Books with author MS Catherine Ard Laura Baker

Bugs can be squirmy, wriggly, and creepy. Origami bugs are just cool! With this engaging book and a few sheets of paper, young artists will read about and create bees, cicadas, butterflies, and other interesting insects. Colorful photographs, guiding illustrations, and numbered directions make each activity accessible, no matter the artist's level of proficiency. After completing this book, readers will want to make more origami creatures and other creations.

Monsters are high-interest topics for today's readers, and activities about monsters make this book irresistible! In this entertaining volume, monster enthusiasts will love learning how to create origami figures of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Loch Ness Monster, and more. They'll become skilled at the basic folds and techniques needed for each project through illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. After completing the fun activities in this book, readers can design and make their own ghoulish creations using the ancient art of paper folding.

On Ivalice, Prince Morgan has been living in the shadow of his twin brother and older sister. She will be queen one day and inherit the power of Spirit to protect their world and guard the other elements from harm. Morgan wants this power for himself and nothing will stop him from getting it, not even his family. With her dying breath, Queen Tamsin sends the elements to another world where Morgan cannot have them.​On Earth, Nix, Grace, Kendra and Phoebe are four ordinary teenage girls living normal lives where homework and boys are their biggest problems. That is until they absorb some strange glowing balls of light into their bodies and start controlling the elements.​ Everything is about to change for these girls when the weight of an entire world is put on their shoulders.

Nix, Grace and Phoebe are having problems with their new elemental powers. They keep losing control and sooner or later they are going to get caught or hurt someone. When Nix gets grounded from preforming a gig, after having a fight with her boyfriend and accidentally starting a small fire, the girls come up with a plan to practice their powers and regain some control.Kendra, on the other hand, is shutting everyone out. Despite Phoebe's best efforts to get through to her, Kendra wants nothing to do with magic or Ivalice, but she can't hide away forever because Morgan is desperate to find a way to Earth and take back the elements. As he gets closer to a solution Morgan’s obsession grows and begins to come at a cost.

The angles and curves of aircraft are paramount components in their flight. Airplane enthusiasts will love the action photographs of their favorite planes and then creating their own with some paper and the art of origami. After learning just a few kinds of folds, they can produce their own models, including an orbiter, a stunt plane, and a spy aircraft. Accessible directions accompanied by labeled illustrations make this book a fantastic introduction to the revered Japanese art form.

Monsters are high-interest topics for today's readers, and activities about monsters make this book irresistible! In this entertaining volume, monster enthusiasts will love learning how to create origami figures of Dracula, Frankenstein, the Loch Ness Monster, and more. They'll become skilled at the basic folds and techniques needed for each project through illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. After completing the fun activities in this book, readers can design and make their own ghoulish creations using the ancient art of paper folding.