Sheila S. Cunningham, based her story ‘Willow’s Walkabout’ on the real life story of “Aardu,” a most inquisitive and ingenious wallaby who, many years ago, went missing from Stone Zoo New England in Stoneham, Massachusetts. This brave wallaby hopped unnoticed from the cozy comforts of a zoo home in order to experience a new adventure. Aardu’s escape and voluntary return to the zoo made headline news not only in Boston, Massachusetts, but all across the United States.
A proud native of Scranton, PA, Sheila experienced love at first sight when she arrived in Boston, MA to attend graduate school. A lawyer and now author, she is a devoted fan of all things Boston, and resides in Norton, MA with her husband and their wonder pooch, Dempsey.
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Willow's Walkabout
A Children’s Guide to Boston
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Nessa Flax has been a freelance journalist since 1993. Her features and book reviews have appeared in a variety of publications. She began writing for the Journal Opinion in 1994 and launched her “Rambling Reflections” weekly column the next year. Initially attending Riverside City College and SUNY at Stony Brook, she received her degree from Dartmouth College with the first graduating class of women in 1976. Her professional career has taken her from a secretarial desk to selling motorcycles, into a sixteen-year teaching career that included establishing and coaching the only varsity fencing program in Vermont and New Hampshire public high schools. From her home in Ryegate Corner, Vermont, Nessa writes, provides management consulting services for small businesses, and communes with the forest.
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Voices in the Hills
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Ellen Sousa is a Massachusetts-based garden coach and teacher whose enthusiasm for creating backyard habitat sanctuaries has made her a popular speaker and natural-style garden tour guide across New England. She lives in Spencer, MA with her husband, Robert, along with 2 dogs, on a small farm landscaped as a natural habitat for farm animals, wild birds and pollinators. She writes about habitat gardening in New England at blog.THBFarm.com and is a team member at BeautifulWildlifeGarden.com and NativePlantWildlifeGarden.com
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The Green Garden
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Whether you have just purchased a new property with a garden to tend, or have made a rash personal decision to go ‘Green’ or are just looking at the same old backyard that needs attention, this book is definitely for you! Read More…
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Whether you have just purchased a new property with a garden to tend, or have made a rash personal decision to go ‘Green’ or are just looking at the same old backyard that needs attention, this book is definitely for you!
Designed and written in a practical no nonsense comprehensive style The Green Garden is an inspirational guidebook. If you are looking for low-cost, beautiful and earth-friendly ways to “green” those landscapes and outdoor spaces and supply an adequate habitat for a whole variety of declining species, including birds, native pollinators, honey bees, amphibians and turtles, this book will be invaluable.
It includes an extensive Plant Guide, detailing the best wildlife-friendly plants suitable for the varied conditions and microclimates found across New England, along with cultivation hints and tips, and the species attracted by each plant.
Broken down into sections for Annuals, Vegetables and Herbs, Bulbs and Perennials, Shrubs, Vines, and Medium to Large “Mast” Trees, The Green Garden includes an introduction and photos from renowned native plant author and propagator William Cullina, formerly from the New England Wild Flower Society, now Curator at Coastal Maine Botanic Garden.
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Maureen Horn, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, What makes a ‘green’ garden? Aren’t all gardens ‘green’ by definition? Ellen Sousa has some strongly held and eloquently stated views that an ‘eco-friendly’ and ‘beneficial’ habitat is essential to our long-term environmental well being. She has written a book that is specific to New England that tells how to create such a garden. click here for full review
Debbie, Garden of Possibilities, The days of simply viewing our gardens as pretty accessories that adorn our homes are waning. Instead, smart gardeners want a green garden — one that supports local wildlife, is a haven for birds, butterflies and bees and is beautiful. click here for full review
Marilyn K. Alaimo, Chicago Botanic Garden “When perusing these pages, readers can’t help but recall the words of Midwest landscape architect/gardeners Ossian Cole Simonds (1855–1931) and Jens Jensen (1860–1951) who introduced and advocated the use of native plants in the landscape. Ellen Sousa has furthered their thoughts in this manual on the importance of creating and maintaining grounds that support nature.” click here for full review
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Hardcover: 224 pages, 225 color photos ISBN-10: ISBN-13: 978-1-59373-091-8 Language: English Dimensions: Weight:
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Ellen Sousa is a Massachusetts-based garden coach and teacher whose enthusiasm for creating backyard habitat sanctuaries has made her a popular speaker and natural-style garden tour guide across New England. She lives in Spencer, MA
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This is the story of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) the first African American painter to achieve fame in both Europe and America. An inspiration for the Harlem Renaissance artists and later generations of American painters, his story is retold by Faith Ringgold, one of today’s leading African American artists, to inspire another generation of children to become the artists of the future.
