This book gave specific examples about the intricate artwork of the celts.

This is a great book if you need some good clipart in a hurry.

This book is an excellent clipart resource for those who have Celtic projects in mind. It has a variety of designs from smaller, comparatively simple knots, to intricate frame style knotwork borders, bands, zoomorphic designs, key patterns and spirals. There are also two complete Celtic knotwork alphabets, one uncial style alphabet, and another thats not really Celtic but very pretty nonetheless. I've used it already for several tattoos, and some graphics for my website as well. As with most of the Dover clipart books, there are very few Copyright restrictions, which is a great value at this price!

Just an aside comment on the above review...Courtney Davis is actually a guy, not a gal. He's really nice and a very considerate person who loves his art, check it out if you get a chance!

These stencils are great! I have used them to decorate a cake, for glass etching and in my classroom for my students to make stationary. I am still finding uses for these wonderful stencils.

If you haven't seen the Courtney Davis celtic tshirts you may not know who she is. If you have, you probably own several, and already know to get this book. You may even have some and not realize it, many examples of her work are sold at Celtic fairs. The designs in the book are clear and good, can be used (with a little work with scizzors, transfer pencils and plastic sheets) for either stencil, embroidery, a background for the paint-on stained glass decals, or scanned in for any purpose you would like.

It's definitely a book to buy if you are building your celtic crafts collection.

The designs in this book are awesome from the animals to the knots I even used one of them for a tatto, it's also great for flyers.

I love the fact that you can resize the designs. I've used several as the basis of embroidery patterns on cloaks and tunics. They would be great for everything from newsletters to tattoo designs. From borders to circles to neckpieces to animals, this is a great reference that you will use over and over.

This book comes with each design duplicated in a number of formats (gif, jpg, bmp and Mac formats as well!) on a cd rom, which makes this huge clipart collection perfect for graphic design on any computer. About 75% of the designs are animals, ranging from peacocks, a seahorse, to a duck, otter, pelican and fish; but there are also a few spirals, knotwork and key patterns. I have done a few tattoos and created a number of web graphics with the collection, and gotten alot of enjoyment and inspiration from them, and reccomend it to anyone looking for intricate Celtic art (especially zoomorphic desigs), that they can use freely, without worry of Copyright (because there is none, other than a limit on the # of images per publication).

This adorable little book appeals to all children who love stickers, paper dolls, dress up and the story of Cinderella. I have given this inexpensive book as a party favor for my daughter's "Cinderella's Ball" birthday party! Enjoy it!

My daughter loves stickers, and loves paper dolls so this book is great.

I bought a dozen of these for the goody bags for my daughter's fourth birthday party where Cinderella was the guest of honor. I also keep a couple in my bag (Cinderella, Cara the Cowgirl, others from the same series) for an instant fix for bored kids! They love them.

I found that this was a good exercise for me to practice my translation skills while at the same time telling my five year old a story that she can understand. We are looking forward to a transfer to Germany and have started teaching the kids German.

This story of a struggle between small brown rabbits and a brutal white landowner is rich in symbolism. The landowner has eaten Peterchen's father. Peterchen sets out to eat what is his. The females hold back (the gender of Flopsy, Mopsy and Kuscheschwanzen is ambiguous - it is hinted that Benjamin Hasche is a fellow revolutionary). The white landowner's structures (Gerateschuppe and Stachelbeernetz) devour the environment to provide him with things to eat. As in so many folk tales of the clever trickster Peterchen is helped by birds and outwits the gigantic MacGregor. He finally escapes into the Geholz - the remaining pristine environment - discarding the emblematic uniform with which his mother has encumbered him. Was she innocent in his father's death? She persuades him to take tranqillizing drugs "Einen Essloffel vor dem Schlafengehen einnehmen" and in the final scene, with Peterchen in drugged sleep, capitalist values triumph as the siblings become completely anthropomorphic and feast on manufactured store-bought food.

Beautiful pictures helped my two year old really get into the story. When Peterchen sneezed, he sneezed. When Peterchen cried, he cried. The story may be a bit scary for very small children, but there's a happy ending, and it's a good opportunity to explain safety.

This is a German version of the classic Peter Rabbit. It's a good length for a bedtime story, reading in the car, or a distraction on a first airplane ride -- about 10 to 20 minutes to complete the story. The vocabulary is fairly simple and covers many day-to-day items - foods, clothes, gardening.

For those who don't know the story, mom rabbit goes to the bakery to buy brotchen. Peterchen, Floppsy, Mopsy, and Kuschelschwanzchen (Cottontail) are trusted to watch themselves. Peterchen goes where he shouldn't, into Herr MacGregor's garden. After a little snack, he loses his new jacket (second one this week) and shoes. Then he hides in a full watering can, meets some other animals, and finally escapes. When he gets home, he immediately falls to sleep, missing the wonderful dinner that mom got for the other rabbits.

It would be very nice if Amazon carried more foreign language versions of children's books, such as can be found on amazon.de.

These stories by G.K. Chesterton were very enjoyable reading. Father Brown is an endearing character, and his intellect is impressive (but then again, what literary detective's isn't?). His companion Flambeau is equally enjoyable. I was disappointed with one thing: I had the impression that Father Brown was a detective in the sense that he solved crimes for the police, like Sherlock Holmes. Actually, this was only the case in a couple of the stories. Instead, he put his mind to solving mysteries that weren't necessarily crimes.

Six classic tales featuring the priest-sleuth, Father Brown. Excellent tales, they are engaging and addictive, and will leave you looking for more!

