The Making of Miss Potter: The Official Guide to the Motion Picture

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A full-color illustrated guide to the background and making of the motion picture on Beatrix Potter's life, starring Renée Zellweger as Beatrix and Ewan McGregor as the man she loved. The book takes the reader behind the scenes to give a real flavor of the film set and includes sections of the script, the costumes, production design, all the main actors, the experiences of the director, producer and scriptwriter, and the views of Renée Zellweger herself on being Beatrix and what the connections are between the real Miss Potter and the woman who is playing her.

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A great companion volume for fans of Miss Potter!.......2007-07-05

I have always loved Beatrix Potter's children's tales, and the movie version of her life starring Renee Zellweger, "Miss Potter" was a true classic...moving in its character exploration, beautiful in its execution and depiction of the beauty of the Lake District, and truly inspiring. If you loved the movie or are simply a fan of all things Potter [Beatrix, not the wizard]...you'll love & treasure this guide to the movie. It is lushly illustrated with full-color pictures, and takes readers behind the scenes of the movie, with insights by the director, producer, scriptwriter, and Zellweger herself. I also plan to get 'Beatrix Potter: A Journal",and "At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit" to add to my collection.

Adults love her too!.......2007-05-12

Somehow growing up I missed all the Beatrix Potter stories. I find them delightful now and am going to share them with my grandchildren. This book about the making of the movie makes me really want to see the movie. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I highly reccomend it.

Missed the movie...............2007-02-18

but loved the book and can't wait to own my own copy of the DVD. I've been a big fan of Beatrix Potter ever since my daughters were born and I read her many books to them as children. Today I find myself reading these same stories to my grandchildren. I loved this book because it showed all that went into making the movie. I couldn't help but admire the actors and actresses who were fortunate enough to be a part of this wonderful film. If you admire Beatrix Potter you must add this book to your collection. I have along with the wonderful books written by Susan Wittig Albert.

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Dearly loved book.
Enjoyable
We LOVE this book
You don't have to be four.

Who's Making That Smell (Flap Books)
Philip Hawthorn , and Jenny Tyler
Manufacturer: Usborne Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0794505236

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Dearly loved book........2007-08-31

We have had this book for several years and is a favorite in our family. As my children grew and entered jr. high and high school everytime a class required bringing a book from home to read out loud this was the book choosen. It is a book that has been read to and enjoyed by many a toddler being baby sat at our house and, continues to be a well loved book by children and adults alike.

Enjoyable.......2006-05-15

I bought this book for my 1 year old daughter. She's now 3 and the book is still her favourite! She loves opening the flaps and finding familiar animals underneath. The graphics are bright simple, and consistent that I could make up stories about each of them as I go along the book.

We LOVE this book.......2006-01-25

I bought these books (Who's Making That Mess/Smell/Noise) for my then 18 month old son for Christmas. At first we would read the story and lift the flaps to see what was there. Now he loves to look for the semi-hidden yellow duck and white mouse on each page. He also loves to point out the different animals making the smells. This book (and the others) has kept him entertained for a month so far and there is still room to grow. I highly recommend these books.

You don't have to be four........2000-08-21

I have had this book since I was two. When I was small I used to sit on my dad's knee and he would read the book. Then I would open the flaps on the pages, and help dad to make the funny smell noises. Now of course I am more mature than that, and I read the book for my two year old sister. There are two people in the book, Ben and Annabelle, and there are lots of animals making smells. Some are nice smells, but the best ones are the nasty smells, pee-youuu!

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my 2 yr old loves this!
the spirit to be a favorite
I'm glad this is a hefty hardcover or it'd be worn out!

Lilly's Chocolate Heart

Manufacturer: HarperFestival
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Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0060560665
Release Date: 2003-12-16

Book Description

Lilly loves her chocolate heart.
Will she save it?
Forever and ever?
What do you think?

