Collection: Self-Development

Finalist for the Library of Virginia's People's Choice Award
Winner of the International Poe Festival's Saturday "Visiter" Award

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When life's got you down and things aren't going your way, who better to turn to than Edgar Allan Poe? Discover how to say "nevermore" to your problems in this darkly comedic and refreshing self-help guide.

Of all the writers anywhere, Poe might be the least likely person you'd ever turn to for advice. His life was a complete dumpster fire: he married his cousin; got fired from one job after another; constantly feuded with friends and rivals; and he was always broke. But that's also precisely the point. Though Poe failed again and again, he also persevered.

Drawing deeply on his works and life, Catherine Baab-Muguira takes the familiar image of Poe in a new and surprising direction in this darkly inspiring self-help book. Despite what you might think, Edgar Allan Poe is the perfect person to teach you to say "Nevermore, problems!" and show you how to use all the terrible situations, tough breaks, bad luck, and even your darkest emotions in novel and creative ways to make a name for yourself and carve out your own unique, notorious place in the world.

An inspirational tale for black sheep everywhere, Poe for Your Problems will teach you how to overcome life's biggest challenges to succeed at work, love, and art--despite the odds and no matter your flaws.

PERFECT GIFT FOR KIDS AND BEGINNERS!

Peanut Prodigy's Step-by-Step Drawing Book for Kids is a fun way for your child to learn to draw and enhance motor skills!

Each illustration page is equipped with two different pictures that are numbered with a blank corresponding page to begin practicing! Our book includes various illustrations, such as animals, plants, and methods of transportation.

Helpful Tip: Start off by drawing lightly, so you can easily erase. Follow the steps to complete your picture and once it is done, add your own unique details OR color it in to make it POP!

Details:

• High-quality #60 stock paper
• Perfectly sized at 8x10
• Easy to follow steps
• Soft, matte cover finish
• Plenty of pages for practice

Mob Mash!

Scare School is back to normal, and to spice things up, Zombie decides to throw a big party for his whole class.

With his parents out of town, and the prettiest girl at school coming to his party, Zombie is ready to have some fun!

But some Pillagers get wind of the party and decide to annihilate the junior mob members!

Can Zombie and his friends defeat the Pillagers in time?

Or will the Overworld be doomed to a boring, Human's only future?

Jump In and Find Out!

Bring favorite scenes from the Harry Potter films to life with the first official Wizarding World watercolor book.

Harry Potter: Watercolor Magic includes over 30 easy-to-complete watercolor projects featuring fan-favorite characters, creatures, places, and icons from the films. From the classic Hogwarts crest to the Sorting Hat to Harry's stag Patronus, the pages burst with opportunities for fans to create gorgeous art from the Wizarding World. Each project features a light sketch of the image to get you started plus a list of supplies and colors, followed by clear, easy-to-follow instructions to help you recreate the image in minutes. The high-quality watercolor paper makes putting paint on paper a snap, and the removable pages make it easy to display or frame finished projects.

Harry Potter: Watercolor Magic is perfect for at-home artists of every skill level looking for a fun, easy art project.

OVER 30 PROJECTS: Bring dozens of images to life, from classic scenes like the arrival at Hogwarts to beloved items like the Nimbus 2000 and the Golden Snitch.
FOR EVERY SKILL LEVEL: Complete instructions make it easy for artists from beginners to masters to create Wizarding World art that is true to the films
HIGH-QUALITY PAPER: Thick watercolor paper for a beautiful, lasting keepsake
REMOVABLE PAGES: Pages release easily from the book for framing and display
OFFICIAL WIZARDING WORLD CRAFTING BOOK: Created in collaboration with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Create cute masterpieces to display with the six pastel markers provided in this amazing kit!

Doodle, color, and design adorable narwhals, fabulous unicorns, loony llamas, and more with the six pastel markers contained in this kit! With instructional hints to make your designs uniquely you and plenty of pages waiting for a creative touch, this kit is a wonderful gift for artists of all kinds. With tear-out pages so you can display your masterpieces when you're finished, this kit is bright, bubbly, and just too cute!

