Books with author Dorothy Harrison

Verses and Poems and Stories to Tell is rich with delightful tales and rhymes to keep children engaged for hours and during chores, walks, and play. For parents and teachers this offers a treasury of ideas and story-lines to carry through many days and bedtime rituals with children! With a deep compassion for a child’s need to hear beautiful words and inspiring stories that give a new excitement to ordinary daily routines or things in nature, the author provides glimpses into how to turn the daily routines of life into fun!

Gold in the Garden opens with a young girl at the funeral of her best friend. Worse than that, Kathy Jordan believes the death is her fault. In spite of being told not to go swimming and risk catching polio, the two had sneaked into the community pool one hot July day. After Susan's death from polio, Kathy is overcome with guilt and cannot face Susan's parents. Her only consolation is gardening with an elderly neighbor who helps Kathy understand how, like compost, good can come from mistakes, and the importance of forgiving oneself.

This ebook on landscape painting in watercolour is a no-nonsense guide that really gets down to basics.In The Duffer’s Guide to Painting Watercolour Landscapes Don Harrison shows just how easy it can be to learn to paint effective and realistic landscapes in watercolour. With a simple and straightforward approach, using easy-to-follow step-by-step sequences, he teaches how to paint skies, mountains, boats, trees, bridges, buildings and figures in the landscape.He starts with very simple exercises, painting individual features of the landscape in order to build up confidence, and then gradually shows the reader how to bring together all those elements to create a full landscape painting.

Elinore sits alone and weeps in the tower room where she has been told to spin straw into gold. No one can do such a thing, unless it's the strange little man who mysteriously appears at the stroke of midnight. He claims he can, but not unless the price is right. Elinore offers her necklace and ring, but they won't be enough. Only her firstborn child will satisfy the wicked little man. Afraid to make such a promise, and just as afraid not to, Elinore watches in fear as the spinning wheel begins to turn - whirr, whirr, whirr. The mystery and magic of this timeless tale have been wonderfully enhanced by Dorothy Joan Harris and Regolo Ricci. In their hands, Rumpelstiltskin has become a story from the past for today's children. After almost two hundred years, these characters have come to life as feeling, thinking people with choices to make and lessons to learn.

Ben is like any other 10 year old boy in Galilee, taking goods and fish to market on the back of his donkey. That is why they call him the donkey boy.But unusual things begin to happen when Ben meets up with a carpenter from the town of Nazareth.This enchanting tale of one young boy's relationship with Christ appeals to readers of all ages.Doreen Harrison's book draws on her experience as a school teacher and a church minister.

Following the success of Don Harrison's previous book, Watercolour Troubleshooter, which has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide, this new book on landscape painting in watercolour is a no-nonsense guide that really gets down to basics. In The Duffer's Guide to Painting Watercolour Landscapes Don Harrison shows just how easy it can be to learn to paint effective and realistic landscapes in watercolour. With a simple and straightforward approach, using easy-to-follow step-by-step sequences, he teaches how to paint skies, mountains, boats, trees, bridges, buildings and figures in the landscape. He starts with very simple exercises of individual features of the landscape in order to build up confidence, and then gradually shows the reader how to bring together all those elements to create a full landscape painting.