While origami is the process of folding paper into representational shapes, kirigami takes it a step further by using scissors to add details. By following the simple instructions and detailed illustrations, children can transform plain paper into original, 3-D projects of all kinds -- dragons, castles, helicopters, ladders, masks, cards, and more. The difficulty of design increases through the book so that any creative enthusiast will grow in technique, with dynamic sunflower pop-ups just a few folds away.

Origami Majestic Castle opens the Origami Land Series by the Oriland authors and shows you how to build your own magnificent Origami Castle of Oriland style! For more info and images on this book, visit http: //www.oriland.com/store/books/origami_majestic_castle/main.php Become an origami architect and build your own Paper Kingdom with this majestic Castle as a centerpiece! Originally designed by Yuri and Katrin Shumakov in far 1997, this Castle is the main attraction of Oriville Kingdom of their Oriland exhibition. The Castle consists of 23 elements: bases, stands, walls, roofs, towers, lanterns, different accessories and more, and requires 382 separate pieces to be folded. It is a big enterprise for those with some experience in origami and the experts alike, so that the process and result will be very satisfying! On 90 full color pages, there are about 500 detailed step-by-step colorful vector diagrams with written instructions along with photos of the completed design that will guide you through folding all the elements of the Castle and the assembly process. The 'Paper Preparation' section offers recommendations on paper type, colors and size including indication of the size of the completed model. In general, the Castle is a complex design as it is a large-scale undertaking requiring much patience and time, however only a few elements are intermediate-complex level of folding and all other elements are simple and intermediate. No any glue, just clever paper engineering! Building this Castle is a lot of fun and you can do it with your friends and family! We hope you will enjoy this book, creating the Origami Majestic Castle and building your own Paper Kingdom! Happy folding!

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist • “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”—Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”—The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.

There's something attractive about pain, isn't there? The attention that comes with suffering in a spotlight. The self assurance of knowing life can't get much worse. When the world is against you, it must consider you a threat. Scars can be armor. Pain can be fuel.

Perhaps you'd like to know a secret, one of the happiest ones of all. You will surely find it for yourself one day. You'll discover it all on your own, maybe when you least expect it. If you've not yet discovered the secret of saying thanks, it's waiting for you. The secret can be found in the sunrise that offers promises full for the day ahead, or in the gentle shade of a tree sheltering you from the hot rays of the sun, or on the rock that offers rest from a long walk. In the inspirational text that made him a bestselling, internationally acclaimed author, Douglas Wood offers a spiritual homage to nature and the world. Greg Shed's stunning portraits of the natural world tenderly portray all of the many ways in which we can say thanks for the wonders we sometimes take granted in life.

Princess Elizabeth is beautiful and rich and about to marry Prince Ronald. That is, until a dragon destroys her castle, burns all her clothes and carries off her prince But Elizabeth's not easily beaten and sets off to get Ronald back.