"Islands, A Coloring Book for Teens and Kids, 30 Hand-Drawn Drawings, 30 Poems and Recipes" by Shelley Gilbert, Award-winning Author, Artist, is a unique, super-creative activity and thought provoking book. This book is No.2 in the "Islands" series. The first is "Islands, A Coloring Book for Adults, 30 Drawings, 30 Poems" 2001. The third Islands book is for Adults, Volume 2. Islands books are about being an individual, about being yourself. The drawings contain a great variety of space sizes to color-large, medium, small. The abstract drawings will engage a young person's own imagination...

The well-reviewed autobiographical novel "Swimming Naked with Jellyfish" won the international 2009 Eric Hoffer Awards-Montaigne Medal Finalist Award for Thought Provoking Books and for Excellence in Independent Publishing. IRIS ANDREA confronts her grief over multiple loss of family by writing her memoir. In her struggle to know herself and her self-worth, she flashes back to growing up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn in the 1960s. She digs up intense childhood anger for her beloved tyrant father, passive mother, jealous sister but she also finds love. Iris powerfully narrates her encounters...

"Charming children's book. The stories are beautifully written and morally relevant." Little, Brown and Company. Romantica, God of The Seahorses, and her Angel children protect all the little seahorses as they learn the truths and lessons of life in the LAND OF SOOJ. LAND OF SOOJ is an early land where seahorses live. Each of the six seahorse stories is independent but all are connected by a seahorse family of God and Angels who look after the seahorses. Each story conjures up vivid and beautiful images. Fantasy and virtue are twin currents entwined throughout the flow of the stories. Land of...

..".refreshing new idea, novel idea, highly creative, fun." Richard Clatworthy, Trade Books Mgr, Leavey Ctr Bookstore, Georgetown Univ, Wash. DC. "Islands, A Coloring Book for Adults, 2nd Edition, 30 Hand-Drawn Drawings, 30 Poems" is a super creative, unique coloring and poem book. This book appeals to both adults, teens and kids. Contents: 30 black and white original, hand-drawn abstract drawings and 30 poems that interpret the drawings. Each drawing is different from the others and has its own theme. There is a great variety of themes and designs. Easy-to-color small, medium and large...

..".refreshing new idea, novel idea, highly creative, fun. The students think it makes a great gift for their parents.