A Sampling of What the Kiddos Have Asked for this Christmas from Santa (or Amazon, which might be the same thing :-)

The Art of Fiction by John Gardner

On Becoming a Novelist by the same

The Screenwriter's Bible by David Trottier

The Essentials of Screenwriting by  Richard Walter

Richard Meier, Architect Volume 5

And I'm sneaking this one in :-). 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick.

And these little lovelies...

Emma

and Sense and Sensibility


by the Inimitable Miss Austen. These are from a series done by Penguin Classics in beautiful cloth covers. I love them. I'll be getting more.

The older set (of children, I mean, not books) definitely seem to have plans for creating something beautiful in the world, don't they? I'm glad. :-)