Ben Kwok s amazing TangleEasy design templates inspire doodlers and Zentangle enthusiasts all over the world. Now Ben and talented DO Magazine artist Kati Erney have teamed up to create exciting new coloring books just for you! Color This! Farm and Country Coloring Designs is packed with exquisitely rendered animal friends for you to color with pencils, markers, pens, gel pens, or watercolors. From cows and kittens to rabbits, roosters, and raccoons, Ben and Kati s whimsical drawings will provide hours of relaxing coloring enjoyment. Ben starts you on your coloring journey with helpful information on tools and color theory, plus easy-to-follow advice on shading, blending, and layering. An inspiring full-color gallery shows how to give the same design a completely different look just by altering your color selections."
For my entire life, I have been influenced by my small town upbringing. I call it Waldo Wisdom. And I wasn't in a small town by happenstance. My dad, through his travels around north Florida came across Waldo, a small town of about 750 people that fit the small-town life that he and mother were hoping would influence the values of their children. When they moved to Waldo, it had a K-12 school which had a football and basketball team along with baseball. A town that had a drug store (complete with a lunch counter that also served cherry and vanilla cokes and real ice cream milkshakes), a hardware store, a dry goods store, along with not one, not two, but three grocery stores that had meat markets On top of all of that, there were a number of churches from which to choose to attend and to become involved with. And, to top it all off, there was a train station, where one could catch a train to south Florida or to the Carolinas and most anywhere their heart desired. This town, indeed, had almost everything Even though my parents raised us four kids some two miles north of town at the truck stop they owned and operated, we attended a number of events in the town itself. Attending the high school football, basketball and baseball games inspired me to play those sports as I grew up. I was mesmerized when I attended high school plays And, was a proud 'youngin' by being selected to be the prince for my class in the May Day celebration that included a prince and princess from each grade as well as the senior class king and queen. It was quite something We attended church on a regular basis and I became involved in youth activities there as well. Additionally, I was involved in Scouting and 4-H. All-in-all, being raised in this kind of environment was exhilarating There were Homecoming parades, high school sporting games to attend, and were all kinds of opportunities to be involved in various clubs and organizations. There was 'dinner (lunch) on the grounds' after church every three or four months. As I became a teenager, I was permitted to go to the local rec center where there would be live music by local talent that comprised the band that played on the weekends, where we could dance, play ping pong or just visit. As a kid, it was lots of fun growing up at Waldo When I finished the second grade, the County School Board consolidated grades 9-12 with the 'big school' in Alachua County, Gainesville High School. That immediately ended the local football, basketball and such games and activities that I had enjoyed as a youngster. It was disappointing to my parents that we kids wouldn't be going to high school right there in Waldo. It would mean that we would spend more time on a bus and less time helping out at the business or on the family's small farm. And for us, it meant that we faced a challenge to attend high school sporting events and high school functions because they all were now in Gainesville. But life goes on. As I became older, we played sandlot football and baseball at the school grounds and played lots of basketball at the 'court' downtown - right on SR 24 just before where Hwy. 301 overpass is (the court still exists today and there's a little smile in my heart and wonderful memories come to mind every time I pass by the court and see kids playing). I learned a lot being raised in a small town. Community, family, friendship and being neighborly are all qualities I witnessed and have done my best throughout my life to emulate. And even though I no longer live in a small town, Waldo Wisdom lives on in my heart and hopefully, in my deeds.
When 9/11 struck, Ben Batchelder was living overseas. Dumbfounded, he wondered: How could he help?After leaving his marriage and cozy corporate career, he returns to the U.S. with an outlandish plan: to protect the country by car, driving a silver-plated VW Beetle as close to the remote borders as possible, without getting arrested. Along the way he gets to know his beloved country again and meets many unheralded borderlanders, whose stories of hard work, perseverance, and patriotic hope go well beyond the usual headlines. Instead, he finds that the nation's edges reveal much about its core - and in the process comes home to an overwhelming sense of gratitude.
In this autobiographical account of life in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa'ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland on Malaita island. Continuing the long tradition of Kwara'ae community leaders participating in political activism, he discusses how the roles of these leaders were severely tested by the violent conflict between Malaitans and the indigenous Guadalcanal people at the turn of the century. Kwa'ioloa provides a local perspective on the causes and course of this unhappy episode in his country's history and describes a need for a way of life founded upon ancestral values, giving chiefs a role in the governance of Solomon Islands.
Apples have gone missing from the orchard and Winston, the farm dog, must learn where they have gone. All the animals on the farm come to help understand where the apples went. Winston and the farm animals learn important lessons about sharing. This book was modeled after real events that happened on our farm. Use the QR scanning codes throughout the book to see the farm animals in real life.
He spread happiness simply by being there.'In 1991 Kerry and her son Ben followed Kerry's parents to live on the Greek island of Kos. The chance that Ben will read about himself and come home becomes more real every day. All of Kerry's royalties from the sale of this book will go toward the Help Find Ben campaign.
'Just locate my daughter and report back.' Ben Woolford's brief was pretty simple. Or was it? Former SAS marksman Ben Woolford relishes the simple life of retirement from active duty. He spends his time as a private investigator, tracking down the occasional missing person or collecting the odd bad debt. It is solitary work, but it is easy money, and moreover, he doesn't have anyone trying to kill him. That is until he takes on a small job of locating millionaire Frank DeLuca's twenty-five-year-old daughter, who went missing a week ago from Darwin. It sounds like a simple enough job. Seventy-two hours later, Ben finds himself lying face first in the hot, red desert sand, staking out an abandoned, rusty corrugated-iron fortress in the middle of nowhere. It's meant to be a find and report back. But when the gunfire starts, leaving blood and bodies everywhere, Ben has to fight for his own life. And that's just the beginning.This isn't a job for a PI, but what else is he to do?Notably, this novel has especially been written for people like Gary himself, who love to read, but whose fast and busy lives often result in no time for the pleasure of reading a good book.'Ben is a novel that was written like an Aussie action movie. I wanted it to appeal to that person like I was, that didn't read books. It has multiple plots and action, on every page. It is fiction, of course, but with realistic scenarios. It has guns, cars, motorbikes, major crime, investigations, and a little romance. I really hope you enjoy it.' Gary Baxter.
These collectible children's books have been lovingly restored for their first printing since the Second World War. Following the release of A Story about Ducks and A Railway ABC, V&A Publishing has rediscovered two more touching stories by the inimitable author and artist Jack Townend. Ben tells the story of a lonely steamroller. Ben loves to work hard for Mr Dodie but, at night, when he is all alone, pools of tears collect beneath his boiler. He is lonely and yearns for brothers and sisters. One day Ben looks across a field and sees a puff of white smoke. Overwhelmed with happiness, he hastily rushes to meet steamroller Matilda, and the pair agree to run away together. Delightful lithographs accompany this sweet and endearing love story.
Once upon a time a little boy, called Ben, went to his Grandma's for her birthday; and she put him in a bucket. She then sent him around the world in the bucket and he was seen by thousands And they all marveled at this wondrous boy in his yellow bucket.
