Full-color paintings by the author of In and Out of the Garden celebrate the unique joys, feelings, frustrations, and mysteries of childhood, from "Table Manners" to "Behavior Toward Adults" to "Things You Are Supposed to Grow Out Of."

Growing Up And Other Vices

Children's Books

Midda, Sara

Literature & Fiction

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Sara Midda's richly illustrated In and Out of the Garden has delighted readers and critics alike. Diana Vreeland praised it as "delightful and delicious," and Laura Ashley called it "pure inspiration." The most elegant and subtle of books to give and to have, it evokes the English gardens of Sara Midda's childhood, sowing the imagination with glorious images. Dozens and dozens of illustrations and tender reflections recall a hut in the wood, or a topiary maze, a summer day spent podding peas, or an herb patch that yields Biblical fragrances. Ruby-red radishes are the jewels of the underworld. Myriad colors fall upon warm green moss. Painted with Sara Midda's fine brush, it is a book of lasting enchantment.

In and Out of the Garden

Arts & Photography

Workman Publishing

In and Out Garden Book of Days

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited

Create a marvelous keepsake of baby’s first year with Sara Midda’s Baby Book, filled with charming watercolors and unexpected touches. In the Baby Book, artist Sara Midda celebrates the joys of babyhood by reinventing the traditional baby book as a delightfully practical album filled with unexpected touches. Here is baby growing, baby eating, baby playing, and baby posing—every page features an important theme and milestone in baby's life. The pages, illustrated with beguiling watercolors, prompt parents to remember the small moments and milestones, from choosing a name to a baby's early visitors, a family tree, smiles and personality, sleeping habits, experiences with feeding, favorite books and toys, early words, excursions, and more, up through the baby's first birthday and the parents' hopes and dreams for their child. There’s lots of room throughout the book for photos, plus miniature pasted-in envelopes to store photographs and other important papers, baby’s first tooth, and a lock of hair. The book is slipcased for gift-giving and safekeeping.

Sara Midda Baby Book

Crafts & Hobbies

Workman Publishing Company

A Attention adults. Announcing a new book--a very personal book, in fact a decidedly quirky book--from Sara Midda, renowned artist of singular talent and author of In and Out of the Garden, Sara Midda's South of France, Sara Midda's Baby Book, and Growing Up and Other Vices. B Beguiling and whimsical and enigmatic, A is for Adultery is an alphabetical entertainment for grown-ups. Each spread considers a letter, weaving words through dazzling miniatures and vignettes. Some words are obvious; some hidden. (Some naughty.) It is a great pleasure to look, even more so to seek. C C is for crayon, crotch, claustrophobia. M for melon, masochist, melancholy, and man. Filled with charming little figures and painted with Midda's exquisite watercolor wash, here is a rare and wonderful marriage of humor and beauty--a treasure of fine things that is both a gift and a game.

A Is for Adultery, Angst, and Adults Only

Individual Artists

From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it is a book for lovers of food and art and fine gift books―a book for anyone who, upon arriving in a new town, seeks first the local market, or who believes the best thing to do on a given night is to share a table with friends. Sara Midda is a watercolorist whose delicate and beautiful paintings shine like jewels, evoking the sweet purple taste of a summer raspberry or the silvery greens and gnarled burnt umber of an olive grove. And she is also a collagist, weaving together photographs, line drawings, her personal swatches―all the hues of a spice cabinet, or the sensations of a picnic, the colors of the breeze, sunshine, laughter, the cooling grass. And a poet, in love with words that sing, like podding and wicker, nettle and snug. By turns reverent and playful, A Bowl of Olives is a work of pure enchantment, celebrating food―of the seasons, of family, of travel and memory. It is as richly layered as a favorite meal. The book is cloth-bound, jacketed, and printed on uncoated stock to convey the feeling of an artist’s sketchbook.

A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory

Sara Midda's richly illustrated In and Out of the Garden has delighted readers and critics alike. Diana Vreeland praised it as "delightful and delicious," and Laura Ashley called it "pure inspiration." The most elegant and subtle of books to give and to have, it evokes the English gardens of Sara Midda's childhood, sowing the imagination with glorious images. Dozens and dozens of illustrations and tender reflections recall a hut in the wood, or a topiary maze, a summer day spent podding peas, or an herb patch that yields Biblical fragrances. Ruby-red radishes are the jewels of the underworld. Myriad colors fall upon warm green moss. Painted with Sara Midda's fine brush, it is a book of lasting enchantment.

Photography & Video

IN AND OUT OF THE GARDEN

NY s-86 Workman 1984

A wondrous sketchbook from a year spent in the south of France—an artist's personal journal carried everywhere and crammed with drawings and notions and thoughts surprising and whimsical. Delicate watercolors shine like jewels set into each page of this exquisite book. In tones of sea and morning sky, stucco and brick, olive leaf and apricot, rose and geranium, sara Midda captures the land, the people, the shimmering air—the whole feeling of Provence and the Côte d'azur, and the spell they cast over even those who haven't visited. Interspersed throughout are photographic collages and charming observations. The whole book is printed on uncoated stock to convey the feeling of an artist's sketchbook.

Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook

In and Out of the Garden: Book of Days

Workman Pub. Co.

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Growing Up And Other Vices

In and Out of the Garden

In and Out Garden Book of Days

Sara Midda Baby Book

A Is for Adultery, Angst, and Adults Only

A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory

In and Out of the Garden

IN AND OUT OF THE GARDEN

Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook

In and Out of the Garden: Book of Days