Faith Ringgold’s depiction of Tanner’s struggle to achieve his dream and his success as a painter on the world stage will inspire and challenge young readers to look at the artist’s work and maybe go out and buy a few brushes and dry pigments (like Tanner did as a young boy in Philadelphia just 3 years after the Civil War) and set out to achieve their own dreams.
Hardcover: 32 pages, 20 color photos and 30 color illustrations ISBN-13: 978-1-59373-092-5 Language: English
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Faith Ringgold, artist and author lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Ringgold’s art has been exhibited worldwide. She has written and illustrated fourteen children’s books including, Tar Beach which has won more than 30 awards including a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award.
Fixit time, like the rain doesn’t seem to go away. Ellen Sousa’s magnum opus The Green Garden is about to go to the printer but we are waiting on William Cullina for his promised introduction and, talking of the Fixit of all Fixits he is busy fixing the last trimmings for a new garden at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. He must know what Fixit means! The amount of activity on their website is amazing. http://www.mainegardens.org I’ll stick to publishing.
Meantime Bert Dodson has delivered everything for his fall book Helping Santa: My First Adventure with Grandma. His attention to detail and composition is fabulous and the story is a delight. We always give him too little time but he is now in recovery before starting (is there no peace for the wicked?) on his next children’s title with the great and award-winning author Lynda Booth-Sweeny about Daniel Chester French; he of the Lincoln Memorial statue of Abraham Lincoln the Great Man himself.
Nessa Flax
Nessa Flax dropped by a day or so ago. Nothing to fix it seems but a long natter about possible books to come and the nature of memoir and autobiography and whether they are the same. I’m with Gore Vidal in that autobiography as history is more a question of worldly context and period, and memoir is also history but in a personal context. I’d add that both are often a competition between vanity and self indulgence! The worst of the first come from mendacious politicians like Tony Blair and George Bush and the worst of the second come from all those ghastly and vacuous twenty-something personalities whose horizons never seem to extend beyond their navels.
The Best? Call me eccentric but I think one can be objective about the worst but for the best it is a matter of taste and timing. My random list would include Valentine Chirol’s Fifty Year’s in a Changing World (if you’ve a taste for good journalism and Imperial British arrogance), John Osborne’s A Better Class of Person (the best writing by far despite the theatrical spite) and, if you like academic thinkers as I do, perhaps R.G.Collingwood’s An Autobiography, Richard Cobb’s People and Places and George Steiner’s Errata. All a bit obscure I’ll grant but I’d also happily take The Education of Henry Adams or Grant’s Memoirs to the beach too.
Mine will be slim to a point of honor and entitled “Moving Rapidly On…”
The Green Garden and its cover: Grace won over Green. It is going to be a classic look. I liked the original but perhaps more for the conceit than the result so all’s well, author’s happy, one less moving part to worry about. Here it is:
Belle
The color proofs for Belle: The amazing Astonishing Magical Journey of an Artfully Painted Lady. They are everything we wanted and have been packed off to the author before going back to the printer with a few minor comments. The printer in Hong Kong is getting restless and wants to know how many to print. Scary stuff – overstocks and too many returns loom through the haze of enthusiasm and optimism. Ordering paper has also become an issue what with all the Japanese paper mills disrupted by the crisis over there. Have to tell them this week. The calculator is getting hot. Here is where the adventure starts (in the book I mean).
Sometimes the moving parts move about of their own accord. Next year we are publishing a monumental (in more ways than one) study of English Armor in the 15th century: The Armour of the English Knight (note the English as opposed to American spelling, noblesse oblige!). Author now wants the book split into two volumes and to publish volume two first. Makes absolute sense if you know what I mean. There’s more to this than meets the eye.
“Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Our bending author hath pursued the story…”
As the Bard opined, but we digress. We will return to this in time!
At the risk of extending the moving part metaphor to breaking point my desk and computer screen can look like a mechanic’s bench as I try and resist taking a monkey wrench to an awkward contract or over-inking a sales blurb in red marginal screams. I work in piles of paper old style. It is the season for Fixits as we move into full gear for the fall list.
