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for Kids: 35 Colorful Cakes with
Easy-to-Follow Tips & Techniques
By
Matthew Mead
Our second collaboration with Matthew Mead for Chronicle.
Inside, there's a cake for every kid—from rockets
to robots, from tiaras to teasets. Gorgeous color photography,
simple line drawings, and clearly written recipes make it
easy for anyone to create these cakes and be a hero.
Chronicle Books, Spring 2008
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Cool
Waters
By Brian Preston-Campbell
Photographs by Jerry Errico
Water is essential to life and an important part of a healthy
lifestyle, but who says it has to be boring? This delightful
recipe book features 50 drink recipes: easy, economical, and
sugar- and additive-free ways to infuse drinking water. Downtown
Bookworks teamed up talented food stylist Brian Preston-Campbell
and veteran food photographer Jerry Errico to create this
refreshing twist on the cocktail cookbook.
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Desperate
Housewives
Signed up during the first season, this authorized tie-in
was published in time for the season 2 premiere of the hit
show. Hyperion, Fall 2006
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Easter
Eggs
By
Matthew Mead
This beautiful book, written and photographed by Matthew
Mead, features 40 Easter-friendly projects from simple sticker-dyed
eggs to festive egg garlands and elegant eggshell candleholders.
Chronicle Books, Spring 2007
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Easy
Everyday Favorites by Allrecipes.com
Easy Everyday Favorites contains more than 200 five-star
family-friendly recipes collected from the hugely popular
website. From weekday dinners for the family to appetizers
for a crowd to desserts that will satisfy any sweet tooth,
Easy Everyday Favorites lives up to its name! Reader's
Digest, Summer
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Lessons
from The Apprentice
With
a Foreward by Donald Trump
A creative twist on the basic authorized TV tie-in, this
business book was based on material from the first 3 seasons
of The Donald's top-ranked series.
Time Inc. Home Entertainment, Fall 2005 |
Matthew
Mead Halloween Tricks and Treats
Our third collaboration with Matthew Mead, Halloween Tricks
and Treats is more proof that fabulous crafts don’t
have to be complicated. Bringing his unique sense of style
to the spookiest time of year, Matthew Mead shows you how
to make creepy crafts and tantalizing (and terrifying!) treats
that your whole family will love. Time
Inc. Home Entertainment, Fall 2008 |
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Matthew
Mead’s Monster Book of Halloween
Our second annual Halloween book with Matthew Mead features
256 pages of Mead’s trademark super-easy, totally fabulous
food and craft projects. As with the first edition, this title
was published in bookazine (for sale on newsstand) and trade
formats. Time Inc. Home Entertainment,
Fall 2009 |
McCormick
Cooking with Flavor
This beautifully designed cookbook offers just what you'd
expect from the first name in flavor: hundreds of family-pleasing
recipes—from savory to sweet, from bountiful breakfasts
to delectable desserts. Time Inc. Home
Entertainment, Fall 2007 |
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McCormick
3-Step Cooking with Flavor
We worked with the McCormick Test Kitchen to create the recipes
for this collection of family-friendly recipes, which can
all be prepared in three steps or less.
Time Inc. Home Entertainment, Fall 2008 |
Omaha
Steaks
The Great American Grilling Book
Omaha Steaks knows where the beef is. And Downtown Bookworks
knows where the best recipe developers, food stylists and
photographers are. The Great American Grilling Book
features fabulous recipes, luscious photos, and helpful how-tos
for meat lovers and home cooks. Time
Inc. Home Entertainment, Spring 2008 |
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The
Only Bake Sale Cookbook You’ll Ever Need
By
Pam Abrams and Laurie Goldrich Wolf
Downtown Bookworks' Pam Abrams and Child food editor
Laurie Goldrich Wolf produced the ultimate resource: Two hundred
recipes plus ample advice for maximizing your bake-sale efforts.
HarperCollins, Spring 2008 |
The
Original Picture Puzzle and The Ultimate Picture Puzzle
Follow-ups
to the LIFE magazine’s The Original Picture
Puzzle (which was a number 1 New York Times
bestseller!), these books feature more than 100 puzzles each.
The books were produced in conjunction with LIFE
magazine, based on its popular back-page feature. Time
Inc. Home Entertainment, Spring and Fall 2007 |
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Parenting
Magazine’s
Baby Must-Haves
Created in conjunction with the editors of Parenting,
hundreds of mom testers, and more than 1,200 survey respondents,
this indispensable, fully illustrated resource tells new parents
what to buy, what to borrow, and what not to bother with.
Time Inc. Home Entertainment, Fall
2007 |
Partnership
Parenting:
How Men and Women Parent Differently—Why It Helps Your
Kids and Strengthens Your Marriage
By
Dr. Kyle Pruett and Dr. Marsha Kline Pruett
Married couple Dr. Kyle Pruett (Yale Child Study Center) and
Dr. Marsha Kline Pruett (Smith College School for Social Work)
collaborate on how to raise a happier family together, taking
into account the biological and social differences each parent
brings to the equation. Downtown Bookworks worked with the
authors to translate their professional expertise into smart
yet accessible relationship and parenting advice.
