Books with author Mary Jessie Parker

Bring the world to your sewing machine! A sumptuously illustrated survey of traditional clothing from across the globe--plus timesaving, innovative techniques for making and decorating garments--will absolutely enchant stitchers. Throughout, images, from richly colored photographs to vintage postcards, capture people in their authentic dress (many of which have now disappeared). Before beginning an actual project, examine the basics of construction that appear again and again in ethnic attire: unconstructed rectangles, pullover cloaks or tunics, sleeved shifts, pull-on pants, full skirts with aprons, yoked shirts, short vests, and a front-opening coat. Embellish them, using some of the exquisite techniques that make these garments so breathtaking, from weaving and braiding to beading, painting, and embroidering. The highlight: six popular folkwear outfits with instructions on pattern making, marking, cutting out pieces, and putting it all together--a Seminole skirt, Moroccan burnoose, Syrian dress, Polish vest, Tibetan coat and Japanese Kimono.

Young puddle jumpers will delight in this silly Seuss-like fantasy about a puddle that keeps on growing. How deep can it get? So deep that soon enough, glub glub glub, the entire city sinks out of sight, only to reappear later with everything in disarray. This ingenious urban counting tale will engage young ones learning their numbers, as well as older readers who will enjoy the overlying story and the breezy artwork.

Young puddle jumpers will delight in this silly Seuss-like fantasy about a puddle that keeps on growing. How deep can it get? So deep that soon enough, glub glub glub, the entire city sinks out of sight, only to reappear later with everything in disarray. This ingenious urban counting tale will engage young ones learning their numbers, as well as older readers who will enjoy the overlying story and the breezy artwork.

EDUCATIONAL - Set in Sussex, the story is based strictly on facts and takes the reader through time to visit places, events and people of historical importance.ENJOYABLE - Five children, members of an extended family, find magic crop circles which transport them far back in time. EXCITING - Their journey home takes them to places where they become involved in important and often frightening events.

Two Mothers, enemies by nature, leave their shelters during a raging storm. Both are driven by a single purpose- to save their young. Genna, a homeless mother cat, carrying her Kitt to a safer shelter faces a heart breaking loss as the storm sweeps her beloved baby away ? and out of sight. Wheat, a small field mouse far across town races to save her mouselet family that's been swept away from their briar patch home by the driving rain. An unsuspected fierce storm brings two animal families together, and out of a crisis situation comes friendship, care, and acceptance for one another.