This is a very cute story with a moderate amount of predictability. The most difficult word is "deliciously" which would be a challenge for first grader, but could be accomplished with some assistance. The illustrations are simple, but clearly convey meaning while not crowding the text. The relationship between text and pictures is very good - the picture matches the text so that the reader can use it to help decode words. With short pages, short sentences, and only a few trouble words, this book lends itself to being used for a Running Record in Kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms. It is a complete beginner's book that young students can read on their own that does still have a real plot. Because Sam is a zookeeper and there are lots of animals in the story, that may help to arouse interest.

Why 4 stars?:
This is a nice beginner's book for those children just learning to read. It is a nice size for little hands to hold. The text is large, but does not crowd the pictures or vice versa.

Sam Who Never Forgets By: Eve Rice

Sam is a zookeeper in charge of feeding the animals. Everyday at lunchtime Sam fills him wagon with food and sets off to care for the animals. Sam never forgets to feed the Giraffe, the Monkeys and all his other friends along the way. Sam's wagon is now empty but one animal is still hungry. Could it be that Sam has forgotten the elephant? How ironic, the elephant that never forgets remembers that she is still hungry. No worries, Sam never ever forgets he is on his way with a whole wagon full of hay just for elephant.

Sam Who Never Forgets is a great book for a younger crowd the pictures correspond well with the text, which gives children a clear picture. The art is plain and simple with bright colors. There is the appropriate amount of detail for young eyes; too much detail may pull their minds away from the story. The interpretation of the pictures is executed well. Rice shows a picture directly correlated with the text on the same page. Personification is another factor of Rice's book that will gain children's attention. According to Norton "..personification will help to introduce style to children..... personification is often reinforced through the illustrations." Rice shows the personified animals through both the text and the picture. The monkeys show their gratitude for their lunch by saying, "Splendid, Sam never forgets." Their thankfulness is further enforced by the smiles on their faces and bright eyes. The same theme is continued through the book until Sam seems to have forgotten the elephant. She is sad so she is drawn with a frown and droopy eyes. Showing animals with different expression helps children to understand body language. According to Caldecott terms for criteria, Rice's book meets all the qualifications. Her artistic technique is effective and done well for the target age. The pictures follow a theme and help to clarify the setting of the story. Rice's book does not need any other forms of media to be enjoyed, accept maybe a grown-up if the little one is unable to read. Overall, the book is a definite picture book. It is comprised mostly of pictures, which are enhanced by the text.

"Sam Who Never Forgets" is an enjoyable story about a zoo keeper who is responsible for feeding the animals. The illistrations are fun, colorful and relate to the context very well. Around lunch time Sam feeds the animals. Each animal is happy to see Sam and never forgets to thank him. It is ironic that Sam seems to forget to feed the Elephant. No worries, Sam just needs a bigger wagon for all his food. This story is great for a younger audience who love animals.

Tarzan at Earth's Core was an easy to read and entertaining novel but lacked the character development and continuity which could have made this a superb novel. Certainly more detail could have been provided relating to the relationship between Jason Gridley and Jana, The Red Flower of Zoram. In any case it was a fun adventure and I'd highly recommend this novel.

This is heady stuff people! If you haven't read it - you must. If you have read it - do so again!

This one has all the elements for great Burroughs - the wild land of Pellucidar, Burrough's friend Jason Gridley, a well-trained group of Waziri warriors and, of course, Tarzan. Nice to see Tarzan out of Africa; he and Pellucidar were made for each other. Sort of a wish-list entry in the Pellucidar series, one of my favorite Burroughs book.

I feel this book can be a bit scary to children. My 4 year old was frightened after reading this book because he learned germs were everywhere that he felt used to be safe, his school and home. True, germs are everywhere and we do need to teach children to wash their hands, but I don't think it's necessary to get into detailled descriptions of germs that cause headaches, earaches, fevers and throwing up, and that even after washing their hands, the germs will come back. Children need to know about handwashing and germs but they also need to feel a sense of security and well being in school in order for it to be a positive experience.

Although I have to add to it, my kids really love this book! I had to discuss what invisible meant (that big ten foot bunny in the corner!), and give a visible demonstration afterward (paint or glitter in my hand that I "sneeze" into, and then offer to shake hands and touch other things in the room. We talk about sneezing into your elbow and tissues to keep us safe from germs. We use funny voices for the different germs to make it more "kid friendly." My kids have it almost memorized, and beg for it to be read. Really helps explain germs, even to my 2 yr. olds, without being too "boring" to my 5 yr. olds. Hope that helps!

