Kennedy informs students about the purposes for poetry by the categories he's formed. The selections are appropriate for elementary school children and is an instructive collection for serious poetry reading for kids 7-13.

Kennedy's collection is accessible, informative and a pleasure to read and mull over.

As a teacher- I found this book to an incredible assest to have in the clasroom. This is a very exemplary eclectic collection. It contains a wide variety of poem forms, styles, and authors. Usefully organized into category chapters, it easy to find a poem relating to a topic. The book is organized into useful sections that have equally as useful subcategories. These divisions make it easy to use these poems during a unit on poetry. The wide variety of types of poems in the book also is useful to assimilate these poems into the curriculum, either as a transitional piece or within a topic discussion. The students LOVE hearing these poems!

That each of us "ordinary persons" are capable of having an extraordinary impact in our social and political worlds, you will have no doubt after reading Ms. Schrader's historical image.

Both men and women of today can be proud of one mother, homemaker and activist woman who impelled the newborn Colorado into what would still be called "mainstream thought." She began her political battles as a member of the young Colorado Legislature in 1899/1900, before women across the United States had won the right to vote. She was the first woman in the country to preside over a state legislature. The times were tumultuous when she was chosen Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives. It was a time when guns were drawn inside the chamber and members shouted their disagreements.

Probably Frances S. Lee, will not have the nororiety of a Baby Doe or the celebrity of a Molly Brown. What she does have is a grand legacy that deserves recognition. After reading about this diminutive woman's triumphs, you might perceive a brighter light on your own pathway.

As many a library, school system and museum buyer has aleady found, the Lady of the Immortal Thirty-Three is a refreshing read. You'll be thrilled that you discovered this nugget of Colorado's unrefined reading gold among the world's offerings.

This book is about a lady of the late 19th and early 20th century who used her energy and intellect to politically implement social change to improve life for the people of Colorado. It is an inspiring story of a lady living a full and interesting life, which might provide a model for young people studying the role of women in times past or the history of Colorado and the West. Francell Shcrader has done a great job of conveying this real story in a readable fiction format.

Great for helping you to relize the importance of a layout.
Planing ahead is something I didn't usually do.

What a great rescource for someone trying to make those needed changes. Just getting started is aleays the most difficult of any task. This book assists in getting anyone well on their way.

This book accomplishes a rare feat--appealing to those who would use it as a teaching guide but also so readable that the average reader will find it fascinating and invaluable. It is packed with illustrations as well as solid advice and history--from ancient funeral practices to today's arguments on assisted suicide. In between is every conceivable question and answer you could want on the subject of dying and death.

I will be using The Last Dance for the third year in a course I teach on Death and Dying in Western Culture. This text does a marvelous job of addressing the socio-cultural aspects of death in America and the world. The chapter on suicide is both helpful and haunting. There are so many excellent illustrations and photographs in this book that it really comes alive for the students. It is clear that the authors are very familiar with their subject matter, and that they care very much about those who read this book. I cannot imagine a better general text on the subject of death and dying.

Andy traded me his book for my novel, "Forever Retro Blues" at the New England Book Festival last September. Over and over, Andy is asked, "aren't you afraid?" in reference to the people Andy is telling on. But he isn't afraid to tell the truth. And he's been there--on the inside where deals are done and our lives are changed--many times for the benefit of the deal maker and not the population at large. Andy would have fit in well with our founding fathers campaigning for justice.

I heartily recommend Thibault's book. It is hard-hitting, clearly written, and commonsensical and cogent in its conclusions. Thibault is truly his own man. His views conform to no particular orthodoxy, and they shine forth in the book with an intensity borne of the deep conviction with which the author believes them. In addition, Thibault is a marvelous sleuth and detective with a keen instinct for running down a story and ascertaining the truth about it.

This is my first year as a library media specialist. I have used this book with my elementary students very successfully. The games are fun and the students get so excited when they hear we will be playing a game! I have purchased many library skills books and this is one of the best.

In Learning About Books & Libraries: A Gold Mine Of Games, Carol Lee and Janet Langford collaborate to present forty seven original, effective, and fun educational games for children in grades K-6. Each game contains a suggested grade level, a description of the instructional purpose or goal, easy preparation instructions with estimated preparation time, simple and clearly written instructions for playing each game, patterns, and further recommended reading. These easy-to-follow learning games are divided into three groups: fiction books likely to be found in most school library collections; games pertaining to nonfiction books, recognition of the Dewey Decimal numbers, map skills, and research resources; games used with thematic units or to stimulate further understanding of particular books listed. Learning About Books & Libraries is enhanced with an index listings each game by grade level and content areas of the curriculum. Designed for classroom use, Learning About Books & Libraries is also highly recommended for homeschool use.

