A simple, but highly enjoyable story that 3-8 year-olds will enjoy. Emily makes a snowball, and with the help of family, freinds, neighbors, etc., it turns into the world's biggest. People from all over come to see Emily's snowball.

Very good illustrations, smooth flowing story. The author has a very child-like imagination, that will make young ones eager for the pages to keep turning.

elizabeth keown has been writing childerns books for decades this is the only one she got published her books are for teaching chilren about basic things like size, shape etc. but they all go deeper and take things (like the melting of the snowball) that may be seen as sad and she makes it into a joyful ritual. the illistartions in this book are wonderful. a book for all children and any season.

emily (herself)

As grandparents, not unlike Bud and Nancy Jones, we sometimes take the grandkids to amusement parks. For Bud and Nancy, however, this wonderful family outing turned to tragedy ending with the death of Nancy, critical injury to one granddaughter and multiple injuries to other family members, on a simple amusement park ride, the kiddie train. This family's struggle with personal and financial loss is recounted by John Krull in a short, easy-to-ready book. The eye-opener is the family's struggle with legal loop holes which allowed virtually no one to be blamed for mismanagement by the amusement park, deceptive maintenance practices and records, and the State of Indiana to do false inspections of park rides. The father of Emily (the child who was paralyzed in this accident) goes to bat for the family's rights and struggles through Indiana's legal and legislative system to protect his family from bankruptcy and provide his daughter with the best medical care possible. He also fights for state reform on amusement park inspections. I found the book very interesting, and appreciated this gift from my daughter-in-law for Christmas.

John Krull's book, Emily's Walk, surprises you. You pick it up thinking that you will read the account of a tragedy, and realize that it's much more. Before you know it, you find yourself learning about how the political process really works - and enjoying the lesson. The book reads like a fast-paced novel. It has all the suspense and sharply drawn character development of a first-rate thriller. But it's all true, and that is what makes it so powerful. I recommend reading it.

Yet it stands out from all the other similar books by the sheer heat that radiates from the writing. Emily is promised in marriage to a man she does not desire, so she runs away and ends up at the house of an hospitable couple who engage in sexual daliances with their staff as well as guests. Emily and her sister decide to stay and do their best to keep Emily's finace away from her. (plot summary #10) This is a book worth reading if you can find it... hot eroticism in true victorian style!

Although generally published as 'Anonymous' this James Jennings novel follows a very very traditional Victorian erotica style in that we have (and so do most of the charters in the book) a young Emily forced to marry the foppish son of a wealthy landowner to supposedly save her parents from the poorhouse ....

Emily, as a product of her times, certainly does not seem surprised by the fact that the young girls in her realm are the sexual targets for both family and non family members alike ... Of course like all good Victorian girls she certainly doesn't seem to bothered by this and, after learning what she likes, Emily goes out of her way to find 'distractions' ...

Fair warning .... As an unabashed fan of Victorian erotica I certainly enjoyed this book, but, I would imagine that for the first time reader i6t may be a bit of a drag ......

A plethora of good tips! This books offers suggestions and answers to the many nagging yet necessary questions that need to be answered before the 'Big Day'. For example, at my last marriage (my second), I ripped my wedding dress waist high and if it hadn't been for this book, my maid of honor wouldn't have saved the day with the needle and thread she so cleverly hid in her bouquet. Anyway, this book is great!

It's a great little book with all the info you need. I noticed the last review was in 1998 - I have the revised edition published in 2000.

Well worth the investment.

I say this is a great dog story for two reasons no dogs die in the story. This is always very important to me when I read a dog story. The other thing that makes it good is the adventures Josh and his dog, Manch, have in the story feel real. Anyone who is a dog lover, like me, always knows their dog will be there for them in a time of need and the reverse is true too. Josh is there for his dog and Manch is there for Josh.

Josh is a young man facing many difficult situations in his life. His father has died and his mother has remarried. His stepfather has moved the family to Vermont so Josh has no friends besides his dog,Manch. Both Manch and Josh face the same problem in the story, bullies. Manch had made friends with some other dogs in Vermont so at least he has friends but there is a pack of mean dogs that are threatening Manch and his friends. At the same time Josh is being pursued by a bunch of bullies from school. Luckily the dogs successfully save Josh from the school bullies but when Josh tries to help save Manch and his dog friends from the mean dogs things don't go so well. The good part is that Josh even though he is scared to death tries to help the dogs in the best way he can think of by stealing his stepfather's gun, but when things don't work out he lets go of his pride and asks for help, thank goodness.

THere is one element of the book that is interesting but I am not sure it fits in well. Josh discovers the dogs talk. Any dog owner always wishes their dog could talk so this seems neat at first but the dogs only talk to Josh a few times. It is as if Josh has invaded their private world and they don't really appreciate it. Don't get me wrong though I still think the book was great even though I'm not sure about this part of it.

I liked this book a lot. It keeps your attention going and I like dogs a lot. I would recommend this book to a friend. It's not all about dogs, it's about a boy that moves and he meets this bully and it turns out the bully is not a bully. I would like more action in it but other than that I really like it. I think people that like dogs would love this book.

