The Cat Who Had Two Lives

Book Description

The cat who came in from the cold...

He was bone thin, scruffy, and feverish when he crawled out from under a wagonful of pumpkins and laid his head on Bob Huxley's foot. Sally Huxley fed him scrambled eggs, he purred weakly, and they all accepted the inevitable.

They called him Pip and nursed him back to health, while consenting to the rules he gently established for their relationship--no barn living, no cut-rate cat food, no benign neglect. Pip required the best of everything, especially love.

But even love couldn't save Pip from petty feline problems: nasty pills, the pushy tomcat next door, a puppy rival, irksome car trips, inedible Bucks County wildlife, and the sudden perils of woods and road.

Anyone who has ever loved a cat will lap up this heartwarming true story of the little being who got a second chance at life and made the most of it...even as he turned his human friends' notions about themselves and the world upside down.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews:

Another unique feline lovingly remembered........2004-12-07

Author Sally Huxley and her husband Bob are just getting settled into their new country home when they find themselves adopted by a sickly stray cat, which the couple eventually name Pip. How they adjust to their new companion and the interesting adventures they share make for the usual heartwarming collection of Cute Cat Stories that climax with a tragic end, Pip meeting the fate of many an outdoor cat. Huxley tries a half-hearted pro-and-con argument about whether keeping a cat indoors all the time or letting it out is better or worse. I am a devout "In" and Pip's fate is the reason why. The book, while a little uneven in the linking of cute memories, will undoubtedly warm the hearts, before leaving the inevitable lump in the throat, of its cat loving readers.

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The Cat Who Had Two Lives
Sally Huxley
Manufacturer: Donald I. Fine
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SZUC2I

Books Unbound
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Books Unbound
Michael Jacobs
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Create handmade books like you've never seen before! Go ahead, break the boundaries of bookmaking—it's fun and easy with Books Unbound. Using simple bookmaking techniques, you can turn an ordinary book into a handmade sculptural masterpiece.

Book artist Michael Jacobs takes you step-by-step through twenty innovative projects, including travel journals, modular books, wired books, and books within boxes. Inside you'll also find:

• Project templates that make book construction a snap • Expert advice and valuable tips on bookmaking tools, materials and techniques • Imaginative variations to give each project a unique twist

The pages of Michael Jacob's book constructions are filled with excitement. Featuring inserts, flaps, pockets and secret compartments, the books invite viewers to explore and experience the surprises hidden within. And now, with Books Unbound, you can create your own new and unexpected book creations!

The Michaels Book of Paper Crafts
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Checked out of the Library and decide I want this book

Lots of interesting ideas for decorating with paper

Comprehensive Paper Crafts Book

GROSSLY OVERPRICED; projects only fit for young children

The Michaels Book of Paper Crafts
Lark
Manufacturer: Lark Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

The ultimate papercrafters' book is here! This treasure trove filled with ideas, inspirations, and 120 projects is the natural follow up to the super success of Michaels Book of Arts & Crafts (300,000 copies sold to date!).

Scrapbookers, book crafters, card makers, decoupage, and paper Mache enthusiasts-they number in the millions and their industry generates billions of dollars each year. Now there's a Michaels crafts book just for them, representing the most popular, fastest-growing crafts in North America.

An incredible variety of ideas is showcased in this one jam-packed colorful volume; every single item is inviting, each technique intriguing, and all the newest tools and papers are presented so that anyone at any level can create professional effects right at home. Most of the projects in the 10 chapters are both exquisite and functional, and range from home decorating accessories (lampshades, photo frames, placemats) to keepsake items (journals, books, cards, scrapbooks), and from great gifts to holiday ornaments.

Magnificent full-color project and how-to-photographs bring the techniques to life and make them easy to follow. Here's an irresistible invitation to explore collage, paper clay, paper weaving and surface design. Stamped and embossed cards look like the expensive ones found in stores, paper clay dragonflies sparkle and shimmer; an elegant wedding announcement features fine embroidery and a tiny silver heart. These pages provide nothing less than endless inspiration.

A Main Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Customer Reviews:

Checked out of the Library and decide I want this book.......2006-10-24

Loved this book when I began flipping thru it. I always check books out of the Library to see if it would be worth me getting. This one is if you love paper.

Lots of interesting ideas for decorating with paper.......2006-02-05

The 'Michaels' in the title of this craft book refers to the Michaels craft store chain. If you're interested in an overview of just about everything decorative that can be done with paper, including paper clay, decoupage, paper maché, punching, embossing, cutting, piercing, quilling, rolling, and weaving then this will be a useful book.

For those of us who have already concentrated on particular paper techniques such as quilling or scrap-booking, then there are other craft books that focus on our specialty.

