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Presents a guide to publishing and illustrating children's works, providing information on publishers, agents, magazines, conferences, awards, and grants, with essays from professionals in the field.

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Word Up! From amusia to xerophagy, from the ephemeral to the vituperative, The Word Lover's Delight is chockablock with words that are not only fascinating and unusual but that you can use in your everyday speech--to jaw-dropping effect. With a wide range of words, from the moderately difficult to the somewhat ostentatious, The Word Lover's Delight gives each word a phonetic pronunciation, a memorable example of its use in speech, and an easy-to-understand...

Large screen TVs and fullline DVD services have liberated movie lovers from fear of parking and stale popcorn. Across the country, movie lovers are staying in and creating their own version of book clubs - but without the homework. The Movie Lovers' Club - the only guide for movie nights with friends - motivates readers to form their own Lovers' Club clubs to explore the more than 100 excellent film suggestions, summaries, critical reviews, and insider...

Perhaps one of the less known facts about the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti is that he kept wombats in his garden at Cheyne Walk, London, to whom he and Christina addressed poetry (he also kept zebu - a type of cattle). This is just one of the stories in this entertaining book, which brings together two great British pastimes: animal husbandry and the garden. Taking the reader on a journey from the armadillos owned by merchants in...

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