Say Thank You in a special way

With these beautiful Inuit Thank You Cards.



Preening Owl by Kenojuak Ashevak, from Dorset Fine Arts.

Ten 3 1/2 x 5 inch blank notecards with "Thank You" printed on the front and white envelopes in an acetate-topped four-color box.
ISBN 978-0-7649-4230-3.
RRP: £4.99

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The Spookiest of Halloween Gifts

EDWARD GOREY'S DRACULA - TOY THEATRE


Bram Stoker's 1897 novel took place in the wild Carpathian Mountains, London and rural England, and various places in between. But the Dracula for which Edward Gorey created the set designs reproduced in miniature here--a version that ran to nearly a thousand Broadway performances--compresses the action to one locale: the sanatorium of Dr. Seward, near the town of Purley, somewhere in the English countryside.
Based on Edward Gorey's set and costume designs for his award-winning production of Dracula, these die-cut, scored, and perforated foldups and foldouts include:

• 3 pop-up 16 x 12" stage sets (only one is shown above)
• Cast of 8 (15 figures in all)
• Stage Furniture
• 4-page booklet with exceptionally simple assembly instructions, a synopsis of Gorey's Broadway adaptation of Dracula, and notes on Edward Gorey (1925-2000) and his many magical creations.
• Cigar-box style packaging, approximately 8 1/2 X 12 1/2 X 1"
• ISBN: 978-0-7649-4541-0.
• RRP: £18.99

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2010

Hair Raising Spookyness No 3

And what halloween movie do we think they have just watched?

Haute Coiffure Postcard


Just one of our many retro, black & white Postcards.
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Brace Yourself: Spookyness No 2

SUPER NATURAL OR SCIENTIFIC? A QUIZ DECK ON MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA, URBAN LEGENDS, AND PARANORMAL EVENTS.


From the dawn of time, humans have attempted to explain the unexplainable, fashioning fanciful stories to make sense of the unknown. Ghosts, sea monsters, vampires, witches, unicorns, and more have always been the fodder of mythology. But lest you think this is a mere peculiarity of long-ago times, think aliens and UFOs, crop circles, and the Bermuda Triangle—modern man is no less susceptible to concocting curious interpretations of seemingly inexplicable phenomena. This quiz deck of 48 cards runs the gamut of odd events and legends throughout history—from Sasquatch to the Jersey Devil, haunted houses to puzzling diseases, the stones of Carnac to the enigmatic human-sized holes of Peru. So gather 'round and brace yourself for a trip through the unsettling, strange, and spooky recesses of the mysterious.

Published with GeoNova Publishing.
With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.
Size: 3 1/4 x 4".
ISBN 978-0-7649-5163-3.

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Spooky Week with Pomegranate

In the lead up to Halloween we are going to feature some of our 'spooky' wares ..... so stop carving out the pumpkin and have a read:-

THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER STROKE - Jigsaw Puzzle


The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, 1855–1864 by Richard Dadd (English, 1817–1886).
Published with the Tate Collection.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke is the best-known painting by English artist Richard Dadd (1817–1886), many of whose paintings reflect his interest in supernatural subjects, especially fairies. A promising artist at an early age, he began studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London at the age of twenty. Within five years, however, he began to display signs of insanity and soon afterward was confined to a mental hospital. Dadd created The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke while at Bethlem Hospital, the first of two institutions where he spent the last forty-four years of his life. The painting, drawn from his imagination, shows the “fairy-feller” about to crack open a large chestnut to be used in the construction of Queen Mab’s new fairy carriage. Dadd’s masterpiece is housed in the Tate in the United Kingdom.

Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, our 1,000-piece interlocking jigsaw puzzles combine superb color reproduction, stunning and unusual images, and sturdy construction to delight generations of novice and veteran puzzleworkers.
Puzzle size: 20 x 27".
Box size: 10 x 13 x 1 7/8 in. ISBN: 978-0-7649-5542-6.
(WARNING: Choking hazard—small parts. Not suitable for children under 3 years.)
RRP: £10.99

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In Praise of Millet

Happy Birthday

Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon School in rural France.