There are some really crazy projects in this book, which makes it fun to read. There are collaged and curled lamp shades, paper clay dragonflies, or how about a decoupaged holiday curio cabinet? The photographs, lists of materials, and directions are fairly easy to follow, but the individual projects would have been simplified if the book contained more patterns.

I did pick up a couple of unusual quilling techniques using crimped paper, and I was also able to make the woven heart envelopes (I used them as card decorations) described in this book. The woven heart envelope project was one of the few that included templates in four different sizes.

Another omission in this book was a list of sources where you could pick up the materials for a particular project. Maybe everything I need is available in a Michaels craft store but there aren't any in my area, and it appears as though they no longer sell their supplies on the internet.

Comprehensive Paper Crafts Book.......2005-12-22

I disagree with the reviewer who described the projects as mainly suitable for children. This is a well written, well designed book which can serve as an able introduction to various paper crafts. Yes, some of the material is available on the web, but you would need to test the instructions you found. My experience has been that Lark Books are good and that is true of this book.

GROSSLY OVERPRICED; projects only fit for young children.......2005-06-22

This book is grossly overpriced. Other than the origami (which is lovely, but you could buy a number of excellent origami books for the cost of this atrocity), the projects seem intended for young children -- and inept ones at that. There are many excellent craft books, magazines, and videos available, and cable television produces some outstanding shows (e.g., the Carol Duvall reruns, and I've heard great things about DIY, although we don't get that in my area). Don't waste your money on this overpriced garbage!

Origami Activities: Asian Arts & Crafts for Creative Kids

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Offers a wealth of rainy day fun

Origami Activities: Asian Arts & Crafts for Creative Kids
Michael G. LaFosse
Manufacturer: Charles E Tuttle Co
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Book Description

Children will have hours of fun with the 15 projects in this beginner origami book, designed to introduce them to the exciting world of paper-folding. A crane, a bat, and a lotus-topped gift box are just a few of the simple projects for first-time paper folders. The book includes an introduction to origami that explores its history, the kinds of paper used, preparation, and basic folding techniques. Each of the projects explores a different aspect of Asian culture. Origami is a wonderful way to stimulate a child's imagination and their interest in Asian art.
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Offers a wealth of rainy day fun.......2004-01-15

Origami Activities: Create Secrete Boxes, Good-luck Animals, And Paper Charms With The Japanese Art Of Origami presents clear instructions and simple diagrams for making delightful folded paper creations through the craft of origami. Informatively written by Michael G. LaFosse and enhanced with a profusion of illustrations, Origami Activities is especially intended for creative and curious young people ages 7 to 12, Origami Activities offers a wealth of rainy day fun and simple, easy-to-make crafts promoting hand-eye coordination.

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fold those bugs!!!!!

Origami Bugs (Kit with Book & Paper)
Michael G. LaFosse
Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
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Kids and folders of all ages will love turning brightly colored paper into 20 different creepy, crawly creatures. Fun to play with or for display, this kit contains everything the novice folder needs to get started in origami. Projects include ants, dragonflies, and tarantulas.

Kit includes 98 sheets of paper and two 32-page booklets with 20 projects.

Customer Reviews:

fold those bugs!!!!!.......2006-08-02

Micheal lafosse is a creative genius in the origami world. His books have great models as well as directions that you can follow and enjoy. Never hesitate to buy one of his origami books. Just the best! Bravo to you Michael!

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Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography

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Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
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A stunning collection of essays on the craft of biography and autobiography by the acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey.

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Opening with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing, the book goes on to examine the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp--to which he adds some adventures of his own, in particular an important and unpublished piece "The Making of GBS," a riveting story of internecine literary warfare.

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Dozens of delightful new adventures for paper crafters! Clear assembly instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams make it fun and easy to create a host of charming paper projects: "wobblers," "bouncers," dancing dollies, stand-up faces, special occasion masks, Santa Claus, hook-on hangers, and many more. 349 illustrations.

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Lame excuses for flowers

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From world renowned origami artist, Michael LaFosse, comes the essential collection of origami flower projects. These traditional designs and original creations make elegant paper flower arrangements for gifts or decoration. Perfect for all skill levels, Origami Flowers includes everything needed to get started in folding.

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Lame excuses for flowers.......2005-01-16

This book was written by someone who expected its readers to be morons who knew nothing about origami. Some of the patterns don't even look like flowers, and the ones that look nice mostly require cheating - cutting with scissors or using glue. There is also a huge lack in variety of leaf and calyx patterns. Don't waste your time with these two little pamphlets.

