Best Selling Books by Ruth Heller

Ruth Heller was a premiere designer and illustrator for children, widely known since the publication of her first book in 1978. Ornaments is the latest title in Ruth''s bestselling Designs for Coloring series, featuring 31 pages of beautiful Christmas ornaments to color. Get into the holiday spirit by coloring all the unique and detailed designs, or give as a gift to spread the Christmas cheer!

Concerns the journey of becoming a woman during difficult times. Themes include feminism, love relationships, college teaching, nature, psychotherapy, travel, the anti-Vietnam War movement, family, the life of an artist/entertainer/writer, and music.Janet Ruth Heller has published the poetry chapbook Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011), the scholarly book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990), and the award-winning children''s fiction picture book about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Sylvan Dell, 2006). She has a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. Janet is a past president of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, and she is currently president of the Michigan College English Association. Janet lives in Portage, Michigan, with her husband. Her hobbies are hiking, singing, and bird-watching."Heller employs simple language - language that is fundamentally folk - which captures in its aforementioned clear-cut rhythm a sound that effectively shows us the allures of activism, on scales either small or large, in the realms of both public and private life." -Women''s Studies, 41:1010-1, 2012. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, "In Brief""Folk Concert: Changing Times, by Janet Ruth Heller, captures small everyday moments with matter-of-fact grace and humor. The powerful understatement of these rich, precise poems swells and reverberates. They sing with political commitment, emotional commitment, and a lifetime of paying attention." -Jim Daniels, author of Trigger Man, and Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry"Janet Ruth Heller''s poems in Folk Concert: Changing Times work hard for clarity. They feel like clear water, but they have the cumulative power of a summer storm. Her family and nature poems are particularly moving." -Marge Piercy, author of The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems, 1980-2010, Circles on the Water: New and Selected Poems 1960-1980, and The Moon is Always Female

Line drawings of flowers, including lilies, sweet pea, iris, bird of paradise, jack in the pulpit, chrysanthemums, and others.

Go on a fascinating nature hunt to find the camouflaged turtle, snakes, iguana, and other intriguing reptiles hiding in the brilliantly-painted pages of this book.

this book contains lots of challenging mazes to be done.

Create a winter wonderland with these designs that provide snowy fun for artists of all ages.

Designs based on the art of Egypt at the time of the pharaohs are presented in outline.

A choral worship collection for SATB voicing, edited and arranged by Ruth Heller.

Do you enjoy watching birds? Do you like coloring and designing? Thenhere is a book that will provide hours of imaginative and creative fun. The designsinclude all kinds of birds--some in water, some flying through the air, others resting ontree branches or in grassy fields. You can color them realistically or use your imaginationto create stylizes, decorative birds in unusual patterns and designs. Created by award-winning artist/designer Ruth Heller, Designs forColoring are unique among coloring books. The high-quality paper is suitable foruse with crayons, felt-tipped pens, water paints, pencils, or pastels. You can use bold,bright colors or lighter, subtler shades. You may even want to frame an especiallypleasing page--or transfer a pattern to a piece of embroidery, needlepoint, pottery, ormosaic.

A selection from the artist''s ''Designs for Coloring'' series, including drawings from the circles-graphics, snowflakes, bargello, flowers, shells, Roman numerals, birds, butterflies, cats, and owls volumes.

In addition to teaching the shapes, names and sounds of the Hebrew alphabet, the author includes a page explaining how to use the characters to signify numbers. Includes glossary.

Rhyming text describes how various mammals camouflage themselves to protect against predators.

A collection of designs to color, based on the triangle.

Brief text and lavish illustrations explain verbs.