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my 2 yr old loves this!.......2007-05-26

my daughter's name is lily so we have all the henke books, but this is her favorite. we read it every night. lilly (the mouse) manages to finally find the perfect place for her chocolate heart, and then wonders "when is it valentines day again?" i love the way henke writes and my 2 yr old loves lily, owen and all his characters! its win win!

the spirit to be a favorite.......2004-06-05

Lilly has one chocolate heart left from Valentine's Day, and it's bedtime, so where is the perfect, safe place to put her chocolate heart until tomorrow? This little bedtime dilemma has Lilly searching around her room for just the right place. Does she find it?

In Henkes' eye candy, easy reading style he delights young readers with another of Lilly's fanciful tales. In a small board book, modest sentences pop off solid, colored backgrounds as Lily, the little white mouse, dances from page to page in search of the perfect place for her last chocolate heart. Like I said, it's easy reading and perfect for young ones with short attention spans, not to mention the pages are strong enough to survive the pulling, tugging and turning of small hands.

Lilly's Chocolate Heart has the spirit to be a favorite, to be read over and over again. I can just hear a little voice repeating the last page by heart in a fit of laughter.

There is one more book with Lilly (Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse) and other titles with little mice, such as Julius, Wemberly, Sheila Rae, Chester, and Owen.

I'm glad this is a hefty hardcover or it'd be worn out!.......2004-06-02

My just-about-to-turn-six year old little girl (and fellow chocaholic) adores this book. We've read it so many times together that she knows each page by heart.

Lilly is a cute little mouse who decides to save her last Valentine's Day chocolate heart. But where shall she put it? Where will it remain safe and clean? She searches throughout her home but nothing will do. It's far too dusty under the bed, the picture frames are too narrow (the heart will surely fall off & get lost!), the bookshelves are too crammed with books. Finally, Lilly decides the best place to keep the heart safe is inside her belly. When she's finished enjoying her last treat she wonders aloud when Valentine's Day will come around again.

This is an adorable little hardback filled with charming drawings of Lilly's pastel world. I disagree that the packaging will turn off older kids. The light colored palette and lively drawings are exactly what attracted my daughter (well, that and the chocolate heart!). Boy's, however, will probably steer clear of this one ~ I know my son runs when we pull this one out :)

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Wish Someone Would Have Warned Us!

Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960
Nicholas Sammond , and Nicholas Sammond
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0822334631

Book Description

Linking Margaret Mead to the Mickey Mouse Club and behaviorism to Bambi, Nicholas Sammond traces a path back to the early-twentieth-century sources of âthe normal American child.â He locates the origins of this hypothetical child in the interplay between developmental science and popular media. In the process, he shows that the relationship between the media and the child has long been much more symbiotic than arguments that the child is irrevocably shaped by the media it consumes would lead one to believe. Focusing on the products of the Walt Disney company, Sammond demonstrates that without a vision of a normal American child and the belief that movies and television either helped or hindered its development, Disney might never have found its market niche as the paragon of family entertainment. At the same time, without media producers such as Disney, representations of the ideal child would not have circulated as freely in American popular culture.

In vivid detail, Sammond describes how the latest thinking about human development was translated into the practice of child-rearing and how magazines and parenting manuals characterized the child as the crucible of an ideal American culture. He chronicles how Walt Disney Productions’ greatest creationâthe image of Walt Disney himselfâwas made to embody evolving ideas of what was best for the child and for society. Bringing popular child-rearing manuals, periodicals, advertisements, and mainstream sociological texts together with the films, tv programs, ancillary products, and public relations materials of Walt Disney Productions, Babes in Tomorrowland reveals a child that was as much the necessary precursor of popular media as the victim of its excesses.

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Wish Someone Would Have Warned Us!.......2006-08-01

The tie to Walt Disney's name might have been a good marketing strategy, but it does not make for a satisfying study of Disney's influence upon modern culture.

The text uses Disney's media machine to fabricate a thesis in support of the studio's (Walt's own?) supposed efforts at social engineering. Since when does one use movie studio publicity as the bedrock for academic study? To present an argument as if Walt Disney had somehow personally engineered the resulting contemporary "child" is a stretch, at best.