This book is just as direct and funny as Ann Rower's two previous books, which makes it a brisk, enjoyable read. Rower's work is about her own life as a kind of "fiction." In her first two books the characters were all real people (with their real names intact) from the author's life. Here, some characters are pseudonymous.
L & E centers on Rower's obsession with the women artists (Hannah Wilke, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner) buried in the Green River Cemetary in Springs, Long Island along with guys like Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt and Stuart Davis. Rower moves out to Long Island (leaving a long term hetero-sexual relationship in the process) to do research, that evolves into an improbable supposition-what if the two extremely straight Ab-Ex divas (EdK & LK) had been lovers??? This turns out to be most relevant to the author's personal life as she breaks with her straight past and plunges ( albeit, tentatively and with attendent qualms) into an edgy relationship with one of her lesbian students. Somehow all of this book-about-trying- to write-a-book stuff, could be self-indulgent in the hands of a lesser writer. But Rower's economical "redactive" prose- the dialog sampled from her own messy experiences- makes fun of herself first of all. In writing a book about trying to write a book, Rower smudges boundaries- in sex and in art,in between fiction and memoir and in the process, the reader attains a kind of comic self-reflexive zing, of pleasure and finely observed truth.

Ann Rower's hilarious and edgy third novel chronicles her "research" into the lives of two female artists, Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning. As everyone knows, these two brilliant women pursued ambition and power by the only means available to them in their time: by producing the careers of their husbands.

But this is no normal art criticism. By asking the dumbest (profoundest) of questions - Why couldn't Lee and Elaine have been friends? - she's forced to question just about everything. She eases her way out of a 20 year long monogomous hetero-relationship and starts dating girls, all the while wondering, Why can't things just be different?

Rower is a brilliant chronicler of the minutae of daily life, famous for her faux-casual, conversational writing style, which was once described as "a late night phone conversation with a friend," but this time there's real terror involved. Tied to a bedpost with scarves by her possibly suicidal girl-student, bluffing her way through New Age Goddess rituals, pissing off most of the East Hampton Pollock/de Kooning cabal, Rower's narrator is ready for anything and she's able to microscopically detail everything's cost. It is anxiety brut, free of the angst.

While the narrator's "research" might seem a bit sketchy in normal art-critical terms, in fact it's completely devoted and active: she wants to change history, not just interpret the past. And by the narrator's willingness to let her two ghostly subjects, Lee and Elaine, become part of her present, she actually does.

Lee Bailey writes gorgeous books, that's the first thing you notice, but once you've tried his recipes, and I have five of his books, you find that all you have to do is open the book, follow his straightforward directions and you have a terrific meal. I rarely even add salt, his recipes are that good. Always my go-to guy for important dinner parties, he outdoes himself in this book adding wine and California style. In this book, he visits top California vineyards to cook with their chefs and their wines. This book is organized with complete menus which is great and saves organizing time, but you'll find yourself picking and choosing anyway since the choices are so good. Get this book and have a party!

The receipes expresses creativity and imagination for the busies working women in today's society. His combination of simplicity and freshest ingredients is attractive. Also, Lee's pairing of food and wine leaves the guess work out of receipes. I've thoroughly enjoyed my cookbook over the past few years and looking forward to purchasing others in the future. Thank you

Lee Bailey is great. I have all his books, 'Weekends,' 'Desserts,' 'Cooking For Friends,' etc. and I use them almost exclusively. This book is quite comprehensive and includes a few recipes from his other books. From the highly original 'Scrambled Egg Salad' to the simple 'Tomato Aspic' to the marvelous 'Veal chops with Blackberries' to the divine 'Natchez lemon Cake' you won't regret buying this cookbook. The recipes are laid out in a simple, straight forward style. Lots of cookbooks promise fabulous dishes. This one actually delivers it.

Lee Bailey's cookbooks are usually such wonderful visual treats that you hardly notice that the recipes are simple and straightforward and very interesting. And you would hesitate to bring them into the kitchen for fear of ruining the gorgeous pictures. This book has NO PICTURES, just lots and lots of recipes for great food. I'm not sure it has all the recipes from his previous books but it sure has most of them. I checked a number of favorites at random and they were all there. He says "I'm still a sucker for quick and easy and quirky ..." and his taste is sure. Take the other books out of the library or leave them on the coffee table - but buy this one to cook with.