As in the wall list above the bench:
Intro to our web catalogue not strong enough: Fixit
Contract for our amazing The Very Scary Monster has scary clause: Fixit
Sales need sales material yesterday: Fixit
Two more bookshops want events with Henry Homeyer for his Organic Gardening (not just) in the North East: Fixit. Can’t: Henry’s boondoggling down the Grand Canyon for some Travel Magazine. Alright for some…(note to self: remind him to Tweet next time)
Rep’s Tipsheet for one of the fall titles has gone missing: redo from scratch argggh!
Mike Slosberg is an ageing novelist, playwright and cartoonist. This is his fourth published book. Mike writes Haiku instead of doing crosswords, putting boats in bottles, and lamenting his age.
Pimp My Walker
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I’ve a pacemaker
But whenever I sneeze hard
The channel changes.
And so it goes. Old Age really sucks, and one has to be philosophical and poetic to survive. Humor is the only defense, the alchemy which can magically turn tragedy into comedy. Pimp My Walker is brimming with 60 Haiku poems that celebrate the cardinal aspects of growing old, softened only with hilariously appropriate illustrations.
Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated over 80 books for children . He is the author of Keys To Drawing ( North Light Books, 1985), Keys to Drawing with Imagination, (2006) and NUKE A Book of Cartoons, vols. I and II.( McFarland and Co., 1986 and 1988).He co-authored, with noted biologist, Mahlon Hoagland, The Way Life Works ( Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; The Story of Unseen Life on Earth (ASM Press, 1999, Needam, et all). He was animation designer for the four part PBS television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He illustrated over 30 opera stories for children, a series commissioned by The New York Metropolitan Opera.His work appears in Vermont Life, Northern Woodlands, and Dartmouth Medicine. He regularly exhibits his watercolors and drawings. He has drawn and painted over 200 portraits. He lives in West Fairlee, Vermont, and works in his studio in Bradford, Vermont.
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Helping Santa
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Grandmas are wise beyond their years and often give us memories to cherish for the rest of our lives. Helping Santa: My First Christmas Adventure With Grandma is the story of one of those enchanting moments. Read More…
Favor Johnson
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With all the elements of a classic American winter folktale, Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story has been a favorite Vermont Public Radio story for twenty-five years and is now a bright and lively picture book. Favor Johnson is a compelling curmudgeon, a loner who lives on a farm with his livestock and faithful dog. Read More…
Robert Cozzolino is the Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Robert Cozzolino joined PAFA in 2004. He has organized numerous exhibitions for the Academy, including, Light, Line and Color: American Works on Paper 1765-2005 (2005), Vik Muniz: Remastered (2005), Art in Chicago: Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism (2006), This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Pennsylvania Academy(2007), Harnett, Peto, and their Accomplices: Trompe l’oeil Paintings from the Collection (2008), Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection (2008), Jacob Lawrence’s Hiroshima (2008), George Tooker: A Retrospective (2009), and Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light (2009). He has also coordinated major exhibitions at PAFA that were organized by colleagues, in each case introducing innovative public programs that provided new contexts for the material, including Villa America: American Moderns 1900-1950 (2006) and Peter Saul: A Retrospective (2008).
He is currently organizing a retrospective of the artist Peter Blume (1906-1992) and an exhibition of artist portraits and self-portraits drawn largely from PAFA’s collection. His research interests range from the intersection of art and religion to the role of the body in Pop art. He will be a contributor to PAFA’s upcoming Henry O. Tanner exhibition catalogue and believes strongly in collaboration with his colleagues at PAFA.
Dr. Cozzolino earned his Ph.D in 2006 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation on Ivan Albright (1897-1983). His publications include exhibition catalogues for Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light and Art in Chicago (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2009 and 2006), With Friends: Six Magic Realists 1940-1965 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), and Dudley Huppler: Drawings (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002) as well as major contributions to: Shared Intelligence: American Painting and Photography (Forthcoming, University of California Press), George Tooker: A Retrospective (Merrell, 2008), American Art at Princeton Volume One: Drawings and Watercolors (Yale University Press, 2004), New Critical Perspectives on Dalí (Bompiani, 2004), and Ivan Albright (Hudson Hills Press, 1997).
An active musician, he performs and records as a percussionist in two ensembles based in the Philadelphia area. He has also contributed to www.artjaw.com, a Philadelphia-based writing project about working in the art world.
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Elizabeth Osbourne
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Elizabeth Osborne (born 1936) has been a prominent figure in Philadelphia and at the Pennsylvania Academy since the 1950s. An influential painter and teacher, Osborne has been engaged with capturing the transitory effects of color and light through a variety of shifting subjects since the 1960s. Read More…