Millet was an important source of inspiration for Van Gogh, particularly during his early period. Millet and his work are mentioned many times in Vincent's letters to his brother Theo. Millet's late landscapes would serve as influential points of reference to Monet's paintings of the coast of Normandy; his structural and symbolic content influenced Seurat's as well.



View more of Millet's work in our 100 YEARS OF FRENCH PAINTING Book of Postcards:-

You will find examples of the traditional grand portraiture of Jacques-Louis David; the romantic bravura of Theodore Gericault; idealized descriptions of country living by Barbizon artists Jean-Francois Millet and Camille Corot; the social satire of Honore Daumier; brilliant and deceptively casual “snapshots” of everyday subjects by Edgar Degas; a voyeuristic look at an “exotic” culture by Jean-Leon Gerome; the cool academic representation of the ideal human form exemplified by William Bouguereau; experiments in new subjects and painting techniques developed by Impressionists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Camille Pissarro; the radical approach to color and pattern of post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin; and more. These different artistic visions demonstrate the dramatic breadth of style and subject produced by nineteenth-century French artists.

Thirty full-color oversized postcards (6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.) in a handy bound collection.
ISBN 0-7649-3729-4.
RRP £5.99

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A Poem for National Poetry Day

As the summer's gone,
we are not surprised to see
autumn rain at night
-Eiki [1823-1904]

A poem from Pomegranate's new book:


Haiku Japanese Art and Poetry
Available Now
ISBN: 978-0-7649-5610-2
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Haiku Japanese Art & Poetry

How beautiful is this, our new Book Haiku presenting 35 pairs of poems and images, organised seasonally.

The strictest and purest of poetic forms, the Japanese haiku contains in its seventeen sound characters a reference to a season as well as a distinct pause or interruption. Cherry blossoms and swallows might refer to spring; red maple leaves and deer usually imply autumn. These seasonal allusions emphasize the essence of haiku: nature and its ephemeral beauty.

The graceful, evocative haiku featured here were composed by the renowned Japanese haiku masters of the past four hundred years, including Matsuo Bashō, Taniguchi Buson, and Kobayashi Issa. The deceptively simple poems—rendered in English with Japanese calligraphies and transliterations—are paired with exquisite eighteenth- or nineteenth-century paintings and ukiyo-e prints and twentieth-century shin hanga woodcuts from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada. With their depth and delicacy, wide range of subtle hues, and time-honored focus on landscapes, birds, and flowers, these artworks—like their haiku counterparts—quietly capture a moment in time.

Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry presents thirty-five pairs of poems and images, organized seasonally. The Introduction details the origin and development of haiku, the lives of the most famous poets, and the obstacles faced when translating the concise yet complex lines.

By authors Judith Patt, Michiko Warkentyne, and Barry Till.
80 pages with 35 color reproductions. Size: 8 x 8".
Hardcover smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.
ISBN 978-0-7649-5610-2
£10.99

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Weather Forecast

Think this accurately sums up our weather at the moment:

Gray and Cold by John Rogers Cox [1942]

Gloomy or not this is still a powerful piece of art and is available as a Notecard from Pomegranate. Contact us for a Notecard catalogue:-

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The Koala Conga Line

Doesn't this just want to make you burst out into 'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge?

Just one of Pomegranate wonderful notecards from the Sierra Club range; Koala [or to be more precise Phascolartctos cinereus] conga line, photographed by Mituaki Iwago.

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Super Plant

Super Plant [1995]
Fred Tomaselli

"I want people to get lost in the work. I want to seduce people into it and I want people to escape inside the world of the work. In that way the work is pre-Modernist. I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work, and I try not to be too embarrassed about any of it. I love nature, I love gardening, I love watching birds, and all of that gets into the work. I just try to be true to who I am and make the work I want to see. I don’t have a radical agenda."

Just one of our new single, blank notecards available now. For a catalogue contact us:

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The Awdrey-Gore Legacy

What do these have in common?
1. St Spasmus' Day
2. A Nameless poacher
3. A guilt ballroom chair
4. Suthick & Upters Auction Rooms ...