After reading The Hammer of God, one of the Father Brown stories, I found myself both perplexed and enlightened. Chesterton is one of the few short story authors I have encountered that can consolidate a global message into a short parable. In the Father Brown stories, he uses his superb wit and literary elegance to send readers through innumerable epiphanies, usually with the aid of some very potent metaphors. One quotation that I will always remember from this story is "humility is the mother of giants; one sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." For me, G.K. Chesterton has always been able to manipulate landscape and concrete images into a meaningful, and lucid, metaphor. The Hammer of God, in particular, is inundated with these powerful metaphors that tackle the essence of man's struggle with his outside world, and with himself. I found many of the other stories to be very stimulating, although the Hammer of God was clearly my favorite. If you seek literay merit and powerful lessons, but have neither the time nor the inclination to read a novel or anything else over one hundred pages, G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories are perfect for you.

This book was a real hoot to read. Ive always loved the language that revolved around the game of baseball. Ring Lardner does a credible job of creating this youthful prospect trying to make big in The Show. The format of writing letters gives it a touch a realism. The language and grammar of this semiliterates lend it a charm that is slightly reminiscent of Huck Finn. His delusional arrogance is more humorous than offensive in the long run. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the literature and journalism that surrounds this great American game.

Ring Lardner's 'You Know Me Al' is a classic of American literature. Continuing in a tradition established by Mark Twain, Ring Lardner writes in a style that captures the dialogue and spirit of the common man.

The sports characters are timeless and their characteristics and foibles are as true today as they were a century ago. And the characteristics really transcend baseball and sports entirely and apply to everyone.

This is a great book and a very enjoyable read.

The travails of the boastful, blame-shifting, naive-unto-the-point-of-stupidity White Sox rookie first went into print 85 years ago. It's one of the miracles of 20th century fiction -- or a comment on the eternal childishness of America's national pastime -- that the bush leaguer's absurd confidences to a friend back home are still fresh and funny. "I have not worked yet Al and I asked Callahan to-day what was the matter and he says I was waiting for you to get in shape. I says I am in shape now and I notice that when I was pitching in practice this A.M. they did not hit nothing out of the infield. He says That was because you are so spread out that they could not get nothing past you. He says The way you are now you cover more ground than the grand stand. I says Is that so? And he walked away." Yeah, this is clearly the same sport where the portly John Kruk turned aside a question a few years ago about conditioning with the Bartlett's-worthy, "We're not athletes. We're ballplayers."

Lardner does more than get laughs at the expense of his dense protagonist, though. He gives an intimate picture of baseball in its first classic era -- the busher comes face to face with Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker and Walter Johnson with interesting results. But it's not a sentimental depiction of the age: Among those with whom the busher crosses paths is the famously parsimonious and autocratic White Sox owner, Charles Comiskey. The book gives a hint of the resentments that led his players to agree to throw a World Series (as they did a few years after Lardner wrote "You Know Me Al") and illustrates the indentured servitude that all but the best players endured before free agency arrived in the mid-'70s.

This small collection of booklets as more than enough stuff to keep the dino loving child busy on a rainy day. Recommended fun.

My three year old loved the sickers part of this set. He is so currious about Dinosaurs and this book really interested him more! Great set for Preschoolers.

Ideal for 2 -7 years olds. Realistic pictures, and easy to follow stencils, easy to peal stickers - just the right size for travel or use at home during a 'quiet time.'

This book is full of different patterns for use by craftsmen. Unfortunately, it has no color illustrations, and no information about sources for these designs. It is more like a coloring book than a resource for designs. However, it does have guidelines within each design to show how the design was created, and I find that useful.

Arabic Geometrical Patterns are not so easy to find, not to mention understand their knowhows, this book clearly displays a very wide array of examples with simple step by step instructions displayed on the same platform, i was searching for a book like that, this book is quite enough, it is not for novice beginners though, you need to have some background in such subject as the text and discription for each chapter is very limited, and the book is totally black and white, so you have to figureout what color combinations are suitable. But the layout of the book makes reprouducing the wounderful examples easy.

This book has an extensive variety of geometric patterns that can be use by a Math teacher as well as an Art teacher. The designs are easy to reproduce. The display of the designs are big enough for students to try out and experiment. I greatly recommend it.

From Athena to Zeus, Prometheus to Pandora, Oedipus to Odyseus, and Icarus to the Argonauts, many of the most popular Greek myths are included here in abridged narrative form. Because of the difficult pronunciation and because so much action is condensed, this collection probably works best being read to most children and not by them.

Also, I understand that there is alot of allegory in these stories, but they are by no means PC by today's standards. In just the opening 5 pages: Kronos, encouraged by his mother, nearly kills his father with a sickle. Zeus goes to war with Kronos (his father) over control of the heavens; swallows his own son; has his skull split open (which gives birth to his daughter, Athena); marries his sister and has numerous children with a plethora of women, both human and divine.

I think the 'morals' of these stories is not readily apparent to most kids. A much better collection is Aesop's Fables, which also comes in a Dover Thrift edition as well as the excellent "The Aesop for Children". I'd also like to have seen an index to make it useful as a resource and to have seperated the stories much like the Dover Thrift Aesop book.

Still, for a few bucks, its not a bad introduction to Greek mythology.

Wow[...] a nice little (87 pages) book that covers Gods & Titans, Hercules, Heroes and Monsters, the Argonauts, the Trojan War and the Odyssey. Only six line drawings illustrate the text, but still this is a very good introduction at a truly affordable price. Readable by a 4th grader with good reading skills or an older student or adult, but with some difficult names.

Whenever my mom asks me a question about Greek mythology,the answer comes pouring out of my mouth,like Odysseus and his men came pouring out of the Trojan horse. This book is great for someone who has never read Greek myths before. I have enjoyed it and learned a lot.