This book offers a thorough, comprehensive study of floral quilts from 1840-1870. It is full of meaningful information and photo examples for all who love floral quilts and especially for quilt history buffs, researchers and appraisers.

A book I come back to again and again for its photographs of beautiful quilts. The beautiful applique quilt on its cover is worth the price of the book. Also a good source of dating fabric. Very inspirational book. It's interesting to read about the quilters and see their photographs alongside of their quilts.

The reader is presented with a wealth of material; illustrations, photographs and maps detailing all aspects of the RAAF during the Vietnam War. Keynote are accurate combat action reports and attention to most every military aviation issue.

The literary style allows for very personal accounts of the heroics of the aviators and the specific of military operations. I was enlightened by the joint Australian and American cooperation depicted. Perhaps the most important use of this book by American military would be the means provided to contrast American aviation problems and issues with those of the Australians.

This volume belongs in every aviation or military school library.

Joseph M. Kralich, MA US Army DUSTOFF Historian (1988-98)

If you are a parent applying Dialogic Reading (do a search, it's powerful), or an ECE or elementary teacher training staff, this is a great book...the Prompt, Expansion. and Review steps are built right into the pictures and text. All you have to do is add the "Evaluate" step after prompting. You don't have to know anything about that though to enjoy this book with your child. Great language and concept building, as well as enticing illustrations. Sturdy board book, I'd say ages 2- 7 depending on how you use it.

This is a romantic historical novel about hero Adam Rutlege's growth from a North Carolina planter actively disinterested in entering politics in the mid-1760's to a devoted participant in the American Revolutionary cause who both loves his native North Carolina and loves the new country as a whole, as well as some of the western lands it will someday include. This is also a love story about Adam Rutledge and his neighbor, Mary Warden, who keeps her love secret from most people, as Adam keeps it secret for a long time even from himself, because of Adam's loyalty to his invalid wife and Mary's to the much older husband she married--apparently in name only--before meeting Adam. Adam and Mary's story, the early subplot involvign the Regulator movement that draws Adam into politics by giving him a specific group of people's problems to care about (a group that Fletcher deals with in _The Wind in the Forest_, where Adam and Mary make appearances), and the author's careful attention to details that appeal to the reader's senses, all kept me reading long stretches of this novel, sometimes when I knew that I should be reading other things for my college classes; it was only with difficulty that I made myself postpone reading the second half until catching up on class reading. I have since reread _Raleigh's Eden_ and again enjoyed it.

My three year old son has played with this CD Rom and now knows all the sounds and shapes of the alphabet. He can point to words and tell me what sounds the letters make. He never ties of it. It is a definite success.

In fact, she is one of the great leaders of all time. This is clear instantly to anyone who reads her story, told calmly and clearly,absent any self-aggrandizement or ego. Her role was that of countless women organizers such as Rosa Parks in Birmingham and Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi, almost the only female leaders' names we have from that Movement, and the barely-known student leader Anne Moody (whose moving autobiography, "Coming of Age in Mississippi" is another powerful document of that time) who actually risked their lives every day to do the monumentally hard,thankless,daily organizing work that persuaded Black people one by one throughout the South to risk their livelihoods, their housing and credit for basic food supplies at the local white landowner's grocery store, and their very lives, to come to a meeting, or register to vote, or take any first step to be involved in overthrowing America's apartheid regime, known as "Jim Crow" in areas where to join the NAACP meant being lynched. She matter-of-factly shows it to be a role largely unrewarded, unnoticed by the mass media, and never credited at all. Moreover, she had to fight every day, every week, every month, not to be thrown out of regular SCLC meetings by Dr. Ralph Abernathy, who resented her leadership status apparently for no other reason than that she was a woman, and enormously effective. Dr. King, in defending her place at the meeting, clearly knew he would have no crowds to march in front of at all were it not for women like Septima Clark.

This book can be used as part of a curriculum or when you need just one activity. The preparation and materials needed are minimal and can be done on the spur of the moment. This book works well for ages 5-11 in either a secular or religious environment. I highly recommend this as a resource for teachers, parents, and anyone who works with children.

I read this book and thought it was awesome here is a summary.

Stephnie and her cabin may have lost the big water event, and lost her C.I.T. job but now she is in charge of the camp talent show! Now things are starting to become serious, the sets are torn up with green spray-paint,the speakers are gone, and more now its up to Stephanie and her friends to try and find out who is doing all this. On the day of the talent show the power goes out and there is a big thunder/lightning storm. Luke was to show up and watch Keith now Stephanie is scared even worse. Did Luke show up and has been doing all this, or was it Max,or even Keith? Cant tell you have to read that part for yourself,sorry. I hope you like my review and want to read this book I have to admit its hard for me to like a book.

Wonderful to read, very rewarding information, every man, women and child should know.