Jill Krementz

Black-and-white portrait photographs of fifty-five prominent writers at their desks--including P. G. Wodehouse, John Irving, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Pablo Neruda, and John Updike--are accompanied by the writers' own comments on their working lives and workplaces. 12,500 first printing.

The Writer's Desk

A ten-year-old student at the School of American Ballet in New York describes her classes and the preparation for and performance of her role in the ballet "The Nutcracker."

A Very Young Dancer

How It Feels to Be Adopted

Text and photographs follow a little girl on her trip to the playground where she crawls through tunnels, builds castles in the sand box, and plays on a variety of equipment. On board pages.

Lily Goes to the Playground

A collection of recipes, illustrated with photographs, for a variety of dishes including pumpkin pie, cucumber sushi, homemade pasta, granola, and lemon chicken.

The Fun of Cooking

A ten-year-old girl relates her experiences as she and her pony train and prepare for riding competitions.

A Very Young Rider

Interviews with adopted children and adoptive families about their experiences and feelings concerning adoption.

How it Feels to be Adopted

In this immensely moving book, nineteen boys and girls, from seven to sixteen years old and from highly diverse backgrounds, share with us their deepest feelings about their parents' divorce. By listening to them, all children of divorced parents can find constructive ways to help themselves through this difficult time. And they will learn that their own shock and anger, confusion and pain, have been experienced by others and are normal and appropriate. These boys and girls speak with extraordinary honesty and tolerance, and with a remarkable absence of rationalization, illusion, or attempt to justify their own often-trying behavior in response to their situations. Their stories are immediate and convincing, and their generosity in confiding their feelings should provide comfort to children and parents alike.

How It Feels When Parents Divorce

In these wonderfully straightforward accounts of what it means to children to be adopted, nineteen boys and girls, from eight to sixteen years old—and from every social background—confide their feelings about this crucial fact of their lives. It is deeply affecting to listen to these children as they reveal their questions, frustrations, difficulties, and joys with an honesty that is immediate, convincing, and stirring. Their generosity will provide solace and strength for thousands of other children who share with them the experience of being adopted—and who will be helped to understand that their own emotions are normal and appropriate.

A little girl describes her first visit to the dentist.

Taryn Goes to the Dentist

Text and photographs describe the family, home, school, and amusements of a ten-year-old Negro girl living in the rural South.

Sweet Pea

Vivi, eine kleine Reiterin

The noted photojournalist draws on her archive of photographs of the most important Jewish writers of the twentieth century to present an album of ninety pictures accompanied by an assessment of their significance

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