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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Foothill Ranch", sorted by average review score:
The Grumpy Morning
Published in Hardcover by Hyperion Press (April, 1998)
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A great children's bookThe pictures are great, and you can never go wrong with farm animals to capture a child's interest. The latent feminist in me was very pleased to discover that the farmer was a woman. I've read this to my 2 1/2 year old son at least fifty times, and he keeps asking it for it!
The Grumpy MorningMy preschool children love this book about a kind farmer and her animals. As the impatient animals demand breakfast, love, and attention from the sleepy farmer, parents and children can draw some humorous parallels to their own family mornings!
Hard Times on the Prairie
Published in Library Binding by Harpercollins Juvenile Books (May, 1998)
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Really great!There are big ugly gray grasshoppers in it! It was very fun to read and it made a good bedtime book. It was just my kind of book. Not too easy, not too hard. You will love it!
A great bookThis is a very good book. In this book I found very interesting ideas and stories.
Harry's Home
Published in Hardcover by Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv) (April, 1900)
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Wonderful Illustrations and a Story to MatchI checked this out of the new books section at our local library, and my 3-year-old really likes it. He is a child that loves the familiar and seems to empathize with both the grandfather's desire to go back to the country and Harry's desire to go back home to his mom in the city. The illustrations are really fabulous -- detailed, but with great whimsy, and a really extraordinary use of color. We had never read anything before by the Anholts, and Harry's Home led us to check out another five or so yesterday. Both my 2-year-old and 3-year-old loved Billy and the New School, one of the Anholts' previous books. Harry's Home is a great discovery. I recommend it.
An Instant FavoriteThis is a charming book with a clever story and appealing illustrations. The moral is that new things grow on you, as did this book. After checking it out several times at the library, we decided we must have it. Bravo.
The Home Ranch
Published in Paperback by Univ of Nebraska Pr (March, 1994)
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About as real as you can get todayI grew up in the desert of southern Arizona in the 50's and 60's. Surrounded by real cattle and real cowboys. This book rings true. I loved it as a kid. No gun fights, no bar room fights. Ralph paints a soft, rich picture, that is much more accurate then any movie you ever saw. I have purchased several copies to give to REAL good friends.
Business Today, Wrapped in the American West of YesterdayThe Home Ranch is more then a slice of the American West. It's a great
slice of business management tucked in the recollections of Ralph Moody's
summer on the Batchlett home ranch in 1910. Located near
Colorado Springs, the home ranch is a metaphor for today's office.
Batchlett sums up every business management theory written when
he tells Moody during a trading trip, "You play the hand you draw." And Batchlett's
hand is an array of characters that I see in the office everyday.
People like, Zeb, quiet and smart, but who doesn't like to be out of sight of Pike's Peak. Hank, a boastrous
old cowhand who's always telling everyone how it should be done but not doing any of it.
Sid, the fiesty redhead with a fondness for "Jenny Wren",
and Trinidad, the arrogant, rhinestone cowboy with the cowards heart. Mix in a manipulative 12 year old girl and a boy who sets his heart on turning a wild
stallion into a good cowhorse and you got a recipe for today's workforce.
Stick it next to Covey, Petersen, and Drucker. But don't be
suprised if you use it more often then any of them.
Hot Dog (Road to Reading. Mile 1)
Published in Paperback by Golden Books Pub Co Inc ()
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"Hot Dog" Rates #1 in my Classroom!I have begun to use these Road to Reading books in my resource classroom and the students love them. They especially loved Hot Dog. Many of the words are on the state mandated word lists for K-2. The pictures are terrific and the story is interesting and funny to the kids. I thought it was great too-in fact we all fell in love with the little "Hot Dog".
Excellent Kids starter bookThis book was the first one our daughter (4) read by herself. It's pretty good and is at the level of the old "see spot run" books. It's about thirty pages and has nice color pictures.
The Hullabaloo ABC
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow (April, 1998)
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Hullabaloo ABCMy 22-month old son loves this book. In fact, we first took this title out from the local library, and he was able to identify and say aloud all the letters of the alphabet, something that he didn't do with his other alphabet books. Since he progressed well with this book, and enjoyed the pictures and letters, we purchased it from Amazon. This is usually the first book he chooses from his rather large personal library of books, and proceeds to read it to us.
EXCELLENTMY 2 YR OLD LOVES THIS BOOK. THE LARGE SIZE TEXT AND THE BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS KEEPS HER ATTENTIVE. EXCELLENT TEACHING TOOL! IT IS A BOOK I ENJOY, AND WE REACH FOR IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
The Incredible Worlds Of Wally Mcdoogle: #19 My Life As A Cowboy Cowpie
Published in Paperback by Thomas Nelson (08 May, 2001)
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awesome!This is one of my favorite books in the series. I have 18 of the 20 and i love this book. You never know whether Wally is gonna go in traction or save the day until you read it.
