Books with author Ann Johns

"Color by Accident" is designed to be used as a workbook and reference manual for the adventuresome. Beginning and experienced dyers will find "Color By Accident" to be an inspiring guide for creating one-of-a-kind fabrics not available commercially. It includes Five Variations on a versatile method and 54 tested recipes. NOT required are expensive equipment, dangerous chemicals or specialized studio space. Other books teach how to repeat a method and reproduce colors. This book points the way to exploring new color combinations and to achieving fabric that will be unique and visually complex. But be warned! As one of Ann's contemporaries reports, this process can be addictive.

Bette Jean Davis is a young colored girl living in the southern Jim Crow state of Louisiana. she lives with her mother and father and siblings. They are farmers who also pick cotton to make ends meet. Her life is pretty much routine until her father dies. Then she decides to take an extra job to help her mother send her older sister to school. she decides to keep the job in order to help send herself to college, but she soon learns that things don't always go as planned.

Unique! Only alphabet book of its kind on the market! The purpose of this book is to teach letter names--not sounds or spelling. Each picture contains the letter name heard at the beginning of the clue. Separating letter name from letter sound can be less confusing than learning name and sound at the same time. Research shows that using pictures can greatly increase the ease and speed of learning new information. The book is useful for children and adults learning the English alphabet.