....they are all featured in the Introductionary Notes of the Awdrey Gore Legacy by Edward Gorey, a shiny new book from Pomegranate



"The smallest clue may be [or not] the one to give away the plot'
the Ipsiad, can 1
Miss D. Awdrey-Gore, renowned 97-year-old writer of detective stories, is found murdered; then a mysterious hidden packet is discovered. Addressed to her publisher, it contains what appear to be notes and drawings related to a literary work in progress. The contents “in their entirety—though certain things are patently missing” comprise clues about the who, what, when, where, and how of Awdrey-Gore’s demise. Or do they? Edward Gorey takes us on a rollicking ride in this merry murder mystery, but whether or not the killer is revealed is open to speculation.

Like his fictional dame novelist, Gorey (1925–2000) was a prolific author. Creator of more than one hundred works, he was also an artist, playwright, award-winning set and costume designer, and creator of the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! First published in 1972, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy remains one of Gorey’s most treasured tales, satisfying the sleuth in each of us.

64 pages with more than 50 colour and black-and-white Gorey drawings.
Size: 8 1/2 x 6".
Hardcover smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.
ISBN 978-0-7649-5509-9.
£9.99

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Pheromone Plus

As well as our Christopher Marley hardback book Pheromone, we also have Marley stationery & gift products. Check out below:


Jigsaws, Bookmarks, Boxed Notes and Colouring Books.

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Rhys Road Test's the big book of Pheremone

8 year old Rhys Hayden road tests Pomegranate's big hardback book Pheromone!


He may only be 8 but Rhys knows a thing or 80 about insects and so we sat him down and asked him to road test our Pheromone book. At first he was a little quiet but his face was full of wonder and surprise at the beautiful page layouts of Christopher Marley's jaw dropping work. Then the ooh's and aghhh's came on strong, Rhys was sold and gave it 10 out of 10, the thumbs up we wanted AND, just to let you know, that Road Test Rhys already knew some of the technical names for the insects which really impressed us at Pom.
Thanks Rhys.

This book presents the compositions of Christopher Marley: assemblages of real insect bodies that display brilliant colour and otherworldly form. The colours are entirely natural, and to render the reproductions as accurate as possible some have been reproduced with fifth-colour metallic inks and highlighted with spot varnish.

Accompanying the broad sample of Marley’s work is a series of essays by the artist: “Design of Insects,” “Insects in Design,” “History,” “Color,” “The Coleoptera Mosaics: An Exercise in Color,” “Repetition,” “Structure,” “Texture,” “Variations,” “Botanicals,” “Size,” and “Environmental Effects.”

Christopher Marley was born in Covina, California, and grew up near Salem, Oregon. At 19 years old, he began his travels while serving as a missionary for two years in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Upon his return, he balanced studying design at Brigham Young University with extended sabbaticals to work both on and off camera for scores of fashion brands such as Donna Karan, Gucci, and Giorgio Armani. Over more than a decade, his assignments to dozens of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas spawned a passionate drive to share the unending variety of surprising natural artifacts with an unsuspecting public through his artwork. In addition to insects, his mediums of design include fossils, minerals, botanicals, bones, and sea life. His work has been featured in numerous magazines and is sold through hundreds of galleries, stores, and showrooms in the United States and abroad.

256 pages, with more than 170 colour photographs and indexes of artworks and specimens, both by common and scientific names.
Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket.
Size: 9 1/4 x 12 in.
ISBN 978-0-7649-4619-6.
£39.95

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Calling all Sea Life Centres

Check this out-Must have products for your gift shops.

Contact us for a copy of our Sea Life flyer, easy delivery instructions, samples or cost prices.
We also have low Minimum Order levels.

