This is a delightful book that gave me many more flights of imagination and delight than Harry Potter, I highly recommend it for all ages and all young and old people of our global village who yearn for a world beyond war, for love of humanity and for exciting adventure on earth and in space...

What a delight to find a rhyming book that emerges from translation as captivating as the original! This lovely book with cut-paper illustrations has entranced children as young as two years old, who delight in imitating the bird sounds and following along to call out "tilín, tilín" as the cat's bell warns off the birds he wants so much to catch. I fell in love with the book in English, but I consider the Spanish version a hallmark of translation at its finest. No one with whom I have shared either version has escaped its spell.

¡Qué gozo encontrar un libro de rima que resulta de traducción tan capaz como el original de captivar al lector! Este libro hermoso de ilustraciones de papel picado ha encantado a niños de solo 2 años, quienes gozan imitar los sonidos de los pájaros y seguir a sonar "tilín, tilín" cada vez que el cascabel del gato avisa y corre los pájaros que el mismo desea tanto capturar. Me enamoré de este libro en inglés, pero yo considero que la versión española es un ejemplar perfecto de la mejor en traducción. Nadie con quien he repartido este libro -- en inglés o en español -- haya evitado resultar encantado.

I am a bilingual storyteller and was introduced to this book through my job. The illustrations are good, portraying a young boy as he goes on a walk and all the animals he comes across. The children I've read this book to love to guess what animal they will be seeing next by using the pictures. I would recommend this book to parents with small children. You can do so much with it!

I thought this was a wonderful book with a slightly different approach to the parable of the Shepherd and His lost sheep. It shows the love of the shepherd for his sheep and what he will do to keep them safe. This has wonderful symbolism of a parent's love for their child and the Savior's love for us. The illustrations are beautiful and brings back some memories of a time I spent in the Colorado Plateau. I enjoyed it so much that I plan to buy one for each of my nephews.

A few years ago I was prompted in my heart to study the miracles of the Bible. I felt it was a massive undertaking as there were so many of them! I wondered into a Christian bookstore one day and somehow stumbled upon this book. I was so fascinated! Besides all the obvious miracles (i.e., parting the Red Sea, water into wine, etc.), the author points out "little" miracles of sound, sight, vegetation, instant transportation, and tons more. I could not put the book down! The writing style of each miracle occurrence is brief and the miracles are broken down into easy to find sections. The book is very fluid -- one miracle somehow working right into the next -- without losing its individual distinction.

This is a charming story that is perfect for any lower elementary classroom. It is beautifully written and illustrated. I have taught first grade for five years and used this book every year. I am always coming up with new lessons for it and the children love it!! The words just flow like music and my students love to read it again and again!!! Alma Flor Ada is a brilliant children's author!

My daughter checked this book out of her library at school and I thought it was the best book I'd read in along time! The illustrations are lovely and it is a really great story. Will keep checking back so I can buy it!

This excellent book in the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, published by IFLAC: PAVE PEACE - The Internatioonal Forum for the Culture of Peace, is an eye opener honoring this great leader of peace. It gives an inner view and deep insights into hitherto unpublished aspects of the life and values of Yitzhak Rabin, as for instance, the quoting of his wise words and yearnings for peace, alongside those of other great generals who wished for peace more than anything else in their lives - such as Eisenhower, Marshall and Sadat. This book demonstrates that though we are nuclear giants, we are still infants culturally and ethically.

We should be grateful to the editor-in-chief, Professor Ada Aharoni; for this important collection - GALIM 8 WAVES Anthology, for its richness and excellent choice of subjects.

The book is in English and Hebrew, and some Arabic, and it includes precious information about IFLAC, a new NGO that promotes Peace in the Middle East and in our global village through the building of Cultural Bridges qnd Communications in the spirit of Rabin. An important book for all ages, for libraries; and for Peace Studies. Highly recommended! I also recommend GALIM - WAVES 9, a further unforgettable universal experience.

