I liked this book because it was a good story written and illistrated well! I think many people would enjoy this book from start to finish and it would be wonderful to read to little children around Christmas or just anytime.

I know that this wonderful Christmas book about Jesus being born will be on my personal bookself for my kids to come and their kids, etc. This book has become one of my personal favorite, and I know it will stay that way.

Susan Ankeny's book is a wonderful retelling of the Christmas story for young, old and in between. You will be touched again, or for the first time, by the events of long ago and for most of us, far away. This author clearly has a gift for the written word and the "WORD" is a gift to us all.

McArthur's Oregon Geographic Names is the definitive "all you need to know about Oregon" text. The author spends some 500 or so pages describing towns from Alsea to Zigzag. His details include a mix of pioneer history and native lore. What emerges is a singular and often unknown view of Oregon.

As a student of history, this text provides the "little" details that a larger view of history might neglect to tell. For instance, in discussing the origins of the Willamette river name, McArthur explores the first use of the word in local newspapers, and also calls on linguistic records in order to discover its first use. What the reader discovers here, and it is representative of most of the text, is that McArthur digs deep into the archives by following all available paper trials.

As a student of history, and of Oregon in general, this book is indispensable. I suspect too that it could be used by the "Cliff Clavens" of the world as a way of distributing "little known facts" about Oregon at parties.

Bryan Hiatt, Humanities Department Chemeketa Community College Salem, OR