With a foreword by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. DaCapo,
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Presidential
“MINIS”
By
Sarah Parvis
Downtown Bookworks created these immensely giftable books
in a matter of a few short weeks. Small in stature, but
long in facts, photos, and insight, Barack Obama
and Michelle Obama tell the stories of America’s
first family. Andrews McMeel Publishing,
Fall 2009
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Real
Family Food by the Editors of All You
Collected from the archives of the magazine, All You Real
Family Food delivers exactly what the title promises:
recipes that real families will love. Time
Inc. Home Entertainment,
Fall 2006 |
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Remembering
Johnny
Still a record-holder, this tribute to the King of Late Night
was produced in 3 long, crazy days. Time
Inc. Home Entertainment, Winter 2005 |
The
Secret of Play
How to Raise Smart, Healthy,
Caring Kids from Birth to Age 12
By
Ann Pleshette Murphy
Play is what kids do best—and how they learn best, too.
And toy giant FAO Schwarz is pretty much the authority on
play. So when we sat down with executives at FAO Schwarz and
Good Morning America’s parenting expert Ann Pleshette
Murphy to discuss a parenting book concept, The Secret
of Play emerged quite naturally. In addition to working
with the author and design team to shape the book, we produced
the photography for this gorgeous celebration of the fun part
of parenting.
DK Publishing, Fall 2008 |
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The
Snack Factor Diet
By
Keri Glassman, M.S., R.D.
We worked closely with mediagenic nutritionist Keri Glassman
to translate her "un-diet" philosophy (that snacking
well anchors your health) into a book. Crown,
2007 |
What
Was I Thinking?
58 Bad Boyfriend Stories
Edited
by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman
Downtown Bookworks agented this collection of first-person
essays describing the moment in a relationship when, no matter
how much you think it should work, or want it to work, or
need it to work, you get that it's not going to work. St.
Martin's Press, February 2009 |
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The
Around the World Cookbook
By
Abigail Johnson Dodge
This colorful and easy-to-use cookbook shows budding chefs
that it really is a small (and tasty!) world after all. Part
cookbook, part travel book, The Around the World Cookbook
contains more than more than 50 kid-pleasing recipes
and is chock full of fun food factoids and interesting historical
and cultural information. Downtown Bookworks partnered with
James Beard and IACP award nominee Abigail Johnson Dodge to
create the recipes and text. DK Publishing,
June 2008 |
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Artful
Jewelry Kit
By
Jo Packham
Art meets crafts! This unique kit features step-by-step
instructions for jewelry projects inspired by famous works
of art, such as earrings that capture the soft spring colors
of Botticelli’s La Primavera, a necklace
celebrating the swirly sky of Van Gogh’s The Starry
Night, and teardrop pearl earrings straight out of
Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. All
the materials needed to complete 6 of the 12 projects are
included so young crafters can get started right away. The
book also provides information on each artist’s life
and work, offering lessons in art history to complement
the crafting. Downtown Bookworks is hard at work on our
next crafty kit: Artful Accessories, featuring
barrettes, headbands, handbags, and more. Stay tuned. Chronicle
Books, Fall 2009
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Before
Columbus: The Americas of 1491
By
Charles C. Mann
Adapted from Charles Mann’s groundbreaking bestseller
1491, this fascinating, fully illustrated history
is designed for kids eight and up. Just as 1491 shattered
myths and misconceptions about Native Americans in the New
World, Before Columbus sheds new light for students
learning about this era of history. We worked closely with
the author to insure that his extensive research and revelations
would resonate with middle grade readers.
Atheneum, September 2009 |
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Can
I Push the Button?
By
Pam Abrams with Illustrations by
Colleen Madden
If you’ve ever been in an elevator with a little kid,
you know that they want nothing more than to push those buttons.
With that in mind we wrote the text for this charming story,
commissioned the illustrations and book design, and partnered
with Piggy Toes Press on this interactive board book for toddlers.
