wood carving

Provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions for making eleven different wooden fishing lures, including a surface popper, perch crawler, and minnow chaser, and includes a lure gallery, and optional ideas for making more and better types of lures.

In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing piano.

The widow McDowell and her seven-year-old son Thomas ask the gruff Jonathan Toomey, the best wood-carver in the valley, to carve the figures for a Christmas creche. Includes a reading on CD.

Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.

Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.

A novice wood carver is momentarily defeated when people laugh at the result of a winter of work. Then he learns that there are different reasons for laughter.

Plain Kate's odd appearance and expertise as a woodcarver cause some to think her a witch, but friendship with a talking cat and, later, with humans help her to survive and even thrive in a world of magic, charms, and fear.

When Lily goes to Coney Island in 1909 to visit her newborn sister, she learns about the art and traditions of the Jewish woodcarvers who make the carousel animals there.

The author shares his techniques for carving, the use of patterns, choice of woods, and finishing, using a carving knife, rasp, and sanding stick.