Hiawatha is a beautiful, richly detailed poem of Native Americans before the treahery of the white man overwhelmed their way of life. Susan Jeffers took each verse and created a breathtaking, artist's view of the young Hiawatha. Each verse becomes vibrantly alive with her delicate rendiions."By the shores of ..." and Nokomis fill the readers souls with new images because of the renderings made by the talented Susan Jeffers.

Susan Jeffers' drawings exemplify the clarity and imagination of Longfellow's epic poem to a tee. A must have for every child's library, hopefully to be read over and over again.

I have this poem memorized because my father recited it to me so many times as a child. This illustrated version has beautiful pictures that capture the fact that this is the story of child and embody the lyric quality of Longfellows poem.

I had the pleasure of seeing a preview copy of this book. It isa must read as we move toward understanding what it might mean for thefuture in making China richer and more powerful through trade.

This book puts a gentle face on a very brave people who have suffered not only the largest land grab of the 20th century through the bloody invasion by China (Tibet is the size of Europe) but have suffered a genocide by the Chinese that is the most widely ignored in history.

This is a beautiful book and worth the price. Add to your reading list "Tears Of Blood" by Mary Craig and "In Exile From the Land Of Snows" by John Avedon.

China will be one of the 3 big stories of the next century if we make it richer and more powerful. This book is as important as it is a beautiful undertaking. Congratulations to Mr. Harrison END

This book is a must see and read. Stephen Harrison truly captures the personal side of Tibetans in Exile. As you read the stories behind the Tibetans portrayed in the photographs, it's as if you are in the background while Stephen Harrison interviews these most courageous Tibetan people. The portrait photography is wonderfully presented in a landscape format providing for a personal backdrop behind the emotion and suffering of each Tibetan portrayed. This is a one of a kind presentation providing a first-time moving experience each and everytime you open the book.

In Whispered Prayers: Portraits And Prose Of Tibetans In Exile, Stephen Harrison showcases the inner experiences of being a Tibetan refugee through a moving narration combined with exquisite photography. This wonderful exhibition is a worthy and valued contribution is further enhanced with a foreword by His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Whispered Prayers will be read with deep engagement by students of Buddhism, of Tibetan history, and all who seek an enlightenment path through perilous and stressful times.

We have survived many long driving tours all over the British Isles, Europe, America and Australia with four young children due in large part to this very clever and amusing cassette. This highly witty story - brilliantly read by Josie Lawrence - appeals to adults and children alike. Despite the fact that between us all we can recite the story in its entirety....we never tire of it! We would like to have a copy of this for each of our children, and would love to share it as a gift to many friends. Please, please make the cassette available again!

My son and his four cousins, all male, have all memorized this cassette. One of them, 18, can recite nearly the whole book by memory. Derek Griffiths recites the story most beautifully. This recording has brought my family almost infinite pleasure, and we want to thank both him and Catherine Storr for the rendition. But how shall I replace our worn-out cassette? isabernardy@yahoo.co.uk

Given most art criticism, which focuses on theory with polysyllabic intensity, this book is a perfect, easy to read intro to the artist and one that makes his work more accessible. Don't fear to immerse yourself in this fine, brief bio and its color pics!

Philip Guston's long career had three distinctive phases. As a young man, he took up painting with the WPA artist program and made left-leaning, social-realist murals and canvases in many places around the country. By the late 1940's, he had moved on to abstraction, producing shimmering, painterly works that were somewhere between the dynamism of Jackson Pollock and the stillness of Mark Rothko. In the last ten years of his life, influenced by the restlessness of the 60's, he painted Robert Crumb-like cartoonish images that hinted at even darker comic nightmares than Crumb ever imagined (and, more occasionally, the uplifting power of love and idealism). This last phase may have been the best of all. Storr's great book is an excellent exegesis of all three of these hard-to-follow transitions, by an artist that simply did not make analysis easy. The mostly full-color illustrations complement the text almost perfectly.