Kids will love pushing real buttons (with sound!) all around
town as they learn to count backwards from six to one with
a disappearing die-cut format. Piggy
Toes Press/Intervisual, Spring 2010 |
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Celebrity
"MINI" Series
By
Sarah Parvis
Robert Pattinson, Taylor Swift, and the Jonas Brothers—all
of these talented, young performers have one thing in common—devoted
fans around the world who make them the perfect subjects
for three separate mini-biographies filled with anecdotes,
quotes, and tons of fantastic photos. Andrews
McMeel Publishing, Fall 2009
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Corbin
Bleu Up Close
Written, designed, and printed in less than 3 months, Up
Close is the only authorized biography of rising star
Corbin Bleu. Filled with never-before-seen photos and personal
stories from Corbin, this is the perfect book for any Corbin
Bleu fan! Simon & Schuster, Fall
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The
Marshmellow Incident
Story
by Judi Barrett; Drawn by Ron Barrett
From the team behind the mega-best-selling Cloudy with
a Chance of Meatballs, this treat of a tale about Left
and Right, and Right and Wrong will leave readers laughing
out loud and begging for s’more! Scholastic
Press, Fall 2009 |
Painting
with Picasso,
Quiet Time with Cassatt,
Dreaming with Rousseau and
On an Island with Gauguin
By
Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober
Chronicle's hugely successful Minimasters series features
fine art paired with lyrical text in charming board books
for the youngest art lovers. Co-authored by Downtown Bookworks'
Julie Merberg, these parents' (and grandparents') favorites
have been featured in places from the Metropolitan Museum
catalog to People magazine. Chronicle
Books, Fall 2006 and Fall 2007
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Girl
World: Quiz Zone 1 and 2
By
Michelle Haine
Quizzes on all things important to tweens, fabulous illustrations,
and a super-charged design by the incomparable Georgia Rucker
make these eye-catching books compulsive fun. Book 1 hits
the shelves November 2006; Book 2 in May 2007. DK,
Fall 2006 |
Teen
People Celebrity Style Guide
This
star-studded follow-up to Teen People Celebrity Beauty
Guide shows girls how to have big screen style every
day. Time
Inc. Home Entertainment,
Fall 2006 |
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TIME
FOR KIDS
Almanac 2008
The ultimate in edutainment, this lavishly illustrated reference
offers an overview on everything from sports to states, from
pop culture to cultures around the world. Thousands of stats,
fun facts, and kid-centric current events make it a must-have
for tweens. Time Inc. Home Entertainment,
Fall 2007 |
TIME
FOR KIDS
Almanac 2009
For this edition of the TIME FOR KIDS Almanac, Downtown
Bookworks increased the number of photos by a third and packed
in even more cool stats and fun facts than every before. It
is the ultimate illustrated reference book, perfect for kids
of all ages. Time Inc. Home Entertainment,
Fall 2008 |
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TIME
for Kids Almanac 2010
The newest completely revised and updated edition of TIME
for Kids’ “edu-taining” reference features
more coverage than ever before on kid-friendly topics from
movies to games and U.S. Presidents to what’s next in
space travel. Packed with facts and stats from around the
world and throughout history, the TIME for Kids Almanac 2010
is also bursting with more than 750 new photos.
Time Inc. Home Entertainment, August 2009 |
TIME
For Kids President Obama: A Day in the Life of America’s
Leader
Downtown Bookworks created this 128-page, picture-packed,
thoroughly informative book about President Obama in two months.
Covering everything from the Commander in Chief’s morning
routine to his travels around the country and around the world,
Time for Kids President Obama gives young readers
an inside look at the presidency and the White House.
TIME Inc. Home Entertainment, September 2009 |
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TFK
Smarts
We produced this lively custom magazine in collaboration with
Time for Kids for distribution to Girl Scouts of
America. Time Direct Ventures, Fall
2008 |
TFK
Smarts, Volume 2
Here’s our follow-up to last year’s magazine,
created with Time for Kids magazine and distributed to Girl
Scout Troops nationwide. This heavily-illustrated custom publication
features different sections for each Girl Scout level, from
age 5 to 17. Fundraising Solutions,
Fall 2009 |
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TIME
FOR KIDS
World Atlas
Revised and updated, this Atlas takes children on a voyage
around the world in 144 exciting full-color pages with more
than 250 photos and 50 great-looking topographic and political
maps. Time Inc. Home Entertainment,
Spring 2007 |
TIME
FOR KIDS
Picture Puzzles
Each of the photo pairs in this awesome puzzle collection
feature between 6 and 20 changes. In addition to more than
70 kid-friendly puzzles, TIME FOR KIDS Picture Puzzles
is packed with wild facts and wacky trivia on all subjects
from butterflies to birthstones, horse racing to hot air balloons,
and totem poles to the Taj Mahal. Time
Inc. Home Entertainment, Spring 2008 |
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The
Top 20 Under 20
Produced in 3 weeks for Sports Illustrated Kids,
this photo-heavy review of top young athletes is a book
fair exclusive. Time
Inc. Home Entertainment, Fall
2006 |
Sports
Illustrated Kids All-Star Picture Puzzles
Each picture puzzle features a pair of photos. Both pics may
look alike—but they’re not! Finding all of the
differences in more than 70 puzzles is the goal of this sporty
collection. From football fields to frenzied fans, pitchers
to point guards, and swimmers to skaters, the images in this
book have been pulled from Sports Illustrated’s
impressive photo archive. Become a puzzle MVP with Sports
Illustrated Kids All-Star Picture Puzzles! Time
Inc. Home Entertainment, Spring 2008 |
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Super
Style! and Fabulous
Hair
The first two titles to show off DK’s new tween look,
Super Style and Fabulous Hair reveal everything
a girl needs to know to look her best. Packed with photos
and step-by-step illustrations, they offer both inspiration
and hard-working advice for girls who want to experiment
with their accessories or hair. DK,
Winter 2006 |
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