This is a great book for a mystery lover. If you are interested in lake monsters like me you will like this book. So you decide is there a monster or is it a hoax.

It all begins the day the Aldens arive at Lake Lucielle when their new friend,Nicole, tells them that a person who lives at Lucielle Lodge,Carl, has seen a monster in the lake. Then mysterious things start to happen like Monster tracks, low wailing sounds, even a monster-bitten canoe paddle! Is someone trying to scare visitors away or is their really a monster in Lake Luicelle? Read the book to find out!

What I like about The Boxcar Children series is: 1)the kids arenot some angels,they are normal kids who have conflicts anddisagreements 2)these kids are kind,caring,helpful,and they spend time together (despite their age differences) and stand up for each other - and most important - they enjoy it! 3)the stories are usually interesting,often with unexpected endings 4) the stories are not violent,which is too often the case with books for any age . That said,I didn't like this particular book very much,since the story is not as exciting and the mystery feels like it's happening almost by the way.The ending also felt a little flat and boring.So while I highly recommend most of the other books in the series,I do not recommend this one too much.

I like my book The Mystery Of The Queen's Jewels by Gertrude Chandler Warner because it is a mystery. A mystery book is more exciting and you ever know what happens next. Also the endings will always surprise you. In this book they are in London and someone is following them. There are four children in the book who solves the mysterious and at least one person who is sneaky and makes the story instering. The children work together as a team and they never exclude each other. I think it is very interisting how the boxcar children don't fight because usually brothers and sisters fight.This book is very instring because it makes you feel like you're in the book so you will want to read more. This book will encourage young children to like reading. I would encourage young readers to read this series.

This book is required for our Chemistry of Materials class at school. I found this book to have a lot of information in it... but it was hard to follow. Many times the book did not explain what we were supposed to learn for the class. I thought it was a hard book to read

This book is an excellent text for undergraduate general materials science or a review book for PhD qualifying examinations. It is better balanced with respect to material classes than most general materials science texts, which tend to focus almost entirely on metallurgy. This book is slightly slanted towards semiconductor applications. The chapters are organized in an industrial product driven manner beginning with fundamentals and proceeding to properties, structure, processing, and failure analysis. The chapters contain excellently drawn, three-dimensional figures in blue and grey. Each chapter ends with a large number of study questions that test an in depth understanding of the material and really require students to put A and B together. If you don't use it as a text, then buy it and use the study questions for your exams.

Happy fifteenth birthday to me! The perfect gift for a Simpsons-loving, band nerd like myself: The Simpsons Songbook! As soon as I opened it (And after some practicing, of course!) by entire family soon became a chorus; singing along to the famous melodies from the show. I highly recommend the sheet music and lyric combo for any musician! :-)

Happy 15th birthday to me! The best present for a Simpsons-loving, band nerd like myself: The Simpson's Songbook! :-) As soon as I unwrapped it, I ran to the piano to start learning the famous melodies. After some practicing, the songs became recongnizable and my entire family began to sing along. I would highly recommend this book for any musician; the music and the lyrics are included...So open it, have fun, and enjoy!

This is a great collection of rough sketches. If you are looking for somie inspiration for pinstriping design, this book is a little window into the mind of a master. Definitely not a how-to.... 3/4's of this book is just sketches. A smaller section in the back with some great photos of finished designs. I bought this book along with John Hannukaine's pinstriping book. Together they make a good beginning package. Go get some excalibur 00's and a can of One Shot & you are ready to stripe!

If you are looking for a book to get the creative juices flowing this would be a great book. Tramp has been in the business for more than 30 years, and knows what he is doing. This isn't a how to book, although there is some basis information in the introduction of the book, it is simply a design sketchbook. In addition to the black and white sketchbook, there are 20 pages of color photos in the back from other artist. So if you know what you are doing and just looking for designs, this would be a wonderful addition to your library.

Eight years before publishing their masterpiece "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies...", Friedwald and Beck teamed up for "The Warner Bros. Cartoons". This book lacks illustrations and the text is less informative than in the later work, but it does have concise reviews or plot synopses of every Warner's cartoon released between 1930 and 1969. It's interesting to note the changes of opinion on some of the cartoons...for example, "The Apes Of Wrath" is unfavorably reviewed in 'TWBC' (probably by Beck) and more highly regarded (by Friedwald) in 'LT&MM'. Both books should be on the reading list of every Warner Brothers cartoon fan.

