Books with author Cary Schmidt

With the addition of color and light, these flowers and butterflies will bloom with brilliant life. Sixteen illustrations feature winged beauties amid roses, orchids, and other blossoms. Pages are perforated for easy removal and display — hold them up to a light source and they will glow with color. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Butterflies and Blossoms Stained Glass Coloring Book and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

Enter into a mesmerizing world of kaleidoscopic configurations. These 16 stained glass designs feature a dramatic variety of floral, geometric, and star-shaped patterns that will take on a hypnotic brilliance when colored. Pages are perforated for easy removal and display — hold them up to a light source and they will glow with color. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Kaleidoscope Designs Stained GlassColoring Book and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

This soaring collection presents a butterfly for every letter of the alphabet — plus one for each of the four seasons. Finely detailed drawings include the Buckeye, Emperor, Indra, Nokomis, Red Rim, Two-tailed Tiger, the extinct Xerces Blue, and 23 other exquisite breeds. Each creature appears with its corresponding letter, amid beautiful blossoms with the same initial.

A retelling of Rapunzel like you ve never read before. Stolen, hidden, and used all his life, Ransom is taught obedience and loyalty above all, but that doesn t stop the valiant pull to use his infinite strength for good. Finally at eighteen a choice must be made: disobey to live selflessly, or obey and continue father s selfish will. The choice is made when as unexpected intruder shows up with problems at her heels. Striking a deal, the pair set off on two very different quests, both hoping to find the place where each belong.

Ransom is a fairy tale retelling of Rapunzel with a twist. This one is based on a male character by the name of Ransom. He is kidnapped from the queen and king due to the queen's life and the baby's life being saved by using the plant that gives strength and youth to the old man. Instead of long hair, Ransom has healing powers and strength from the plant.Ransom saves the girl he loves from death after the old man who has kept him imprisoned causes her to fall from the tower. The old man dies and his body withers away once Ransom's blood is spilt to save the girl he loves.

What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king, two boys, Tousle and Innes, must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within seven days or be killed. A former nursemaid to the queen’s child tells the boys that the banished queen may have the answer they seek. Danger presents itself at every turn, for the boys are pursued by the Great Barons, who are secretly plotting against the king. Another pursuer, the greedy King’s Grip, reveals a strange story of a little man who once spun straw into gold of incredible beauty for the queen but then disappeared with her firstborn son. Tousle realizes that the man he calls Da is the strange little man and, even more amazing, that he himself may be the lost prince. Or could it be Innes, who although cruelly blinded can hear the music of the dawn?This skillful blend of fantasy and adventure reveals what might have happened before the queen makes her third and last guess and the story of Rumpelstiltskin—as we know it—ends.

It is the mid-eighteenth century, and young British subject Anson Granville Staplyton has traveled to Ireland, where his regiment has been sent to keep the king's peace. Anson has waited all his life for the day he would follow his father to serve His Majesty in the Staffordshire Fencibles. But the young drummer's notions of glory are shaken when he witnesses the violent injustices thrust upon the Irish people. Anson is torn even further when he meets an Irish hedge master who secretly teaches children the lilting language and history of their won country-lessons that it is Anson's duty to silence. Torn between family honor and his ever-changing sense of justice, Anson struggles to choose his own way in beautiful yet turbulent Ireland.

“Henry Smith’s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.”But Trouble comes careening down the road one night in the form of a pickup truck that strikes Henry’s older brother, Franklin. In the truck is Chay Chouan, a young Cambodian from Franklin’s preparatory school, and the accident sparks racial tensions in the school—and in the well-established town where Henry’s family has lived for generations. Caught between anger and grief, Henry sets out to do the only thing he can think of: climb Mt. Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine, which he and Franklin were going to climb together. Along with Black Dog, whom Henry has rescued from drowning, and a friend, Henry leaves without his parents’ knowledge. The journey, both exhilarating and dangerous, turns into an odyssey of discovery about himself, his older sister, Louisa, his ancestry, and why one can never escape from Trouble.