I thoroughly enjoyed your book. I have given it as a gift and recommend it highly. One person I gave it to grew up a Brooklyn Dodger fan and he really loved the section about "Leo the lip" Durocher.

If you want to learn about the fading days of Gehrig and the ascendancy of the splendid splinter, you will find it here. The personalities of the various featured players shine through in Talmadge's prose. Easy to read, enjoyable, and inexpensive when bought used, this makes for great summer reading!

This is one of the few sources I have found for black and white interior artwork from the old SF magazines. If only there were more places I could find these rocketships, aliens, giant ants, babes with blasters and all the other paraphernalia of good old fashioned space opera.
My rating of "excellent" for this book must be tempered by the recognition that its subject matter isn't of interest to everybody. But for what it is, and for the audience it serves, it's priceless.
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My daughter just loves this book! She loves Poky and wants to sing the ABC song over and over again! Fun and educational at the same time!

A Wonderful book. Great book to teach young children how to read

This is a good book. It tells the origin of Superman, and has an exciting adventure at the end. I'd reccomend this book to any kid who ikes the tales of Superman.

"Die Krabbe mit den Goldenen Scheren" ("The Crab with the Golden Claws") has a simple beginning when Struppi goes scavenging in the rubbish and gets his muzzle stuck in a can of crabmeat. However, that crab of tin meat quickly leads our hero on a new adventure, which starts off rather horribly when Tintin is knocked unconscious aboard a mysterious ship and taken out to sea where the bad guys intend to send him to the bottom. Of course, Tintin leads a charmed life, which takes a major turn for the better when he comes across the ship's lowly drunken captain, who introduces himself as Captain Haddock.

The rest, as they say, is history, because this is the first of many adventures for Tintin and the character who, along with the omnipresent Struppi, becomes his almost constant companion in the years to come. Even though this is the good captain in his rawest form, Hergé knew he was onto something with the emotional, blustering, cursing (in his own peculiar way) Haddock, who plays increasingly pivotal roles in the next Tintin adventures, "Der Geheimnisvolle Stern" and "Das Geheimnis der Einhorn ." As for Struppi, he does manage to find some of the biggest bones in his long career in this particular adventure, which makes him pretty happy.

"Die Krabbe mit den Goldenen Scheren" takes Tintin and his companions from the perils of the high sea to the burning sands of the desert. Of course, all those cans of crab are not actually filled with crab. This 1941 story is a traditional exotic adventure for our interpid young reporter, filled with slapstick and narrow escapes in equal measure, which might indicate Hergé's understandable desire to forget about what was happening in Europe at that point in history.

Practical, well organized and easy to understand this book is a great source of information on the multi-faceted issues of home care for people with AIDS. Much of the book is written in point form under clearly defined headings, and there are a number of useful appendixes, so it is easy to use as a reference. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: setting up a safe and comfortable environment, preventing transmission of infection to & from the AIDS patient, checking for signs and symptoms of illness, managing common physical ailments, nutrition, administering IV feedings and medication, coping emotionally.

I picked this book up at the gift shop on Alcatraz Island. This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to learn about how the Federal Prison on Alcatraz operated.

The book contains a very thorough essay by Jay Stuller in which he describes the history of the prison, many of the famous inmates that were housed there, and many famous incidents involving riots, muders, suicides, and escape attempts. You'll learn all about inmates like Al "Scarface" Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and "The Birdman" Robert Stroud. While the essay is quite informative, this book's real strength is in all the pictures that it contains. Ever page has black and white pictures depicting prison life on Alcatraz. By looking at these pictures you'll get a very good idea about the prison cells, watch towers, officers' living quarters, and the kinds of activities the prisoners engaged in to pass the time.

This is an excellent reference book for information about Alcatraz. It contains just about all the information that you would get if you actually took a tour of the prison (which I've done several times). It's also a fun and interesting book to read.

I always read this book when I needed a pick me up, and I have never known a young girl who hasn't taken flights of fancy just like Alice and knew them to be real. The complete imagery in Carroll's writing captivates audiences around the world, and the nonsensical creatures created in the book are in keeping with a young girl desperately trying to make herself grownup but not wanting to stop being a child.

This book is very good. Quick reading and catchy little poems on each page. It covers different ways of travel and touches a little on colors. Very short, but the kids love it. I got this book for my daughter, age five and she absolutely loves it. What's more is that my two year old daughter enjoys it too. I have to read it to both of them about three times a day and my two year old takes it with her every day.