Do you know that feeling? You're watching a Warner Brothers cartoon, and you would really like to know who made it and when. If you do, you should buy this book. It is not about highlights, it is not a history of Warner Brothers animation, but a list of ALL Warner Brothers shorts in chronological order, each item contains information about who made it, when it was made, with which stars and with what story line. Sure, when you don't know the title of the short it involves a lot of scanning through the pages (there are very few illustrations), but you WILL be able to get this information. Not an entertaining book, but a must-have encyclopedia for all Warner Brothers cartoon fans.
However, for background information one should turn to the richly illustrated "that's all folks, the art of Warner Brothers animation".

_Wonder Tales_ is a small and expensive collection of French courtly fairy tales, most written by upper-class women. Their themes seem frivolous now, but the stories were actually quite subversive for their time; in them, the authors promoted female autonomy, true love, and marriage by choice rather than by arrangement. (The authors themselves often were the victims of terrible arranged marriages. In these stories they dream of a better world.)

The stories are not the succinct tales we are used to; they can be byzantine and winding. Just when you think it's time for "happily ever after", in comes another twist. But the tales are for the most part both funny and romantic, and I enjoyed them.

This might even be considered essential reading, if you're reading _From the Beast to the Blonde_. As I read Warner's scholarly study, I kept wishing I had access to the obscure stories she was constantly quoting. When I found this, it helped a great deal; I only wish _Wonder Tales_was sold in paperback as a companion volume to Beast/Blonde.

As one of the editorial reviewers comments, this book is intended for gift-giving. It is a charming, diminutive hardcover containing six French fairy tales from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, translated by some prestigious modern writers and translators, with an introduction, biographical notes, and bibliography by Marina Warner. These tales (and those in future volumes which Warner says she hopes to bring out) are especially interesting to read after Warner's From the Beast to the Blonde, which examines the French salon society and its members (mostly women) who used the writing of these tales as a form of social protest as well as entertainment and even escape. But three of these six tales, as well as a number of others from the same milieu, appear in translations by Jack Zipes in his inexpensive paperback "Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales." If you are interested in a broad selection of these tales, including some famous ones like "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Sleeping Beauty" (complete with Perrault's violent episodes that are often left out in children's versions), Zipes is a good choice. The texts are there, along with some scholarly introductions and biographies of the authors of the tales in a mass-market format.

Warner's book is more aesthetically pleasing. Its elegant, whimsical design and first-class literary translations invite the reader to escape into stories that are part magical fantasy and part social commentary. These tales are longer than the usual children's fairy stories, and they tend to have more elaborate adventures and quite worldly descriptions of clothing, decoration, and other amenities of aristocratic life. Most of the plots resolve themselves through the intervention of fairies, whose actions may seem unmotivated (deciding not to help a heroine on one page and then suddenly turning up to save her from being eaten by an ogre a couple pages later). I personally find this easier to take in this charming little hardcover than in the no-nonsense mass-market format of the Zipes collection.

Warner's book is also significant in that, in addition to the three tales that overlap with Zipes, it contains some genuine rarities in the genre. According to Warner's introduction, two of the six Wonder Tales, "Bearskin" and "Starlite", have never been translated into English before, and Charles Perrault's tale, "The Counterfeit Marquise," has never been included in previous Perrault collections (perhaps because, having no supernatural characters, and taking cross-dressing as its theme, it would not be considered appropriate for the juvenile audience that these collections have historically targeted).

Regarding the translations themselves, I compared at random some paragraphs in the stories that appear in both books. The quality of the prose is not miles apart, since both books strive for accuracy in translation. Nevertheless, if you admire the writing of John Ashbery, Gilbert Adair, Terence Cave, Ranjit Bolt, and/or A. S. Byatt, that could be another reason to choose this book.

Even the most particular of songsters will find something among all these pages to brighten up their repertoire. Wonderfully concise and cleverly bound to behave itself on the stand - and you do not need a lens to see the notes. Chords only, no bass clef. If this is your cup of tea, then I don't think you can find better value for money.

I have owned a lot of fake books in my life but this one takes the prize. No flimsy foldup music stand for this one, folks.. a heavy duty music stand is required out front. Whatever you are looking for in music standards is HERE and ready to use AND in the key of "C". Don't hesitate to put this book in your shopping card and head straight for checkout. When it arrives from Amazon.com be thankful that the postman laid it down on your porch. The next heaviest thing in your house (if you live in Los Angeles) will be your PHONEBOOK! This is a truly great fakebook - I know you will enjoy it as much as I have.

This book is very nice. It has many love songs, some from movies and others from singers. These love songs can take your mind off of the stress in life and can brighten up your day. The love songs are not very hard to play, but are not easy for beginners. I've been playing the piano 8 years and they still were not easy for me. Overall, it's a great book.

This book is so much fun to play. The music is a bit challenging for a hack like me, but the variety of songs is great. This is a great addition to anyone's music library.