Books with author Patricia Burke

Design, plant, and grow a world of your very own—inside a terrarium! Including 15 unique, imagination-inspiring project plans, each accompanied by adorable, full-color photographs, kids and their grown-ups will discover how easy terrariums are to plant and grow. Kids love to create, imagine, and have fun. Nothing fulfills all three of those desires quite like designing and planting a terrarium. With the step-by-step project instructions found in A Family Guide toTerrariums for Kids, the results are beautiful, inspiring, and confidence-building. Making these little landscapes develops motor skills, spacial awareness, and provides a wealth of sensory input. The science behind the art is included with quick and simple lessons on ecosystem functions, the water cycle, and plant nutrition. But for kids, it's all about being active and building something cool! Plus, when the project is complete, there's a piece of living art to share with family and friends or display on a bedroom shelf. With the terrarium plans found in A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, everyone in the family can tap their inner “science geek” to:Use multi-colored sand and succulents to craft a desert terrariumPlant, trim, and tend a terrarium bonsai treeBuild a peat bog filled with carnivorous plantsMake an aquatic terrarium, complete with a marimo moss ball “pet”Design a prehistoric garden of air plantsCreate a plant-filled habitat for a praying mantisGrow a Japanese garden with living rocksWith information on selecting the best terrarium container, growing materials, decorative elements, tools, and plants, readers are primed for success that lasts long after the terrarium has been built. Terrariums combine imagination and creativity with a dash of hands-on science. And you get to play in the dirt! What could be better than that?

Petal Pusher, by doodlist Patricia Burke, offers all hand-drawn illustrations of her version of flowers. Both real and the fancifully imagined. From simple stacked Daisies, to her re-imagined sunflowers. From fanciful flowering vines on a trellis, to beautiful moon flowers, this book has thirty-four delightfully rendered pages filled with a variety of flowers. There is flower for every taste and will only be enhanced with any choice of color. The images in this book are for all levels of expertise. There are an additional four bonus pages from Patricia's previously published books. Plus an 'never before seen' image from her upcoming book, Shoe-dles, Too. Happy Coloring!

<p>After their father’s disappearance, Jonathan Hatter and his sister Jillian are sent on vacation to visit their grandmother, Nora. While there, they learn something incredible. Apparently, the hats in their family shop are not just for fashion. They are a means of time travel, and it turns out Jonathan and Jillian are related to a community of Time Travelers known as “The Hatters.”</p> <p>Their real adventure begins with an article in the local San Francisco newspaper, claiming that Egyptian artifacts—including the crown of Pharaoh Seti—are missing from a highly secure area of the British Museum. The brave, young siblings are now on the hunt for Chi, a despicable Hatter who has fallen from the ranks and stolen the Egyptian items in question.</p> <p>Chi has used the secret Door of Osiris to transport the stolen artifacts, but while searching for Chi, Jillian slips on the crown of Aset and is transported back to 1300 BC Egypt. It’s up to Jonathan to go back in time, help his sister, and return the pilfered treasures. First, they must battle giant crocodiles and colossal stone guardians. They will meet Osiris and the mystical goddess Aset as they weave in and out of grand palaces, dungeons, and even the underworld.</p>

Located just outside the City of Chicago, Fairview Country Club functioned as an adult playground for some of the City’s most wealthy and influential politicians, business owners and investment bankers. Fairview became their escape from the everyday, the one place where they didn’t have to worry about putting on airs. For caddies, Fairview became a sort of rite of passage, a place where you entered as a naïve child and left as a man, armed with the bizarre and wonderful knowledge that will shape your life for years to come.MEMOIRS OF A CADDIE: LIFE AND TIMES OF A MISGUIDED YOUTH explores the 8-year stint that I served as a country club caddie in near-suburban Chicago, focusing on such critical events such as:•The Caddie Masters: “Unwilling to leave the country club grounds, Rob had taken to sleeping in his car; his two poodles huddled up against in an attempt to keep warm at night. Every morning, he would wake up and wash himself in the bathroom sink before heading down to his desk to begin his “work” day, pretending as if he had never been informed that his employment at Fairview had been terminated. It was his final act of rebellion against the people that he despised.”•The Belt Game: “The Belt Game brought something out of its contestants that few other life events, short of war, could ever have. For five to ten minutes, those young men were battling for their lives, rapidly adapting to this newfound “Kill or Be Killed” world.”•The Summer Heat: “As they moved around the altar, I could capture glimpses of their eyes, wild and ancient, completely lost in the moment, dedicated to giving all energy towards their ceremonial dance.”

Have you ever thought of getting out of the “rat race” and just leaving everything behind?Are you tied to a mortgage, chained to a career, or just feel stuck, but find it difficult to walk away? If you are unhappy and stuck in a life that you feel is getting you nowhere, except more sick and more tired, then this book is for you.After 30 years of raising children, working to pay a mortgage and trying to keep up with societal “norms”, I decided to leave the chaos behind. In a search for adventure and a more peaceful life, I gave up everything, except what would fit in a 6’x12’ trailer. Now I live in the wilderness, in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. This book is an account of my personal experience. It is written to encourage you to re-evaluate your life. My hope is that it inspires you to embrace your passion, whatever that might be, and gives you the courage to jump, take that leap into a life of freedom, purpose and living your dream.

What would happen if a multi-tonne, long-necked mischief- maker found an extra large ball?What if that giant mischief-maker was a long-necked dinosaur, and he found that ball just like a modern horse in its pasture?You've never seen a horse play with a giant ball before? Well they do, and animals do all sorts of things when we're not looking.Which is why "Caught on Critter Cam!" explores the thought of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals with the same crazy, interesting silliness modern animals do every day.The bright and cheerful illustrations will bring a giggle to any dino-loving 3-5 year old (just ask the author's three young children). But older children will enjoy the educational tidbits when exploring the map of Dippy's old neighborhood, where you can meet Dippy's neighbors Allosaurus and Stegosaurus, and see a few of the plants Dippy has in the back yard.