Sterling Publishing

House Beautiful Fabrics for Your Home provides the perfect mix of practical information and inspiration for the home decorator. This conveniently portable primer will help novice and expert alike select and match the ideal fabrics for every room. Featuring advice from more than 60 top designers, plus actual swatches, it allows readers to pick the fabrics that will add personality to their home.

This richly illustrated authorised retrospective celebrates the life and films of Clint Eastwood. Written by renowned Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel and with an introduction by the legend himself, this stunning volume presents a chronological look at Eastwood's astonishing body of work along with movie stills from memorable screen performances and revealing behind-the-scenes photographs.

This is a beautiful book packed with ideas for an extra special Christmas. Projects of this title cover everything seasonal, including decorating, baking and wrapping. Many projects take only moments to complete, while others need a little more time and attention. Have a Christmas to remember with these fabulous suggestions for decorating, baking, wrapping and all things holiday! Brimming with beautiful colour photographs, «Victoria 500 Christmas Ideas» provides the inspiration and instruction needed to surround the family with the beauty of the season. Create a winter wonderland at the front of the house or an intimate table setting that sparkles. Bake delicious cookies good enough to leave for Santa himself. Load the Christmas tree with lovely decorations and uniquely wrapped gift boxes and display a handmade wreath on the door to welcome guests. Many projects take only moments to complete, while others need a little more time and attention. Either way, «Victoria» will bring the best of Christmas to any home. «Victoria» magazine has a bimonthly readership of one million; it offers readers a respite from the chaos of everyday life. The magazine's coverage is dedicated to living beautifully when entertaining, cooking, and decorating.

Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written? «No Fear: The Canterbury Tales» makes it simple for students to love Chaucer's masterpiece in all its humor, bawdiness, and poignancy. It features the original text on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right; in addition, there is a complete list of characters with descriptions and plenty of helpful commentary. (Sales Points) — Part of a very successful series — The Canterbury Tales is a classic of literature, but the middle English makes it difficult to read; this helps students understand every nuance.

This is a beloved tale that will make the perfect present! Unabridged Classics are aimed at ages 10 years upwards with more than 330,000 copies sold! This is the unabridged story with insightful questions for discussion, fantastic artwork, a ribbon marker and high-quality paper. Beloved in Christmases past and sure to remain a favourite in Christmases of the future, Dickens' popular holiday tale is the perfect Christmas present. The uplifting tale follows the mysterious and magical events that transform the miserly, miserable Ebenezer Scrooge into 'as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man' as ever lived.

Welcome to the building site. We're very glad you're here. Everything's a mess and we need you, our engineer! That's the signal for kids to grab their stickers and do a little construction work: bringing in the dump trucks, drilling the holes and moving building materials around the construction site. Because the stickers are reusable, after everything's built, children can begin all over again!

Irish storytellers called seanachies pass stories down to the next generation just as their ancestors have done for hundreds of years. In the King with Horses' Ears and Other Irish Folktales, we learn the risk of keeping a secret, the power of a mother's love and the importance of laughing at yourself. From a mystical place where nobody grows old, to the Lost Island of Lonesome Seals, these special tales will transport readers to a land where the fantastic is entirely possible. It is a great edition to the growing Folktales of the World series!

Offers an insider's look at 80 years of music and culture in Laurel Canyon. This work features numerous interviews with stars, such as Slash. It traces the history of the community and its enduring legacy.

Softly realistic, period-style watercolors effectively highlight the mood of each selection... vocabulary or context notes on just about every page, and the book opens with a brief but illuminating biography.

The stupendously successful I'm Going to Read! series has already attracted a new generation of readers with wonderful stories and appealing art. And now an exciting new addition — I'm Going to Read! Workbooks — offers parents and children another great way to enjoy interactive, educational playtime together. Sound it out with Long Vowels: vowels are the building blocks of literacy, the key to reading, writing, and spelling. With a bright and vibrant design so that it will never be confused with homework, this workbook will ease kids into reading well.

The stupendously successful I'm Going to Read! series has already attracted a new generation of readers with wonderful stories and appealing art. And now an exciting new addition — I'm Going to Write! Workbooks — offers parents and children another great way to enjoy interactive, educational playtime together. Picking up a pencil and writing legibly requires good motor skills — and that's what this workbook helps build. It focuses on the coordination necessary to write properly by giving children words and letters to copy, as well as helpful information on how to form each letter.

The stupendously successful I'm Going to Read! series has already attracted a new generation of readers with wonderful stories and appealing art. And now an exciting new addition — I'm Going to Read! Workbooks — offers parents and children another great way to enjoy interactive, educational playtime together. Nothing delights kids more than a good rhyme. It's fun to say aloud, has an appealing rhythm, and stays in the mind more easily than simple sentences. Rhyming Words gives children a delightful introduction to letter sounds and pronunciation.

