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Irises, fields of purple, have taken the place of honor in my garden. I am stunned by how swiftly the lilac, the lilies of the valley, the wisteria have come and gone. It is equally surprising to me that I am sitting here writing a letter for spring 2012 when, minutes ago, our fall, 2011 books went to the printer.

In my last catalogue I voted that we all reduce the number of titles we are publishing and publish them better.

This we are doing in this catalogue.

Bill Wurzel’s Funny Food is one of the nicest books I will ever publish. Its niceness, funniness, charm, wit, and integrity grow straight out of the fertile ground of its creator, an ex-art director, a jazz musician and a husband for fifty years. That doesn’t begin to tell you about how loving and utterly adorable he is. For one thing, in the fortynine years of his marriage, he made breakfast for his wife Claire every weekend. Every breakfast was a work of art that he improvised in the kitchen with whatever four basic food groups he found in the fridge. He assembled each plate and she disassembled it. Just ate it. The art just vanished until Claire said, Bill, you should photograph them. And, then she said, let’s take those four food groups to the schools and teach children how to start the day, creating with their food and then eating their artwork. Over the years, that is what they have done.

The Little Big Cookbook for Moms is just a natural for us. Everyone in our little firm has children. We all love to cook. We are making some brilliant food books and we have already done The Little Big Book of Comfort Food. It is time for us to focus on the little guys. Let’s feed them well at every age. Let’s pay attention to organics and intolerances. Let’s all have a good time. Let’s not spend too much money but let’s be healthy.

The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect by Chris Melissinos opens at the Smithsonian

American Art Museum in Washington in March and runs through September 2012. Chris created the exhibit and the book. He set up a website and more than 119,000 fans voted on which eighty games should make the final cut from a pool of 240 proposed choices in various categories, divided by era, game type, and platform. There is something very contemporary about it and also strangely retro. Pac Man, really? s pr i n g

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The Art of Video Games From Pac-Man to Mass Effect

By Chris Melissinos and Patrick O’Rourke Introduction by Mike Mika

In the forty-year history of the video game industry, the medium has undergone staggering development, fueled not only by advances in technology but also by an insatiable quest for richer play and more meaningful experiences. From the very beginning, with the introduction of the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972, countless individuals became enthralled by a new world opened before them, one in which they could control and create, as well as interact and play. Even in their rudimentary form, video games held forth a potential and promise that inspired a generation of developers, programmers, and gamers to pursue visions of ever more sophisticated interactive worlds.

As a testament to the game industry’s stunning evolution, and to its cultural impact worldwide, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and curator Chris Melissinos conceived the 2012 exhibition The Art of Video Games. Along with a team of game developers, designers, and journalists, Melissinos selected an initial group of 240 games in four different genres to represent the best of the game world. Selection criteria included visual effects, creative use of technologies, and how world events and popular culture influenced the games. The museum created a website and invited the public to help choose the most popular games; after almost four million votes coming from 175 countries, eighty winners were selected and are featured in the exhibition and in this book.

The Art of Video Games offers a revealing look into the history of the game industry, from the early days of Pac-Man and Space Invaders to the vastly more complicated contemporary epics such as BioShock and Uncharted. Melissinos examines each of the eighty winning entries, with stories and comments on their development, innovation, and relevance to the game world’s overall growth. Visual images, composed by Patrick O’Rourke, are all drawn directly from the games themselves, and speak to the evolution of games as an artistic medium, both technologically and creatively. Also included are interviews with some of the industry’s most influential artists and designers, from early pioneers such as Nolan Bushnell to contemporary innovators including Warren Spector and Tim Schafer.

From Pac-Man to Mass Effect, The Art of Video Games makes a compelling case for games to be viewed not just as mere play, but as richly textured, compelling experiences that have crossed the boundary into culture and art. As Melissinos writes, “Our children are being born into a world in which the digital and physical collide, and video games are the expressive voice of that collision.” The Art of Video Games presents the evolution of that voice, as it becomes ever more powerful.

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The Art of Video Games From Pac-Man to Mass Effect

Chris Melissinos

The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect

by Chris Melissinos and Patrick O’Rourke Introduction by Mike Mika 216 pages, 10 x 10 Hardcover, $40.00 ($45.00 CAN) More than 100 illustrations ISBN 978-1-59962-110-4 On Sale: March 6, 2012

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Chris Melissinos, founder of Past Pixels (www.pastpixels.com), is the curator for the exhibition The Art of Video Games, March 16, 2012 – September 30, 2012 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Melissinos has been engaged in the ongoing dialogue about video game technology, social trends, and the application of technology for more than a decade. He is a frequent speaker at game and technology conferences, including the Game Developers Conference, E3, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Penny Arcade Expo, JavaOne, Smithsonian Web 2.0, and the U.S. Department of Defense Education Summit, as well as lecturing at universities across the globe.

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Patrick O’Rourke is a freelance graphic designer, photographer, gamer and video editor.