No doubt, children of all generations have a deep affection for the timeless stories created during Walt Disney's lifetime (1901 - 1966). However, the reason they embrace these films is largely due to Disney's own masterful storytelling ability. It had nothing to do with shaping the "product" (children) of subsequent generations. Set a new bar for creativity? Yes. Comprehend a responsibility in creating entertainment that can be appreciated by every family member? Absolutely. Reorder the world? No.

The public is simply entertained best by those who understand them... who know what they enjoy... and can provide that entertainment with the highest standard of quality. Walt Disney expanded the boundaries of all that the entertainment industry had formerly accepted as standard fare. He raised the bar because he believed that the public was ready for something better. He was right. Then, and now.

How many times in one text must an author refer to Disney's "hagiography"? Does a reader accept as fact Disney's "Fordist" social agenda, simply because the author implies added meaning from the array of 1930's and 1940's ladies magazines that are quoted? This pointless cerebral exercise would be a bore if it weren't so laughable.

Where are the interviews with the men and women who worked in Disney's marketing or research departments? Where is the source information that can push beyond an intellectual reinterpretation of Disney studio press releases?

This text, though over 400 pages, is completely inadequate in giving sufficient study to Walt Disney's influence upon modern culture.

From Pictures to Words: A Book About Making a Book

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A Definite Winner!
A wonderful story for children and adults of all ages!

From Pictures to Words: A Book About Making a Book

Manufacturer: Holiday house
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0823412717

Book Description

Step by step through the creative process.

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Practical and entertaining.......2006-10-01

Stevens has written and illustrated many successful picture books. She uses the fictional genre to show rather than tell her young readers about writing and illustrating a book. Vivid animal characters request her to write a book about them. Children see the process of creating the setting, plot, characters, and having tension in the story. The book ends with the suggestion for the reader to write a story.

Too distracting.......2005-08-15

I already had several books regarding this theme, and this one is definitively not kids friendly. It didn't do anything for me and the black and white graphics are too busy and too distracting for my child to get involved in it. I bought it because it was on the reference page of another book I had.

A Definite Winner!.......2002-04-01

I love Janet Stevens' work and this one is no exception. The illustrations are delightful, as always, and the concept of showing readers how a book is made is terrific. I'll enjoy sharing this with classes. It would be a great lead-in for students to do writing of their own, too. It's a winner!

A wonderful story for children and adults of all ages!.......1997-07-30

Stevens has created a delightful story, complete with fabulous illustrations, in which she models for the reader how a book/story is written. This is a valuable/must resource for any elementary teacher wanting to introduce or reinforce the elements of a story or who just wants her students to enjoy a well-written, fun tale

The Art of Photographing Children: Techniques for Making Better Color, Black and White, Handcolored, and Digital Pictures

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Finally a Great Book on Photographing Children
Just plain bad
A guide for amateur and professional photographers alike

The Art of Photographing Children: Techniques for Making Better Color, Black and White, Handcolored, and Digital Pictures
Cheryl Machat Dorskind
Manufacturer: Amphoto Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0817435476

Book Description

Introducing Parents and photographers to the equipment, materials, and strategies necessary to photograph children like the pros, this guide covers color, black-and-white, digital, hand colored, and other alternative photographic techniques popular today. The photographs found throughout the book reinforce the instructional and show how the spirit and individuality of each child can be captured. In addition to the author's own photography, a number of other photographers' work are included in a gallery section to give the book a diverse and comprehensive look at a number of different styles and approaches to this genre. Topics covered include current technology, lighting, moving beyond snapshots, posing, everyday photo "golden" moments, and organizing a shoot.

• For professional and aspiring professional photographers, as well as parents and grandparents.
• Full of fabulous color, black-and-white, and hand colored images of children
• Perfect for scrapbookers.