WORTH THE WAIT!This is a funny book! Wally goes to a ranch and is the clown in rodeo, and learns about revenge. Suprises in store: Music and Sound Effects Guy talk, Wally and Wall Street nearly break up and..........................OPERA STOPS CHOMPING CHIPS! for 1.8 seconds. Worth the wait,McDoogle fans!
Intrigue at the Rafter B Ranch
Published in Unknown Binding by Bt Bound (March, 1997)
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Lots of fun!Exciting basketball competition and mysteries to solve as the team discovers big time activities going on in their small town. Really looking forward to the other books in the series! Couldn't put this one down.
Excellent youth/children's book. Clean adventure.Charming, modern-day adventure in the West. Just a lot of fun to read. Plus a great lesson on unselfishness for kids. I liked the whole series, and that is as an adult who is not into basketball. Now I am buying these books for nephews and nieces. Overall, Bly always tells a creative, different story with surprises and interesting characters; but always a positive tale so you feel good at the last page. I discovered his youth series is a delight when I couldn't find more of his adult books in our small library.
Just Josefina (American Girls Short Stories)
Published in Hardcover by Pleasant Company Publications (March, 2002)
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An excellent storyThis is another one of the American Girls Short Stories series about Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl living in the New Mexico of 1824. When Josefina's grandparents arrive with her aunt Dolores, Josefina finds herself suddenly torn. She had always been her grandmother's favorite, and mainly because she reminded her so much of her dead mother, a fact that Josefina had always been proud of. But now, she is getting older and is beginning to grow in directions her mother never had, a fact that her grandmother finds disappointing. What can Josefina do?
The final chapter of this book is a fascinating look at women's rights in 1824, both in Mexico and in the United States. (Plus there are directions for making apple empanditas, and delicious apple tart!) And, as always, Jean-Paul Tibbles' illustrations are excellent, and help to make this a truly wonderful book.
This is an excellent story, and a wonderful addition to the Josefina stories. My daughter and I both enjoyed the story for itself, and I like the lesson it taught, both for children and the ones who love them. My daughter and I both highly recommend this book.
Lively Nine Year Old Learns That She is Just Josefina"Just Josefina" is the most recently published (and fourth) short story about Josefina. "Just Josefina" fits between the books "Meet Josefina" and "Josefina Learns a Lesson". Josefina's grandparents have brought Tia (Aunt) Dolores to stay with Josefina's family and to visit. Josefina and her sisters greet their grandparents with respect, and then Josefina helps Abuelita freshen up after her journey. It is clear that Abuelita holds a special place in her heart for Josefina. It is also clear that Abueblita expects Josefina to be a quiet, well mannered girl who follows the rules of conduct, even when her sisters don't.
Josefina is torn between wanting to please her Abuelita and wanting to be herself. At a party, Tia Dolores plays her piano while the friends and neighbors dance. She urges Josefina to show them the new dance that she has learned, but Josefina is too young to dance in front of others. Abuelita is shocked at Tia Dolores's suggestion, and claims that Josefina is too shy. But dance is exactly what Josefina wants to do, and ends up doing, to Abuelita's disapproval.
Then, her skirt button pops. Abuelita had given the skirt to Josefina because it was the skirt of Josefina's deceased mother, and Abuelita's oldest daughter. Josefina tries to give Abuelita the skirt back, because, like Abuelita's image of Josefina as being shy and obedient like her Mama, it just didn't fit. In the end, the skirt button can be adjusted to fit, just like how Abuelita sees Josefina can be changed to accept Josefina as "Just Josefina".
This book is my favorite out of the Josefina short stories because of the clear, dignified portrayal of Abuelita as a traditional Spanish matron. I also enjoyed this book because Josefina learns that she can communicate who she is without compromising her relationship with her grandmother.
Just Like Mama
Published in Hardcover by Bethany House Publishers (October, 2002)
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Introducing Life in an Amish FamilyThis beautifully written and illustrated book introduces life for an Amish family through the eyes of little Susie Mae. Watching her mother, Susie Mae decides since she looks like her mother she will also act like her mother. Her actions in some cases bring unexpected results. How her mother reacts teaches Susie Mae how to behave under similar circumstances. The closing message is, "Let's be more like the Lord Jesus . . . together."
An engaging, strongly recommended, "read-aloud tale"Just Like Mama is a wonderfully written picture book story by Beverly Lewis about Susie Mae, a young Amish girl who wants to be just like her mother - so she accepts the challenge to keep up with everything her mother does all day, from morning milking and egg gathering to berry picking and cooking for the whole family. Illustrated with rich, full textured and memorably colorful artwork by Cheri Bladholm, Just Like Mama is an engaging, strongly recommended, "read-aloud tale" for mothers and daughters, a true celebration of the rewards of traditional farm life.