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250 of the best family recipes

By Alice Wong and Natasha Tabori Fried The Little Big Cookbook for Moms was created by two busy moms who were searching for a family cookbook that

spoke to their needs: they wanted the best of everything for their kids and they wanted an emphasis on delicious, healthy food, with something decadent every now and then. They wanted food everyone in the family would love but also wanted to keep it simple. They needed ideas for lunch boxes, planning ahead, and freezing, advice on how to stretch one recipe into multiple meals, and how to take advantage of fresh ingredients when they are in season. Their ideas and notes to each other grew into this chunky book, brimming with favorite recipes and classics that are easy and convenient, interesting and fun, and always have health and nutrition in mind.

The Little Big Cookbook for Moms contains more than 250 great recipes for families with children of all ages, with additional variations, ideas, tips, and nutritional information. It pays attention to first meals for little ones, favorite meals for picky palates and those with food sensitivities, and more adventurous meals for everyone. Among its pages are lists of what always to keep in the freezer, pantry, and refrigerator, and charts with suggested timing for cooking dried beans, grilling meats, and roasting and steaming vegetables. It has a selection of slow-cooker recipes and meals to store in the freezer when it’s possible to plan ahead. And, for inspiration, a list in the back of the book offers a month’s worth of diverse entrée and side pairings. The Little Big Cookbook for Moms is truly a cookbook for every family who cares about healthy, easy, AND delicious eating and is the reference moms will use for many years as their little ones grow.

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The Little Big Cookbook for Moms: 250 of the Best Family Recipes Edited by Alice Wong & Natasha Tabori Fried 352 pages, 6 ½ x 6 ½ Hardcover, $24.95 ($27.95 CAN) 100 vintage illustrations ISBN 978-1-59962-109-8 On Sale: March 27, 2012 cooking / PARenting

Natasha Tabori Fried is the managing editor of Welcome Books.

She has conceived, edited, and produced numerous titles, including The Christmas Almanac, The Little Big Book of Love, and The Little Big Book of Comfort Food. She lives in New York with her husband and son.

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Alice Wong co-created the best-selling Little Big Book series, which has sold more than 1.7 million copies. She co-edited many of the titles in this series, including the best sellers The Little Big Book for Moms and The Little Big Book for Grandmothers. She is the author of The Big Book of Me: My Baby Book, and co-edited The Goodnight Book for Moms and Little Ones. Alice has also edited or recipe-tested a number of cookbooks, including The Vineyard Cookbook, Off the Menu, and Primal Cuts. Alice currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband Clark and their three children: Chi Chi, Sylvia, and Phoebe.

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Funny Food 365 Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts

By Bill & Claire Wurtzel

They’re easy. They’re silly. They’re healthy. They’re clever. They’re artistic. They’re delicious.

They’re fun. They’re a great way to start the day. One break fast at a time, Bill Wurtzel is determined to make you laugh and eat and play and laugh some more. Riffing over the years with oatmeal, eggs, apples, and nuts, it is finally ours to share…

Not since Joost Elffers’ Play With Your Food has food been so ridiculous and so endlessly diverting. Parents and children will giggle through breakfast. Teachers and students can laugh some more making snacks or desserts after lunch. This is a book filled with nothing but engaging spontaneity and simplicity that makes you say, “I can do that.” And, you can...the consequences are yummy.

Really, who doesn’t like to play with food? Bill Wurtzel, a jazz guitarist, has been making these plates for his wife, Claire, for as many years as they’ve been married. Now he is turning a hobby into an art form with a social message.

His goal is to discourage obesity by inspiring children—and adults—to improve their eating habits by creating meals that are not only nutritious, but also fun. It’s your turn…

These are not your mother’s smiley-face sandwiches. In Bill’s world, carrots turn into airplanes; boiled eggs into jugglers, and pears into guitar players. As gracefully as Picasso’s ceramic plates found endless form so do Wurtzel’s portraits which seem to grow out of almost anything—cheerios and bananas; lox and bagels; oatmeal, blueberries, and strawberries. Sometimes you think he is portrait artist and you could swear you just saw Sigmund Freud emerging from a pear or Shakespeare growing out of an apple. Sometimes the plates are just plain fanciful. “Your breakfasts don’t have to look like they’ll hang in the Louvre,” he says. “It’s the gesture that counts.” But it sure looks like he riffed on Matisse’s paper cutout dancers with a papaya. Bill does snacks, too.

Funny Food will contain both recipes and how-to photographs where relevant.

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Wurtzel also has been conducting workshops for children at Public School 188 on the Lower East Side, teaching them to use their imaginations to improve their health “rather than just putting lettuce and vegetables on their trays.”