I read this book on my Best of Thomas DVD with and without narration, and I feel like getting this book. I also like to get Thomas tells a lie, and Hooray For Thomas. Percy had seen a dinosaur. He thinks it was a dragon. Thomas goes out. He tells Percy. He goes back to the forest. He doesn't know until the driver said it was a dinosaur model for the new dinosaur park. Harold comes and lifts the model on the flat truck. Men fasten it. Percy sees it. Thomas tells him "Don't worry Percy, this isn't a dragon. This is a dinosaur model for the new dinosaur park." He passes the school, and the children waved. He gets three cheers from Sir Topham Hatt and all the people who are desining the park and his driver, fireman, and conductor.

This is my son's favorite Thomas the Tank Engine story because it is written at his level. The Jellybean Books are written for younger children and this story is very engaging and involves a dinosaur, a subject close to the hearts of many youngsters. This is the perfect book for any young Thomas the Tank Engine fan.

While in Chicago in the Summer of 1998, I happened across an astounding exhibition of work chronicling the life's work of Chuck Close at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This book is a catalogue of the traveling exhibition that is no less astounding and amazing. Chuck Close is an amazing human who focuses on portraits of human heads and most are executed on a grand scale. The book will take you through his life, via his work, chronologically. Not to be missed are the portraits, done in watercolor, that while inches away from the work, I could not tell it wasn't a photograph. The best thing about the book is that it catalogues every piece in the retrospective and is formatted in a scale that conveys the grandness of the paintings. It is a truly amazing and intriguing body of work that is not to be missed.

I can't imagine why this book is out of print. The author challenges the notion that those plagued by mental illness or glitches of the mind must be "fixed." Instead, these struggles can be used for good.

Clever Polly And The Stupid Wolf

This book is about a wolf that is trying to eat Polly, a little girl. The characters are a wolf and Polly. The setting is at her house, the wolf's house, and in her neighborhood. Polly is always able to talk the wolf out of eating her because she comes up with some clever ideas.

The message is don't try to hurt or bug someone or they will do it to you. I think it was a really great book. I think you should read it too. I recommend this book for people who like humor books.

The first survey exhibition of artist Ellen Gallagher, titled "Watery Ecstatic", was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. The catalog is published as a gorgeous hardcover art book edited by the exhibition's curator, Jessica Morgan. The catalog captures the scale and power of the paintings and drawings as they were presented at the ICA. More importantly, the book stands on it's own as a well rounded representation of the artist and a fine volume of reproductions.

The paintings are presented as full color plates. The paper stock and binding are of excellent quality. The selection of works on paper are reproduced on a heavy stock that is matte rather than glossy. It's a nice touch. An important strength of Ellen's work is her construction of a visual language and her consistent, although not repetitious use of this device. Morgan's interview with Ellen Gallagher is a fascinating exploration of the artist's language and conceptual ideas. The political and social relevance of the work are explored in two full length essays contributed by Greg Tate and Robert Storr.

I'll have to admit up front that I was biased against the exhibition before I walked in. I never imagined that I would purchase the book. As a classmate of Ellen's from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, and someone who watched the phenomenon of her success unfold, I could never deny the strength and integrity of the work. I was skeptical though, that one young artist, early in her career could fill up the small museum effectively. I changed my mind on the first viewing. The range required for an exhibition of this scale was present and surpassed expectation. Ellen is certain to have a long and fruitful career as an artist. I believe that her work is important.

"Gallagher has demonstrated that you can hit an alarm bell gently and have it ring as long as one which has been hit violently, providing, of course, that the ambient noise does not drown out the more delicate sound." - Robert Storr

Gamaliel Painter: Biography Of A Town Father is the story of how one adventurous pioneer transformed a cluster of log huts into a thriving village and one of Vermont's most influential towns. Gamaliel Painter, a man of forceful personality that combined daring, shrewdness and caution, arrived in Middlebury from Connecticut in the mid-eighteenth century. He took on many trades and professions including pioneer town founder, college founder, associate of Ethan Allen at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Captain of Artificers in the Continental Army, a two-fisted sheriff, judge, singer of Vermont's Declaration of Independence, legislator, surveyor, land speculator, industrialist, and toll-road tycoon. Biographer Storrs Lee has drawn upon a wealth of historical material to produce a vivid, lively, accurate, and impressive account of Gamaliel Patiner, a most remarkable and accomplished man who left a lasting imprint on Vermont's colonial and revolutionary history.