Nat has a talent for sleeping all day long. Name any place in the house and Nat can sleep in, on, under, or sprawled over it. In fact, Nat is so devoted to slumber that the imaginative antics of a crazy kitten don't seem to bother him one bit, until...When the nighttime quiet falls, when strange shadows fill the halls...Now Nat is all fired up and ready to go! Will the kitten be able to keep up, or is it time for her to find the perfect place to settle down for a wee nap? Victoria Allenby's rhythmic verse perfectly accompanies Tara Anderson's irresistible art. Cat lovers young and old will delight in this not-quite-ready-for-bedtime treat.
Young cats are on the hunt for a mouse named Sleepy in Let’s Get Sleepy!, an energetic picture book from New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator Tony Cliff. These cats are on an adventure to find that darn mouse named Sleepy. But Sleepy is a sneaky mouse—he’s hard to find. The cats will have to look everywhere: all over town, out by the beach, up in space, and even back in time with the dinosaurs! Can the cats catch that mouse? Even if they don’t, at the end of the day, they may just get "sleepy" after all. While seek-and-find elements are at work in the adorable artwork, the rhyming text reminds readers that the journey is more important than the destination—and that the most valuable treasure is a day richly lived with friends. An Imprint Book
A priviledged tour of a lavish estate in Greenwich featuring an abundance of garden experiences--formal boxwood and undulating hornbeam hedges, dense woodland, reflecting pools, arbors and follies--and a "ferme ornée" offering organic produce to the community. Sleepy Cat Farm is the vision of one man, Fred Landman, who acquired the handsome Georgian Revival house and grounds in 1994. Deeply committed to the concept of harmony between house and garden, he has dedicated himself to the landscape to create "a garden of which the house could be proud." Collaborating with Greenwich architect Charles Hilton and noted landscape architect Charles J. Stick and drawing inspiration from travels in Europe and Asia, Landman has done just that. The landscape unfolds in a series of garden rooms and pavilions, pathways and pools, statuary and staircases, trees, shrubs and flowerbeds, hillsides and vistas that change daily, monthly, almost minute by minute, as the visitor explores this undulating landscape of surprises, intrigue and unexpected beauty. Names were given to the various aspects: The Golden Path, the Grotto, The Iris Garden, the Spirit Walk, the Perennial Long Border Garden, the Pebble Terrace, the Woodland Walk. Buildings and follies were added, also with storybook names--the Celestial Pavilion, the Barn, the Limonaia, the Chinese Pavilion, the Cat Maze and Arbor. Down the hill from the main house is an working organic farm that supplies produce to the community, a project of Landman's wife, Seen Lippert, a professional chef who worked with Alice Waters in California before moving East. Landman and Lippert are committed to sharing the beauty that they have created. They are generous in opening the property for charitable events and tours of gardeners and horticultural enthusiasts, particularly through the Open Days program of the Garden Conservancy. As Landman says, "One of my greatest joys is when other people come here and get to experience what I experience every day. The most important thing is that they leave happy."
My friends have all got fun cats. They jump, and chase, and play and hunt. But my cat doesn't do any of those things. My cat just sleeps. A charming story of one little girl and her beloved, sleepy cat. She can't help but compare him to all her friends' cats who do exciting things, when all her cat does is snooze. But why exactly is he so sleepy? Is there something about him that his owner doesn't know?
Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair ... Eleanor Farjeon's poem and Anne Mortimer's exquisite illustrations make a perfect gift for cat lovers, young and old.
Nicole Rinshaw's career as a contract auditor in Washington, DC, is off to a promising start until a DUI arrest lands her overnight in jail with Santana, a cocktail waitress whose unlikely friendship will share the burdens of alcohol treatment, court hearings, and mourning the recent deaths of their mothers. Nicole's next few months become a matter of navigating which responsibilities she can keep up with, which new ones to take on, and which irresponsible indulgences might get the best of her. Act on her growing romantic interest with her defense attorney? Or follow the more disciplined grounds of recommitting to church? Narrating her regrets and longings for escape through meditative letters, Nicole will face what she cannot come to terms with. To Santana, her mom's death; to her deceased mom, her aloneness; to her attorney, her frustrations of faith; and to Santana's baby girl, Bianca, whom in caring for, Nicole will find a chance to heal and the hope for a new future out West.