A guide to exploring the great outdoors for kids ages 6 to 12

Encourage young nature lovers to get outside and track, explore, discover, and create. This book is filled with hands-on, educational outdoor activities that kids will love to learn from, like crafting bird feeders out of fruit, pressing flowers, or creating sundials. They'll get their hands dirty and their imaginations revving while staying active outside.

This standout among nature books for kids includes:

• 50 Fun outdoor projects―Inspire a lifetime of curiosity with tons of guided, interactive ideas that let kids observe animals, plants, and even outer space in action.
• Activities for everyone, everywhere―The fun and games inside cover a range of seasons and regions so all kids can start exploring, no matter where they are.
• Important skill-building-By stopping to notice and record what's going on around them, kids will practice important skills like observation, memory, writing, drawing, wildlife safety, and more.

This hands-on approach to nature books for kids will show kids what makes the great outdoors great.

Thirty-one beautifully detailed illustrations to color feature a dazzling array of dragons in dramatic settings. From soaring over the seas to slumbering in the forest, these magnificent beasts will delight fantasy-loving colorists. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Fantastical Dragons and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

A literary ode to peace, presence, and fulfillment inspired by a walk taken with a most surprising creature.

"The demon of speed is often associated with forgetting, with avoidance . . . and slowness with memory and confronting," observes Milan Kundera in his novel Slowness. With that purpose in mind-a search for slowness and tranquility, Andy Merrifield sets out on a journey of the soul with a friend's donkey, Gribouille, to walk amid the ruins and spectacular vistas of southern France's Haute-Auvergne.

As Merrifield contemplates literature, science, truth, and beauty amid the French countryside, Gribouille surprises him with his subtle wisdom, reminding him time and again that enlightenment is all around us if we but seek it.

This beautifully illustrated guide is the perfect gardening book for kids who want to plant fruit and vegetables, create mini farms from plants, and go on wildflower missions.

Dive into this children's guide to growing plants, from vegetables to wildflowers, for little gardeners with green fingers. With clear step-by-step instructions on how to get seeds, plant them, and help them grow, this book will help kids to get started with their very first gardening projects.

Children aged 5-7 will love getting stuck into gardening projects with My First Garden! Passionate gardener Livi Gosling has advice on creating places for plants to live in your home, scavenging from the recycling to create a vegetable kingdom, and adding a splash of color to grey city streets with your own wildflower seed mix.

This first gardening book for children features:

- Beautiful illustrations combined with a fun approach to gardening for lovers of the ever-growing nature trend.
- The basics for growing different plants for children, from gorgeous flowers to delicious fruit and vegetables.
- Advice and projects inclusive of all homes, including rented flats - you don't need a huge gardening space to get gardening!
- A strong eco-message, with info about what seasonality is, planting for pollinators, reusing and recycling things in your garden, and encouraging rewilding of your area.

No matter how tiny your space, you can be a gardener! Featuring plenty of inspiration and helpful tips, this gardening book makes a lovely gift from parents and grandparents who want to encourage hands-on hobbies, and is a great eco activity for kids to get outdoors and away from a screen.

ForeWord Indies Finalist, Juvenile Nonfiction

What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake guides children and their parents through the emotions underlying a fear of making mistakes using strategies and techniques based on cognitive-behavioral principles.

Explorers investigate places they have never been before. These explorers might take a while to make their discoveries. They might have trouble understanding their maps. They might make wrong turns. They might need to start their expedition all over again! If explorers could not accept their mistakes and keep going, they might never make any discoveries! Does this sound like you? If you have trouble accepting mistakes, if you try to be right all the time, or if you worry about being less than the best, this book is for you!

It's natural to be afraid of making mistakes. You may be afraid of saying the wrong thing during a meeting or getting lost when traveling in a new city, for example. Kids can think this way, too. In fact, some kids are so afraid of making mistakes that they may hold back from challenges and blame others for their errors. A kid may forgo an activity for fear of not excelling. Or, a student may fail to complete assignments on time due to erasing too much, rewriting, or overdoing the task in some way. Kids who worry about being wrong or making mistakes may try to control situations to ensure their success, blame others for their failings, see themselves in a negative light, or be critical in general. They may have trouble making decisions for fear of making the wrong one. It's exhausting trying to avoid mistakes--for you and for your child.

