A new strand in the bestselling Usborne Magic Painting range, specially designed for little children to bring garden bugs, animals and plants to life with a sweep of a brush. Filled with simple yet stylish pictures designed to appeal to little children, featuring garden plants and wildlife from bumble bees to tulips to squirrels. Use the brush provided to sweep water over the designs and bring the colours to life; a laminated flap prevents water seeping through to the pages beneath. The 15 beautifully simple designs help to teach brush control.

Brush the pages of this book with water and see the fairies and flowers in the enchanted garden burst into beautiful colour! There are 16 scenes to paint with intricate, black and white illustrations of a fairy garden covered in snow, a lake of lily pads, a fairy fruit patch and lots more. With a fold-out back cover to prevent colours running onto the page beneath.

Celebrate the cute, tiny, magical and whimsical world of fairy gardens using this resourceful and inspiring book as the guide. Donni Webber crafter, fairy gardening guru and creator of FairyGardens.com -takes readers on a journey to build unique gardens, houses and accessories for fairies. The garden designs are low-cost and low-care, highlighting common, long-lasting plants. The accessories and furniture projects are easy to make, come together quickly and use natural materials or commonly found craft supplies. The playful and imaginative trend of miniature & fairy gardening caught fire in the craft world several years ago, and it has only grown in popularity. It's the quick-and-easy -and super cute -way to become a gardener! These gardens are a big hit with kids, who love to imagine the magical creatures that enjoy the garden when the kids are asleep or away from home. Plus, the gardens make adorable home decorations (and gifts!) for adults that can fit on an end table, desk or bookshelf. Our book is a new offering on the market with easy beginner gardens and accessories, as well as more unique themes like using a gourd to create a Gaudy Gnome Home complete with mossy windows, wood round steps, a burlap broom, a flowerpot chimney and more. The theme of magic and enchantment will run throughout the book in Donni's engaging tone of writing and photography.

“Rich with photographs and descriptions of how landscape design has shaped and reflected culture over time.” —The American Gardener The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is organized chronologically and by theme, starting with the medieval garden Alhambra and ending with the modern naturalism of the Lurie Garden. Sumptuously illustrated, The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens is a comprehensive resource for garden designers and landscape architects, design students, and garden history enthusiasts.

This book aims to equip early years practitioners with the resources and skills required to create a stimulating learning environment and to fully include EAL children into their settings. It provides practical ways to show children and their families that their language and culture are valued and respected, so that they can feel secure and accepted. There are 49 activities included that focus on different areas of the Expressive Arts and Design goal, and help practitioners to develop children's language and communication skills as they play.

In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian and French Jesuits, the garden described in this book was a wonderland of multistoried buildings, fountains, labyrinths, and geometrical hills. It even included an open-air theater. Through detailed examination of historical literature and representations, Zou analyzes the ways in which the Jesuits accommodated their design within the Chinese cultural context. He shows how an especially important element of their approach was the application of a linear perspective--the "line-method"--to create the jing, the Chinese concept of the bounded bright view of a garden scene. Hui Zou's book demonstrates how Jesuit metaphysics fused with Chinese cosmology and broadens our understanding of cultural and religious encounters in early Chinese modernity. It presents an intriguing reflection on the interaction between Western metaphysics and the poetical tradition of Chinese culture. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields, including literature, philosophy, architecture, landscape and urban studies, and East-West comparative cultural studies.