Customer Reviews:

Finally a Great Book on Photographing Children.......2007-06-17

Cheryl Machat's sensitivity and unique perspective are wonderfully apparent in this collection of photography lessons. This book is from an artist for an artist. Machat, with technical perfection and a soft heart, sees kids. The pictures are raw and the children are real. This book may not appeal to the frightened beginner who wants/needs to doll-up kids, but parents and artist are going to love it. Check out her work at Cherylmachatdorskind.com. Unbelievable!

Just plain bad.......2006-08-19

I will admit that the text is not bad. There is some good advice on every aspect of photographing children. However, what is bad about this book is that the photographs are just horrible. Compositions are poor, lighting is poor, focus is poor. If you are looking to learn a lot about photographing children, you really won't from this book.

A guide for amateur and professional photographers alike.......2005-03-13

The Art of Photographing Children: Techniques for Making Better Color, Black and White, Handcolored, and Digital Pictures is a no-nonsense guide for amateur and professional photographers alike. Chapters discuss optimum equipment, lighting, composition, and more, such as how to capture an important moment, and tips for running a smooth photo shoot. The easy-to-follow narration accompanies a wealth of black-and-white and color photographs that keenly illustrate points and principles discussed. Highly recommended for proud parents seeking to succinctly capture their child's milestones on film, family portrait experts striving to improve their craft, and every photographer in between.

Gollum: A Behind the Scenes Guide of the Making of Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)

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Other reviewers have said it all...
I LOVE ANDY
Brief, informative and loaded with incredible images. . .
Gollum and Smeagol and Andy......
A precioussss behind the scenes look at the making of Gollum

Gollum: A Behind the Scenes Guide of the Making of Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)
Andy Serkis
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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ASIN: 0618391045

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Film-making history was made when, in The Two Towers, an actor's performance and digital animation were seamlessly integrated to create the world's first totally lifelike computer-generated character. Now Andy Serkis tells his own story about how a three-week commission to provide a voiceover for Gollum grew into a five-year commitment to breathe life and soul into The Lord of the Rings' most challenging creation.

- Did the voice of Gollum really start with a cat being sick?
- What was it like acting in a bodysuit covered in dots?
- How much was Gollum modeled to look like Andy?
- What surprises does The Return of the King hold in store?

Fully illustrated with more than one hundred exclusive behind-the-scenes photos and drawings, and with contributions from the many designers and animators who brought Gollum to life, this book examines the transition to the big screen of one of literature's most unforgettable creatures. As the filming takes him from London to Wellington, and from the MIsty Mountains to Mount Doom, Andy Serkis explains the methods - and the madness - behind the most amazing five years in this actor's life.

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Other reviewers have said it all..........2006-11-25

Just wanted to give five stars.
Oh, yes, and I thought I was the only person to camp with no supplies save a copy of LOTR! You know what they say: great minds think alike.

I LOVE ANDY.......2004-12-29

I love Andy Serkis. I love his book. Go buy it. Love him too. Enough said.

Brief, informative and loaded with incredible images. . . .......2004-11-05

Andy Serkis, the actor behind the character of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, takes us deep into the terrain behind this great epic of our time. Through his experience in creating a close reflection to Tolkien's Gollum, he comes forward in what seems to be a blunt honest story of his time on the set and creates a brief, enjoyable actor's account.
Beginning with a phone call and winding his way through the streets of New Zealand, the highways of character development and the psychological paths of his acting and character experience, we get a great bit of knowledge of what it really feels like to transform yourself into another person for the sake of showing the world a tale - or even a message. You could call it a diary, completely packed with bits and pieces that are extremely informative, but brief. Learn what it takes to be an actor or a psychiatrist, to completely envelope yourself into character and to be immersed in a wonderfully diverse land. With contributions from Gary Russell and others on set, this book has incredible illustrations, sculptures, design plans, photographs and passages from the crew. Hilarious Gollum faces are located on the top outer corner of each page as you read along, making a fun time in itself.
I would definitely recommend this book to fans of the movie trilogy, those who want a better glimpse behind the making of a soon-to-be classic, movie enthusiasts/aspirers, or anyone else if they just want a fun read. This is definitely a kid-friendly book (though some kids may get disgusted or confused at some of the sculptures of Gollum without his little rag around his waist. Ahem. . . :D), though I think it may tend to be slightly boring for younger kids. Definitely PG.
So I will leave you to your browsing and shopping with a song from Gollum,

"Rock and pool
is sweet and cool
so nice for feet,
we only wish
to catch a fish
so juicy sweeeeet!"

