I am in Grade 3. I like this because it's so funny. My favorite part was when Billie and Alyssa ate gum.

This book,written in journal format, by the frog, is excellent for learning about the life and habitat of a frog. Excellent illustrations and use of humor!

My 7-year-old son just loved this book. He got it a couple of days ago and asked us to read it to him several times. Now he reads it to us. He is just so fascinated with it. It has prompted him to draw his own pictures of ants and other insects that are written about in the book. It is told in interesting way that is well illustrated, easy to understand and lots of fun to read. My son just loves to read it over and over again. I highly recommend it!

Jack Carter is an enforcer who works for London-based Crime Lords, the Fletcher Brothers. He discovers that a small time crook called Jimmy Swann is about to turn supergrass and this could have big repercussions for both himself and the Fletchers. He has the Christmas holiday to sort out the problem, or else face a long time in jail. A hard thriller written by the man who gave us "Get Carter"

I am not totally sure, but I think the only time President Carter is referred to as "James" instead of "Jimmy" is in the title of this book by Linda R. Wade, which is part of the Encyclopedia of Presidents series. Written in 1989, Wade notes that Carter served as President during a difficult time and suggests that history will confirm the significance of his deeds, emphasizing Carter's Camp David Accord and other peace seeking efforts. This biography begins with Carter's campaign for the White House, when nobody took the former Governor of Georgia seriously as a candidate, and seeks to tell the story of his life to show how he ended up winning the 1976 Presidential election, covering Carter's youth, his Navy career, and his life in politics. This juvenile biography also touches on some of the things Carter has done since leaving office, where he has established himself as one of the more politically and socially active ex-Presidents in the nation's history. I would not be surprised if Carter's popularity is higher now than it has ever been. This volume is illustrated with lots of black & white photographs from Carter's personal life and political career. The production values are no where near being slick, but in terms of the sheer amount of information provided, the Encyclopedia of Presidents series sets the standard for juvenile biographies of the Presidents.

Unlike most of the volumes in the Our Presidents series, Lori Hobkirk's juvenile biography of James Earl Carter devotes the entire fourth chapter to what our Thirty-Ninth President has done since leaving office. Only John Quincy Adams, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, and William Howard Taft, who was named Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had notable political achievements after leaving the White House, but Carter has done it without holding office. After looking at The Early Years of Carter's life, where he served in the navy, ran the family peanut farm and became Governor of Georgia, Hobkirk covers Carter's successful run for the presidency and what he tried to accomplish At Home and Abroad early in his term of office. The chapter on Treaties for Peace covers his key treaties on the Panama Canal, the Camp David accord, and the Salt II treaty. The troubles of the Carter Administration with regards to the Iranian hostage crisis are covered in the After the Presidency chapter, which also details Carter's work with the Atlanta Project and Habitat for Humanity, as well as his diplomatic endeavors. Pages in each chapter are devoted to focal issues: Carter's career in politics, the Energy Crisis, and the Camp David Peace Treaty. The margins often contain Interesting Facts, such as Carter's preference to stay in the homes of ordinary Americans rather than in expensive hotels when he traveled. The Our Presidents series is one of the better series out there for young students interested in studying the lives of the Presidents. Hobkirk does an excellent job of focusing on Carter's accomplishments in office instead of providing an overabundance of details. Other juvenile biographies of Carter, published more recently, will provide considerably more information about everything Carter has done in the last twenty years since leaving the White House. Of course, it still strikes me as odd to see his full name on the cover rather than Jimmy Carter.

Judy James Carter has concisely presented a beautiful presentation of the truth about so-called Biblical facts. As a student of Biblical theology and having a masters degree in historical Bible I love this book. I was always amazed how so-called Biblical history was missing the source of the myths - African History. Once again facts have been shown to be myth and myth has shown to be the beauty that it is.

A daring book that will rattle the non-thinker and make thinkers think!!!!

"The People's Aardvark" is Ed Slavin's sub-title for the chapter on "Purging Corruption," which focuses on Jimmy Carter's successful run for the Presidency in 1976. You see, that year, in the wake of Watergate, a Democratic party official had declared the party "could run an aardvark this year and win." Of course, one of the purposes of Ed Slavin's biography of Jimmy Carter is to given readers a better sense of how the first Southerner since Zachary Taylor to be elected to the White House (No, Texans do not count) was a bit more than an aardvark (with all apologies to Cerebus). Slavin begins his biography with Carter's last day in office, clearly recognizing the Iranian hostage crisis as the crucible of his presidency. The other chapters are devoted to Carter's youth and years in the military, his political career in Georgia, the surprisingly successful run for the Presidency, the impact of the oil crisis on Carter's domestic policy, his greatest success with the Camp David Accord, his foreign policy with regards to the Panama Canal and the Soviet Union, and a final chapter that parallels the downfall of the Shah of Iran with Carter leaving office. Written in 1989, this book touches only briefly on Carter's work since leaving the White House. However, there are other juvenile biographies that deal more with his political and social work over the past twenty years that have made him one of the more active ex-Presidents.

"Jimmy Carter" is a biography that effectively emphasizes depth over breadth. There are competing biographies that certainly provide more biographical information and details about the Carter Presidency. However, Slavin limits the number of topics to provide more substance and more analysis than you will normally find. The result, is a better understanding of the complex issues that defined the Carter presidency and which highlighted his strengths and weaknesses as a leader. Obviously, Slavin proves Carter to be more than the aardvark of the moment. "World Leaders Past & Present" is a biographical series written especially for young adults and intended to introduce people from history whose ideas and actions have determined the course of history from John Adams to Zhou Enlai. This book, and I suspect others in the series, has an introduction on "Leadership" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. that defines the focus and import of the series.

Former President Jimmy Carter himself provides the foreword to Jimmy Carter's Hometown: People Of Plains. Duane Hutchinson has compiled an extraordinary set of conversations with a variety of down-to-earth individuals who grew up with Jimmy Carter and includes his family, friends, classmates, and fellows in the community, as well as diverse views from local historians. A highly enjoyable book filled with illuminating conversations about the people who knew the former President when he was just an ordinary friend, Jimmy Carter's Hometown: People Of Plains is "must" reading for all friends, fans, and admirers of one of the hardest working, most beloved, sincerely admired and internationally respected of the post-World War II "ex-presidents" of the United States.

Wow, everyone sure seems to love ol' Jimmy Carter right about now! Kinda makes you wonder why we ever voted the grinnin' Ghandi out of office. Well, no, not really. Not if you're unlucky enough to still be cursed with memories of what it was actually like when Jimmy Carter was President. Anyway, for those of us still suffering malaise-inspired nightmares, Gary Allen's acidic (and, unlike Carter's writing, short-and-to-the-point) 1976 "biography" is a wonderful antidote. Inside, you will find the details of Carter's life before he was a virgin. Allen writes with a venemous wit and there's something delightfully cathartic in reading his sarcastic take on our 39th President, especially with all the recent talk of Carter being our greatest ex-President. (Though this is perhaps true if you consider Carter's greatest act within the White House was to eventually leave it...)