This is a pop up book that is both entertaining and informative. This book gives the child excellent clues to the identity of different animals. You can stop after each clue and see if the child can identify the animal. When the child finally does identify the animal you unfold the page and out of it's egg pops the animal. While being entertained the children learn about the animals habitat, habits, looks, etc. I highly recommend this book for parents and teachers. I used it with my kindergarten class when I taught a unit on animals that hatch from eggs. The children loved it as much as I did! Our only objection is it is not long enough. It leaves you wanting more.

Ada Aharoni's new book is a treasure for women everywhere in the world. Women are indeed the best allies of peace. "Women: Creating A World Beyond War and Violence", depicts several authentic aspects in articles, poems, stories, and letters, concerning this truth. There is no greater challenge in the world today than that of living in peace, respect and harmony with one's neighbors, and women instinctively know and share this basic grassroots fact. At a time when the world is still caught up in the clutches of wars and violence, it is imperative for humanity to "listen to women for a change."
There are more women and children killed in wars than soldiers. In the past decade some four million women and children have been killed, and eight to ten million disabled by wars. We get continuous reports concerning this tragic fact from various parts of the world, where more than fifty senseless wars are still being waged. In 2001, at the end of our "mushroom" century, we seem not to have learnt the lessons from the past, and more and more rivers of innocent blood are helplessly and continuously being poured everyday, in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Kosovo, Rwanda, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Guatemala, El Salvador, the Basque country, Ireland, and so on, and endlessly so on... The thwarted, shortsighted satanic belief that wars can solve conflicts, has to be rapidly thrown into the anachronistic dustbin of history where its belongs, at the opening of this new millennium. If the women of the world unite - we can do it. We are the majority, together with the men who yearn for a world beyond war, and we have the democratic right to have global peace.
The book contains a description of a quarter of a century of peace activity by The Bridge: Jewish and Arab Women for Peace in the Middle-East, including an important correspondence with Mrs. Jehan El-Sadat, wife of the (late) President of Egypt, Anwar El-Sadat. Among many other subjects, it also includes a section on the Four Mothers' successful campaign to "Leave Lebanon In Peace".
The BAN-WAR campaign and petition appearing in Section 4, built on the model of the UN "Declaration of the Right of Peoples to Peace" (Resolution 39/11), gives us the opportunity to express our democratic global will for peace, to abolish the very concept and practice of war, and to banish it forever from our lives and from our world.
The global village to which we belong is one of great multiplicity, which calls for the necessity of cultural bridges and exchange of humanistic values. Literature and Poetry are some of the best vehicles for this, and for expressing our common innermost thoughts and feelings, and several moving pieces and poems appearing in the pages below, bring this truth home.
In one of the poems: "Eve's Defense", in her monologue, Eve satirically touches on one of the basic aspects of the discrimination of women, the myth that she was responsible for offering the forbidden apple to Adam. Eve exclaims that first, he did not have to eat it, and secondly, she reminds him, that although she was created from a much finer substance than he was - his own human rib-bone, instead of mere earth like him - men and women are in truth equal.
Women are great communicators and consumers of culture, they are open to new ideas and creations, new methods of organizing, and new ways of living. They are, therefore, a special source of renovation, vitality, strength and hope. They are not in society's "museum anymore". Women are organizing through NGO's, such as: Iflac - Pave Peace: The International Forum for the Culture of Peace; The Bridge; Lena; the Beijing NGO, WILPF; and numerous organizations and associations around the world, to safeguard their lives and that of their children and families against war and violence. Women's demands for abolishing war and violence against them, for equal rights, and the basic human right to live in peace, are at the foundations of a truly democratic society.
However, the media, worldwide, does not as yet give women's struggle for peace, the backing, coverage, and credit they deserve. The "Code of Ethics of the Media", and correspondence with Sergio Tripi (Italy), and Ursula Oswald Spring (Mexico), the former President of IPRA, clearly shows that this should be changed. This book shows that half the world's citizens, the women, together with the men who have democracy at heart - have the creativity and power to change the world.