"An illustrated board book version of poet Christina Rossetti's simple classic rhyme encourages young learners to actively follow along as a pancake is made. Includes a basic recipe"--

Life is a meditative collection of your innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires. The poems included throughout are striking and inviting. Readers will feel welcome to journey alongside you as you discover and find your true happiness.

Savor the delicious flavors of joy, inspiration, and inner fulfillment with "Bite-Sized Bliss," a delightful poetry book that serves up delectable nuggets of happiness and wisdom. In these verses, words are the sweet morsels that tantalize the senses, offering readers a taste of the simple pleasures and profound insights that make life truly blissful. "Bite-Sized Bliss" is a poetic confectionery that celebrates the beauty of the everyday and the transformative...

Winner, IP Rolling Picks 2013, Best Creative Non-Fiction. Deborah Kay teams up with award-winning social issues journalist Barry Levy to provide a courageous and compassionate account of what happened to her, and how she avoided being warped by her experiences, allowing, as she puts it, pockets of sunlight to shine through her. Sexual abuse of children is all too common in society today. Media reports focus on the crime and its consequences...

To any tourist in Rome, Old Maria may seem to be an eccentric soul who feeds stray cats and thinks she can talk with them. Things are rarely as they seem. In fact, she can. A dying cardinal has given Maria a final, urgent wish. His time is running short. On the surface, it seems impossible to grant. Things are rarely as they seem. Especially with Maria and her cats at work. And for those who truly love, the impossible is only an illusion. What you...

you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvyIn Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Maori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form these poems range from plain-speaking prose and concrete poetry to odes and spells; in mood they are just as restless, taking in those times when life...

Art in her roomShe's the only portrait, I caught at first glanceHer journal states, that there is more to seeMy eyes...she wants me, to use them less*Sakari*

How does one navigate life? This is a question asked by most teenagers on the planet, as they step on the edge of being an adult. This is a question I've asked myself for the longest time, as I traversed breakups and fought exams, questioned the very existence of my meaning, which I then expressed in these poems and extracts from my diary. The pages inside this book are windows into my soul. Little cries for help from the past couple of years. The...

This collection offers an intimate glimpse into a life weathered by adversity yet renewed by purpose. The candid verses inside reflect the mind and heart of a writer who has suffered yet chooses to share the lessons and hope gleaned along the way.With grit-edged honesty and tenderness, the poems mine the profound human experiences that forge us: love and loss, joy and grief. They chronicle the search for meaning amidst the hellish trials of life,...