Down In The Garden

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Summary: For nature AND baby lovers alike!
Review: Adorable! This anthology by New Zealand-based Anne Geddes is the most wonderful book ever made about babies. In this haven of diapered (and non-diapered, too!) babies has the little angels posing as everything from waterliles to teddy bears. My personal favorite is the waterlily baby, who goes by the name of Tayla (I discovered this through a bit of research). If you read it, you'll recognize her as the one by this description: a lovable, chubby infant poised in a pool of water, surrounded by lilypads (and even a little green frog), a little purple and yellow flower "crown" ringing her grinning face...oh! I love her! Well, enough about what I like. All in all, this is a beautiful book that will bring a smile to your lips whenever you look through it. Even though amazon.com does not currently have it, you CAN get it at Books-A-Million, Wladenbooks, and other bookstores. A special offer: when you read it, e-mail me at [e-mail] with a short description of your favorite picture. I'll look forward to your response, so buy the book today! Your heart will lift, and your day will be made by this beautiful collection.

Rating:
Summary: For nature AND baby lovers alike!
Review: Adorable! This anthology by New Zealand-based Anne Geddes is the most wonderful book ever madeabout babies. In this haven of diapered (and non-diapered, too!) babies has the little angelsposing as everything from waterliles to teddy bears. My personal favorite is the waterlily baby, who goes by the name of Tayla (I discovered this through a bit of research). If you read it, you'll recognize her as the one by this description: a lovable, chubby infant poised in a pool of water, surrounded by lilypads (and even a little green frog), a little purple and yellow flower "crown" ringing her grinning face...oh! I love her! Well, enough about what I like. All in all, this is a beautiful book that will bring a smile to your lips whenever you look through it. Even though amazon.com does not currently have it, you CAN get it at Books-A-Million, Wladenbooks, and other bookstores. A special offer: when you read it, e-mail me at [e-mail] with a short description of your favorite picture. I'll look forward to your response, so buy the book today! Your heart will lift, and your day will be made by this beautiful collection.

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Summary: For people who still want to believe in a beautiful world
Review: Do you wonder often about the miracle of life ? Buy this book and every time you open it, you will be delighted by the wonderful pictures of babies, which will take you to a dreamy, sunny, fairy tale-like little paradise...it will bring a smile on everybody's face, even the most cynical - "the world-is-going-to-pieces-anyway" - people. I am convinced this book opens all the hidden, subconscious feelings we had when we were still in our mothers' womb... Having a bad day ? Looking at Anne Geddes' little elfins, flowerbabies or the cutest little faces you have ever seen, will make you realize life is STILL a miracle. It will bring some of your long lost innocence back...you never realized you still had it, didn't you ?

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Summary: Cute Baby Book!
Review: Down In The Garden is one of my favorite Anne Geddes books. I love flowers and babies and this book puts the two together! Everything Anne Geddes does is sure to fill your day with sunshine!

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Summary: High Kitsch
Review: Geddes' manages to degrade and isolate her subjects. Her prehistoric "cutsie" images, though appealing to a kitsch market, do not allow for a social comment to transcend the visual confines of her exploitive commercial "photography". In some senses, she could be seen as a radical post-modernist artist, as she abstracts the subject from social normality and removes any dignity from the development of the child, if that was her so calling in contemporary art. Yet it is frightening to be in an age where people will grasp such superficially degrading images. Geddes has made a personal fortune off photographing babies, subjects usually positioned in inhumane circumstances (ie: babies in flowerpots or dipped in custard), which removes human dignity and allows us to question Geddes moral intent.

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Summary: High Kitsch
Review: Geddes' manages to degrade and isolate her subjects. Her prehistoric "cutsie" images, though appealing to a kitsch market, do not allow for a social comment to transcend the visual confines of her exploitive commercial "photography". In some senses, she could be seen as a radical post-modernist artist, as she abstracts the subject from social normality and removes any dignity from the development of the child, if that was her so calling in contemporary art. Yet it is frightening to be in an age where people will grasp such superficially degrading images. Geddes has made a personal fortune off photographing babies, subjects usually positioned in inhumane circumstances (ie: babies in flowerpots or dipped in custard), which removes human dignity and allows us to question Geddes moral intent.

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Summary: It is a lovely and wonderful picture book
Review: I am a brasilian doctor and "my english" is not very good, I am sorry... but I will try... This book showing flowers, childrens and beautiful scenes get to extract feelings and beauty for simple objects as a broke pot for instance. Without doubts, it is the most sensitive picture book that I could to know. Congratulations, Anne!... My name: Ada Maria V. da Veiga. Santa Catarina / Brasil

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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: I love Anne Geddes' work. She is divine. The babies are adorable. Each photo is precious in content.

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I simply loved this book! The babies in it are the most adorable little creatures! There is something about Anne Geddes's photos, a sort of charm about them, that makes me smile. My favorite picture is the one of the waterlily baby. She is simply adorable! If you read the book, you should recognize her: She sits in a lily pond, and has a ring of purple flowers around her face. Oh! She just SO cute! Anyway, this book is wonderful!

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I simply loved this book! The babies in it are the most adorable little creatures! There is somethingabout Anne Geddes's photos, a sort of charm about them, that makes me smile. My favorite picture is the one of the waterlily baby. She is simply adorable! If you read the book, you should recognize her: She sits in a lily pond, and has a ring of purple flowers around her face. Oh! She just SO cute! Anyway, this book is wonderful!