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Master volleyball's key techniques and elevate performance in all facets of the sport. Volleyball Skills & Drills teaches the fundamentals and contains the proper progressions to help players master and apply those skills on the court when it counts. Featuring 90 of the sport's best drills, this guide will maximize both the rate and quality of learning to help players and coaches get the most out of each practice session.
Developed by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, this book includes an introduction by Taras Liskevych and chapters from 10 of the game's top coaches on the topics they know best:
- Paul Arrington: Practicing
- Sean Byron: Setting
- Don Hardin: Blocking
- Jim McLaughlin: Attacking
- Marilyn Nolen: Receiving Serves
- Penn State assistants with Russ Rose: Playing Defense
- Tom Peterson: Serving
- Joan Powell: Digging
- Joe Sagula: Playing Offense
- Stephanie Schleuder: Transitioning
Volleyball Skills & Drills is both the perfect in-season coaching manual and a superb off-season player development manual. It's like attending the best volleyball clinic available on each important aspect of individual and team performance!
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volleyball book.......2006-11-10
this is a usefull book for beginners specially if you need to know soem aorkouts for improvement in volleyball.
Never played volleyball before?.......2006-07-08
Now I realize that I have had more experience in volleyball then most people but this book was insulting to my intelligence. If you are a knowledgeable player turned coach then don't waste your money. Many of the notions are outdated and many of drills a five year old could invent. This book was written by great volleyball minds, but for some reason it falls short in all areas. If you are a new to this sport as a coach or player then this book is great for you. I gave it two stars because there was one clever drill in it that I will use.
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For players and coaches at all competitive levels, Volleyball Drill Book: Individual Skills presents over two hundred drills for the development and improvement of basic volleyball skills, including:
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In his fifteen years of head coaching experience, Bob Bertucci has established a reputation as one of the nation's top volleyball coaches. As the head coach at Rutgers for the past five years, Bertucci's record has included being named the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Coach of the Year in 1988, 1990, and 1992, consistent appearances in the National Top 20 Poll, and an appearance in the NCAA Final Four in 1990. James A. Peterson, PhD, is the author of over thirty sports and fitness books. A former instructor at the United States Military Academy, he is currently Director of Sport Medicine at Stairmaster Sports/Medical Products, Inc.
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good basic book.......2005-08-22
This book helped a great deal as a beginning volleyball instructor
VOLLEYBALL DRILL BOOK;GAME ACTION DRILLS.......2005-07-28
THE BOOK HAS THE SAME DRILLS AS ANYOTHER BOOK NO NEW DRILLS DESCRIPTION VERY VAGUE.
It's volleyball, not rocket science.......2001-08-28
I'm trying to help myself and my team improve so I bought this game action drills book. There are no pictures to demonstrate proper stances, only X's and O's. I felt like I was in a Pro Football locker room. The book is obviously aimed at the experienced coach who understands the jargon and the diagrams. I found my help at the local library in the kids volleyball section. [....]
Volleyball Unbalanced.......2001-07-22
Introduction: The following article is about a high school physical education project that has impacted the Federation International de Volleyball to change its rule of play for volleyball. Before the invention of Rocball, a game developed by high school students in Saipan, volleyball had no significant rule changes from 1895 to almost 1995. The developement of Rocball in 1980, its 18 years as an organized sporting activity and its subsequent media coverages, is the game that has changed the way this kind of team net sport will forever be played. NEWS RELEASE: 6/16/01
A SPORT'S CORPSE
AFFLICTION: (1:5) When the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB) disemboweled volleyball of its side out scoring system, they eviscerated volleyball of some of its most prolific and unique competitive features. Now, what FIVB is presently promoting as volleyball, under the malefic influence of rally point scoring, is nothing more than the reanimated corpse of what W.G. Morgan created as a team net sport back in 1895.
