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The New York paintings and pastels of Yvonne Jacquette, one of America's most distinguished contemporary painters, and the New York photographs of her late husband Rudy Burckhardt, whose unconventional art has spawned a large and devoted following, are the subjects of this intriguing look at the New York art world from the 1930s to the present. Their work celebrates New York's streets and skyline, capturing the intimacy and the expansiveness o...

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Elizabeth Osborne: the color of light, held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, June 26-September 20, 2009.

Under the Wild Ginger is a collection of evocative reflections which gently, compellingly urge the reader to reclaim the wonder and wisdom of childhood. Part nature walk, part self-reflection, part spirit quest, it inspires uninhibited curiosity and enthusiasm for small things, those small, wonderful things so often hidden to first glances like the exquisite flower beneath the leaves of the wild ginger.

An eight-year-old boy's father teaches his son an outdoorsman's lessons about wildlife, canoing, and handling a gun. When the boy is allowed to accompany his father to hunting camp, where they discover a shivering mouse who shares the warmth of their stove, the boy reminds his dad of a lesson he was taught.

Download the free soundtrack for Hippo and Monkey performed by the author at www.bunkerhillpublishing.com"--T.p. verso.

This book takes a spiritual look at the work and wisdom of Italian Renaissance-era writers and artists. Using the visual beauty of masterpiece paintings, sculptures, and architecture from this period, Julianne Davidow presents, in the words of Thomas Moore's foreword, a point of view that has been utterly lost to the modern mind: the idea that divinity and humanism go together. Soulful, timeless quotes from some of the most influential people ...

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Belle, a painted butterfly, has been quietly hovering over a beautiful white poppy in a seventeenth-century Dutch painting that hangs in the National Gallery of Art. Magically dislodged as her painting is being moved by museum staff, Belle and fellow butterfly Brimstone lose track of the cart carrying their painting and so are on their own to find their way back home. Because they are made of paint, they discover that they can blend into any o...

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Long ago the ancient Norsemen perfected their swift-sailing, dragonheaded longships. They left rugged fiords in search of open land, trade, treasure, or fame. They landed in North America over four hundred years before Columbus. Their exploits are recounted in the ancient Norse sagas. A Dream of Dragons is a modern saga written with all the power of a true story retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse and beautifully illustrated by Mary A...

This beautifully written book provides an enchanting window into a small corner of the American Dream. In Voices In The Hills, Nessa Flax, a columnist for the Journal Opinion, a local New Hampshire/Vermont paper, brings out the big and the small in herself and her rural community with all the zest and wisdom drawn from a life of many loves, friendships and small town encounters as a writer embedded in her community.

Lavishly Illustrated, fact-filled and Now in a new, enhanced paperback edition, The Cherry Blossom Festival: Sakura Celebration commemorates 100 years of Washington D.C's Cherry Blossom Festival in a new enhanced paperback edition. Extensive illustrations complement intriguing stories of how the Japanese cherry blossom trees were planted around the tidal basin and of the development of the National Cherry Blossom Festival honoring the trees an...

Old Bob was old Abe's horse and he was loyal and the manes of both horse and master blew haphazardly this way and that as their way across the prairies long before Old Abe became the most important President America ever had. Old Bob took his master over barely passable trails, across almost unfordable rivers, through endless reaches of tall grass and heavy rain which obscured any view, as Abraham Lincoln rode the circuit of his law practice o...

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This is the true story of Fu Manchu, an adult male orangutan, who relishes outsmarting his friend, zookeeper Jerry Stones. He does just that when he escapes his enclosure at will and spends sunny days with the elephants in another part of the zoo. At first Jerry believes his staff's carelessness allowed the crafty ape to get out. But when that assumption proves wrong, he launches an all-out surveillance mission to discover how Fu manages his g...