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E-mail: rjb@phoenixbonsai.com

Finally, IT IS HERE!

The Bonsai Coloring Book
by
Robert J. Baran and Paul Steele

(November 2005, 36 pages, 8-1/2 x 11", ISBN 0-9659913-5-0, $5.95 +shipping)

The styles, the trees, the seasons, the different lands: An education for the mind's eye.
For children of all ages.

Available through Pyramid Dancer Publications

Ordering in the U.S., Background, Details and More

Overseas, please contact us for shipping & handling pricing at rjb@phoenixbonsai.com
Volume discounts for clubs. Ask about translation rights also.

(Note: The work titled A Bonsai Coloring Book, a guide to your first dwarf potted trees --
with a list price of $3.95 and ISBN 0-9659913-4-2 -- was actually the first draft of the above book, but it was NEVER published.
Several Internet sites do have an old listing for " A " -- but it does NOT exist and never did.
What you want now is " The Bonsai Coloring Book," which can be gotten directly from us.)

Designing Dwarfs in the Desert

Designing Dwarfs in the Desert,
up through the first thirty-five years of the Phoenix Bonsai Society
by Robert J. Baran

(1997, 82 pages, 8-1/2 x 11", 53 b&w illustrations, ISBN 0-9659913-3-4, ~~$12.95 list~~ , $7.50 selling, )

This is the official history of the club, its five hundred plus members to date, and

its three teachers, where they came from, how they became involved in horticulture and bonsai:

Paul Matsusaki (1906-70), the founder (1962) and a champion of traditional Japanese values,

Leroy Fujii (1925-98), the co-founding member who filled Paul's shoes as teacher for most of the club's existence, and

John Yoshio Naka (b. 1914), now recognized worldwide as a grand master of the art, he was befriended by Paul and taught here before this club was started.

the histories of the world-reknown Heard Museum and Desert Botanical Garden , and the Valley Garden Center (where the Phoenix Bonsai Society has met and now meets);

the Japanese-American and Chinese-American communities here;

the Tucson Bonsai Society, sister club (1972) and host of the American Bonsai Society's 1999 Symposium;

contemporary events and other teachers in the world of bonsai who have interacted with and taught our club members;

the only book available which gives information specifically about growing bonsai in a desert environment. (Note: in the interest of truth in advertising, please be aware that desert bonsai care information can now be found in greater detail on this web site. The history portion of Designing Dwarfs remains exclusive to that publication.)

Errata and Additions

"The amount of research that went into this comprehensive report on bonsai growth must be applauded. This reviewer was intrigued by the formatting of the text. The short paragraph on each development reminded this reviewer of Walter Winchell's staccato reporting of the news on his Sunday radio broadcast - succinct, lively and interesting.

" This book is highly recommended for those interested in the history of bonsai, not only in Phoenix, but in the United States."

(Jane Nelson, ABS Bonsai Journal, Summer 1998, pg. 61)

Only available through Pyramid Dancer Publications: U.S. ORDER BLANK

Overseas, please contact us for shipping & handling pricing at rjb@phoenixbonsai.com

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Previous addresses for Pyramid Dancer Publications:

P.O. Box 35158    Phoenix, AZ 85069-5158     (May 1997 - March 2002)
4680 Smoketree Rd.    Golden Valley, AZ 86413 (April 2002 - February 2004)
3002 Van Marter Ct.    Kingman, AZ 86401    (March 2004 - April 2004)
4311 W. Miramar Dr.    Golden Valley, AZ 86413     (May 2004 - June 2005)

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