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Hardcover, 6-1/2" x 6-1/2" in.
352 pages, 100 color illustrations and 150 Line Illustrations

Published: 09-01-2004

ISBN: 978-1-932183-22-1

$24.95

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The Little Big Book of Roses

By: Lena Tabori (Editor)
Natasha Tabori Fried (Editor)

A must-have for any rose lover, this gorgeous, chunky little book is simply jam-packed with everything you ever wanted to know about your favorite blossoms. Practical information about growing, planting, and caring for different species is interspersed with the celebratory voices of poets, literary greats, garden enthusiasts, and lyricists. It’s also full of entertaining and fascinating information on roses, including myths, legends, fun facts, recipes, craft ideas, and the world's greatest gardens. Illustrated throughout with beautiful and delicate turn of the century art, The Little Big Book of Roses is the perfect compendium of rose facts, tips, literature, and lore. So find a shady spot, sit back, and relax with this perfect little read and get into the gardening mood.

The Little Big Book of Roses will include:

Poems, quotes, and literary excerpts from such great writers as Lewis Carroll, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edgar Allen Poe, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, D.H. Lawrence, Dorothy Parker, Ranier Maria Rilke, William Shakespeare, and Oscar Wilde.

Essays from the greatest garden enthusiastists offering tips, observations, and insights into their passions for roses. Writers to be included are: Diane Ackerman, Jamaica Kincaid, Henry Mitchell, and Michael Pollan.

Song lyrics, such as “The Yellow Rose of Texas” & “Everything's Comin' Up Roses.”

Facts and History spreads, where you'll find out where the world's biggest rosebush is, which celebrities have roses named after them, and more than a dozen roses guaranteed to grow care free—as well as traditional meanings, profiles of some of the world's most famous rose gardens, and the pros and cons of antique vs. modern roses.

Activities, including how to care for cut roses, pruning tips, planting tips, homemade rose potpourri, drying roses, and how to fight bugs and disease.

Recipes such as rose hips tea, rose preserves, rose petal scones, candied rose petals, raspberry rose sorbet, and rose syrup.

Lena Tabori Editor

LENA TABORI is publisher of Welcome Enterprises. In her long and storied career in illustrated book publishing, she has conceived and edited numerous titles, including The Norman Rockwell Counting Book(Crown); Our Christmas Book (Simon & Schuster); Love: A Celebration in Art and Literature (with Jane Lahr for Stewart, Tabori & Chang); Kisses (Turner); and A Day in the Life of Hollywood (CollinsSanFrancisco); The Little Big Book of Christmas and The Little Big Book of Love (both for William Morrow).

Natasha Tabori Fried Editor

NATASHA TABORI FRIED is the managing editor at Welcome Books. She is the co-editor or editor of many of Welcome’s successful Little Big Books, among them The Little Big Book of Chills and Thrills, The Little Big Book of America, The Little Big Book of Life, The Little Big Book of New York, and The Little Big Book of Birds.