I first heard this story from my daughter's preschool teacher, and it stuck with ME so much that I had to get it when I got my own preschool class. It does a super job of making germs real and to be avoided. My preschoolers ask me to listen to the germs screaming as they go down the drain. They remember this story for a long time! Super investment to your library!

I have not received this book as of yet, I have order and paid for this book since Nov 18, 2001. If you are not going to send me my book within the next 2 days please e-mail me at tagent48@swbell.net and let me know, so I can received my credit. If you didn't have the book you could have notify me before now. I'm still waiting
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Jeweline Spears

This book is stuffed with over 200 pages of skits. Ideal for youth meetings, camps, or anytime you want to make people laugh or make a point. It compiles one-act skits, slapstick skits, sight gags, "famous" interviews, the classics, stunts, and audience-participation skits.

This book is stuffed with over 200 pages of skits. Ideal for youth meetings, camps, or anytime you want to make people laugh or make a point. It compiles one-act skits, slapstick skits, sight gags, "famous" interviews, the classics, stunts, and audience-participation skits.

If your a vegetarain this book is good, But as far as macrobiotic?..........no way!!! Recipes nearly all contain GARLIC, & other ingredients such as coconut milk........I was pushed hard to find a macrobiotic recipe that was not too YIN...... I actually had an old edition of this book. Back then, the recipes were filled with spices too.

This book is great! The miso soup recipe is wonderful, and I'm hooked on the Risi i Bisi!!! It was recommended to me by a friend who modified her diet after being diagnosed with cancer. Being vegetarian, I explored it myself and now it's a staple in my kitchen. Recipes are relatively easy and very tasty.

I'm a vegetarian, not macrobiotic, so perhaps the other person's criticism was valid, but I love this book. There are some very simple but delicious dishes in this book. This is the one I turn to when I don't want to cook something too complicated, but I want somthing healthy and delicious. The soup recipes are some of my favorites from any book, especially the one with corn (add shredded carrot for color, yum). And I also like the writing, not just the recipes.

(The resaon I am looking at the book here at all is because I want to get a copy for a friend of mine as a present.)

I just got this book, looked it over and am really excited about it. Very unique recipes that I haven't seen anywhere. However, I was discouraged in one recipe, "Brown Rice Risotto," because it tells you to "dissolve yeast," but there's no yeast listed in the list of ingredients. I'm assuming I found the only recipe with a problem. All in all, I can't wait to make the recipes!

This book has an expansive overview of different grains, their history, some familiar and some less known. Many may not be part of some peoples regular diet, yet this book inspires one to try them and provides good recipes in which to experiment and have fun. Bumgarner makes a great case to expand a readers menus in order to live a more healthy life with natural foods. She shows that solid research and lots of love went into the production of this book. Baking recipes may be difficult for wheat sensitive people.

I have used this book over and over again.It has wonderful bread recipes,such as a malt one with raisins.The side dishes and salads are VERY easy to prepare,and none of the recipes require an umpteen number of ingredients!!Most of them take very little time to prepare,also.If you are into adding mroe grains to your diet,or expanding your repetoire of recipes,this is a great book.

This is the book I learned to bake with as a vegan child. I learned firsthand that not every recipe is a winner, but I still go back to the pages stained with over fifteen years of use. I've wound up adjusting and revising my favorites, but I would still recommend this as a good reference, especially the section on substitutions for ingredients (if the reader is vegetarian or vegan - nothing really replaces butter and chocolate).

Uprisings would have earned 5 stars from me, but I do recommend this with a caveat that not all of the recipes work out all of the time. Most do, however, and those ingredients that may have seemed exotic back when are now available in most supermarkets or your local health food emporium. I continue to bake out of Uprisings, but I also love to read it because it's a great way to revisit the 1960s and 70s--a "you are there" type of experience. It is so very earnest.

I used this book CONSTANTLY when I worked at a natural foods co-op as a baker.There are endless types of bread recipes from sweet yeasted breads to savory breads.There are TOO many options for vegan substitutes!!It is so wonderful to have access to so many yummy baked goodies that are healthy.I HIGHLY recommend this book for all bakers.

