The White House

The White House
Author: Cass R. Sandak
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1981
Genre: Presidents
ISBN: 9780531042540

Presents a historical sketch of the White House, describes the interior and exterior of the mansion, and portrays life in the White House.

The Dwindling Party

The Dwindling Party
Author: Edward Gorey
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 10
Release: 1982
Genre: Horror stories.
ISBN: 9780394851297

Pop-up illustrations and verses divulge how, one by one, six members of the MacFizzet family monstrously disappear during a visit to Hickyacket Hall, leaving behind only young Neville, who expects "it was all for the best."

Fly Away Home

Fly Away Home
Author: Jane Edgecombe
Publisher: Book Company International
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781740471527

'Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children have flown.' Explore the wonderful pop-up world where the happy bugs live. what will ladybird do? Ages 3+

I Love My Dinosaur

I Love My Dinosaur
Author: DK
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1465499717

Discover the enchanting world of five amazing dinosaurs and find out what makes them so lovable. In this charming dinosaur book filled with beautiful illustrations and fun facts, little ones can lift up the flaps and peek at the pop-ups to discover amazing dinosaurs that love to have fun! With five spectacular dinosaurs to visit, help little dinosaur lovers find out what makes them so adorable. What did a baby T. rex look like? Peek inside the pop-up to see. What did Triceratops eat? Look under the flap to find out! With five different dinosaurs to read about, discover the amazing world of these giant, spikey, and scaly creatures. From the armored Ankylosaurus swishing its heavy tail, to the huge T. rex with its tiny arms, the intriguing lives of the dinosaurs has never been so exciting. Journeying through the deepest forests where the Diplodocus can be found munching on the leaves of the tallest trees, to the slow-moving world of the Stegosaurus, young dinosaur lovers can enter the ancient world of their favorite dinosaurs and find out what made them so unique. With fact-filled pop-ups and flaps, as well as helpful pronunciation guides, I Love My Dinosaur is the perfect way to teach children about their favorite dinosaurs.

Elements Of Pop Up

Elements Of Pop Up
Author: James Diaz
Publisher: Little Simon
Total Pages: 18
Release: 1999-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780689822247

Here at last is the definitive book on how to make a pop-up. Every aspect of the creation of a pop-up, known as paper engineering, is clearly and thoroughly covered. All types of parallel folds, angle folds, wheels, and pull tabs are accurately detailed verbally and visually, flat and in dimension. Also included is a history of pop-ups and a step-by-step photographic essay on how a pop-up is made from start to finish. This guided tour is perfect for aspiring pop-up creators, paper engineers, students, and appreciators of this unique art form.

Van Gogh's House

Van Gogh's House
Author: John Leighton
Publisher: Universe Pub
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1998-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780789302199

Published on the occasion of the van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this fun-filled pop-up book opens into a four-room circular house showing the artist's home as he painted it, his friends as he portrayed them, and the world outside as he observed it. Van Gogh's House is full of surprises and interchangeable elements: the views from the windows are classic van Gogh scenes, such as Harvest Landscape and Starry Night, and on the walls hang portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. Every last detail is in place, from Vincent's pipe and tobacco, to his clogs under the table, to his unfinished canvas propped on an easel. Putting everything into historical context, the accompanying small book takes a learned and enjoyable look at van Gogh's life and the people, places, and paintings in it.

Coming Home

Coming Home
Author: Rosamunde Pilcher
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 945
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250106443

Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term, coming home... In 1935, Judith Dunbar is left behind at a British boarding school when her mother and baby sister go off to join her father in Singapore. At Saint Ursula's, her friendship with Loveday Carey-Lewis sweeps her into the privileged, madcap world of the British aristocracy, teaching her about values, friendship, and wealth. But it will be the drama of war, as it wrenches Judith from those she cares about most, that will teach her about courage...and about love. Teeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever.

Who Cares?

Who Cares?
Author: Raissa Page
Publisher: JKP
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 190581867X

The reasons for children coming into care are many, so too are the services and provisions that structure their new lives. The manner in which these are applied to individual children varies beyond classification. Care means many different things to many different children, but every child in care today shares the common ground of an early experience of family distress and breakdown. Written by a group of young people in care, this publications provided a platform from which they could speak freely about their hopes, aspirations, contentions, criticisms and fears. As well as detailing their experiences of public care, Who Cares? highlights those aspects of the system that need addressing to ensure that it meets the social, emotional and educational needs of all children and young people. Now available as an ebook.

Coaching Baseball Successfully

Coaching Baseball Successfully
Author: Mike Curran
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736065207

Top high school baseball coach Mike Curran shares his coaching strategies, covering topics such as off-season planning, player evaluation, utilizing the coaching staff, organizing practices, creating effective drills, planning offensive and defensive strategies, scouting, game preparation, and in-game decision making.