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Calling All Discovery Centres

.... and Science & Nature Centres. We know you are well aware that Summer Holidays are upon us and we'd like to help with adding something a little different to your Gift Shop range. Here is our new flyer, chokka block with new and exciting product. If you would like a copy of the flyer, order details or a sample of anything - please contact us at:

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Endangered Places Knowledge Card Deck

The Earth is forever changing:



The Earth is forever changing. An age of ice is succeeded by drought—and then another ice age. Sporadic mass extinctions seem to threaten life itself. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the forces of change seem to have conspired: deserts are spreading, cities and farms are gobbling down open spaces, seas are rising. To cope with an increasing number of endangered places, local and international efforts have included evacuating low-lying islands, diverting water flows, and encouraging eco-tourism. This deck of 48 quiz cards surveys the globe, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Amish farmlands of Pennsylvania, testing your knowledge and teaching you all about the threatened regions of the Earth.

Text by Matthew S. Tharp.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this product supports Sierra Club’s efforts to preserve and protect the planet.
ISBN 978-0-7649-5387-3.
£5.95

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New Knowledge Card Week: TO THE MOON!

Ooops we missed one this week so today we are going to present 2 new decks to you. Here's the first one:-

TO THE MOON: A Quiz Deck on the Lunar Journey





This fact-packed quiz deck delves deep into the story of lunar exploration—the technology and spacecraft, the personnel, the national politics, and more—with forty-eight cards written in a lively Q&A format. Each card front poses a question, such as “Which Apollo mission was the first to carry astronauts into space?” or “What were the first words spoken from the lunar surface?” Answers are on the card backs, with pertinent, insightful background information. From the extraordinary concerted effort behind the first Apollo mission to the last astronaut to set foot on the moon, To the Moon! offers an absorbing mini-course on the race to explore our planet’s nearest neighbour.

Published with the Smithsonian Institution.
With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.
Size: 3 1/4 x 4".
ISBN 978-0-7649-5455-9.
£5.95

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Knowledge Card Deck Week: Rocks & Minerals

Day 2 of our New Knowledge Card Deck week:-

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ROCKS, MINERALS, AND GEMS?

Quiz Deck

Pristine diamonds, radiant rubies and sapphires, and other gorgeous gems captivate us with their extraordinary beauty and brilliance. But beyond their aesthetic appeal, the gems, minerals, and rocks of the world are essential to our very existence; they are the building blocks of the universe. This quiz deck presents a well-rounded sampling of mineral lore in a Q&A format, with a question—often accompanied by a color photograph—on the front and the answer on the back of each of the forty-eight cards. Together they offer a fascinating tour of the mineral kingdom, from the legendary Hope Diamond to corals and cultured pearls, dazzling crystalline caves, and the mysterious sarsens of Stonehenge.

Sample Card TextAmber, jet, coral, shell, pearl, and ivory are collectively known as what?

Answer Organic gems. These are all formed by or from living matter. Amber is fossilized tree sap; jet is a type of coal formed from ancient plant matter. Coral and shells are the exoskeletons of certain marine organisms, and pearls are concretions formed by certain shelled mollusks. Ivory is dentine formed by different mammals but is most commonly elephant tusk.

With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.

Size: 3 1/4 x 4".

ISBN 978-0-7649-5458-0.

RRP: £5.95

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Brand New Knowledge Card Week

In our Brand New Product Launch we have some new Knowledge Card Decks and we are going to feature a new deck every day of this week. As always, they are eclectic, fun and more important: they are all available now!

EACH DECK contains 48 cards with questions or images on one side and answers or images on the reverse. Bite-sized info in one neat pack, retailing at £5.95.

Todays deck is:  IN SEARCH OF A PERFECT WORLD, Architectural, Political, Social, and Literary Vision of Utopia.

From the People’s Church to Plato’s republic, utopian communities too often fail as extremism edges out moderation. What child of Woodstock could tolerate the Platonic state, with its embargo on music? And as to Thomas More’s creation, it’s all about perspective: the slaves who drove Utopia’s economy might have preferred a different arrangement.

Yet time and again women and men have left the hurly-burly of the city for an agrarian idyll in the belief that a perfect world—or a nearly perfect acre—might be possible. This quiz deck of 48 cards, with questions on one side and answers on the other, offers a realistic survey of utopias around the world and throughout history.

With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.

Size: 3 1/4 x 4".

By David Weinstein.

ISBN 978-0-7649-5501-3.

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for our NEW Knowledge Card catalogue.