Kenny And April Costumes

Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative visual guide to women's fashion across five centuries.Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over t... [Read More]

This bestselling counting book for beginning readers is filled with ghosts, a witch and spooky fun!It's Halloween, and ten timid ghosts in a haunted house have a problem: a mean witch has moved in and is planning to scare them out, one by one! Young trick-or-treaters learn to count down from ten to one as each ghost flees from the witch's silly costumes and homemade props. When the homeless ghosts gather in the woods, their fear turns to determination and they plot to get their house back. Will... [Read More]

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century.

New; pristine. See scans and description. Asheville, NC: Fiberarts Magazine, 1996. March - April, 1996, that being Volume 22, No.5. Edited by Ann Batchelder. Quarto, photo-illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 88 pp. The Clothing & Costumes Issue. New, and in rather remarkable condition for such a now-vintage publication. Bright, flawless, and still containing the tipped-in order form. See all scans. Sumptuously illustrated, primarily with color photography. Dressing the Body; A Collection of Clothin... [Read More]