more! With Flora, Fauna, Botanicals, and Bees Sticker, Color & Activity Book, you can take a closer look at the things that are living all around you--that's more than 2 million non-plant species (fauna) and nearly 400,000 plants (flora). These numbers merely scratch the surface. Estimates vary, but that figure could actually be millions--if not billions--of lifeforms on the planet that have yet to be identified. With better equipment to help explore the deepest ocean trenches, the densest jungles, and the most remote arctic regions, we're able to find more organisms than ever before reported. But let's not forget about Charles Darwin. His theory of natural selection put forth the idea that all life today came from a few simple organisms that evolved over millennia, weeding out the weak, and promoting the best and strongest traits that helped them adapt to the changing environment. So it's only natural that we've not only found more species, but there are more species to find. Now you can get into the spirit of scientific discovery and partake in some less-scientifically rigorous activities. Relax, explore your creativity, and add fun to your free time with: Exquisitely illustrated stickers: Use them to decorate envelopes, gift wrap, letters, scrapbooks, photo albums, or the floral-infused syrups and vinegars that you can make with instructions in the book. On the backs of the sticker pages are inspiring quotes from naturalists and authors. Enchanting coloring pages, featuring line-drawn images of all kinds of flora, fauna, botanicals, and bees. Each full-page design has a meditative pattern on the back that you can color in any way you like, regardless of your artistic abilities. You could even adorn your finished works of art with the stickers. Word games and activities, such as mazes, connect-the-dots, trivia, matching, scientific name generator, and more! With beautiful foil accents on the cover, so many pages to look at, so many things to do, and so much enjoyment to be had in these pages, Flora, Fauna, Botanicals, and Bees Sticker, Color & Activity Book is the perfect book to have on hand when a free moment strikes. It's also a delightful gift for anyone who enjoys stickers, coloring, word games, and a whole lot of nature fun.
The Peace of Wild Things
Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141987138
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
If you stop and look around you, you'll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup. On the hills, the beginnings of green, clover and grass to be pasture. The fowls singing and then settling for the night. Bright, silent, thousands of stars. You come into the peace of simple things. From the author of the 'compelling' and 'luminous' essays of The World-Ending Fire comes a slim volume of poems. Tender and intimate, these are consoling songs of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging. They celebrate and elevate what is sensuous about life, and invite us to pause and appreciate what is good in life, to stop and savour our fleeting moments of earthly enjoyment. And, when fear for the future keeps us awake at night, to come into the peace of wild things.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141987138
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
If you stop and look around you, you'll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup. On the hills, the beginnings of green, clover and grass to be pasture. The fowls singing and then settling for the night. Bright, silent, thousands of stars. You come into the peace of simple things. From the author of the 'compelling' and 'luminous' essays of The World-Ending Fire comes a slim volume of poems. Tender and intimate, these are consoling songs of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging. They celebrate and elevate what is sensuous about life, and invite us to pause and appreciate what is good in life, to stop and savour our fleeting moments of earthly enjoyment. And, when fear for the future keeps us awake at night, to come into the peace of wild things.
The Kids' Book of Sticker Love
Author: Irene Smit
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781523512997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Kids’ Book of Sticker Love is packed with tons of creative ideas and crafty projects for kids to make with their hands, paper goodies to create and decorate, and stickers of all stripes: vinyl stickers, glow-in-the-dark stickers, glitter and metallic stickers, photo corners, alphabet stickers, and more. Put it all together and you’ve got hours and hours of screen-free fun. Organized in four sections, there’s stuff to Craft—like a set of origami finger puppets with animal eyes, ears, whisker and nose stickers, or a geometric necklace to make out of colorful dot stickers and paper cutouts. There’s a Write section—use colorful alphabet stickers to compose a note; record your favorite things in seasonal DIY notebooks. Next is a Play section—have fun with projects like sticker-based tangrams. And a Share section—decorate your bedroom ceiling with classic glow-in-the-dark star and constellation stickers, or cut and fold tiny patterned paper gift bags and seal them with a matching sticker. No matter the activity, the emphasis is on the doing—and finding the pleasure and value that comes with the creative process.
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781523512997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Kids’ Book of Sticker Love is packed with tons of creative ideas and crafty projects for kids to make with their hands, paper goodies to create and decorate, and stickers of all stripes: vinyl stickers, glow-in-the-dark stickers, glitter and metallic stickers, photo corners, alphabet stickers, and more. Put it all together and you’ve got hours and hours of screen-free fun. Organized in four sections, there’s stuff to Craft—like a set of origami finger puppets with animal eyes, ears, whisker and nose stickers, or a geometric necklace to make out of colorful dot stickers and paper cutouts. There’s a Write section—use colorful alphabet stickers to compose a note; record your favorite things in seasonal DIY notebooks. Next is a Play section—have fun with projects like sticker-based tangrams. And a Share section—decorate your bedroom ceiling with classic glow-in-the-dark star and constellation stickers, or cut and fold tiny patterned paper gift bags and seal them with a matching sticker. No matter the activity, the emphasis is on the doing—and finding the pleasure and value that comes with the creative process.
First Sticker Book Nature
Author: Brooks Felicity
Publisher: First Sticker Books
ISBN: 9781409597476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Find out about all the animals and plants in diverse habitats around the world. Discover the amazing animals and plants that live in gardens, forests, jungles, oceans and wild places in this engaging sticker book. There are over 180 stickers of animals, plants and bugs to add to the scenes, from caribou in the Arctic to clownfish in a coral reef. Ideal for learning about the natural world and for developing manual dexterity.
Publisher: First Sticker Books
ISBN: 9781409597476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Find out about all the animals and plants in diverse habitats around the world. Discover the amazing animals and plants that live in gardens, forests, jungles, oceans and wild places in this engaging sticker book. There are over 180 stickers of animals, plants and bugs to add to the scenes, from caribou in the Arctic to clownfish in a coral reef. Ideal for learning about the natural world and for developing manual dexterity.
Pompeii Sticker Book
Author: Struan Reid
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781409556336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The speed with which Pompeii was enveloped by volcanic lava has left us an extraordinary and unique record of daily life in a Roman town. This information sticker book tells the story of that fateful day and its legacy, through photographs of mosaics, paintings and statues that were amazingly preserved and discovered in the ashes.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781409556336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The speed with which Pompeii was enveloped by volcanic lava has left us an extraordinary and unique record of daily life in a Roman town. This information sticker book tells the story of that fateful day and its legacy, through photographs of mosaics, paintings and statues that were amazingly preserved and discovered in the ashes.
Titanic Sticker Book
Author: Megan Cullis
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781409539513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A century after the Titanic's maiden voyage, this book relives many aspects of the ship's famous story, from construction to it's tragic end. Illustrated with fascinating photograph's, children will enjoy finding and matching the stickers of the Titanic to correct place on the page.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781409539513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A century after the Titanic's maiden voyage, this book relives many aspects of the ship's famous story, from construction to it's tragic end. Illustrated with fascinating photograph's, children will enjoy finding and matching the stickers of the Titanic to correct place on the page.