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Funny Food: 365 Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts

by Bill & Claire Wurtzel 160 pages, 7 ½ x 7 ½ Hardcover, $19.95 ($22.95 CAN) 365 full color photographs ISBN 978-1-59962-111-1 On Sale: April 3, 2012 food / parenting

Claire Wurtzel has been an educator for 40 years. Her focus is on supporting teachers who work with students struggling with learning and/or behavior difficulties. Claire was on the faculty of Bank Street Graduate School for 17 years, where she taught courses and chaired the Department of Special Education. She works with teachers, administrators, families, psychologists, librarians, and museum educators both nationally and internationally. Recently, through Claire’s relationships with NYC public school principals she and Bill have begun launching healthy breakfast workshops in the schools. Claire and Bill Wurtzel were married 1961, have 2 daughters, 3 grandchildren, and live in New York City.

Bill Wurtzel was an award-winning art director by day and jazz guitarist at night since 1960. In 1989, he switched to a music career and occasional consultant to his daughter’s ad agency wurtzelinc.com. For many years he played with the Count Basie Countsmen, Bill Doggett, and Jimmy McGriff among other jazz legends. Bill performs weekly at HENRYS, and the American Folk Art Museum (see billwurtzel. com ) Bill is a founding director of the Jazz Foundation of America, which helps jazz and blues musicians in need jazzfoundation.org. He and his wife of 50 years, Claire, live on the Upper West Side in New York City.

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Independent Publisher Award Winner

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Shape of My Heart Poem by Sting Art by Pablo Picasso • Hardcover, $18.95 ($21.50) • 26 color illustrations • 32 pages, 9-1/2" x 11-1/2" • ISBN 978-0-941807-20-3

I Live in Music (see Art, page 10)

Art China: 3,000 Years of Art and Literature Edited by Jason Steuber • Hardcover, $60.00 ($69.00) • 8 gatefolds, 100 color illustrations • 240 pages, 10-1/4" x 13-7/8", Shrink-wrapped • US/CAN/Open Mkt only • ISBN 978-1-59962-030-5 www.welcomebooks.com/china

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Business Life Organizer (see Journals • Organizers • Keepsakes, page 12)

Christmas The Christmas Almanac

Dance Me to the End of Love

Edited by Natasha Tabori Fried • Hardcover, $27.50 ($32.00) • 150 color & 150 line illustrations • 240 pages, 7-1/4" x 9-1/4" • ISBN 978-1-59962-069-5 www.welcomebooks.com/christmasalmanac

Poem by Leonard Cohen Paintings by Henri Matisse • Hardcover, $19.95 ($23.95) • 30 color illustrations • 32 pages, 9-1/2" x 11-1/2" • ISBN 978-1-932183-93-1

I Live in Music

First Christmas

Poem by Ntozake Shange Paintings by Romare Bearden • Hardcover, $18.95 ($24.95) • 10 color & 7 line illustrations • 32 pages, 9-1/2" x 11-1/2" • ISBN 978-0-941807-09-8

By Alastair Macdonald Illustrations by Adel Nassief • Hardcover, $22.50 ($25.50) • 21 color illustrations • 56 pages, 7-1/8” x 10-3/4”, Shrink-wrapped • ISBN 978-1-59962-055-8 www.welcomebooks.com/firstchristmas

Love’s Exquisite Freedom Poem by Maya Angelou Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones • Hardcover, $19.95 ($22.95) • 26 color illustrations • 32 pages, 9-1/2” x 11-1/2” • ISBN 978-1-59962-103-6 www.welcomebooks.com/lovesexquisitefreedom

The Little Big Book of Christmas

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Lyrics by E. Y. Harburg Paintings by Maxfield Parrish • Hardcover, $18.95 ($24.95) • 20 color illustrations • 32 pages, 9-1/2" x 11-1/2" • ISBN 978-0-941807-38-8

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Fashion My Mother’s Clothes: An Album of Memories

By Jeannette Montgomery Barron Introduction by Patrick Kinmonth Preface by James D. Barron • Hardcover, $24.95 ($29.95) • 100 color photographs • 112 pages, 6-1/2" x 8" • ISBN 978-1-59962-077-0 www.welcomebooks.com/mymothersclothes

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Poem by e. e. cummings Paintings by Marc Chagall • Hardcover, $18.95 ($24.95) • 21 color illustrations • 32 pages, 9-1/2" x 11-1/2" • ISBN 978-0-941807-00-5

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Edited by Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($27.95) • 100 color illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2” x 6-1/2”, ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-100-5 www.welcomebooks.com/littlebigbookofchristmas

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Red Carpet: 21 Years of Fame and Fashion, Updated Edition Photographs by Frank Trapper • Hardcover, $34.95 ($39.95) • 1,000 color photographs • 532 pages, 7-1/2" x 9-1/4" • Foil stamping, gold satin cloth case, shrink-wrapped • US/CAN/Open Mkt only • ISBN 978-1-59962-059-6 www.welcomebooks.com/redcarpet

The Vineyard Cookbook

by Barbara Scott-Goodman Photographs by Colin Cooke • Hardcover, $24.95 ($28.95) • 50 color photographs • 160 pages, 8-1/2" x 8" • ISBN 978-1-59962-064-0 www.welcomebooks.com/vineyardcookbook