Happy Reading!

Gollum and Smeagol and Andy.............2004-09-27

This is a fascinating account of Andy Serkis's experience in creating the CG character, Gollum, as well as his actual "on screen" time as the ring-beguiled Smeagol in the opening scene of The Return of The King.

Andy's tale is engaging and honest, relating the hardships he endured in bringing the character to life and only increases my respect for him as a performer and a human being. It must have been a long, sometimes difficult job for every actor in the films, but Andy put in more hours than any other actor involved, many of them in isolation from the "moral support" of comrades.

Perhaps the most touching part of this book is Andy's dedication, which is to his own children, the Jackson children, the Astin children, and all the other "children of the ring" who were forced to sacrifice so much time with their parents during the making of these epic pictures.

A GREAT bet for some wonderful inside info and some pretty neato pictures!

A precioussss behind the scenes look at the making of Gollum.......2004-05-10

Even casual film fans are now familiar with the character of Gollum and the groundbreaking special effects that turned him into one of the screen's most memorable characters. Now, we get to see Gollum from a different perspective: through the eyes of the man who brought him to life, Andy Serkis. This memoir, written by Serkis (w/help from Gary Russell) is an entertaining and eye-opening look at the production of both the character in general and the films as a whole. Andy had done mostly small roles in films and plays when he received an intriguing casting tip from his agent: Apparently, New Line was making a trilogy of films based on the "Lord of the Rings" series, and needed someone to voice the character of Gollum. Serkis, unfamiliar with the trilogy (though he had read "The Hobbit" in school) initially balked, until his partner (later, wife) Lorraine--who HAD read the books--urged him to try out. Andy agreed, and began to try different voices that might fit the character. He was stuck, having tried many different voices, until inspiration hit in the form of his cat. (His gagging, hairball-infested cat.) Serkis, who had decided to approach Gollum as a character so full of guilt and obsession (he also compares Gollum to a hardcore junkie) that he was literally choking on it, imitated his poor gagging cat in front of Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh...and the rest, as they say, is history.

Andy journeyed to New Zealand for what he though might be a bit of voice work. Instead, the role of Gollum turned into one of the most challenging undertaken to date: Serkis not only supplied the voice of Gollum, but also his movements as well (thanks to innovative motion-capture technology). Serkis would end up filming scenes multiple times: once in a blue suit, accompanied by Elijah Wood and Sean Astin, then again without them, and often again in a suit studded with dots (reference points for computer animators). Though tedious, this process allowed the animators to bring Gollum to living, breathing life, a genuine example of movie magic. (How detailed is the character of Gollum? A deaf man who saw "The Two Towers" was able to read his lips.) Andy studied the character, often referencing the books for little insights into the character and his psychological makeup in order to bring greater depth to Gollum. And perhaps a little bit of Gollum worked its way into Andy...because vegetarian Serkis suddenly found himself enjoying fish again.

Despite the frequent hardships of filming, Andy was able to keep a sense of humor and professionalism about him, and is able to look back at many of the more difficult moments and laugh. Indeed, his sense of humor sustains the book when it bogs down or becomes repetitive; Serkis felt the need to relate the details of motion-capture technology a few too many times, as if he were telling a multi-part story and needed to bring new readers up to date. He grouses a bit about his initial lack of recognition and appreciation, especially when he had to repeat long scenes in the blue suit while the other actors could relax. (The worst one: Repeating a scene that involved splashing in frigid water...and that blue suit was NOT insulated). But he chides himself for those feelings, and finds a great deal of humor in those difficulties now.

