Daedalus Books

This lift-the-flap book is an ideal way to introduce little ones to one of the most magical holidays of the year. Yuletide action is hidden under darling Christmas present flaps.

Superhero fruits and vegetables are the stars in Deborah Zemke's latest doodle fest. With with oodles of step-by-step super doodles, kids of all ages can turn mild-mannered fruits and vegetables into super-charged super foods. One small tomato transforms into «The Tomatonator,» big, bold, and delicious; an onion becomes an «Allium Alien»; an ear of corn becomes «Colonel Kernels.» An appetizing addition to Zemke's wildly successful Doodles series, this instructive and playful book adds an entertaining element of action and informational messages about making nutritious choices.

Each page features inspiring designs to copy — from aliens and robots to dragons and monsters — as well as space for children to draw their own doodles. The book features a friendly Doodle Bug, to help guide children through the pages, as well as handy introduction pages to teach children about letters and numbers. The reader will also learn about shape, scale, shading and 3D, to help them to bring their doodles to life.

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.

Bob Barner's colorful collage illustrations; a bouncy, fun-to-read-aloud text; and bonus information about each breed make this book a playful introduction to man's (and kid's) best friend. SALES HANDLE: Brings this lively, energetic story to a new audience of babies and toddlers with bright, friendly colors and simple, rhyming text. HOW WILL THIS TITLE BE DISTINCTIVE: A unique combination of simple, bouncy text, followed by fun facts about dog breeds, as well as an original approach to an alphabet book. SPEAK TO THE EXISTING TREND/DEFINE CONSUMER: Lap-size board books are gaining popularity, particularly in large trade accounts like Barnes'n Noble. QUANTIFY VALUE: We have experienced price resistence for Bob Barner's hardcover editions — the lap-size board book format and lower price point creates an opportunity for his books to gain traction in the trade market. NOTABLE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS TO PROJECT: Bob Barner is an eager self-promoter and has a great platform in the educational market. This book will keep him in the minds of consumers in between picture books (a new picture book is in the works for spring 11!). RELEVANT SALES COMPARISONS OR SALES INFO: Many of Bob Barner's backlist titles continue to sell steadily. His books have sold a gross total of more than 300,000 copies!

Titles in Barron's brand-new series of Art Portfolios each present 24 stunning reproductions of memorable works from the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Enlightening descriptive texts supplement these large reproductions, each of which is true to its original artwork. Pictures are printed on heavy matte-coated paper and are easily removable from its portfolio, which makes them suitable for framing. The skyscrapers of New York's financial district, the Flatiron Building, the bridges of Manhattan, and many other New York City landmarks are captured in 24 memorable black-and-white photographs from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's vast photography collection.

Join Jeanne Willis in the funniest talent show ever. In a fabulous rhyming text, meet bears with baggy bottoms, pigs with perky pinky ones and peacocks who love to put theirs on display. Perfect for reading aloud and guaranteed to cause fits of giggles, one thing's for sure — whoever is the winner, bottoms are top! This title is from the dynamic duo behind Bottoms Up!

Ted Hughes was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Now, over ten years after his death, Thames & Hudson is publishing a children's poem by him that had been lost for over fifty years. Written in the mid-1950s to accompany his friend Jim Downer's story about Timmy the Tug, the poem recounts Timmy's escape from his moorings and subsequent adventures on the high seas. Downer's illustrations are a charming focus to this enchanting tale that, besides appealing to children everywhere, is set to be one of the biggest literary events of the year.

It's Halloween. The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner! When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater the panda has one more special surprise in store for them. A mysterious visitor is about to tell them a spine-tingling story — one that will fill each and every reader with wonder.

Illustrated in full color. Little Critter appears as Jack in this simple retelling of the story of the boy who swaps his cow for a bag of magic beans.

The best-selling Anatomica, now completely revised and updated, is a complete medical reference for the home. Organised thematically, the main part of the book covers major body locations, systems, health issues, and diagnostic techniques, from the head, neck, and skin, to infectious diseases and behavioural disorders. Detailed explanations written by a team of medical experts cover the role and function of each body part, while more than 1,000 full-colour illustrations reveal their structure and complex inter relationships. An extensive reference section provides important first-aid advice for the home, and a fully cross-referenced index makes it easy to locate specific information. You can discover the most complex biological mechanism in the world — you. It is an authoritative illustrated guide to the body. All bodily workings are clearly explained by an international team of medical experts, illustrators, researchers, and editors. It features intricate and highly accurate illustrations.

Life America tells the story of the country's extraordinary history in pictures, often contrasting the past and present — the then and now. Before there were the buildings, there was the land — and in the first section Life's editors travel the country exploring what was there before the coming of man. From the heights of Denali to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the Virginia coast when it was the exclusive domain of Native Americans to the cave dwellings of the mysteriously lost Anasazi civilization in the western deserts, the land as it once was is re-imagined. And then the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the rise of the great cities, the issues — women's rights, urban unrest, civil rights, child labor, the Great Depression — all are chronicled in the iconic photography of Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, and Life's own Margaret Bourke White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gordon Parks, and others. The magazine was there to chronicle much of America's visual history — this book will highlight its storied archives, one of the world's richest resources of great photography.