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Shoe Fleur: A Footwear Fantasy

By Michel Tcherevkoff Introduction by Diane Von Furstenberg Preface by Ferrucio Ferragamo • Hardcover w/ pink plastic slipcase, $34.95 ($44.00) • Over 75 color illustrations • 96 pages, 10" x 10", Shrink-wrapped • French • ISBN 978-1-59962-036-7 www.welcomebooks.com/alookinside/shoefleur

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The Constitution of the United States of America Inscribed and illustrated by Sam Fink • Hardcover, $29.95 ($34.00) • Over 100 color illustrations • 136 pages, 8-1/4" x 12" • ISBN 978-1-59962-082-4 www.welcomebooks.com/constitution

The Constitution of the United States of America, Limited Edition (see Limited Editions, inside back cover)

A Baker’s Recipe Keeper (see Journals • Organizers • Keepsakes, page 12) The Last Good War (see photography, page 14) Cooking with Italian Grandmothers: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily

Inspirational

By Jessica Theroux Buddha (see photography, page 14) Introduction by Alice Waters • Hardcover, $40.00 ($47.00) Give It All, Give It Now • 150 full color photographs Text by Annie Dillard • 250 pages, 9" x 9" Inscribed and illustrated by Sam Fink • ISBN 978-1-59962-089-3 Introduction by Susan Cheever www.welcomebooks.com/cookingwithitaliangrandmothers • Hardcover, $19.95 ($22.95) • 20 color illustrations The Little Big Book of Comfort Food • 50 pages, 6-1/2" x 9"

By Katrina Fried, Natasha Tabori Fried, • Shrink-wrapped & slip-cased Lena Tabori, and Diana Van Buren • ISBN 978-1-59962-060-2 • Hardcover, $24.95 ($27.95) www.welcomebooks.com/giveitall • 200 color illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", ribbon marker The Little Big Book of Life • ISBN 978-1-59962-014-5 Edited by Natasha Fried www.welcomebooks.com/comfortfood • Hardcover, $24.95 ($27.95) • 100 color & 150 line illustrations Made in America: • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", ribbon marker Our Best Chefs Reinvent Comfort Food • ISBN 978-1-59962-099-2

by Lucy Lean www.welcomebooks.com/littlebigbookoflife • Hardcover, $45.00 ($50.00) • 150 color photographs Journals • Organizers • Keepsakes • 288 pages, 8" x 10" • ISBN 978-1-59962-101-2 A Baker’s Recipe Keeper www.welcomebooks.com/madeinamerica • Hardcover, $27.50 ($29.95) • 3-ring binder, 8 color recipe tabs with storage pockets Off the Menu: Staff Meals from • 20 two-sided plastic adhesive sheets America’s Top Restaurants • 80 blank 8-1/2" x 11" fill-in recipe sheets S TA F F M E A L S F RO M

by Marissa Guggiana • 10-1/2" x 11-1/2", Shrink-wrapped • Hardcover, $40.00 ($45.00) • ISBN 978-1-59962-095-4 AMERICA’S TOP RESTAURANTS • 100 color photographs www.welcomebooks.com/bakersrecipekeeper • 288 pages, 9" x 9" • ISBN 978-1-59962-102-9 The Big Book of Me www.welcomebooks.com/offthemenu Edited by Alice Wong • Hardcover, $19.95 ($24.95) Recipe Keeper (see Journals • Organizers • Keepsakes, page 12) • 40 color & 40 line illustrations • 80 pages, 9-1/4" x 12" Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town (see Photography, page 15) • ISBN 978-1-59962-070-1 www.welcomebooks.com/bigbookofme Humor a Advice a Lessons a Wisdom Lessons a Wisdom a Instruction a Inspiration

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Blackie: The Horse Who Stood Still

A Bride’s Book

By Marsha Heckman Photographs by Richard Jung • Hardcover, $22.50 ($27.95) • 160 pages, 7-3/8" x 9" • 12 color tabs; blank, calendar, and graph pages • Concealed Wire-O binding, rear pocket, elastic band • ISBN 978-1-59962-042-8 www.welcomebooks.com/bridesbook

By Christopher Cerf and Paige Peterson Illustrated by Paige Peterson • Hardcover, $18.95 ($24.95) • 80 color illustrations • 64 pages, 9-1/2" x 11-1/2" • ISBN 978-1-59962-017-6 www.blackiethehorse.com

Home Keeper: The Ultimate Organizer

Edited by Natasha Tabori Fried and Lena Tabori • Paperback with flaps, $16.95 ($18.95) • 50 color and 70 line illustrations • 224 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2" • ISBN 978-1-59962-086-2 www.welcomebooks.com/chillsandthrills

