I have been looking everywhere for this book. I am a kindergarten teacher. I laughed out loud the first time I heard another teacher read this book. Now, I want it for my own baby. In this book, the boy keeps asking his dog to bring toys to the tub, until the dog jumps in himself.

This is a great collection of original holiday stories! Simply the best!

this is the best social history of pittsburgh i have ever read! i researched a lot of the Pittsburgh books on the market when i was writing my masters thesis in architecture & this was by far the best!

Wonderful book that gives youth step by step instructions on how to actively effect change in their community. Empowers youth to get involved!! Includes info. on the history of social change, what it means to be empowered, and instructs youth on how to organize, fundraise, and get media attention for the issue they are focusing on.

My book is a brand new 3rd edition Hornbook. I don't know who wrote the review for the second (the info is good) but the third is newer, is hardback, and doesn't have a disk.

"Cuentos de Cuanto Hay" is a great collection of over sixty folktales collected by the young J. Manuel Espinosa in the early 1930s in the Spanish-speaking regions of northern New Mexico. Originally published in Spanish as "Spanish Folktales from New Mexico" (American Folklore Society, 1937), the tales are here translated for the first time by the well-known New Mexico storyteller Joe Hayes. The book is the first substantial collection of Spanish-language stories from New Mexico available in English. Arranged in a parallel-text format, the Spanish version and the translation are made readily accessible to the student learning Spanish (although it has no vocabulary list), yet the stories have not been "dumbed-down" for language-learning purposes and can be enjoyed by anyone. Espinosa has written a short historical introduction and Hayes includes some brief linguistic notes.

I did find one potential flaw with the book, though. Espinosa's original Spanish versions published in 1937 have been modernized by Hayes. By updating archaisms and standardizing the grammar and some vocabulary, the translator has sought to make the stories more widely accessible to English speakers learning Spanish. This is fine, but you should be aware of the changes. Personally, since I have an interest in Spanish linguistics and have been studying some of the New Mexico dialect, I found the changes a loss. But the original versions are available elsewhere and only you can decide which one you prefer. Even with the linguistic changes, the book deserves five stars and more.

Julie has done and exceptional job putting together a book that truly addresses many of the stresses and anxieties confronting public education teachers in the United States today. Ms. Hay's book is beautifully organized and loaded with practical and ready-to-use strategies for dealing with that difficult coworker.

As a teacher trainer I can think of no other book that fully equips the frustrated teacher with the tools of self reflection and appropriate courses of action to retain one's professionalism in a field of constant change and upheaval.

Julie has loaded this book with tools of self analysis and reflection and calls to attention many of the suble yet effective approaches you can use to discretely make a difference in your place of work.

I would suggest though that Sherwood Publishing at Sherwood House republish this book in paperback form. Spiral books tend to fall apart, and at 19.03 (Amazon price) this is no deal. This book is also hard to get, but is well worth the wait.

Louise Hay is so positive and has such an insightful way of making you look at your negative "tapes" and change them into positive ones to enrich and enhance your life. I also love her humor, it makes perfect sense in the way she uses it! I like the tapes so I can listen to them over and over and really understand her message. She is a very intelligent and "tuned in" person to what we need to do to make ourselves and our world a much better place. This tape and her others are well worth every penny.

Not a wordy person but - Dialogue realistic. Characters believable. Situations taunt and very real. Writing style tight and to the point - not verbose - definitely a page turner - couldn't put it down once I started. Excellant choice by Amazon.

Finding this book accidently in a book store, I was hypnotized by the pashion of the writers for the American farm. Even though raised in the city, the book stirred within me those farming roots of my ancestors. The stories will make you laugh, cry, and wistfully dream of simpler times.