Sterling Publishing

This updated edition of House Beautiful 's classic The Apartment Book features a fully revised interior design and new photos but retains its focus on making your first apartment a showpiece of style. Arranged room-by-room, the book surveys a wide array of decorating techniques, showing professionally decorated rooms and real-life examples of before-and-after projects. Informative sidebars provide the how-to for storage, lighting, painting, entertaining, hanging art, and more. Available in hardcover for the first time, The Apartment Book will inspire you to make your living space personal, upscale, functional, and beautiful!

Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works.

Elves make magic for a poor shoemaker and his wife in this much-loved tale originally told by the Brothers Grimm.

When a brother and sister lost in the woods come upon a tempting gingerbread house, they can't resist entering. Little do they realize that inside lives a witch... and she thinks they'd make a delicious dinner!

In this charming fairy tale originally written by Charles Perrault, a clever, fast-talking cat changes the life of its penniless master, helping him win both a princess bride and a kingdom.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair. When a beautiful girl imprisoned by an enchantress meets a handsome prince, her long hair is the only means of escape... if she can fool the witch.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall: Who is the fairest of them all? When the mirror answers Snow White, the beautiful princess's stepmother plans to kill her. The girl escapes and finds a new home with seven friendly dwarfs. But will the Wicked Queen discover Snow White is still alive and succeed with her evil plan?

One little piggy builds a house of straw. The second makes a house of sticks. But the third and smartest pig constructs his of bricks. Will the big, bad wolf be able to blow it down? Not by the hair of his chinny-chin-chin!

An unloved ducking grows up to become a beautiful swan in Hans Christian Andersen's timeless tale, which has inspired readers for more than 150 years.

Fee, fi, fo, fum... When Jack plants a packet of seeds, they grow into an enormous beanstalk. Soon he's off on a magical, dangerous adventure. Children love this story of a clever boy who manages to outwit a big, strong giant and claim a golden goose.

A resource that looks at the sophisticated beauty of calligraphy from around the world. It features 55 living scripts, with visual examples and an overview of origins, traditions and unique characteristics. Each script includes an overview of its origins, traditions and unique characteristics.

Learning to hold a pencil, write letters, and spell simple three-letter words is as easy as ABC — when preschoolers follow the enjoyable exercises in this workbook, charmingly illustrated with a down-on-the-farm theme.

This title is suitable for children aged 3 to 5 years old. Count down to preschool success with this sunny beach-themed introduction to numbers. Children will learn to recognise and write numbers from 1 to 10, as well as to count objects.

Every year, millions of people visit the American Museum of Natural History to gaze at the amazing displays of dinosaur fossils. Now, with this interactive sticker book, kids can enjoy a little bit of that experience right at home. Featuring eight richly detailed prehistoric scenes, 100 dinosaur stickers, and fun facts, this is a must-have for every dinosaur fan!

Boing boing! Jump and thump. Little Bunny goes outside to play in the sunshine. Along the way, he meets adorable animal friends-from colts and cats to ducklings, baby birds, and frogs. With more than 100 stickers to place in beautiful springtime scenes, children can join the fun.

Kids — start your engines! Get ready to go with the cars, trucks, trains, planes, and other machines that zoom across these pages. Twenty-six cool captioned photos have preschoolers joyfully discovering new things and adding to their vocabulary.

H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master H.P. Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including: The Rats in the Walls, Pickman's Model, The Colour out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow out of Time, and The Haunter of the Dark.

This exciting interactive board book lets kids explore the underwater world and learn about deep-sea creatures. They'll meet a host of animals, from sharks and octopus to puffer fish and sea turtles. By lifting the flap, children will reveal a close-up glimpse of each animal — and discover fun facts set in rhyming verse.

This title is suitable for ages 5 and under. Blast off into space! Eight planets revolve around our sun, and we're going to visit them, one by one. By lifting the flaps, young children will embark on a cosmic adventure. They'll visit hot, dry Mercury; red, glowing Mars; and storm-ravaged Jupiter, just to name a few. Featuring friendly rhyming verses with simple facts about each planet, and Salina Yoon's fun and cheerful illustrations, this is the perfect fun introduction to the solar system.

Baby, bib, bottle, and apple: these are some of the first words every child learns! Big, bright photos show toys, food, clothes, and other familiar objects, so preschoolers can learn and practice saying the name of each one.

Children love baby animals — and this board book features jaw-droppingly cute photographs. Meet a menagerie of creatures — each with a colorful caption/label — from kitten and puppy to monkey, bunny, and koala. What could be sweeter?

Learning to count is as easy as 1-2-3 with Say & Play! Engaging photographs of such everyday things as buttons and blocks teach preschoolers numbers from one to ten.

Optical illusions, a magical melding of science and art, appeal to all ages. This lavish full-color book looks at both the science (the peculiarities of human vision that make illusions possible) and the art (famous deceptive images and their creators). Included are a wide variety of eye-fooling tricks, including those practiced by Mother Nature herself.

Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Little girls, especially, love following the adventures of the four March sisters-Meg, Beth, Amy, and most of all, the tomboy Jo-as they experience the joys and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up. This simpler version captures all the charm and warmth of the original.