Aimed at 5-9 year olds, describes the benefits of friendship and presents examples of friends working and playing together happily. Includes color photographs of children engaged in the tasks of growing up. Intersperses questions about friendship for reflection or class discussion on betrayal, bullying, and the value of friendship.

WOW what a wonderful way to experience the living God! I was very taken with the way this writer can make you release the everyday world and go to a place where you are walking with Jesus. It is easy to say what you would do in the situations from the writings of Mark....but when placed in the actual scene that was taking place in the life of Jesus, it is far harder to say you would have been one of his faithful followers!

Although I'm not a parent, I really enjoy reading this book to my two nephews. The language and pace of the story makes it easy and fun to read to the kids and they enjoy reading along with the illustrations. There's a moral to this story, but the author has written it in such a way that kids as young as 3 can easily understand what it's about. This is a great children's story.

Marty Gervais shows there are no boundaries to the imagination. He writes this poignant tale of a young French Canadian woman who works in a hotel on the border. It is there she runs into Henry Miller who is staying in the hotel. She has already read his controversial book, Tropic of Cancer. It was contraband at the time, but living in Canada, she was able to read it. This takes place around the time that Miller was writing The Air Conditioned Nightmare. Gervais makes for a mysterious and intriguing tale, as he sets up this love affair of the imagination, this woman writing letters to Miller which she will never send . . .AT the end of her life, she reads about his death in the paper, and goes to the letters. What follows is this wonderful little book. It is filled with the colour of the times, the '30s on the border. It captures Miller perfectly in that swaggering and confident manner. It captures this farm girl image in the most touching and endearing way.

In his book From Coronado To Escalante:The Explorers of The Spanish Southwest Dr. J.M. Morris told the story about Don Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's journey of 1540 to the present-day Southwest, and skillfully depicted the origins of this expedition. He used the accounts of the previous Spanish conquistadores like Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro who before Coronado organized their "entradas" and subjugated the mighty Aztec and Inca empires. The author has also drawn the images of the people who participated in these adventures by portraying their ethnic and social status, and what motivated them to endure hardships such as fatigue, thirst, cold, and heat in the terras incognitas. As Dr. Morris followed every footstep of the Coronado conquistadores across the vast territories of Northern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas, he educated the reader about the types of landscape they encountered. The author not only pointed out the geographical terms of the landscape such as the Continental Divide, the Great Canyon or the rivers of Sonora, Pecos and Rio Grande, but he also linguistically enhanced the characteristics of that environment by providing the terms used by the Spanish explorers themselves like despoblados,"desolate, cactus-strewn wastelands", and the Llano Estacado, "Staked Plains",a part of the plateau streching across Northern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle, to name just a few. The author introduced the reader to a variety of Indian cultures that the Coronado expedition encountered in its way. "The Zunis, the Opatas, the Hopis, the dwellers of the pueblos in the Rio Grande Valley, the Querechos of the buffalo plains, the Teyas of the barrancas and the Wichitas of Kansas" provide evidence of a diverse world of the America's indigenous population. Besides this ethnic diversity, Dr.Morris exhibited various attitudes of how Europeans were perceived by the Indians. The title From Coronado To Escalante is a timeline during which the power of the Spanish conquistadores declined (since gold was not found to be abundant) and the ascent of the Catholic Church missionaries began. Where the magic and attraction of the riches were gone, the abundance of the Indian pagan souls prevailed. Friar Silvestre Velez de Escalante and his small group in 1776 opened a new era in mapping the landscape of the Southwest that resulted in creation of more missions in that area, the monuments to the legacy of the Catholic Church of Spain. Dr. J. M. Morris book provides a focused, comprehensive narrative that makes the reader open the map of Mexico and the present-day Southwest in order to plot Coronado's trail as he or she reads about the Spanish explorers' adventures in search of gold, glory, and fame.

This is a wonderful book about changing patterns in U.S. family life. It includes thought provoking theological reflections, ethicial analysis, and practical suggestions.

Building on the cognitive-developmental work of Heinz Werner, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Ludwig von Bertalanffy the Millers' have formed groundbreaking interpretations of how children on the autism spectrum perceive their world. Based on the belief that no matter how disordered appearing, children with autism are actually struggling to make sense of a confusing environment. Ritual is chock full of intrinsically rewarding interventions design to give structure to the child's life and encourages generalization. Most of the techniques described can be implemented using materials found in a typical home or school.

This text was VERY helpful. The illustrations and examples were enough to explain the topic without havung to read the entire book.. Also the problems given at the end of each section were very good. Some were tough; however, the author starts you out with easy problems and works up to the more difficult ones. This text definitely is a good learning aid.

It is an excellent book for understanding the basics of marketing. It can be said that it is the door to the marketing world. An ordinary person can go through this book and then can look forward for other advanced books like Marketing Management of Philip Kotler.

Mrs. Scott was one of only a few authors who was able to interview Charles Schulz. Her photo-illustrated book looks at the history of this American art form and profiles some of the best cartoonists in the business. Although it is "out of print," the book is available from Recorded Books as an unabridged audiobook with a print copy of the book. A must buy for any budding cartoonist.