SYMPTOM: (2:5) The fact is, if the FIVB had any sense of balance, insight, intuitive perceptions, or integral rational when they attempted to remold volleyball's scoring system, they would have benefited far better, if they would have taken advantage of what potential volleyball had to offer, and should have put more mental effort into working with the intrinsic values of volleyball's side out scoring system's competitive nature. But, they didn't and in their attempt to develope an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system, they failed miserably. The FIVB, either by ignorance, by fault of thought, or suffering from acute vacuity, neglected to recognize the importance of the serve and the significance of the service team's position in this kind of team net sport, as the game's catylists.
DIAGNOSIS: (3:5) Under the rally point scoring system, the team in service is handicapped with the serve, and the receiving team is in the dilemna of having the scoring advantage for the disadvantage of the serve. The team in service has one hit to send a ball over the net on the serve to score points. The receiving team has the advantage of three hits to set up a counterattack and numerous different types of opportunities to score points off the serve. So, under the rally point scoring system, it would seem that the serve has become more of a sacrfice than a challenge.
What is the source of origin for rally point scoring? The following is a description of the rules of play for ping pong with inserts in parenthesis to highlight its rally point connection: "hitting the ball back and forth over the net until one player (team player) missess the ball, or hits it onto the net or off the table (court); in each of these cases, the opponent scores a point. When a serve touches the net (hits the net and slides down on the opponent's court) but otherwise a good serve, it is called a "let". Ping pong is a game where each player has a paddle and one hit to bounce the ball off the table, on serve or in play, to send it over the net in an attempt to score.
Under the influence of ping pong via the rally point scoring system, in a scenario where team "A" and "B" start a game with team "A" in service: If team "A" makes a bad serve like a line fault, team "B" will earn a point. Then team "B" earns the right to be disadvantaged with the serve: If team "B" serves the ball into the net for a bad serve, team "A" will earn a point and then they will be burden with the serve again. When team "A" makes their second serve, if they hit the ball over the net and scuccessfully score a point against team "B", team "A" will have to make a third serve. If team "A" then hits the ball over the net and out of bounds, team "B" will earn another point.
In the four serves just described, the ball was only served over the net once. Team "A" served the ball three times and was the only team that hit or served the ball over the net. Team "B" served the ball once and they never hit the ball over the net. Four points were scored and as incredible as it is, truth being stranger than fiction, team "A" and team "B" are tied at two points each. If that isn't an inflated and gross misrepresentation of the net value of competitive action in an offensive and defensive scoring system for a team net sport, it will have to do unless something worse comes along, if that's possible.
And if all of that isn't bad enough, if team "A" and team "B" have scored a game to set point 23 to 24, and team "A" is at service with 23 points and makes a bad serve, team "B" wins the set. The ball doesn't have to be served over the net and a team doesn't have to be challenged to hit the ball off the serve to win a set.
The rally point scoring system's anemic, self inflicting, unearned error point's system and its anticlimatic methods of winning a game, are not examples of how anomalies may be created when working to develope an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system for a team net sport. These are two different stages of how and when rigormortis sets into a team net sport that has been unbalanced, become redundantly repetitive, is suffering from stress, competitive convulsion, and shock. And, they are the direct results of the Fallacious Indolent Vertiginous Blounderers (FIVB) efforts to make a team sport out of ping pong and displace it onto a volleyball court.
THERAPY: (4:5) Under the side out scoring system, a served ball is a challenge and a threat because it can't be penalized error points to the advantage of the service team's opponent. However, It is also the responsibility of the team in service to provoke a competitive situation of cause and effect. When a team in service fails to fullfill the character of its role, a penalty situation would be defined and enforced. And, a service penalty where a point would be lost instead of awarded to a team by error would be more the proper judgement of an offensive and defensive scoring system's competitive nature for a team net sport.
In a game like volleyball, the service team's exclusive advantage to maintain earned points off the serve should remain inviolate. If the service team fails in its responsibility to successfully challenge its opponents off the serve, it should be penalized a point. The service team would lose one point off its score. From this method, a service team's opponents would benefit by either increasing its lead, reducing the service teams lead, or gaining the lead if both teams are tied. But, most important of all, there would be no unearned points awarded, non competitive action would be devalued, and each team would have to gain set/game point off the net value of its own competitive scoring strategies and skills.
