Dover Publications

With an A that looks like an ape, an octopus in the form of an O, and other animal-shaped letters, Alphabetimals offers memorable, imaginative ways for kids to learn their ABCs. This picture dictionary features several images for each letter, adding up to more than 130 fun-to-color full-page illustrations.

One of the most unique and perceptive writers of our time. The New York Times. The author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged recounts the tale of a dystopia in which all traces of individualism have been eliminated from every aspect of life. In this brief, captivating novel, Ayn Rand anticipates the themes explored in her later masterpieces.

Easy-to-follow instructions for creating 50 different varieties of Christmas snowflakes, stars, and ornaments using DMC Crochet threads. Use them to dress up holiday packages or table centerpieces; hang them in windows, on trees, and on evergreen boughs; or frame as works of art and give them to friends and family. Photos of each completed design.

Holy Roman Emperor and King of the Germans Maximilian I was Albrecht Durer's main patron from 1512 onward. These 45 pages of marginal drawings for the ruler's prayer book, unknown till their 1808 facsimile publication, reveal the artist's lighthearted and witty side. Includes 8 additional drawings by other artists and a new Introduction.

According to Native American folklore, the dreamcatcher stops nightmares in their tracks, allowing only sweet dreams to pass through to the sleeper. This imaginative collection features 16 intricate designs, decorated with feathers, beads, and other traditional ornaments. Pages are perforated for easy removal and display — hold them up to a light source and they will glow with color. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Dreamcatchers Stained Glass Coloring Book and other Creative Haven(R) coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment.

Spain's Alhambra Castle continues to amaze with its stunning repertoire of Moorish-style embellishments. This unequalled collection by the great Victorian artist and architect Owen Jones displays 180 full-colour plates that expertly reproduce original designs from the palace's windows, ceilings, wall panels, door arches, porticos, and more. This special printing includes gold as a fifth colour to closely simulate the original designs.

knowledge of perspective is invaluable to any painter working in a realistic style. Systems of perspective can be applied by mechanical techniques or by freehand. Since the best approach for the beginner is to learn basic mechanical drawing methods, the reader is shown how to work out these systems with drafting tools. Once these are understood, they can be applied to freehand work, so that the artist has a great deal of control when representing objects in space. The book demonstrates the essentials of perspective drawing through the use of colour sketches and overlays, accompanied by finished paintings. This system is then applied to actual in-the-field painting situations that cover a broad range of subjects: landscape, still life, interiors, figures, and portraits. Authors Howard Etter and Margit Malmstrom, both working artists, present this often intimidating subject in a non-threatening manner especially geared to the beginning or intermediate artist. Howard Etter is a painter, architectural delineator, and design consultant. He has had extensive experience teaching perspective for both architects and artists. Margit Malmstrom is the author of three Watson-Guptill titles on clay sculpture.

It provides a classic, textbook glimpse into the stages of adolescent girlhood, even though it is nearly a century old.

An affordable compilation of more than a dozen of the best American short stories features tales by Hawthorne, Twain, James, Cheever, Wharton, and Cather. Contents include The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Stephen Crane's The Open Boat, and A Worn Path by Eudora Welty.

Engraved in the 19th century, these flamboyant ornamental designs are based on a wide variety of historical examples, dating back as far as the 1500s and including images by Watteau and Durer. Created as embellishments for walls, arms and armor, and everyday objects, these designs remain eminently useful for graphic and decorative purposes.

More than 40 hip and humorous iron-on transfers in the popular steampunk mode offer a distinctive way for the fashion-conscious to decorate their clothes and possessions. Suitable for embellishing jackets, corsets, handbags, pillows, and other fabric items, the transfers feature stylized robots, blimps, clock faces, and a host of other mash-up motifs.

This affordable edition reprints in its entirety one of Charles Dana Gibson's best collections of iconic drawings as published in their original form over a century ago. Not only are there dozens of gorgeous Gibson Girls on display, this volume includes the artist's The Weaker Sex series, featuring a bachelor enraptured by these free-spirited beauties.

Edited and with an Introduction by an expert on Golden Age illustrators, this anthology is the first full-scale treatment of Robinson's early output. More than 100 Art Nouveau-inspired illustrations feature images from fairy tales, children's literature, and the works of Shakespeare, Kipling, and Poe, many in full glorious color.

Eleven stories include F. Scott Fitzgerald's «Bernice Bobs Her Hair,» Guy de Maupassant's «The Necklace,» Edgar Allan Poe's «The Black Cat,» Chekhov's «The Lady with the Toy Dog,» and O. Henry's «The Furnished Room,» in addition to works by Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather.

These richly atmospheric tales from Victorian London trace the continuing adventures of an ever-popular sleuth: «A Scandal in Bohemia,» «The Red-headed League,» «The Adventure of the Speckled Band,» «The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb,» «The Final Problem,» «The Adventure of the Empty House,» «The Musgrave Ritual,» more. Large print edition.

Ranging from fairy tales to detective yarns, this collection showcases Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and stylistic versatility. Contents include the complete texts of «The Happy Prince and Other Tales,» «A House of Pomegranates,» «Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories,» «Poems in Prose,» and «The Portrait of Mr. W. H.»

Newell Convers Wyeth created more than 3,000 illustrations in the course of his career. This original full-color collection focuses on his early and most popular illustrations, featuring more than 100 iconic images from The Mysterious Stranger, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Rip Van Winkle, The Boy's King Arthur, and other classics.

More than 700 basic words, phrases, and sentences cover everything from asking directions to ordering dinner. This new edition of Dover's inexpensive quick reference and study guide is completely up to date, featuring contemporary terms for telecommunications, idioms, and slang. Contents are arranged for swift access to common situations, and a phonetic pronunciation guide accompanies each phrase.

From an alligator artist painting an apple to a zany zebra balancing a zucchini, 26 cleverly rendered full-page illustrations — depicting letters of the alphabet and appropriate ready-to-color illustrations — teach the ABCs and simple reading skills in large-format pictures and print.

Learning while having fun is as easy as ABC with 23 activity-packed puzzles. Children can focus on practicing alphabet expertise with eye-catching illustrations that feature oodles of objects beginning with each letter of the alphabet. The pages are great for coloring, too!

Twenty-nine large, easy-to-color pictures invite youngsters to accompany a young family on an entertaining outing. In addition to viewing bison, a tiger, a male and female lion with their cub, a mother giraffe and her baby, and a giant turtle, they'll discover how the staff feeds the seals and other animals.

Housed in an attractive slipcase, this inexpensive collection of American classics presents five perennial bestsellers from the Dover Thrift Editions series: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Jack London's The Call of the Wild, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, and Willa Cather's My Antonia.

This informative activity book contains 28 delightful coded riddle, find the word, follow the dots, and other fun coloring puzzles. Each one will help children learn how to read and spell as they enjoy coloring and solving problems.

Forty-five charming, ready-to-color illustrations include airplanes, elephants, candy canes, elves, pigs dancing jigs, a kitten blowing bubbles, and more. Each one teaches a basic numbers lesson: counting from 1 to 20, number recognition, and elementary addition and subtraction. Plus, simple rhymes help children remember each fun lesson.