Hexapod Stories (Yesterday's Classics) by Edith M. PatchImaginative stories of fourteen insects, their complex life cycles, and their environs, told in a way that captures children's interest. The insects described range from the familiar butterfly, moth, grasshopper, cricket, bumble bee, firefly, dragonfly, and beetle to the less well known tree hopper, walking stick and gall dweller. Notes include lots of suggestions for further reading. The author, a widely respected entomologist, made it one of her

was a pivotal figure of the Dutch Golden Age

and to respond to creation through one's own art

Used in Charlotte Mason's schools this how-to-draw book teaches the user to draw many shapes and animals using basic

The color palette used in each illustration enhances the mood of the text

Lana lives on a small farmstead in Kansas City

and humans' role in protecting it

The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually

10 Drawing Meaning from the Inside Out

Pub Date:October 01

in his usual painstaking way

from the one and only Richard Scarry

Easy to fit for ages 2-10