I found this childrens book a sheer delight. Highly recommended for the young reader for its captivating suspense and unexpected conclusion.

The pen and ink illustrations are some of the best, and Leslie Morrill is highly collectible in my view.

Try it.

This book is simple and easy to understand for someone new to nutrition basics. Don't expect a lot of specifics but is a great overview and general guideline.

7/31/03 B.B. Calhoun's book not only gives an opportunity to compare eastern state New York with mountainous Wyoming..but throws in info re dinosaurs,dialogue on attitudes of "the 6th grade group" and despite an illustration on the jacket of various time zones(Pharoahs(King Tut, and Pharoah Thutmose II's stepmother,"the woman pharoah:Hatshepsut),superheoes(Eon),dinosaurs(e.g.:deinonychus,zephyrosaurus),..and Dr Gideon Mantell(British doctor ,who 1n 1822 first identified the teeth of the dinosaur iguanodon)[main character,Fenton Rumplemayer(whose parents are paleontologists) 'costumes' to be Gideon Mantell at the Firehouse's halloween party) ..not for a minute with dialogue like "you guys","actually","cool","oh well"(pg 105..as in the pun on 'Oh well(it's a deep subject)',.."mention of the racing movie "Wild Wheels",..Wyoming's Fairpoint Mall & its costume/stationary store "Card Castle" would the juvenile reader not consider it a "modern reader" book.

This was Jackie Calhoun's second book and fits within the pattern she is known for. You have a central character, Amy, who has left her husband and children after twenty-four years of a rather mundane marriage to enter a lesbian relationship with a slightly younger woman, Deb. Amy's husband is confused, her children are angry, Deb isn't as faithful as she should be and Amy's business is failing while she tries to figure out how to make all of this work. There are a lot of secondary characters, gay and straight, who add to the plot and complicate it. There's plenty of conflict and humor and healthy dashes of romance. The question is, how will all of the questions be resolved at the end of the book? It's a pleasant read.

Alex is a good teacher. Her students tell her so and the sports teams she coaches respond to her leadership. Then the letter arrives. The letter is sent to every faculty member, the administration and the school board. The letter says that Alex is unfit to teach high school students because she is living with another woman and her child in an active lesbian relationship. If you're Alex, you think the worst has happened, but you're wrong. As you're trying to deal with the letter, your lover Sue is notified by her ex-husband that he is going to try and take her daughter away because of the relationship. Then the home of a friend is burned down and the boy Alex has been trying to help may be responsible. This book covers a lot of areas in a few pages. What are the costs of staying in the closet? Can teachers be deprived of their professions because of their lifestyles? Can Alex and Sue find a way to keep their relationship alive in the face of all of these pressures? And who keeps trying to burn out their friend? Surprisingly, the book carries a punch even with dealing with all of those topics.

Calhoun packs a ton of useful insights into this work, a book low on detail but full of fresh, succinct ideas. The objective of the book is to analyze the various military ventures forwarded by Wilson and to discern the pattern, if any, in these forays. Mexico, Germany and Russia are the major countries that Calhoun focuses on, examining Wilson's intervention in their problems. Calhoun breaks down the "uses of force" into five distinct categories, attempting to define each intervention according to its features as a specific type of force. These uses of force range from "The use of force for protection" to "The use of force for association." In the interests of not giving away the entire thesis of the book, allow me to say that Calhoun's thesis, though sometimes thick and slippery, works effectively. Having been assigned this book for a class in grad school, I can attest to the fact that Calhoun's work taught me much about Wilson and his intriguing foreign policy.

I was very disappointed by this book. The heroine, Kid Calhoun, sets out to avenge the death of her murdered uncle. But, because she is a woman and, therefore, infinitely weaker than any man, she is too overtaken by her emotions to follow through on her vow of vengence. I was very insulted by this book. Why create a heroine who dresses up as a young man and rides with a band of outlaws if you are just going to make her a weakling? I could understand if the author was against killing, but the heroes in this book have no qualms about killing the villians. I would rather have a strong heroine who is not defined by stereotypes.

I loved it. Lots of fun, sexy and exciting. It kept me turning pages like "Anything, My Love" by Cynthia Simmons. Couldn't put it down.

This story is wonderful! Once you turn the first page you are confronted with new and exciting ideas! Kid Calhoun isn't what you think! I've read this book at least 5 times! Each time I fall in love with the personalities created and love that the couples struggle to uncover! You'll enjoy the drama and the ending when its finally solved

Hot-Air Henry was published in 1981, written by Mary Calhoun and Illustrated by Erick Ingraham.
Hot-Air Henry is a book that I think children would like if they like adventure books and books about animals. The book is about a sassy Siamese cat named Henry that wanted to fly with his family in their hot-air balloon, but the man always said that he wasn't flying with a cat. When they got done filling up the balloon with air and setting it up, the kid was holding down the basket. So henry ran to the basket and hopped in it. All of a sudden the balloon heated up and it took off with just Henry in the balloon, so he was flying. While he was in the air...he was traveling over the mountains and the rivers, into the sky! As he peaked over the side he couldn't see Colson Hill or the power lines. All of a sudden all these birds came at him and the balloon. The wind took him toward the mountains in the wrong direction. And now he didn't know what to do! Then in the air an eagle screeched at him, so he was scared even more. Then he heard a "honk honk honk" and it was a gesse. So now the cat and the geese were in the basket flying over everything together. But wasn't the greatest because they kept on fighting. Henry flew over the geese and made the geese go away...saying " honk honk". Then Henry pulled the ripcord and the basket came floating downward toward the ground. At last the man grabbed the basket and safely Henry returned.

Personally, I find this book to be very irritating, mainly because I don't like the style in which it is written. On the other hand, my son who just turned 4, absolutely LOVES it. We read it several times a day and I don't forsee him getting tired of it anytime soon. I'm not sure what attracts him so much to this particular book, but he chooses it over every other. It is an "exciting" tale about a cat who solos in a hot air balloon and it has good pictures. The cat manages to land exactly where he started and encounters many obstacles along the way such as navigating around high-strung power lines, and protecting the hot air balloon from an eagle and a goose.

Henry, of Hot Air Henry and other books, is the absolute best. Try the Reading Rainbow video of the book also. It is incredible.

I am not a hypocritical Christian, I just don't appreciate the Liberal Theology of Princeton

I am reviewing this book partly to offset the unfavorable, and I believe misapplied, review by William Lane Johnson. Mr. Johnson seems to review this volume unfavorably based upon the liberalism of modern Princeton, but his criticism is not rightly applicable to the history of the institution during the years that this volume covers. In this volume David B. Calhoun writes
of the history of Princeton Seminary from its founding in 1812 to the year of 1868, a time in which the school was orthodox, Evangelical and scholarly. Mr. Calhoun's study is also both warm and scholarly. I purchased and read my copy in the spring of 2002. I am still searching for the second volume of the series, The Majestic Testimony 1869-1929. It was in 1929 that
the most conservative faculty members withdrew from the seminary
(founding Westminster Seminary) and that Princeton Seminary began a more distinctly liberal pattern. I am not a member of the Reformed-Presbyterian tradition that is exemplified in this volume, but I appreciate much about it and appreciate the scholarly, readable volume of history and biography that this volume presents.

This is a real labor of love. Dr. Calhoun did his Th.M. and Ph.D. at Princeton and spent much of the next 15 years writing this history. His mastery and passion for the subject really shows. He is a very fine historian. What is also obvious is his pastor's heart. He is not afraid to give expansive quotes form the Old Princetonians which will move your heart to glorify God. Honestly, one o fthe 5 or 10 bets books i have ever read.