Although I am 25 years old, I bought this book because I love Wyland's work and was curious about how he drew his sea creatures. It came with brushes, some acrylic paints, drawing paper, pencils, and a book giving instruction on how to draw and paint (all in a hard cover folder). It is definetly worth the price and would be a great start up book for kids interested in sea art.

L e e l a n a u ... is a reflection of my 16+ years of living and wandering the peninsula. It is my proudest collection of images put together in a book. I am especially fortunate to have collaborated with writer Jerry Dennis who, in my mind, is one of the finest outdoor writers. Jerry grew up in the Leelanau region and offers a dozen essays that reflect this intimately.

The book is two in one ... the photographs stand alone and do not intentionally illustrate the essays and the essays are not written to explain the photographs. Folks pick up the book because of the imagery and later lose themselves in the essays.

When I read the book jacket I wasn't sure how Downing would pull it off- Leonardo's hand, his actual hand!!! But it works! This is a delightful story about an unlikely family in extraordinary circumstances learning to trust and support eachother despite their own failings, mistakes and misjudgements! I'm a Young Adult Librarian who will happily recommend this to my teens!

This book explains in an organized, easy to understand way, the various aspects of foster care. This book is a valuable resource for foster children and adults who work with them, including foster parents. -Cynthia Miller Lovell, author of The Star: A story to help young children understand foster care, and Questions & Activities for The Star: A handbook for foster parents

This Loeb Classical Library edition of Livy's history has many useful features. It has the Latin text and an English translation side-by-side, it has the dates of events - both on our calendar and on the Roman calendar - along the margins, it has frequent notes to explain Livy's more obscure references, and at the end of each of Livy's 'books' there is a concise summary.

This second volume (out of 14 volumes total in this edition) covers 467-404 BC, some of the formative years in Rome's history. Most of the events are little known today, but it makes interesting reading for those who enjoy ancient history.

Livy's lengthy and detailed History of Rome covers many events that are little known today, but it makes excellent reading for anyone interested in ancient history. This Loeb Classical Library edition has many useful features. It has Livy's Latin text and an English translation side-by-side for easy study, it has the dates of events - both on our calendar and on the Roman calendar - along the margins, it has frequent notes to explain Livy's more obscure references, and at the end of each of Livy's 'books' there is a concise summary.

This first volume is one of the best in the whole series (which runs 14 volumes in this edition). Not only does it have a good introduction to the series, it also covers some of the most interesting events in Rome's history, running from its founding until 468 BC, and including Rome's transition from a kingdom to a republic.

This book has been awarded a Bisto Book of the Year merit award and the Eilis Dillon Memorial Award 1996.

It is a gripping story of an orphan boy, Lockie, who flees from his uncaring foster parents. Through the twelve years of his young life the rebellious Lockie has been moved, like a piece of unwanted furniture from one foster home to another. All he needs is acceptance as a member of an ordinary family, but so far he has failed to get it. His flight is away from the past, from people, because amongh them his life has been misery, but he has no idea of where he wants to go.

Then he meets the vagabond, Dadge, and other ecccentric characters, including Pasha and Mammy Tallon, all hovering on the edge of society. In them he finds soul mates. With great generosity they give him the love and acceptance he has always craved. Now too he has a goal - to dwell with Pasha and Mammy Tallon in their old home on idyllic Tallon Island. But will the powers-that-be allow that to happen?

The story is enthralling as adventure, a superb read, and it is garnished with thoughtful intimations of the thick-skinned attitude of respectable society to the social and emotional needs of those on the fringe.

Long slow burn, man it's your turn
to experience love and joy
whit some gorgeous guy whit sweet voice
who'll make you sweet in return
till from love you will sweetly burn

It was in reading this book out of my public library, when I was about 12 years old, that I got thoroughly and irrevocably hooked on 19th-Century social history and the study of the material artifacts our ancestors used on a daily basis. When I found it in the secondhand bookstore where I was working 10 years later, I snatched it so fast I'm surprised my boss didn't hear a sonic boom! Foster-Harris covers everything from the uniforms of the Civil War veterans who rushed westward after Appomattox in search of a new life, through the weapons they carried, the transportation they made use of, the trails they followed, the homes they built--almost anything you might want to know about--and provides simple but clear illustrations to help you visualize what he's talking about. Some of his "facts," as I've come to learn by checking other sources, aren't quite accurate: he claims, for example, that Western women "never" wore pants or rode astride, but my research has shown that even Eastern females admitted that "these pioneer Western women are of a different breed," and saw no scandal in their riding "Indian-style" (as straddle was delicately called at the time); Mark Twain in his letters tells of at least one maverick lady he knew in the Comstock, and many women who dressed and lived in masculine style, Calamity Jane and "Mountain Charley" Pankhurst not the least, are historically substantiated. But for sheer material detail, his book is hard to beat, and it should be found on the shelf of everyone who writes about, or is curious about, the way Westerners lived in the heyday of the free range.

This book is short but too the point. How does it feel to be a foster child? How does it feel to loose your mother? How does it feel to be separated from your brothers and sisters? This books gives a clear insight of what its like. But most important it helps any new foster parent understand what behind the child. It helps you with things like how to welcome that new child with love and warmth. Helps to understand what and how to treat a child in the system according to their own indiviual needs. Gives great examples and suggestions.