Author: Brian M. Wiprud
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: stuffed
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-05-31
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 044024188X
ISBN-13: 9780440241881
Leaping fishes. Prowling bobcats. Frosty penguins and mute moose heads...These are the things that fill Garth Carson’s life as he buys, sells, and rents exotic taxidermy from his funky New York City storefront. But now Garth and his gal, Angie, have acquired the most sinister stuffed critter in the world: a certain white crow in a bell jar that Angie swoons over–and that other people are dying to get their hands on.When the crow is stolen, along with $50,000 worth of their best taxidermy, Garth and Angie are plunged into the spooky heart of old New England and a realm of crazed carnies, bu
Author: Alison Inches
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Keywords: bed, ready, animals, stuffed
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0152164669
ISBN-13: 9780152164669
What’s a girl to do when her stuffed animals just aren’t sleepy? The little red hen is fixing herself a snack, the monkey’s doing cartwheels, and the cow appears to be singing karaoke. It’s a good thing this little mommy has a few tricks up her sleeve. With a bit of persistence and a lot of tender loving care, she’ll get her babies bathed, read to, and snuggled . . . just in time for bed. Bryan Langdo’s cuddly cast of characters is a perfect match for Alison Inches’s exuberant text, which winds down to a soothing bedtime ending that’s perfect for anyo
Authors:Michael Fry, T. Lewis,
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Keywords: animals, stuffed, hedge, over
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0740757016
ISBN-13: 9780740757013
The Burb Boys are back for phase four, just in time for a spring movie tie-in!Over the Hedge chronicles the suburban lives of the critters who lived there first. When urban sprawl encroaches on their wild home, mischievous raccoon RJ and his sensitive best-buddy turtle Verne (aided by frenetic squirrel Sammy and a bevy of wacky rodents and marsupials) choose to take this rude incursion . . . with open arms. They critique suburbia’s indulgences while exploiting its Dish TV, dishy lawn furniture, and deep-dish goulash of gar-baaage.DreamWorks Animation is bringing the vision of Hedge creat
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Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Keywords: children, mysteries, boxcar, mystery, bear, stuffed
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $4.50
ISBN-10: 0807555134
ISBN-13: 9780807555132
When the Aldens visit friends in Vermont, they’re in for a teddy treat--the annual Bear Jamboree, celebrating toy bears from all over the world! The Aldens soon encounter an unbearable mystery: a very rare and valuable bear has disappeared.
Author: Alan Alda
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: learned, things, stuffed
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-09-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0812974409
ISBN-13: 9780812974409
He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances.“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six,” begins Alda’s irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early
Author: Don Thompson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: contemporary, art, economics, curious, stuffed, shark, million
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-09-16
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0230610226
ISBN-13: 9780230610224
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an att
Author: Kyoko Yoneyama
Publisher: Japan Publications (USA)
Keywords: world, fancy, dolls, stuffed, collection
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1994-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0870409336
ISBN-13: 9780870409332
Clearly drawn patterns and easy directions show readers how to combine various fabrics with available household materials--such as wire, ribboon, and string--to create an enchanting gallery of dolls. Includes storybook favorites such as Rapunzel and the four sisters fromLittle Women. Full color photos.