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This is the best book we've had in my RN, BSN program so far. The content is very easy to read. The sentences are kept short and to the point. The content is repeated over and over in different places in the chapters as well as throughout the book, making it easier to remember the main points. The summaries at the end of each chapter really focus on the main points and great for last minute updating. I wish all of our books in nursing school were this good.

I bought both this book and "Kids Love Pennsylvania : A Parent's Guide to Exploring Fun Places in Pennsylvania With Children", and I liked the second one more. I think "Fun with Family" book pays too much attention to historical places and facts. My girls (3 and 6) are not much interested in that stuff; we usually prefer outdoor attractions, nature wonders and factory tours to museums, historical places and houses. "Kids Love PA" book also has an online update and provides more URLs for places of interest.

This book gave us all the information we needed for 2 grandparents, 2 children, and 1 mom to enjoy Pennsylvania. It's layed out in easily identified regions of the state. Within each region, there are all kinds of attractions, both the familiar and the not-so-well known. In addition, family-friendly eating places are listed near each attraction. Our boys enjoyed reading the comments from the author's children in highlighted boxes."Look, mom, he won a stuffed animal at the amusement park too!" And, there's enough relevant history described for each battleground and hisorical site to help you feel informed, not overwhelmed. The instructions, prices, etc.,were accurate and helpful,although the authors wisely advise you to call ahead to verify any changes. Finally, the most helpful features were the age guidelines and estimated activity level for each site. This book was a pleasure to read and to use. On our next trip to Pennsylvania, it will be the first thing that we pack.

De Chirico is commonly seen as the first surrealist. He is also the creator of the most profound paintings ever. But Baldacci engages for too long in horse manure "painting analysis"; when the whole point of de Chirico's paintings is that they can't be analyzed with words. If Baldacci wanted to comment on de Chricio, he should have been a painter himself. Describing de Chirico's paintings with words is both ineffective and unsatisfying. Also, Baldacci talks a lot about Nietzsche and other philosophers whom de Chirico liked. While his comments are usually in the spirit of Nietzsche's philosophy and reflect many of de Chirico's own beliefs, I suggest you yourself read Nietzsche or Walter Kaufmann's commentary on Nietzsche ("Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist") because Baldacci is at times off, and in any case you will get an incomplete picture of Nietzsche if you just read this book. De Chirico's life is a tragic reminder of a revolution in human approach to the world that could have thrived after Nietzsche fortold its coming; instead, it was extinguished, and only some of Nietzsche's other prophecies, WWI, II, and the Holocaust, became true.

This is a catalogue of a very small show (seen only at the Hunter College, NY, art gallery in fall 1996) which focused on De Chirico's brief time in America and the artistic use he made of it. But the catalogue's text extends well beyond this narrow subject into a full-scale re-evaluation of this much-misunderstood (and frequently reviled) genius of Metaphysical Art. (Fagiolo dell'Arco, by the way, is responsible only for a single article. The catalogue was edited by Emily Braun, and both the catalogue and exhibit were under her guidance, with the help of her students in Art History.) A very fine addition to the De Chirico literature.

In the author's words, _The Girl Within_ is "an arrangement of female portraits" (Introduction) rather than another inner-child book. "At the buried core of women's identity is a distinct and vital self first articulated in childhood, a root identity that gets cut off in the process of growing up female. The women in my study came fully into their own and became truly themselves only when they recaptured the little girl they'd been in the first place - before she got all cluttered up." (Chapter 1)

Few of the women Hancock goes on to describe have fully rejoined the girl within; some seem to have no hope whatsoever of recovering that girl's vitality. Rather than detracting from Hancock's thesis, this realism lends it authenticity. Descriptive rather than directive, _The Girl Within_ will spirit you on your journey to girlhood strength rather than force your girl within to appear by demand of prescriptions, steps or assignments.

Although this book - an off-shoot of the author's doctoral work - is academic in tone, it manages thoroughness without being dry. Influences are well documented, sources are dutifully cited, and still the author is present in the work, unlike dissertations written in a distant voice.

Now for the books weaknesses, as I'm a demanding reader. The scope of _The Girl Within_ is severely limited in that the subjects available for study were socially, economically and intellectually privileged women. The author's vocabulary will further deter women of lesser means from accessing the empowering thesis presented here. Hancock's editor should be reprimanded for allowing words such as "gravid" (meaning pregnant) to appear without clarification. Use of slang such as "moxie", although limited, underlines the narrow applicability of Hancock's work. A further annoyance is the frequent use of foreign phrases when the English would do just as well, such as "rite de passage" and "sotto voce". Most readers will understand "en route", but one must be privileged indeed to understand the concept of "adulte manquée".

Best self help book I have ever read. Learned so much about myself from the case histories - saw parts if me in several of them. Very well written. I highly recommend it to all my friends, male as well as female, especially ones that are going through a difficult period in a relationship or have just ended one. Wish it was still in print so many more people could read it & learn!