However, in order for the serve to be valuable enough to compete for in a offensive and defensive side out scoring system, the receiving team would be limited with two hits off any serve. When the receiving team is then able to successfully hit and send the ball back over the net in two hits, the service team would be the first team to have the three hit advantage of setting up an attack to score. The receiving team could earn the service off their two hit defense of the serve, but they would not be allowed to score unless they successfully defended against the service team's three hit attack. The third time the ball is hit over the net, is after the service team has had first opportunity to set up an attack off three hits. The third time the ball crosses over the net, is also when the receiving team would have its three hits to set up a counter attack and score points. Then both teams would be under equitable competive circumstances and whichever team scored first, would win the advantages of the serve.
And, only the first serve of the person occuppying or rotating into the service position would be subject to penalty. Otherwise, all that would have been created, would be an inversion of what has degenerated the game of volleyball under the rally point scoring system; where every non-competitive action off any serve, is an unearned error point for the service team's opponent. It is enough that a team loses a point and the scoring advantages of the serve, off the first serve. Making a bad serve on any subsequent serves, would cost the service team its scoring advantage, but any further non-competitive serve would remain neutral.
The serve, in a team net sport, should create an atmosphere of anxiety not conditions of anticipation for the service team's opponents. The competitive environment in a situation where there is offensive and defensive scoring system, requires adjustments in order for the service team to maintain its scoring advantage. The service team would have the advantage of two point aces and an optional scoring technique to offset its own penalty in service. The two point ace occurs when, off the serve, a receiving team player hits a serve
Not what it appears to be.......2001-07-07
Though this book seems to boast ideas for self-improvement, the title "Individual Skills" is misleading. I was looking forward to discovering some drills I could do on my own to improve my performance but when I got the book, I found nearly every drill listed requires full team. There are some good ideas for teams, but as far as individually, the book lacks in suggestions for self-improvement independent. I would not recommend this book to anyone who is playing recreational volleyball and looking to improve on his/her own time.
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The book is a comprehensive tool for developing all of the skills of volleyball in addition to providing drills that help coaches handle specific situations that they will incur with their teams. The book has approximately 100 drills and touches upon defensive systems, conditioning and game strategies. The book provides over 80 diagrams, terminology and key phrases.
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A very highly recommended manual.......2004-07-16
Jim Bertoli draws upon a highly successful and extensive volleyball coaching career to write Volleyball Skills & Drills, a comprehensive instruction manual for developing all of the skills of volleyball as a competitive sport. The drills provided will help other coaches handle specific situations that will inevitable occur with the teams. Showcasing some one hundred specific drills, Volleyball Skills & Drills also addresses the relevant issues of defensive systems, conditioning, and game strategies. A very highly recommended manual for anyone charged with the responsibility of coaching a volleyball team, Volleyball Skills & Drills is enhanced with definitions of terminology, key phrases, and more than eighty illustrative diagrams.
Wow, what a helpful book!.......2004-06-07
I picked up this book because a friend told me it was great. And let me tell you if you want to become a professional vollyball coach like Jim Bertoli you had better buy this book. It has tons of helpful tips and skills for getting you team in tip top shape. It's a great buy. Five stars!
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Great Book on Volleyball full of practical help.......2004-11-11
Years ago, when I was a new and struggling volleyball coach for a Christian school, I felt discouraged as I attempted to teach the players. The drills I came up with weren't gamelike and didn't promote team unity. Enter Don Casey, volleyball coach extraodinaire who played under greats like Marv Varonee and Bill Neville. I attended a few of his clinics and started to finally understand how to teach and coach effectively. He is also a strong Christian. My team went on to win state. Now all of Don's wisdom including some excellent devotionals taken straight from volleyball are in this 377 page volume. This book will make any coach, athlete or player better at volleyball and at life.
