Man some of these quotations are just downright scary Kind of like the movies they came from. What a great book I take my hat off to the author this really impressed me. All I can add is buy this one now.

The third grade class I shared this book with sat on the edge of their seats. The author was very careful to define the spanish vocabulary used right after in the next line. It was great to graphically map out using imaginary verses a real horse having the children site examples. The folktale was quickly identified by the children. They compared it to others they had shared or read at home or school. Great for compare and contrast concepts! The illustrations were wonderful and vivid! My third grade daughter couldn't put it down until she was finished.

I'm speechless. This is just the most amazing piece of literature I have ever read. I recommend it to everybody. Please do not hesitate, do yourself a favor and buy this book.

People forget that they are not the only ones that have the daily chores of eating, sleeping, laughing, and loving. Earnest Thompson Seaton (who also wrote under the name of Ernest Seaton Thompson) shows the reader that in order to survive we must have an understanding of what animals have to go through in order for there own survival. Arneux is a good example of this in these fascinating stories. I highly recomend this book and many others that Seaton has written. He was the modern originator of this fantasy life, giving animals a soul, a purpose, characteristics, and feelings that many of us are unable to comprehend. In a society plagued with immoral standards and demeaning characteristics it is good to open up a book such as this and indulge. I first learned about Seaton through my grandfather who read these stories as a young man. It is good to know that standards can be passed on thorugh a storie. I am proud to know that as a race we can survive and flourish because we have had people in the past show us how to act. Seaton takes us to different places in each storie letting us learn a little bit about the animal, its traits, habits, feelings, and emotons. Whether good or bad we become a part of that animal. In doing this we take on the animals traits. I highly recommend this book and others that Seaton has written and wish that there were more authors like him.

Five stars--six on some of the stories. That's all I have to say!

This is the best critique of television I've ever read. Written in plain, concise language with acute observations of the things television does and what the results are. Everyone near or with an interest in the media should read this.

I checked this out from the local library a couple years ago, went to find it at numerous book stores only to learn it was out of print. Amazon was able to find it, it is a wonderful coffee table book, anyone that opens it becomes glued to it. The photographs are beautiful, the stories are great to read. It comes with maps detailing miles of old timber rails, I have been able to find some of the old grades using the maps. If your a railroad buff, this is a must have!!

Tommy Thompson was a truly gifted writer and his death is a keen loss. His books have always been outstanding and this one is no exception.

During the summer of 1973, a young married couple and a friend go for a sail that results in disaster. Bob and Linda Tininenko are an intact unit and they travel with their friend James Fisher depart from the West Coast to sail around the world.

Days after their departure, the boat "turtles," that is, turns upside down. The trio are forced to spend the next few weeks at sea, trying to survive. Bob and Linda have each other. Jim is clearly the odd member of this trio. A religious zealot, he insists they all limit their conversations to Bible-themed topics; he lies about misplacing the supply kit; he lies about ever having the cheese balls that Bob threw to him to save from water destruction. Jim becomes increasingly erratic and irrational. Linda's health deteriorates to the point of death. Bob's account of burying Linda at sea is heart wrenching and devastating. Linda was pregnant when she died. Her death was the death of two.

Jim and Bob end up squaring off for survival. Impatient with the man's religious ramblings, Bob more often than not leaves Bob to his own devices. The trip results in even more tragedy when Jim, too, dies at sea.

Bob, as sole survivor is left to heal with the muliple wounds of Linda's death, the death of their unborn child and with Jim's loss. Battered and emaciated, Bob regains his physical strength in a hospital where his amazing account of his sea disaster is recounted. Bob is a likable, credible reporter and one cannot help but share his pain as he recounts the ordeal of 1973.

I can be forgiven for my enthusiasm over the publication of The Lovable One-Niner. I have long since been a fan of this remarkable little airplane. Anything that passed as a reference source for the history of this airplane would have been most welcome. What delighted me, however, was the meticulous nature of the contents. A writer could not attain this level of detail unless he loved his subject. Clearly Mr. Thompson did. With equal parts of this book given to both the technical and personal history of this airplane, I have been able to share it with non-pilot friends who enjoyed it from a purely historical perspective. I am very pleased with the results and have recommended it freely.

One of the inherent problems with juvenile biographies of famous composers like Ludwig van Beethoven is that you only get to read about great music, you do not get to listen to it unless you happen to have a CD handy of the composer's greatest hits (although I am sure there are some books out there that come with their own CD that is cued to the text, which, it goes without saying, is a great idea). Wendy Thompson finds a way of dealing with this problem by including extracts from some of Beethoven's most famous works--the Third, Fifth, and Ninth symphonies, the "Emperor" piano concerto, and the "Moonlight" sonata--in simple keyboard arrangements. Of course, you need to have a piano nearby instead of a CD player, but you still have to appreciate the effort.

Thompson not only tells the biographical details of Beethoven's life, but she puts his music in historical context as well, presenting it as reflecting the Age of Revolution with its violence, passion, struggle, and upheaval, as well as the quest for personal and spiritual fulfillment, of those times. This explains why the inside front cover has a map of the Napoleonic Wars. The book is also illustrated with lots of historic etching and paintings. But the more important part is that Thompson takes pains to talk about the uniqueness and importance of Beethoven's key musical pieces. This is important to me because beyond the biographical details of where he lived, and what he wrote, and who he ticked off, I am most interested in being able to better appreciation Beethoven's music. Therefore I like an above average dose of music appreciation in such books. This Thompson provides, all within the context of Beethoven's world. This book is for students age 12 and up and is certainly one of the more analytical juvenile biographies of Beethoven out there.