The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful of dirty money and dirtier politics. For nearly half a century, John le CarrA(c)'s limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter fruits of colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy novel again and again. Now, le CarrA(c) makes his Viking debut with a stunning tour-de-force that only a craftsman of his caliber could pen. As menacing and flawlessly paced as The Little Drummer Girl and as morally complex as The Constant Gardener, Our Kind of Traitor is signature le CarrA(c). Perry and Gail are idealistic and very much in love when they splurge on a tennis vacation at a posh beach resort in Antigua. But the charm begins to pall when a big-time Russian money launderer enlists their help to defect. In exchange for amnesty, Dima is ready to rat out his vory (Russian criminal brotherhood) compatriots and expose corruption throughout the so-called legitimate financial and political worlds. Soon, the guileless couple find themselves pawns in a deadly endgame whose outcome will be determined by the victor of the British Secret Service's ruthless internecine battles.

Hardcover book with dust jacket by Thomas J. Craughwell. This edition published by Tess Press and imprint of Black Dog &Leventhal Publishers Inc., it has 512 pages very well illustrated.

Slam is a hilarious coming-of-age novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby 'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.' Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam; his Mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia. Then a little accident happens. One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (let alone skate) away from this one. He's a boy facing a man's problems and the question is — has he got what it takes to confront them? Slam, from the acclaimed author of About a Boy and High Fidelity is a teenage novel about a boy who has to grow up in big, big hurry. It is The Catcher in the Rye for the 21st century. 'Very funny...very real' Daily Telegraph 'Hornby gets his point across with the subtlety and skill of a born novelist who always deserves to be read' Independent 'A moving read for anyone' Elle Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed adult novels About a Boy, A Long Way Down, Juliet, Naked, How to be Good and High Fidelity. His three works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree are also available from Penguin.

Through quiet meadows, rolling hills, leafy suburbia, industrial sites, and a changing London riverside, Mick Sinclair tracks the Thames from source to sea, documenting internationally-known landmarks such as Tower Bridge and Windsor Castle and revealing lesser known features such as Godstow Abbey, Canvey Island, the Sanford Lasher, and George Orwell's tranquil grave.

Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more sleuth-solving adventure in this hilarious second novel from The Mobile Library series. The second in the The Mobile Library detective series, Mr Dixon Disappears once again features the magnificently hapless Israel Armstrong — the young, Jewish, duffle-coat wearing librarian who solves crimes, mysteries, and domestic problems all whilst driving a mobile library around the coast of Northern Ireland. Dixon and Pickering's, County Antrim's legendary department store, is preparing to celebrate its centenary. But the elderly Mr Dixon — a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians — has gone missing, along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash. It smells, pretty badly, of a kidnap. Israel becomes a suspect in the police investigation and is suspended from his job by his boss, the ever-fearsome Linda Wei. He's having to fight to clear his name. Does Israel's acclaimed five-panel touring exhibition showing the history of Dixon and Pickering's in old photographs and artefacts perhaps hold the key to Mr Dixon's mysterious disappearance? Will romance blossom between Israel and Rosie Hart, the barmaid at the First and Last? Will Linda Wei stick to her diet? And has nobody here heard of Franz Kafka? All will be revealed in this hilarious and endlessly inventive sequel to The Case of the Missing Books.

Marking the band's 40th anniversary, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore, the surviving members of The Doors--one of the most influential rock bands of all time — invite fans inside their world.

Burroughs' classic, surreal reworking of the myth of the Old West. William Burroughs' surreal fable set in America's Old West features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of smalltown America. With a narrative of fantastical proportions and a rich, dry, growling humour, 'The Place of Dead Roads' continues Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces — the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs — with a style utterly unique in 20th century literature.

An 1890 manual of pasttimes which includes instructions for making kites, fishing poles, a blow gun, boats, and theatrical costumes, and for raising dogs, stuffing animals, stocking an aquarium, and camping.

The author of The Good German returns with his most accomplished novel yet — a tale of Hollywood glamour, post-war espionage, and family secrets.

Designed to provide a detailed exploration into the exceptional array of art and architecture in the beautiful city of Florence, this captivating volume will surely enthral anyone interested in the city's buildings, paintings, sculptures and history. This is an extremely comprehensive guide covering all major places of interest, with numerous essays on history and culture. Over 600 full-colour illustrations including detailed town plans help bring this fascinating city to life at the turn of a page.

Explore the geological earth — mountains and oceans, valleys and volcanoes, islands and caves — and the creatures who live in its many environments, including us, in this vividly illustrated tour of our home in space. Like the other titles in Dorling Kindersley's Eyewonder series for readers 9 to 12, it explores the natural world in dramatic color photographs — many two-page spreads feature one large photo across both pages with several smaller images, each with its own description.

Gothic art originated around 1140 in the Ile-de-France. Initially confined to the cathedrals and the most important abbeys of this region, it was soon regarded as a model for the rest of France and finally for Europe as a whole. This splendidly appointed volume, with nearly 800 color illustrations, describes the development of the Gothic aesthetic in all its diversity, from minutely detailed paintings to the magnificent cathedral of Notre-Dame at Reims. The book traces Gothic architecture from its initial flourishing, while individual essays then follow the formal development of Gothic architecture in England, in the Germanic countries, and in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the rest of northern and eastern Europe. The text also describes late Gothic architecture in France and the Netherlands, with contributions on stained glass and gold work, and individual studies devoted to such themes as the Cathar heresy, the Papal Palace in Avignon, urban development, and technical knowledge.