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Art for the Heart is a Girl Zone book. Featuring girls' own voices in Girl Talk sidebars, the Girl Zone series is a joyful, empowering and diverse collection of books that explore topics of interest and importance to girls and young women ages 9 to 14.

When you imagine an artist, what do you see? Do you picture Picasso, Van Gogh or...yourself? Art Therapist Mary Wallace shows how anyone can be an artist. Through a series of projects, girls will explore and celebrate one of the most incredible creations in the universe -- themselves!

Art activities include: - Art Journal. Make a unique visual journal to hold all of your artistic ideas. - My Studio. Use your imagination to create your own art studio: the perfect place for you to relax, think, dream, and create. - A Quilt of Me. Create an abstract self-portrait with a quilt-style collage. - Friendship Necklace. Celebrate friendship with this beautiful beaded necklace. - Mandala. Get in touch with your spiritual side through the ancient art of the circle. - Spiral Weaving. Express your positive energies in a colorful spiral design. - Illuminated Manuscript. Decorate stories and poems using this medieval technique.

Mary's clear writing, helpful tips, and carefully chosen activities are designed for any skill level. Comments from girls create a "chat room" feel, and colorful sidebars give additional information about art throughout the ages and from around the world. ... Read more

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The Girls' Spa Book is an invitation for young girls to step back from the anxieties they face - peer pressure, body image, school and family problems - and to simply unwind. Delightful, clearly presented spa activities are paired with gentle words of advice and encouragement to help girls foster self-esteem and self-respect. The book contains easy-to-follow beauty recipes including lotions, soaking salts, body scrubs, and many more treats they can use themselves or give as gifts. Sidebars feature the voices of real girls who talk openly about the everyday pressures they face. ... Read more

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Let your imagination and creativity flow as award-winning author Mary Wallace shows you how to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. Simple and straightforward, crafts can be completed by kids on their own with fabulous results. Using common household odds and ends, project construction is no muss, no fuss!

I Can Make That! consolidates the top five of the original I Can Make... titles from this popular series into one fun-filled book. As much fun to create as they are to play with, each craft features a list of supplies, step-by-step color photographs, and a final picture of the finished craft to guide and inspire.

Included in this compilation are I Can Make Costumes as well as I Can Make Puppets, I Can Make Nature Crafts, I Can Make Toys and I Can Make Games. ... Read more

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A beautiful and practical guide for bringing the magic of the inuksuk into your own home

Following the acclaimed and award-winning The Inuksuk Book, Make Your Own Inuksuk teaches readers how to build their very own inuksuk. Suitable for all ages, this full color book is an engaging overview of inuksuit (the plural form of inuksuk) -- what they are, why they were important in the past and how they continue to have both practical and spiritual significance in our lives today.

An inuksuk is a traditional stone structure that resembles a tower, an archway or a person; it can be a variety of shapes and sizes. Powerful symbols of the Arctic, inuksuit were built by the Inuit to act as a method of communication. Inuksuit served as navigational signs guiding hunters to safe travel routes, pointed the way to good hunting and fishing grounds, directed travellers on long journeys or marked a good resting place. Today, inuksuit can also act as messages of friendship and joy, symbolize personal strength and respect to departed loved ones and show appreciation to the land.

Make Your Own Inuksuk offers clear, step-by-step instructions and practical advice on selecting and preparing stones to build a wide variety of wonderfully appealing inuksuit. It also helps readers choose a location that reflects their inuksuit's meaning, whether in a garden, at the cottage or at home.

Inuksuit are becoming increasingly popular and visible across North America. Timely and beautiful, Make Your Own Inuksuk will appeal to a wide range of markets. For children eager to discover more about the unique culture of the Inuit people, this book provides a very special introduction into many areas of their lives, from hunting to honoring their forefathers. For families looking for meaningful and interactive projects with their children, for gardeners, nature lovers and retirees, Make Your Own Inuksuk is an ideal way to bring serenity and personal expression into our lives. ... Read more

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The Inuksuk Book offers a fresh glimpse into the culture, customs, and ingenuity of the Inuit by examining the symbolic information revealed in the mysterious inuksuk. Found throughout the Far North, inuksuit are stone structures that act in the place of human beings to communicate knowledge essential for Arctic survival. Through the collective wisdom of Inuit elders and noted experts, archival photography, and the author's own exquisite silk paintings, the reader is introduced to the ten major types of structures and is shown how they have provided travelers with information on location, danger spots, food storage, hallowed land, and hunting grounds. ... Read more

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Beautiful, Mesmerizing!
This gorgeously illustrated book is one of the most appealing books I have read about the Far North. It highlights the ingenuity of a people who live in a demanding environment.

One of the things about the book I really enjoyed was the use of the Inuit alphabet to caption the beautiful pictures. There is a dictionary of sounds and words in the back, which can be used for kids to write their own names in Inuit.

There is also a guide to making your own Inuksuk in the back.

Not just for children
While hiking in the Canadian Rockies, we saw inuksuk along the trails. Their beauty and the fact that people had expressed themselves by creating art out of rock, rather than defacing the area, added greatly to our enjoyment of the outings.

When I found the book "Inuksuk," I immediately purchased it. After reading it, I purchased four more copies. "Inuksuk" can be read and looked at from many angles. It will be a perfect gift for friends with "soul" and for children who I hope will grow up with an appreciation of nature and art. ... Read more

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Various Simple Art Techniques
This book is wonderful for those who want to experience the various forms of art, but may not have the background or "know-how".Mary Wallace uses pictures to walk you through the process of homemade clay, watercolor, chalk, pencils, colors, portraits, batik, pointillism, printing and collage.Very simple instructions and easy to obtain supplies are listed.Great for giving children an introduction to art. ... Read more

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Kids' Craft Book
Great pictures, wonderfull ideas. If it weren't for the fact that some of the materials and directions need an adult's assistance, I'd have given it a 10. ... Read more

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Great Stuttering Therapy Manual
For those who are uncomfortable with stuttering therapy, this book is for you. The first half of the book requires reading. It offers a great review of stuttering and then goes into a hierarchial progression of therapy. This book focuses on stuttering therapy with young children, ages 2 1/2 to 7 years. It deals with direct therapy techniques.

The hierarchy takes you from single words, two words, three words, carrier phrases, extended carrier phrases, prepositional phrases, all the way to high-level demand tasks such as explaining or describing, and storytelling.

The authors then give you a continuum of direct therapy strategies to teach the child: easy speech and streatchy talk, make direct requests for easy speech, model short and easy repetitions, model self-corrections, play speech cops games, teach tigger talk (easy bouncing), introduce hard speech, talk about pushing, contrast easy speech with hard speech, and embrace the speech villans.

The last half of the book is packed with therapy activities that you can copy and use with your students.

I really like the therapy sequence they have set up, and have found this book to be very useful. I've got my own personal copy. If you like a cookbook for a crutch to boost your confidence or are short on therapy ideas, you'll like this book. ... Read more