Writers I admire (C.S. Lewis and Robert Sheckley, and I know that there are others as well) have kind words to say about Edgar Rice Burroughs, and claim to derive inspiration from him. I mention this because I have to. It means that perhaps there is something in the man's writing that I'm missing. I must be honest and allow this possibility. The more LIKELY possibility, though, is that writers make poor critics, and will allow their superior imaginations to do the work that Burroughs didn't.

For one thing that has been said about Burroughs is that, while he could scarcely write, and was woefully ignorant, and inconsistent, he at least had a vivid imagination. Like hell he did. His imagination was the most pallid thing about him. This is clearer in the Mars books than anywhere else. Everywhere there are beasts exactly like terrestrial ones but bigger, fiercer, with more limbs and sharper teeth and brighter colours ... every forgettable sort of detail-enhancement that might substitute for true invention.

Burroughs takes the standard view of an ancient, decadent, dying Mars and adds nothing, except damsels and stilted dialogue. These are the books of someone who spends valuable time working out new units of measurement to replace feet and inches, whiles away afternoons dreaming up pointless bigger-is-better variations on terrestrial chess, but makes up the details about character and social organisation as he goes along. Admittedly he has plenty of time, since the story is invariably a fight-after-fight-after-fight affair, the author doing little to disguise the fact that he's being paid by the word. (Never let anyone convince you otherwise: his prose is ghastly.)

If you sense that Burroughs must have been reaching towards something worthwhile, you're right. If you want to know what it was, exactly, read someone by Jack Vance. Any reason there might be to read Burroughs is a reason to read Vance. But not vice versa.

These books are great fun for kids and teenagers, even some adults. I suspect, however, that if you don't read Burroughs between 12 and 14, you'll miss out on 90% of the fun. None of his Mars books are to be taken seriously. In "The Mastermind of Mars," for example, before there is even any dialogue, the hero is blown up in WWI, astral-travels to Mars, immediately has a swordfight, then witnesses a brain transplant by an almost-blind, 1000-year-old Martian! Then he falls in love with an old hag with the brain of a beautiful, kind young woman. Later he recruits the help of a gigantic ape with a half-human, half-ape brain. The author isn't the greatest stylist that ever lived, but he knew how to tell a story.

one of burroughs' best

Book came in great shape and condition. However, it was the wrong edition of the book, and didnt say it was the second, not the third, in the description. This was dissappointing, especially since I can't return it, but the seller was otherwise pretty good.

The seller inmediately answered all my questions, and sent the book as she had said the conditions were in. I got the book 2 days after purchasing. I can tell this is going to be a very helpful book. I recommend buying from this seller in the future.

I had to use this book for a class I took at the University of California, Santa Barbara (History 177 -- Summer 1999). I thought the book was great in certain areas (prehistoric times, geography, and the native peoples), but deficient in others (water development, railroads, Bear Flag Revolt, gold rush, automobile). Also, California's history is much too complicated to be crammed into this book -- the author should have divided it up regionally, or on a time line to allow himself to get more in depth with this material. Otherwise, if you are interested in a good, yet incomplete overview of the history of the Golden State, read this book!

I did not realize this book would be so Christian-oriented. I cannot use this in my classroom as a public school teacher. Also, many of the practice phrases are quite strange (For example, "Pretty baby is bad.")

Currently, I am leading a Signing class at my church. Using both the videos and book, has helped many who have never been exposed to Sign Language to learn it in a weeks time (depending on their commitment to learn.) Kathy Rice does a good job describing how to form the signs with helpful hints on remembering them. However, some of the signs are a little outdated, but they are still useful. I would recommend this course video and book to anyone who would like to begin learning Sign Language.

I am trying to teach myself sign language, and I have purchasd many books on this subject. This book is one of the best I have used, and I would recommend it to anyone who is trying to learn sign language alone. The illustrations and the directions are easy to understand and to follow and perform. I especially like the Bible memory verses at the end of each lesson as well as the suggestions of songs and the sentences for practice. There are two videos that go with the book and they help a great deal, but the book can "stand alone" in successfully teaching the novice how to "sign". The videos give extra help in that they offer practice sessions for review. Cathy Rice gives clues for remembering some of the signs..and that is a great help for me. I can totally recommend this book (with or without the videos) to anyone who wants to learn sign language. I also use The Joy of Signing to great advantage. However,Sign Language for Everyone is more relaxing to work with.