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With Rumpole Rests His Case, legions of fans welcomed back the curmudgeonly London barrister they had loved for years—and they are eager for more. The six new stories in Rumpole and the Primrose Path find Horace Rumpole—despite a heart attack that left him at death's door in the previous volume—deftly parrying everything from the admonitions of his wife, Hilda, to the vagaries of his legal colleagues and their new director of marketing, Luci. With her cell phone, corporate jargon, glossy brochures, and plans to give their chambers a new image, Luci presumes Rumpole is soon to expire, and has been planning his memorial service. But the witty and irreverent Rumpole, sharp as ever, is far from hanging up his wig!
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Brilliant as usual!.......2007-08-21
In this book of six stories we see Rumpole as he comes back from a heart attack that took him at the end of the last book. And does he ever come back! He is vigorous and apparently healthy, but just as curmudgeonly as usual in this book of stories. The stories in this book are all equally wonderful. They are witty, tricky and the loveable Rumpole rules over them all. Rumpole is not just a character, he is a literature icon like Jeeves and Bertie Wooster or Albert Campion. As usual I like to pick a favourite out of these stories. They are all excellent, but I think I enjoyed Rumpole and the New Year's Resolutions the best. The mistaken email that is sent to the new Director of Marketing by Soapy Sam is so funny, and the way that Rumpole deals with Ballard's embarassment is priceless. Not only that it's so realistic because this sort of thing happens with emails all the time. My only complaint is that these stories end too soon. I love Rumpole, and reading his books is a huge high for me. Never once does Mortimer ever let his characters slip from their own reality. They are true blue throughout each book, and this makes them appear so real. Mortimer is a master storyteller.
Worthy successors.......2007-08-01
I have been a Rumpole fan for many years, and although I agree that these stories are not quite up to some of the earlier stories, I still find them highly enjoyable.
Rumpole Returns... Again!.......2007-06-22
At the end of the previous book, Rumpole Rests His Case, we were left with a Rumpole who was clearly dying -- giving his final summing up from his hospital bed to a room full of fellow patients. But the beginning of RUMPOLE AND THE PRIMROSE PATH brings a Rumpole on the road to recovery, finding an interesting mystery while still confined to his hospital room. Of the death of his fictional creation Inspector Morse, author Colin Dexter said that he didn't kill him; he simply let Morse die. Somehow I don't think John Mortimer is ready to let go of Rumpole just yet.
The fictional universe inhabited by Rumpole is a strange place. Ever since the series began in the late 1970s, Rumpole has been on the cusp of retirement. But as we reach ever further into the 21st century, Rumpole hasn't seen to have significantly aged. (It should be noted that it was back in 1980 that Mortimer first utilized the "Rumpole returning from retirement/illness" plot line.) Some fans may find this bemusing. I actually find it very entertaining. The anachronistic Rumpole living in a world where his old-fashioned Chambers has both a website and an image consultant provides amusement for those of us who have been following his adventures for some time.
In this particular collection of short stories, Rumpole sees himself slowly working back to full strength after the heart attack he suffered at the end of the last book. Paying as much attention to medical advice as he does to judges and instructing solicitors, he leaps back into the swing of things, annoying his coworkers and defending the apparently indefensible.
The stories here follow the usual pattern that Mortimer has developed over the years. Rumpole is given what appears to be an utterly hopeless case (alternatively he may be forced to have a leader or for some other reason isn't the chief defender). The themes brought up by the case will be mirrored either in his dealings with his fellow members of chambers or in his relationship with She Who Must Be Obeyed (his wife, if you didn't know). Rumpole will discover some missing element, which turns the main plot on its head. The jury will then decide whether Rumpole has produced enough reasonable doubt. The jury's decision will neatly temporally coincide with the resolution of the subplot.
It may seem like I'm criticizing the Rumpole stories by reducing them to their constituent elements but I'm not. I enjoy the Rumpole stories, and I enjoy Mortimer's formula. There is usually enough variation to keep each story fresh. Although I must say that in this particular collection Mortimer one too many times kept the reader from following the trail of the mystery by withholding some crucial fact until the mystery's revelation.