Chills and Thrills

• Hardcover, $27.50 ($32.00) • 3-ring binder, 8 color tabs with storage pockets • 16 plastic storage sleeves • 160 pages, 10-1/2" x 11-1/2", Shrink-wrapped • ISBN 978-1-59962-065-7 www.welcomebooks.com/homekeeper

the ultimate antholog y of the mysti cal, magical, eerie, & uncanny

ghost stories poems treats legends & lore fantastical tales magic tricks superstitions

The Goodnight Book for Moms and Little Ones Edited by Alice Wong and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $17.95 ($21.50) • 80 full color and 40 line illustrations • 224 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2" • ISBN 978-1-59962-084-8 www.welcomebooks.com/goodnight

Life Organizer: The Essential Record Keeper and Estate Planner

By Nancy Randolph Greenway • Hardcover, $29.95 ($34.00) • 3-ring binder, 8 color tabs with storage pockets • 160 pages, 7-3/4" x 9-1/4" • ISBN 978-1-59962-092-3 www.welcomebooks.com/lifeorganizer

The Little Big Book for Boys Edited by Alice Wong and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($38.95) • 100 color and 150 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2" • ISBN 978-0-941807-70-8

Memories for My Grandchild: A Grandmother’s Keepsake Journal Memories for my Grandchild A Grandmother’s Keepsake Journal

By Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $22.50 ($25.50) • 40 color illustrations • 80 pages, 9-1/4" x 12" • ISBN 978-1-59962-096-1 www.welcomebooks.com/memories

A Little Box of Books Edited by Natasha Tabori Fried and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $16.95 ($23.95) • Slip-cased set of 3 books • Each book: 48 pages, over 55 color illustrations • 144 pages, 5" x 5" • ISBN 978-0-941807-64-7

Recipe Keeper • Hardcover, $27.50 ($32.00) • 3-ring binder, 8 color recipe tabs with storage pockets • 24 plastic sleeves to store clipped recipes • 80 blank 8-1/2" x 11" fill-in recipe sheets • 10-1/2" x 11-1/2", Shrink-wrapped • ISBN 978-1-932183-79-5 www.welcomebooks.com/recipekeeper

Nature The Big Book of Dinosaurs

The Little Big Book of Birds Edited by Natasha Tabori Fried and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($32.00) • 150 color illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-023-7

The Big Book for Toddlers Edited by Natasha Tabori Fried • Hardcover, $24.95 ($29.95) • Over 100 full-color illustrations • 224 pages, 9" x 9" • ISBN 978-1-59962-071-8 www.welcomebooks.com/bigbookfortoddlers

The Big Book of Dinosaurs (see Nature, page 13)

Parenting The Big Book for Toddlers (see Juvenile, page 13)

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Juvenile

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Edited by David Norman • Hardcover, $29.95 • 575 color illustrations and 40 pages of 3-D images • 448 pages, 8-5/8" x 11-1/4" • US only • ISBN 978-0-941807-48-7

The Ultimate Organizer for Moms: Pregnancy Through Year Five Edited by Natasha Tabori Fried and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($29.95) • Concealed wire-o binding; blank calendar, and graph pages; 7 full color divider tabs; front and rear pockets; elastic band close • 160 pages, 7-3/4" x 9-1/4" • ISBN 978-1-59962-076-3 www.welcomebooks.com/organizerformoms

curses spells

The Big Book of Me (see Journals • Organizers • Keepsakes, page 12) 13

The Big Book of Cats

The Little Big Book for Dads, Revised

Edited by J.C. Suarès • Hardcover, $24.95 ($38.95) • 230 duotone photographs • 384 pages, 7-1/2" x 7-1/2" • US/CAN/Open Mkt only • ISBN 978-1-932183-20-7

Edited by H. Clark Wakabayashi and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($27.95) • 100 color and 150 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-067-1 www.welcomebooks.com/littlebigbookfordads

The Little Big Book for Grandfathers

The Big Book of Horses

Edited by Alice Wong and H. Clark Wakabayashi • Hardcover, $24.95 ($35.95) • 100 color & 150 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-932183-71-9

Edited by J.C. Suarès • Hardcover, $24.95 ($38.95) • 230 duotone photographs • 384 pages, 7-1/2" x 7-1/2" • US/CAN/Open Mkt only • ISBN 978-1-59962-013-8

The Little Big Book for Grandmothers Edited by Alice Wong and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($28.95) • 110 color and 150 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-068-8 Winner: Book of the Year, Foreword Magazine www.welcomebooks.com/littlebigbookforgrandmothers

The Little Big Book for Moms, Tenth Anniversary Edition Edited by Alice Wong and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($29.95) • 250 color & line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-075-6 www.welcomebooks.com/littlebigbookformoms

The Little Big Book of Pregnancy Edited by Katrina Fried and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($38.95) • 100 color & 150 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2", ribbon marker • ISBN 978-0-941807-72-2

Memories for My Grandchild (see Journals • Organizers • Keepsakes, page 12)

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great family outings * seasonal activities * height and weight charts * first foods

MoM’s Book of Lists 100 Practical Lists for Raising Your Kids

for ages 0 to 14

basic nutrition * food storage charts * best books, music, software, and websites