Creative Paper Toys and Crafts (Dover Craft Books)

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Creative Paper Toys and Crafts (Dover Craft Books)
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Noted author and craft consultant Michael Grater explores the many creative and beautiful ways in which you can use a simple yet exciting material: paper. His clearly written, well-organized text with photographs, diagrams, and easy-to-follow instructions incorporates techniques and shapes, and teaches you how to make models, figures, and mobiles from set-up to finished project. Introduction. 181 black-and-white illustrations.

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Parenting With Purpose: 12 Biblical Traits to Prepare Kids .

Outstanding Book to Prepare Kids Well for Life!

Outstanding Book to Prepare Kids Well for Life!

Excellent bible-based parenting book

Parenting with Purpose: 12 Biblical Traits to Prepare Kids for Life
Margaret Buchanan
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Parenting the Heart of Your Child offers practical strategies and tools for parents to help their children become morally mature people who make good decisions when no one is looking. Using God's plan for human development, parents can assess their children's maturity stage and help them move to the next level. The result, says Diane Moore, is heart maturity, not just compliance with rules.

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Parenting With Purpose: 12 Biblical Traits to Prepare Kids ........2004-03-07

This book is current, solid, easily read, and could be very helpful. It is an important one for people to read.

Not required reading for perfect parents! But, if you're like the rest of us, you'll be very glad you investigated it and kept it as a reference. The title and cover picture appear determined and sombre. Surely not another joyless, rule-laden, guilt-inducing diatribe for parents and caregivers! Indeed, not! (Should have known the author of "Jerks in the Bible" wouldn't do that to us.)

Using archery as her metaphor, Margaret Buchanan speaks clearly, realistically, with compassion and perceptiveness, of nurturing our children in the faith. Her rueful humour and honesty tell us, "She's been there!"

Biblically-based and worldly-wise, her intelligent, well- supported, meaty teachings are laid out in bite-size pieces, enhanced by topical and, sometimes surprising, current information summaries. This is an "interactive" book, inducing on-going personal reflection. Twelve chapter-end sets of questions invite discussion.

Apart from one "date" suggestion concerning the part to be played by the parent of the opposite sex in the process of encouraging chastity, I believe "Parenting with Purpose" is a wholesome, readable, "do-able" plan of action for hitting the mark.
Parents, grandparents, caregivers and congregational leaders, whether parents or not, ordained or lay, can benefit from reading or studying this book. The Church's children, from infant to senior citizen, and God's wider world, will also benefit, as a result.

Outstanding Book to Prepare Kids Well for Life!.......2004-03-03

Every loving, committed Christian parent faces the same challenge virtually from the moment that newborn babe is first placed in their arms. They wonder how to raise this child, teaching him or her all they'll need to learn to become a godly and productive man or woman. Each day of development brings only more questions, more challenges that parents had better be prepared for. Parenting with Purpose, 12 Biblical Traits to Prepare Kids for Life, by Margaret Buchanan is a book that will help equip parents for this enormous task.

Peppered with personal and practical illustrations, the author offers real ideas for parents. Each chapter contains a section called "Ready, Aim" that takes the Scripture lesson of the focus verse and makes it relevant to everyday life. The Bible stories used are condensed into accurate recaps with the lessons and applications clearly pointed out.

The end of each chapter contains a refreshing collection of questions to inspire discussion. Beyond the typical list of shallow queries often found in similar books, these are actually well thought out conversation starters.

Raising children in this world is a huge responsibility. Raising godly children in this ungodly age is beyond challenging. Parenting with Purpose provides practical teaching and application to assist in this challenge. In this fast food, drive-through age of instant gratification, so many people are looking for a quick fix. If that's what you're looking for, keep looking. This book will not offer a quick fix solution. But, instead it will provide real direction based on God's Word. Combining these principles with a life committed to Jesus will give our little ones a firm foundation on which to build a godly life.

Outstanding Book to Prepare Kids Well for Life!.......2004-02-29

The book focuses on the Scriptural qualifications for elders and deacons, suggesting parents use those as a guideline. The idea is to build these lessons into everyday life, teaching them to the children from the beginning thus laying a great foundation for raising godly children.

The end of each chapter contains a refreshing collection of questions to inspire discussion. Beyond the typical list of shallow queries often found in similar books, these are actually well thought out conversation starters.

Excellent bible-based parenting book.......2004-01-07

This is a well-written book and makes scriptures applicable to our present day situations as parents. It doesn't hold back in stating that following the teachings we receive in the Bible are perfect as a guide for how to raise our children, guiding and directing them. We don't have to look any further than God's word. The chapters are organized so when you want to refer back to a certain area, it's easy to find and re-read. Scripture verses/locations are given so if you want to refer to your Bible, you can. The best message of this book is that the parents need to model behaviors for their children for their children to develop good character and morals.

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