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  The Dogs of Boytown

  Walter A. Dyer

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  The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. Dyer is a heartwarming and entertaining classic that celebrates the special bond between boys and their canine companions. Filled with adventure, humor, and nostalgic charm, the book captures the spirit of youth through a series of memorable stories centered on the dogs that play an important role in the lives of young people.
  
  Set in a world where loyalty, friendship, and imagination shape everyday experiences, the narrative introduces a variety of dogs, each with a unique personality and a distinctive place in the community. Through playful escapades, unexpected challenges, and moments of genuine affection, readers witness the enduring companionship that develops between humans and their four-legged friends.
  
  Walter A. Dyer writes with warmth and affection, bringing to life the joys and lessons that come from caring for animals. His stories highlight the qualities that make dogs beloved companions—devotion, courage, intelligence, and unwavering loyalty—while also capturing the excitement and wonder of childhood.
  
  Themes of friendship, responsibility, adventure, loyalty, kindness, and growing up run throughout the book. The stories reflect the values of trust and companionship, showing how relationships with animals can teach important lessons about character and empathy.
  
  The Dogs of Boytown remains a delightful work of classic animal and juvenile literature. Its engaging storytelling, memorable characters, and affectionate portrayal of canine companionship continue to charm readers of all ages who appreciate stories about friendship, adventure, and the enduring connection between people and their pets.

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  Show and Tell - Healing From...

  Linda Litteral

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  Linda Litteral is a survivor of incest and rape who used art to heal from the destruction to the body and spirit which comes from physical and sexual abuse. In this courageous memoir, Litteral shares the story of her abuse, spanning eight years of incest perpetrated by her grandfather, a rape she experienced in high school, and physical and verbal violence she suffered at the hands of her first husband. She offers an in-depth psychological profile of the effects of abuse, including silence, shame, invisibility, powerlessness, guilt, and difficulties with trust and identity. She also illustrates how the body remembers abuse through symptomatology like dissociation, anxiety, chronic illness, and other post-traumatic stress responses. 
  Yet Litteral has done more than survive her past—she’s found a way to thrive in the present. She generously catalogs all the healing modalities she has experienced in her decades of undoing the destruction of her past, including talk therapy, meditation, yoga, breathwork, Tai Chi, and somatic-based therapies like acupuncture, EMDR, sacral cranial therapy, and Thought Field Therapy. But it’s when Litteral discovers the power of creating and sharing her art that her healing journey begins in earnest. Accompanied by rich full-color images of her art in every chapter, Litteral shares stories about the creation of her pieces, their stunning symbology, and how they aided in her healing journey. Litteral is both an artist and an activist, a fierce champion for survivors, and an unabashed advocate for the healing power of art.

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  Dirty Dancing - The Inside Story...

  Ellen Coyne

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  'A fascinating exposé on the history and crazy controversies' MARK TIGHE
  From Feis fixing to false allegations, why are the dance halls across this island such a hotbed for rumour and controversy?
  Irish dancing may sparkle on the stage – glittering costumes, perfect smiles, flawless footwork – but behind the polished performances lies a world far less picture perfect.
  When an explosive whistleblower email lands in the inbox of journalist Ellen Coyne, she is pulled into the high stakes, fiercely protected realm of competitive Irish dance. What she uncovers is a culture simmering with resentment and rivalry: allegations of feis fixing, toxic politics, whispered scandals and rumours that reach the biggest stages in the world.
  As Ellen follows the trail, the immaculate world of Irish dancing begins to crack open, revealing a community where ambition can turn corrosive and where the pursuit of victory often comes at an unbearable cost.

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  The Art of Writing Animation -...

  Alizée Musson

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  Is animation written with words or pictures?
  How do writers and animators turn ideas into animated films or series? What's the animation development process? Are animated stories only for kids? What makes animation characters iconic? Can animated short films and web series launch your animation writing career? Writer and script editor Alizée Musson steps behind the scenes to find answers.
  From Hollywood and independent cinema to TV, meet the creators of Pixar and Walt Disney's Inside Out and Brave, Peppa Pig, Wolfwalkers, Chicken for Linda!, Netflix's Supa Team 4, MarsExpress, American Dad! and many more. In over 25 case studies and interviews with writers, animators and producers - including an exclusive interview with the producer of Studio Ghibli's The Tale of The Princess Kaguya - discover all the storytelling tricks of the trade to write your own animated film or series and start your animation writing career.

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  Painting Watercolour Outdoors

  Geoff Hunt

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  This beautiful book shows you how to tackle the special challenge of painting in watercolour with the aim of creating finished pieces of work onsite. With inspiring examples and clear techniques, it guides you through the practice, joys and pitfalls of painting watercolour outdoors. It particularly explains how to observe the strength of light, colour and ideas for composition that you find when working directly from the subject outside. The experience and enthusiasm of its author makes this book an essential read for every artist who wants to enjoy the excitement of painting en plein air.

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  Johannes Vermeer: The Life and...

  Charles River Editors

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  Johannes Vermeer has fascinated a growing number of 21st century viewers with his most intimate depictions of the nature of human existence. The formal perfection of his compositions and the precision of his painting technique, expressing his fantastic narrative ability and accurate realism, have become a quintessential characteristic of the Dutch Golden Age of painting. Nearly 400 years later, Vermeer is still celebrated for his incomparable sense of timelessness, human dignity and unprecedented talent for creating luminosity and purity of color in his scenes. 
  Although his paintings may seem superficially simple at first, people still identify with the handful of themes from everyday life he covered. He was a highly respected artist of his time, but by the end of the 17th century, Vermeer had mostly faded into obscurity, which is why not much is known about the man he was or how he became in artist. His life as a family father, as an artist and as a man living in the 17th century Delft has been reconstructed with the help of notary documents, but plenty of aspects about his life remain unknown. 
  Though he was a renowned artist in his hometown during his life, Vermeer died impoverished, and after his death, he was quickly forgotten. In fact, throughout the 18th century, some of his paintings were even attributed to some of his more productive contemporaries. The revival of Vermeer’s reputation did not begin until the 19th century, when art historians started to recognize the extraordinary quality of his surviving works. Once Vermeer's paintings were rediscovered and became appreciated around the world, his artistic genius became clear, and his paintings were compared with the new art of photography. The mystique of the paintings he produced by using the most expensive pigments (such as ultramarine) and the technique of painting with an optical device known as a camera obscura made Vermeer an art pioneer, and it helped distinguish his work from those of his peers.

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