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* baby milestones * how much sleep * pantry list *

Mom’s Book of Lists Edited by Alice Wong • Hardcover, $17.95 ($19.95) • 100 color & 150 line illustrations • 160 pages, 5" x 8", ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-097-8 www.welcomebooks.com/momsbookoflists

* clothes and shoes sizing * age accomplishments *

The Ultimate Organizer for Moms (see Journals • Organizers • Keepsakes, page 12)

Pets • Animals Animal House

By Catherine Ledner • Hardcover, $19.95 ($24.95) • 70 photographs with 8 gatefolds, 8 die-cuts • 96 pages, 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" • US/CAN/UK only • ISBN 978-1-59962-083-1 www.welcomebooks.com/animalhouse

The Little Big Book of Cats Edited by Alice Wong and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($34.95) • 100 color & 150 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2" • ISBN 978-1-932183-80-1

Photography American Farmer: The Heart of Our Country Photographs by Paul Mobley Text by Katrina Fried Introduction by Michael Martin Murphy • Hardcover, $50.00 ($57.50) • 150 color and b/w illustrations • 276 pages, 10-1/4" x 13", Shink-wrapped • ISBN 978-1-59962-047-3 • Winner 2009 Western Heritage Award, Rose Award www.welcomebooks.com/americanfarmer

Buddha Photographs by Jon Ortner Introduction by Jack Kornfield • Hardcover, $29.95 ($34.00) • 240 pages, 7-3/8" x 8-1/2" • Shrink-wrapped & slip-cased • ISBN 978-1-59962-061-9 www.welcomebooks.com/buddha

California the Beautiful (see Travel, page 16) Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest, Deluxe Edition (see Deluxe Editions, inside back cover)

Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest, Mini Edition (see Travel, page 16) Elvis 1956 Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer Introduction by Chris Murray Essays by E. Warren Perry, Jr. and Amy Henderson • Hardcover, $29.95 ($37.00) • 56 tritone photographs • 128 pages, 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" • ISBN 978-1-59962-073-2 www.welcomebooks.com/elvis1956

The Oxford Project

The Fourth Wall

Photographs by Peter Feldstein Text by Stephen G. Bloom • Hardcover, $50.00 ($57.50) • 300 black and white photographs, Lenticular cover • 264 pages, 10" x 13-1/2", Shrink-wrapped • ISBN 978-1-59962-048-0 • Winner 2009 Alex Award, Reading and Teacher’s Guide www.welcomebooks.com/oxfordproject

By Amy Arbus Introduction by John Patrick Shanley • Hardcover, $50.00 ($57.50) • Over 80 black-and-white photographs printed in tritone • 160 pages, 11" x 11", Shrink-wrapped • ISBN 978-1-59962-044-2 www.welcomebooks.com/fourthwall

Gay in America By by Scott Pasfield Introduction by Terrence McNally & Tom Kirdahy • Hardcover, $45.00 ($51.00) • 100 full color photographs • 224 pages, 9-1/4" x 11-1/2" • ISBN 978-1-59962-104-3 www.welcomebooks.com/gayinamerica

The Oxford Project Photographs by Peter Feldstein Text by Stephen G. Bloom • Trade Paperback with flaps, $29.95 ($34.00) • More than 200 black and white photographs • 256 pages, 8-1/2" x 11" • ISBN 978-1-59962-087-9 • Reading and Teacher’s Guide www.welcomebooks.com/oxfordproject

India: In Word and Image Photographs by Eric Meola Introduction by Bharati Mukherjee • Hardcover, $60.00 ($69.00) • Over 200 color illustrations • 272 pages, 10" x 13", Shrink-wrapped • US/CAN/UK & Commonwealth only • ISBN 978-1-59962-049-7 www.welcomebooks.com/india

Searchings: Secret Landscapes of Flowers, Volume II Photographs by Barbara Bordnick • Hardcover, $40.00 ($60.00) • 80 color photographs • 128 pages, 14" x 9-1/4" • ISBN 978-1-932183-04-7

The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of World War II

Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town

By Douglas Gayeton Preface by Carlo Petrini Introduction by Alice Waters • Hardcover, $50.00 ($62.00) • 75 sepia-toned 4-color images • 8 gatefolds, acetate jacket, 4 acetate tip-ins printed with text from underlying images • 176 pages, 13" x 11" (landscape) • ISBN 978-1-59962-072-5 www.welcomebooks.com/slow

Photographs by Thomas Sanders Text by Veronica Kavass Introduction by Hampton Sides • Hardcover, $45.00 ($53.00) • 200 full color and black and white photos • 224 pages, 8-1/4" x 11-1/2" • ISBN 978-1-59962-085-5 www.welcomebooks.com/lastgoodwar

My Mother’s Clothes (see Fashion, page 11) New York Deco (see Travel, page 16)

Tuscan Country: A Photographer’s Journey (see Travel, page 16)