The stupendously successful I'm Going to Read! series has already attracted a new generation of readers with wonderful stories and appealing art. And now an exciting new addition — I'm Going to Read! Workbooks — offers parents and children another great way to enjoy interactive, educational playtime together. These are the words children have to know by sight — the words that they should be able to read without sounding them out first.

The stupendously successful I'm Going to Read! series has already attracted a new generation of readers with wonderful stories and appealing art. And now an exciting new addition — I'm Going to Write! Workbooks — offers parents and children another great way to enjoy interactive, educational playtime together. Learning to write your letters requires a lot of effort, and good motor skills. Children will enjoy the process with this fun workbook, designed to supplement their school curricula and make learning their uppercase letters that much simpler.

The stupendously successful I'm Going to Read! series has already attracted a new generation of readers with wonderful stories and appealing art. And now an exciting new addition — I'm Going to Read! Workbooks — offers parents and children another great way to enjoy interactive, educational playtime together. This workbook on short vowels will have kids sounding out their letters well, and learning a great deal along the way. And with it's appealing design and bright colours, they'll never think they're doing homework!

The Invisible Man mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibility — a secret that drives him mad. Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume offers two of Wells’s best-loved and most critically acclaimed “scientific romances”. In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a “ripping yarn”, but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. “The strength of Mr. Wells”, wrote Arnold Bennett, “lies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humour the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemist’s apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects”.

Jules Verne — and his one-of-a-kind hero, Phileas Fogg — take children on an action-packed, whirlwind race around the world. For as long as anyone can remember, Fogg's daily ritual has never varied by even a minute. Then, on a whim and a bet, he sets out to prove that he can span the globe and return to his club in London in only 80 days. Suddenly, his life is turned upside down, and every day offers an exciting new adventure. Kids will love it.

The art of glass bead-making has exploded in popularity during the past decade — and these awe-inspiring examples, exquisitely fashioned by 40 of the world's top creators, reveal why. Explore Bruce St. John Maher's fused and faceted landscape beads, the vitreous painted surface of Bronwen Heilman's glass and Kate Fowle Meleny's luminous electroformed glass beads that seem almost like sculptures. In this classic series, every artist receives a lavish eight-page feature with approximately a dozen high-quality images of his or her most impressive work, along with a biography and personal commentary, providing insight into the motivations and inspiration behind each piece.

Thanks to its colorful cast of characters and gritty portrayal of street life in Victorian London, Dickens' Oliver Twist has captured readers' hearts for more than 150 years. Today's children will love it too. Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets led by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his purity... and through his goodness, he finds salvation.

All children except one grow up. In 1904, Peter Pan first flew across a London stage and into the bedroom of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling. Ever since, this perpetual youth has continued to delight children of all ages. Young readers will happily soar with him and his friends to enchanted Neverland, where they'll meet Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys, and the dark and sinister Captain Hook. It's a tale as ageless as its beloved hero.

If you think that poetry has to be sweet and romantic, or at least serene, think again. Step into the dark world of Edgar Allan Poe. Well known for his spine-tingling, spooky stories that are even more chilling than today's horror films, Poe also wrote poems that expressed the shadowy regions of his mind. More than 20 of his poems and selections from his stories are accompanied by mood-setting, full-colour drawings and notes that make his work easier to understand.

There's a particularly funtastic extra for parents and grandparents who grew up with this story — and their children too: two big pictures of Arthur Pig from the front and the back that show where he can find his nose, eyes, neck, waist, and curlytail Toddlers love to learn about themselves, and this celebrates the wonderful people they are and all the things they can do — from running and jumping to brushing their teeth.

An insightful glimpse into Robert Louis Stevenson's life and how it influenced his poems... illustrations convey the poetic notion of a romantic childhood memory. Muted colors are a peaceful accompaniment to the poems. School Library Journal These poems... are colorfully illustrated and notable for their detailed brushstrokes.

He was the greatest poet and playwright who ever lived, the dramatist who penned lines that we quote without even realising their origin. Shakespeare's glorious works have even inspired animated films — like Disney's The Lion King. Introduce children to the Bard with this wonderful, fully annotated collection of sonnets and soliloquies, enhanced with beautiful, highly realistic colour paintings that bring each excerpt to vivid life. Here are Shakespeare's most famous speeches: including everything from Hamlets — 'To be or not to be' — and Macbeth's witches cackling 'Double, double, toil and trouble' to the sonnets, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? and humourous songs sung in comedies such as Twelfth Night. Every entry is a revelation.