In any case, it isn't always the mystery that is the fun part. Sometimes, it's the journey. Whether it's the humor (at one point a very matter-of-fact Rumpole interviews a stripper in the middle of her floor routine) or the hints of the autobiographical (Rumpole fleetingly refers to learning the law in his youth from an "old, blind law tutor"; John Mortimer's father was a blind barrister and a strong influence on his son), there's a lot to enjoy. But despite my praise, I am not sure if I'd recommend this to someone unfamiliar with the Rumpole canon. Some of the stories are a little too formulaic and the mysteries themselves are weaker than what Mortimer has produced in the past. It's a fun, nostalgic good time, but long-times fans will probably appreciate it more than new-comers can.
One of the best Rumpole books.......2006-02-23
I like this book because it introduces Luci Gribble, the new director of marketing and administration at Rumpole's Chambers. Luci is always spouting corporate jargon and at first glance doesn't seem like anyone Rumpole would like, but she turns out to be a valuable ally and a good friend. She helps him solve the mysteries in "Rumpole and the Primrose Path" and "Rumpole Redeemed," covers for him when his wife Hilda ("She Who Must Be Obeyed") demands that he start working out at a gym, and helps him make it up to Hilda when it transpires that he hasn't been working out as regularly as he says he has. Almost thirty years after the first Rumpole book came out, John Mortimer still knows how to keep Rumpole fresh and enjoyable.
What ever happened to Rumpole's son, Nick?.......2005-09-25
I have read all of the Rumpople books. I enjoyed this one but it occurs to me that we have not heard anything about Rumpole's son, Nick, his wife and his grandchild (children?) back in America. With Rumpole being sickly, this would have been a great time to have him come in for a visit. Rumpole was a loving dad to him; I sure would like to have Nick and family come for a visit in the hopefully-next Rumpole book.
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"One of the genre's wittiest pens. Barbara Metzger deliciously mixes love and laughter."
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'TWAS MORE THAN JUST A BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN NEIGHBORS!
Seventh Viscount Knowle--a war hero, a rising star in politics, a nonpareil in tonnish circles--has become a laughingstock. His legacy has gone to the dogs--literally. Primrose Cottage has been inherited by a hoard of hairy heirs under the doting care of his late aunt's companion, Miss Angelina Armstead.
Angelina couldn't be happier, even as Lady Sophie's top-lofty nephew shamelessly tries to reason with, bribe, threaten, and kiss her (twice!), hoping to persuade her to leave. He fails, of course, fearing that he's lost not only his inheritance but his heart as well. . . .
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Dogs rule in this charming tale!.......2005-04-16
What a fun tale - the personalities of the dogs make this story so wonderful. How many books have fainting dogs, man-hating dogs, escaping dogs, horse biting dogs, sheep killing dogs (unfairly labeled!), and little blind barking mites of dogs. Throw in a spy in the shape of a French courtesan, a respectable duchess, a "fallen" schoolteacher, a sweet companion (our heroine) and a toplofty viscount (our hero) and you have a delightful romp with all sorts of hilarious situations!
Poor Corin (our viscount hero)! All he wants is Primrose Cottage to serve as a place to hide a spy (serving England). Now his Aunt Sophie has died, the place will be his! But Aunt Sophie had other plans and the cottage was left to her companion, Angelina. She is to care for all the remaining dogs that Aunt Sophie has collected during her life, oversee the building of a "home for dogs," and collect a little salary besides.
Corin tries hard to find homes for these dogs for the sooner they are gone, the sooner Angelina is gone. But instead he loses his heart as "Angel" becomes less a drab companion and more of a lady. The romance is very sweet. Angelina tries hard not to lose her heart since she believes she is unfit to be a Lord's wife.
You will laugh your way through all the dog tales (pun intended) and other intrigues that go on to a very satisfying conclusion. Well worth reading and keeping!