New York Deco, Deluxe Edition (see Deluxe Editions, inside back cover)

Religion The Book of Exodus

Ngorongoro

Buddha (see Photography, page 14)

A Bride’s Book (see Journals • Organizers • Keepsakes, page 12) * da n c i n g t i p s * p o p u l a r r e a d i n g s a n d vows * t h e m e s *

* wedding traditions * tipping guide * dress shopping

Everything You Need to Plan the Perfect Wedding Marsha Heckman

* w e d d i n g d ay e m e r g e n c y k i t c o n t e n t s *

* q u e s t i o n s t o a s k y o u r c at e r e r * s o n g a n d m u s i c l i s t s * r i n g s

A Brides’ Book of

l * i * s * t* s

g u e s t fav o r s

*

A Bride’s Book of Lists

By Marsha Heckman • Hardcover, $17.95 ($19.95) • 160 pages, 5" x 8", ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-091-6 www.welcomebooks.com/bridesbookoflists

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Romance • Weddings

the meaning of flowers

Photographs by Amy Arbus Essay by A. M. Homes • Hardcover, $39.95 ($52.95) • 70 tritone images • 104 pages, 10-1/2" x 14", Shrink-wrapped • ISBN 978-1-59962-015-2 www.welcomebooks.com/onthestreet

The Book of Exodus, Limited Edition (see Limited Editions, inside back cover)

c h e c k l i st f o r yo u r p h oto g r a p h e r

On the Street: 1980 – 1990

By Sam Fink • Hardcover, $40.00 ($50.00) • 45 illustrations • 88 pages, 17" x 13" • ISBN 978-1-59962-035-0 www.welcomebooks.com/exodus

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Photographs by Reinhard Künkel Foreword by Benjamin William Mkapa, President of Tanzania • Hardcover, $75.00 ($100.00) • Over 300 color photographs • 336 pages, 10-1/4" x 13-7/8", Shrink-wrapped • US/CAN only • ISBN 978-1-59962-018-3 Leo Press

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The Little Big Book of Love

Hidden Sonoma

Edited by Lena Tabori and Natasha Tabori Fried • Hardcover, $24.95 ($27.95) • More than 150 color illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2” x 6-1/2”, ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-052-7 www.welcomebooks.com/littlebigbookoflove

Photographs by Wes Walker • Hardcover, $17.95 ($26.50) • 100 color photographs • 160 pages, 6-1/2” x 6-1/2” • ISBN 978-1-932183-92-4

Off to Sea: A Romance

By Richard Stine • Hardcover, $15.95 ($24.95) • 55 color illustrations • 64 pages, 10-1/4” x 7-1/4” • ISBN 978-0-941807-01-2

Spanish/Language Primera Navidad

By Alastair Macdonald Illustrations by Adel Nassief Translation by Yanitzia Canetti • Hardcover, $22.50 ($25.50) • 21 color illustrations • 56 pages, 7-1/8” x 10-3/4”, Shrink-wrapped • ISBN 978-1-59962-058-9 www.welcomebooks.com/firstchristmas

Travel California the Beautiful Photographs by Galen Rowell Edited by Peter Beren Preface by Dan Jacobson of Environment California • Hardcover, $19.95 ($24.95) • 85 color photographs • 160 pages, 7-1/4” x 7-1/4” • ISBN 978-1-59962-074-9 www.welcomebooks.com/californiathebeautiful

Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest, Mini Edition

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Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest, Deluxe Edition

W E L CO M E

By Jon Ortner • Hardcover, $18.95 ($22.50) • More than 200 full-color photographs • Includes 10 gatefolds • 280 pages, 7” x 5-1/4” • ISBN 978-1-59962-079-4 www.welcomebooks.com/canyonwildernessmini

Photographs by Wes Walker Edited by Peter Beren Introduction by Linda Reiff • Hardcover, $19.95 ($23.95) • 100 color photographs • 172 pages, 7-1/4” x 7-1/4” • ISBN 978-1-59962-080-0 www.welcomebooks.com/hiddennapavalley

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(see Deluxe Editions, inside back cover)

Cooking with Italian Grandmothers (see Food and Entertaining, page 11)

Hidden Napa Valley, Revised and Expanded

India: In Word and Image (see Photography, page 14) The Little Big Book of California Edited by Natasha Tabori Fried • Hardcover, $24.95 ($35.95) • 150 color & 100 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2” x 6-1/2”, ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-932183-70-2

The Little Big Book of Ireland Edited by Christopher Measom and H. Clark Wakabayashi • Hardcover, $24.95 ($29.95) • 150 color & 100 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2” x 6-1/2”, ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-59962-021-3

The Little Big Book of New York Edited by Natasha Tabori Fried and Lena Tabori • Hardcover, $24.95 ($38.95) • 150 color & 100 line illustrations • 352 pages, 6-1/2” x 6-1/2”, ribbon marker • ISBN 978-1-932183-02-3

New York Deco Photographs by Richard Berenholtz Introduction by Carol Willis • Hardcover, $19.95 ($24.95) • 100 color photographs • 160 pages, 7-1/2” x 7-1/2” • ISBN 978-1-59962-078-7 www.welcomebooks.com/nydeco

New York Deco, Deluxe Edition (see Deluxe Editions, inside back cover) Paris: Wish You Were Here!