This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to cope with mistakes -- so they can explore new territory without fear! Here are some helpful tips to keep in mind:

• Emphasize effort more than outcome.
• Let your child make mistakes--don't do your child's work for him.
• Model self-acceptance and lose gracefully.
• Comment on why you're okay when you make a mistake.
• Demonstrate a sense of humor.
• Balance work with play.
• Let your child's achievement be his own--don't measure yourself by your child's accomplishments (or mistakes).

This book is part of the Magination Press What-to-Do Guides for Kids series and includes an Introduction to Parents and Caregivers. What-to-Guides for Kids are interactive self-help books designed to guide 8-12 year old's and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of various psychological concerns. Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, these books educate, motivate, and empower children to work towards change.

From a renowned designer, Lotta Jansdotter Every Style shows you how to create your own clothes with key pieces to sew and DIY accessories, as well as styling and inspiration tips

When Lotta Jansdotter steps out in one of her signature outfits, fans always ask, "Did you make that yourself?" Often the answer is, "Yes, and so can you!" With that in mind, the style icon created Lotta Jansdotter Everyday Style, a pattern book/inspiration guide anchored by five easy, versatile sewing patterns--skirt, dress, blouse, pants/shorts, and jacket/coat--and highlighted with quick DIY accessories, including hats, bags, scarves, and jewelry.

Photographed by Jenny Hallengren over the course of a year in her life in New York, Tennessee, India, and Sweden and organized by season, Jansdotter shares her sources of inspiration and how she and her friends mix and match her key pieces while working, playing, resting, and traveling. Lotta Jansdotter Everyday Style brings Jansdotter's infectious and sought-after sense of style to new followers and longtime devotees alike.

Lotta Jansdotter's craft books:
Lotta Jansdotter Everyday Patterns
Lotta Jansdotter Everyday Style
Lotta Jansdotter Paper, Pattern, Play

2,700 stickers for every mood!

Feeling all the feels? Express yourself! This EPIC collection of meaningful stickers helps you do just that. Each one like an emoji on paper, these stickers are perfect for your journal, snail mail, or planner--anywhere you want to explore how you really feel and then let it out.

Spread the sticker love!

So chic, so easy to make, and with flowing lines that flatter women of all shapes and sizes, these unique crocheted designs by Shelle Hendrix are today's must-have fashions! Optional features lend lots of versatility to the four basic wraps. The Ruffled Shawl has side buttons that can be fastened to create sleeves. The Hybrid Scarf can be worn as a scarf or a short shawl. The one-size Cuffed Shawl can be made with or without a hood. The Button-Up Poncho in sizes from Small/Medium to 2X/3X can be finished in a variety of ways, with a plain neckline, a collar, or a hood. Free online technique videos are a bonus.

Do you know what kindness is, really? Do you think being kind to someone means that you're weak? Do you think you can't be kind to yourself? Here's a little secret...sharing kindness is one of the coolest things you can do! You're never too old, or too young, or too busy to be kind. Anyone can be kind to others, and to themselves, every day!



Core themes in this book:

Choice, Empathy, Joy, Love

Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups.

150 Simple & Delicious Easy Bake Oven Recipes for Girls and Boys.

Don't worry if you've never set foot in the kitchen―the simple and straightforward guidance in The Easy Bake Oven Complete Cookbook will teach you everything you need to know, starting with absolute basics like kitchen safety, properly mixing, handling eggs, and more. Each recipe is foolproof and easy to follow, with tips to help kids get excited about cooking.

In this cookbook you'll find:

- Baking Basic―Get easy-to-understand baking guides that start with the assumption that you've never tried cooking or baking for yourself before.

- 150+ Simple & Delicious Recipes-Includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, desserts, and more!

- Cooking Fun-This cookbook is filled with fun food facts that will pique their minds as well as their appetites.

The sweetest treat you'll find in The Easy Bake Oven Complete Cookbook is even better than something you can eat―it's the memories you'll cook up.