In the minority here.......2005-04-08
While this book wasn't awful, and a rating of 2.7 would probably be more accurate, I found all those dogs annoying more than amusing. The book is something of a farce, more than a romp. Knowle is obnoxious to begin with, his encounters with the dogs are sometimes amusing, and he does grow on you. It's just that I never cared much what happened to the lovebirds, and so much of the story was ridiculously farfetched. Faulty book.
Going to the doggies . . ........2000-07-03
1. Go to your nearest bookstore or library. 2. Purchase/select a copy of "The Primrose Path" by Barbara Metzger. 3. Go to a very private place before you begin to read.
4. Read about the tumultuous events at Primrose Cottage, which, although he truly doesn't need it, the Seventh Viscount Knowle had anticipated to be a part of his inheritance. While he was off fighting Boney, however, his aged Aunt Sophie had not only acquired a companion, Miss Angelina Armstead, but a hoard of hairy 'heirs' as well. The two ladies have turned Primrose Cottage into a sanctuary for problem doggies, or doggies with problems. As the somewhat toplofty Viscount tries to dislodge Miss Angelina along with her doggies, a slightly different outcome occurs. She dislodges his heart from the block of ice in which it had been hiding. As all of this unfolds, you will no doubt --
5. Chuckle. 6. Chortle. 7. Giggle. 8. Guffaw. 9. Wipe tears from eyes. 10. Laugh some more, ad infinitum.
Warning: Do not, under any circumstances, give this book to anyone who is recuperating from surgery. Anyone who has had stitches put into their person within the previous thirty days must avoid this book for at least another thirty days.
This is without doubt, the funniest book I have ever read. If only Ms. Metzger could write for television. She'd keep people off the streets, that's for certain. It's really too bad there can't be extra stars available for such superlative efforts.
Hilarious Regency Romp By One Of The Genre's Best!.......1998-08-30
How could a publisher with any business -- or otherwise! -- sense allow any book of Barbara Metzger's to go out of print? She is one of the Regency genre's best writers, and one of the wittiest authors in any genre. One of the reviews here cited saw this as a movie, and I heartily concur---the situations and slapstick in The Primrose Path are positively hilarious. Viscount Knowle (aka Knolly) finds himself up to his champagne-polished Hessian boots in dogs, long-lost sisters, French spies, ex-mistresses, languishing possible fiancees, and others, when he tangles with the formidable Angelina Armistead, his late aunt's companion. Knowle has to remove Angelina from Primrose Cottage in order to house a fleeing French spy, but Lena aka Angel has been mandated by the late aunt's will to provide a home for her numerous dogs. A clash of wills and personalities becomes a charming love story. Knowle is a marvelous hero, even as he fends off the monstrous Ajax and the problematic Puddles, and tries to keep upwind of old Windy. A smart BBC producer would do well to snap this up. But do BBC producers (or any producers at all) read Regency romances???? Well, they should!
regency the way it should be!.......1998-07-23
What can I say, a Regency isn't supposed to take itself too seriously...and this one leaves you smiling. In fact, you should be smiling the whole time you are reading this book. There are twista and turns, but never for a moment are you in doubt that love will some how win out in the end.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1878 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig.
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Rumpole and the Primrose Path (BBC Radio Collection)
John Mortimer
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Country-Style Painted Wood Projects
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Donna Kooler Design Studio
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Wish you could fill your home with charm? Try making these fabulous projects: a rooster crooning a barnyard welcome, a loving piglet covered in pink hearts, a black cat bedecked in jack-o'-lanterns, a beautiful blueberry step stool, and dozens more of the most delighful country-style designs ever! Every pattern is here, including helpful color drawings illustrating each decorative layer, from base to shadow and highlights, to final details. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.
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Fun and colorful ideas for wood painting.......1998-07-02
Table of Contents - General Instructions: - General Supplies - Projects like: Wart the Frog Flopsie Rabbit Sittin' Kitten Barnyard Welcome Henny Penny all with a photo, instructions and patterns
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