Edited by Christopher Measom Designed by Timothy Shaner • Hardcover, $24.95 ($27.95) • Over 100 full-color illustrations • 272 pages, 6-1/2” x 7” • ISBN 978-1-59962-043-5 www.welcomebooks.com/alookinside/paris

Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town (see Photography, page 15) Tuscan Country: A Photographer’s Journey

By Wes Walker Introduction by Piero Antinori • Hardcover, $29.95 ($37.95) • 100 color photographs • 160 pages, 8-1/2” x 8-1/2” • ISBN 978-1-59962-022-0

The Vineyard Cookbook (see Food & Entertaining, page 12)

deluxe Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest

PHOTOGRAPHY/LANDSCAPES– PHOTOGRAPHY/NATURE & WILDLIFE

By Jon Ortner Introduction by Greer Chesher • $195.00 ($224.00 CAN) • 248 pages, 16" x 12" • More than 200 color photographs; includes 10 gatefolds; each copy includes a signed & numbered print; shrink-wrapped with individual shipping carton.

• Limited to 6,000 copies • ISBN 978-1-59962-056-5 www.welcomebooks.com/ canyonwildernessdeluxe

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PHOTOGRAPHY– ARCHITECTURAL

Photographs by Richard Berenholtz Introduction by Carol Willis • $125.00 ($144.00 CAN) • 184 pages, 10" x 10" • 120 color photographs; includes six gatefolds; 3-piece hardcover case, slip-cased (10-3/8" x 10-1/2") with foil stamping & debossed handtipped 4-color image; each copy includes a signed & numbered print; shrink-wrapped • Limited to 5,000 copies • ISBN 978-1-59962-053-4 www.welcomebooks.com/nydecodeluxe

New York City landmarks were born during two most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and 1930s. The Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Waldorf-Astoria—as well as dozens of lesser-known but equally stunning office buildings and apartment houses grace this edition.

Richard Berenholtz’s photographs of the finest examples of New York City’s art deco architecture are accompanied by literary text from the era.

This awe-inspiring visual odyssey through one of the world’s greatest treasures is an extraordinary publishing achievement. Beautifully photographed by renowned photographer Jon Ortner, this deluxe, numbered edition showcases over 200 images, including 100 panoramas and 10 gatefolds that open to four feet.

Shot in over 60 locations across a 130,000-square-mile area, the images cover national parks, national monuments, state parks, wilderness areas, and tribal lands, including the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Petrified Forest.

limite d The Constitution

HISTORY

Inscribed & illustrated by Sam Fink • $500.00 ($675.00 CAN) • 65 loose folios, each 15" x 22" in a 16-1/4" x 23-1/4" x 1-1/4" clamshell box; includes a signed and numbered print • Limited to 1,500 signed & numbered copies • ISBN 978-1-59962-016-9 www.welcomebooks.com/ constitution/limitededition

Inscribed & illustrated by Sam Fink • $500.00 ($645.00 CAN) • 45 loose folios, each 22" x 16-3/4", in a 23-1/4" x 18" x 1-1/4" clamshell box; includes a separate folio with the English translation and a print signed and numbered

by Sam Fink • Limited to 1,000 signed and numbered copies • ISBN 978-1-59962-040-4 ART/RELIGION–JUDAISM www.welcomebooks.com/exodus The Book of Exodus was originally conceived by artist Sam Fink as a gift to his family, now living in Israel. Fink created forty original watercolor skyscapes, one for each chapter in the book of Exodus. This extraordinary text details the Jews’ enslavement in Egypt, their harrowing journey with Moses out of bondage, and the new laws established for them by their God. In these folio prints Sam Fink reaches his family across an ocean—and readers around the world—with breathtaking images that speak to this powerful story. Each watercolor is meticulously hand-lettered with the Old Testament text, in Hebrew and in the Jewish Publication Society’s 1917 English translation. Housed in a blue cloth-covered clamshell box.

The Book of Exodus

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It’s a beautiful thing, our country’s Constitution, and this extraordinary limited edition gives it its due. Nonagenarian Sam Fink’s unadorned, classically simple calligraphy and exquisite illustrations—originally done in pen-and-ink in 1987 and newly painted in color for these imposing folios (15" x 22")—are approachable and profoundly affecting, underscoring what an elegantly simple document our forefathers had the wisdom and forethought to craft.

Housed in an exquisite deep clamshell box (16-1/4" x 23-1/4") and lined in blue Saifu cloth, it also contains a limited-edition print of the entire Constitution, newly calligraphed onto one sheet, signed and numbered by Sam Fink. It is a worthy addition to any home.

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