Serkis, who claims little knowledge of classical literature, belies it with frequent references to and quotes from Nordic literature, the Bible (Smeagol's murder of Deagol draws comparisons to Cain and Abel), Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (comparing Gollum to Caliban), Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein's monster, and more. His writing style is smooth, full of humor and frequent good-natured self-deprecation, especially when relating how he foolishly ventured onto a rapids-filled river with minimal supplies, only to be rescued by four Wellington city councilors. His feelings of unappreciation were greatly assuaged when he learned that he would actually be on-screen, playing the role of young Smeagol in a flashback, as we see how Gollum came into possession of the Ring. Though he would still find himself largely unrecognized: A flight attendant saw him reading the books and innocently asked him if he knew about the films, sighing all the while because Orlando Bloom had been on the plane just a few days before. Serkis resisted a strong urge to crawl on all fours and hiss in his Gollum voice. (I don't know if I could have).

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Kondi is determined to make a galimoto -- a toy vehicle made of wires. His brother laughs at the idea, but all day Kondi goes about gathering up the wire he needs. By nightfall, his wonderful galimoto is ready for the village children to play with in the light of the moon.

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Great book.......2006-06-19

This book is set in the small Southern African country of Malawi, the country in which I spent the first 19 years of my life. This book is very dear to me because of its connection to my home. However, it is a good book in its own right. I can say that the language used in the book is authentic (galimoto is, in fact, Chichewa for car). The illustrations are also accurate. The book also has several plot elements which are great discussion points for parents or teachers. For instance, the main character has to make several deals with people to get the things he needs for his project. This provides a good lesson in compromise. The main character also shows planning by setting a goal and then following through the motions to reach his goal. Although the book is intended for smaller children, I think that it is a helpful book for older kids as well. I have read this story to my 7th graders, and it has prompted many discussions on other cultures.

Celebrates the resourceful spirit of African children.......2004-07-08

As I prepared to visit Zambia to learn how communities are coping with the HIV/AIDS pandemic, I tried to help the children of our church understand what life is like in Africa. "You mean they are so poor nobody buys them toys?" Galimoto not only gives a realistic picture of life in a small African village, it celebrates the resourceful spirit of African children. Our young people were filled with wonder when I brought home a galimoto that I bought on a roadside in Zambia. They were eager to try their hand at creating their own galimotos.

Great book for African culture!.......2002-01-05

I just attended a talk by a Peace Corps volunteer who spoke about how children in Ghana were resourceful about creating toys to play with. This book illlustrates that point. I hope that my students from Africa will enjoy this book.

A Little Princess in the Making: A Royal Guide to Becoming a Girl of Grace

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A Little Princess in the Making: A Royal Guide to Becoming a Girl of Grace
Emilie Barnes
Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0736918558

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Bestselling author Emilie Barnes shares how little girls can act like a princess by learning their manners. Each gem of a lesson reveals ways to be royally kind and good as they:

become a good friend
care for their castles
make themselves pretty
dine at their fancy table
have a grateful heart

Whether read aloud to little ones or given to young girls of reading age, this enjoyable visit to the kingdom of courtesy, adorned with jewel–toned paintings by artist Michal Sparks, will inspire manners and cause hearts to shine.

A Little Hero in the Making: Good Manners for the Young and Brave at Heart

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A Little Hero in the Making: Good Manners for the Young and Brave at Heart
Emilie Barnes
Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
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Fun lessons from bestselling author Emilie Barnes encourage young boys to develop the character and strength of a hero, and engaging illustrations by artist Michal Sparks inspire little ones to discover the super powers of manners as they:

help at home
explore their world
eat like a champion
become a great playmate
show their brave heart

Parents, grandparents, and anyone who cares for a sweet boy will enjoy reading this book aloud or giving it as a gift. Each turn of the page reveals how small actions can lead to kindness of heroic proportions.

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