12 STORIES WITH ACCOMPANYING GAMES, RECIPES AND CRAFTS FOR 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - BELLS, CANDY CANES, SANTA, RUDOPLPH, SNOWMEN...THEY'RE ALL HERE. IN ADDITION, THE AUTHORS INTERVIEWED BARBARA MAY, THE DAUGHTER OF THE WRITER OF RUDOLPH, AND HAVE COLLABERATED IN A DELIGHTFUL TWIST ON THE RUDOLPH STORY. THIS BOOK IS NOT OUT OF PRINT, AND IS AVAILABLE BY CALLING 801-392-7030.

A simple, easy to read and use cookbook that is the first one I go to when doing menu planning. Each chapter has the recipes arranged by country which makes it very easy to plan a dinner party around foods from a specific land. Ingredients are listed first which makes for quick shopping.

The Crux is essential reading for anyone seriously interested in the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Jennifer S. Tuttle's is to be commended for bringing it to readers in this excellent edition. After having read most of Gilman's other fiction, I will admit that I put off reading this one because of its reputation as "the book about venereal disease" (sexually transmitted diseases). I feared it would be didactic, heavy handed, and depressing. Instead, it's like the best of Gilman's "optimistic reform" books: it treats its serious subject with a light touch, conveying its important ideas through appealing characters and a strong plot with Gilman's typical "happy ending." (Some readers might argue that the ending is a bit implausible, but that's part of the interest of this set of Gilman's writings.) At times, it is laugh-out-loud funny. Also, it's not entirely accurate to say that the book is "about" venereal disease, for although the last third of the book discusses the dangers women faced from sexually transmitted diseases in the years before adequate cures had been discovered, there is much more to the story. It portrays the opportunities for self discovery open to women who move from the stultifying conditions of New England villages to the open life in a new city in the Colorado mountains. The women characters (on whom the story focuses) range from young unmarried women to a seemingly dried-up old maid, a woman doctor, and one of literature's most delightful grandmothers.

My only serious objection to this edition is that University of Delaware Press, for some unaccountable reason, has elected to publish this book only in an expensive hardback edition. The story, along with Tuttle's illuminating introduction and clear explanatory notes, would be highly suitable as a teaching text if the book were available in a reasonably-priced paper edition.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It will bring back pleasant and fond memories of childhood. It also gave me alot to think about. The book focuses on the role the father in the child's life. It reminded me that mothers should be careful in selecting a father for their children because of the seriousness of this position in the child's life. It is a good book for everyone especially mothers and fathers. The stories were so real that I coulld emphathize with sad stories and was emotional over the happy stories. It is hard to put down and can be read in one sitting.

If you really want to know what life in Victorian England was like, read Charlotte Yonge's novels, just like everyone else used to. The Daisy Chain remained on the "must read" list of every English family well into the 1950's. Clothing, manners, morality, faith, love, death, sorrow, combine with a lot of fun, humor, and an unbelievably large family into one of the best experiences of time-travel for pedestrians ever. Not to mention you get to meet Ethel and Dr. May. Read it. You'll see what I mean.

This author was Lousia May Alcott's mentor. The story about Little Women came from this book! It is by far, much better with stronger morals and values that anything Alcott has written. I strongly suggest this book for all parents with children, especially daughters. It is one of those books you cannot put down until you are finished. Please read the review and more info about C. Yonge at hstreasures.com

I found Day By Day to be compelling reading as I share the same love and awe of nature as Mr. Petersen and his family. We enjoyed a cruise from Vancouver to Sitka, Juneau and Glacier Bay some years ago. The observations of these areas in the book were particularly interesting to me. To experience Glacier Bay cruising alone in a small boat was truly an awesome feat. The book describes the wild life viewed in detail indicating how to keep oneself safe while viewing bears, etc.

Tips on fishing these beautiful waters also were of interest. The catching of about every game fish, crabs, and digging clams was included in the book. This book is also a guide to great places to eat along the way, on land sights not to be missed, hot springs for bathing and best places to anchor.

To anyone owning a boat, the mechanical problems described and how they were corrected would be very helpful. Also, a novice would find invaluable the detailed descriptions of tides, times to avoid certain waters and highlights of the many inlets and coves he explored and which are named in the book.

There are numerous instances of protection and guidance as the result of his leaning on the almighty and trusting in God's care.

To read this book is a must for anyone contemplating cruising these waters and it would be a valuable companion on one's trip.

Debutantes is a wonderful novel that really allows you to get involved with the lives of the three girls and their world of the constant parties, teas, and the social funtions of a season in London. For anyone that loves this time in history the novel is perfect for you. Mrs. Bingham is a wonderfully detailed writer describing every detail of their lives, from clothes to the london enviorment around them. By the end of the novel, I really felt like I knew the three very different but wonderful girls and I really cared what happened to them. Debutantes is a incredible story and very interesting. It really makes you want to dash away with the heroines and their life in the London Season! Read it, it's wonderful!

TASCHEN's Decorative Art series spans the 20th century through the 1970s and carefully reproduces the best of Studio Magazine's Decorative Art yearbooks. Published annually from 1906 until 1980, the yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics, and remained on the cutting edge throughout its nearly eight-decade run. Since going out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have been highly prized by collectors and dealers. Preserving the yearbooks' original page layouts, TASCHEN's Decorative Art books bring you an authentic experience of each decade's design trends and styles. The now complete six-volume set is an essential addition to the comprehensive design library and the devoted collector will want them all.

Decorative Art 1930s ~ 1940s - Decorative art in the 1930s and 40s experienced a great shift from the opulent Art Deco style to pared-down, pragmatic Modernism championed most notably by Le Corbusier and Richard Neutra. Modernism's economy and simplicity became more accepted as a rational response to a time of great economic hardship. From the end of the 1930s through the postwar period, cool Modernism was gradually replaced by the warmer and more human characteristics in, for example, the design work of Charles Eames and Alvar Aalto.

I just finished reading the Fred Ward books "Diamonds" and "Rubies and Sapphires" in his gem series, and I was very pleasantly surprised. These books are entertaining as well as informative, and found myself telling obscure facts about the different gemstones to my friends and family. I was in the market for a ring with my fiance, and so found the books particularly insightful. Along with the writing, the color photography was absolutely sinful, with the most striking pictures of jewelry I have ever seen. Breathtaking. Definitely a must read, even if you think you aren't that interested in gems in the first place. I did think that the price of the books was exceedingly high, however, and I wish they would market them as an entire collection instead of just the separate books.

But all in all, wonderful read!