it couldn't be more enchanting. The details are great, and you notice more things each time you read through it. My 2-1/2 year old daughter sat down with this book when we got it home, while I looked at the book I had purchased for myself. She was content to look on her own, but then when we 'read' it together, she was even happier, with each of us spotting things that the other hadn't. This book will stay on our shelf for a long time.

This is a picture book--there are no words. The paintings are gorgeous, in an impressionist style, soft tones, etc. What goes on in the book is more than the title implies. If you are at least observant, you are qualified to make up a story about the images. The scenes show a garden, yard, swing set, sand box, edge of the street, cherry tree and the house. There are images of the mother, I think the grandfather, grandmother, girl, boy, dog, cat, pet rabbit, baby, and the baby's doll. The people are caucasion. The people are doing different activities, and it begins in the morning, a beautiful sunny day. A sudden thunderstorm occurs, then it clears again. The people go through different activities from morning to night. I just can't get over how beautiful the paintings are. My 3 year-old son loved the book and I was able to make up simple stories about the people. With a little more imagination, I could come up with names and real characters for these people and have a more detailed story. This is a welcome addition to our home library as a break from the norm.

This book was a treasured gift.My daughter and I have been looking at this book every night since she was about 6 weeks old.The illustrations are beautiful.The reader is taken into someone's back yard in muted colors and relaxing hues.A story can be imagined as each picture takes the reader to a new day and a new season.As the seasons change, the activities of the family and animals in the garden changes.There are so many little details in each drawing that we find a new story every time we read the book.This book is a must for any imagination.

Disappointingly, this book is out of print. I was, however, able to find it on other web site (DJ included) so there are still a few about - including on Amazon sometimes. I first saw this book at a friend's house and had been searching for a copy for my own house ever since.

As all the 'Day In the Life' series, 75 or so photographers are let loose on a country (in this case, Ireland) for an entire day (May 17, 1991 for this book). Their resulting 800+ photographs depict the country and people, perhaps in ways you never thought of. Having been to Ireland myself a few times I found this book wonderfully refreshing without the contrived look often equated in the American mind of Ireland. You will find all sorts of photos from individuals at work and play, families, landscapes (how could you leave that out?), villages, sports, etc. Almost everything you could think of and a few that you would not.

It would behoove the publishers of this series to return to Ireland to compare the changes wrought in the last decade for the Irish people. I'm sure even they themselves would be amazed!

This is a collection of some photography, over the course of a single day, (May 17, 1991) by some of the greatest photographers of the 80's and 90's. It's truly an honest look into the life of the Irish, which I found very interesting. Most of the pictures are beautiful, and convey real human emotion. A great read, if it were only still in print!

Hundreds of Stunning, full color photographs depicting life in Ireland taken by a team of over 75 professional photographers in one 24-hour period, May 17, 1991.

Scenes include portraits, landscapes, home life, joy, pain, rustic villages, military and a myriad of other themes.

This wonderful book will appeal to anyone interested in folklore, photography or Ireland.

Truly a remarkable record of an entire nation in a time capsule.

I was searching for a book to give me a short history of World War II. This book was excellent! I used it in teaching background information to my 4 - 6 grade gifted students. My mother (a member of the "greatest generation") loved the book and wanted one for herself. The book is excellent.

I really liked how this book was set up. I bought it for my students so they could be more informed of World War II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. My students seem to really like this book and it's a popular one amongst my middle school students.

I would recommend this as a tool to use in the English or Social Studies classroom.

Dana K. Wolcott

I THINK THIS BOOK IS COOL BECAUSE I LIKE BOOKS ABOUT WAR AND THIS BOOK WAS A GOOD WAR BOOK SO THATS WHY I GIVE IT 5 STARS, I RECOMMEND IT TO OTHER 12 YEAR OLDS.

With her enticing title, this gifted author draws you, holds you to the final word, all the while enhancing self vision. From her life experiences she bares her heart and soul, describes life-tools to conquer hurdles with dignity and courage. Whether considering the void left by lack of unconditional parental love, a broken marriage, or a serious health challenge, she guides the reader down the path, inspiring both faith and hope, to make the music play again.

That Ms. Zell-Tamis is an eloquent, insightful author and professional healer becomes obvious as the reader is drawn into her revealing struggle to re-enchant her life after the music has stopped. Interwoven into her personal account are the inspiring stories of others who have survived the "heritage of damage" to their spirit to rekindle the sense of peace and freedom vital to our happiness and self-fulfillment. I was left with the renewed hope that each of us can, indeed, and MUST, in fact, rediscover that "authentic and vital" part of ourselves which is indispensable to our never-ending quest for a deeper, more meaningful and joyful life.

I loved The Day The Music Stopped. It seemed to hold my hand and take me into consideration of very deep, soulful material while making me feel protected and inspired by Ms. Zell-Tamis's inviting literary style. The book showed me how my own life stories echo those of others and gave me a sense of pride in my progress as I continue to grow and learn. A must read for anyone who is serious about personal growth and development and an intriguing and pleasurable treat for the more casual reader.

Simply stated, this book is excellent. i read this first as a small boy in the late eighites and have serched for it ever since. i found it again only once, in high school a good 10 years later, and found none of the books terrifying potency diminished over the course fo time, perhaps because it speaks so clearly to one of my greatest personal fears (and that of so many others): the fear of being completly, utterly and inexplicably alone. After all, what WOULD you do fi you got up and found everyone you knew ahd simply vanished overnight, leaving no trace whatsoever? The stories protagonists, a group of high school teens, are forced to face just this delimma, and the seemingly preposterous, and yet horrifying possibility that they are indeed the last people left alive.

I too read this book over 20 years ago when I was in grade school. I have tried for several years to find it since... but have not...in fact I thought I had the title incorrect until I looked it up in Amazon.com, I think this book is great and I'd like to find a copy of it to read again. It is a great story for young readers.

I read this book in 1973, and it has stuck in my memory for over 20 years. This is an intriguing book about a subject that, at the time, filled my heart with terror: Students arrive at school one morning to find that teachers and staff have disappeared. They embark on a search that reveals that everyone in their entire town is gone. I highly recommend this book. I think it would be most entertaining for 11 - 15 year-olds.

I first got this book from thr library to read to my children but I purchased it for myself. It is that entertaining. It has an inventive story line based on a visit with an average but somewhat unusual family. The illistrations are high quality, full of surprises, and reminicent of the Art-Deco world and Buc Rogers. Pictures and text each support one another and provide a new discovery with each read.

If you like Chewandswallow, you'll love Wilbur Robinson's family. Eclectic 90's techno family unique as the Adams Family and The Jetsons. The wacky way of life at the Robinson's and illustrations appeal to children while the moral of the story and outstanding imagination and wit appeals to the adults.

A book for young and old, laced with fantasy and whimsical delight. What other children's books have brain enhancers, dancing frogs, spaceships, and a rousing chorus of "Yes, We Have No Bananas?" Wilbur Robinson and his family are the coolest.

This book might be fiction, but it gives a real insider's story about senior year at West Point from a cadet's viewpoint. This is the stuff you'll never hear about on TV or in other books, this reveals what really goes on behind the scenes. Great read!

A Georgia boy heads for The United States Military Academy at West Point to learn to become a soldier..what he learned however, was how to drink fully from the cup of life and most of it wasn't military.

A young Georgia boy leaves home for West Point to become a soldier...he did this and a lot more. A lot of his experiences had nothing to do with the military but rather sipping from the cup of life in sometimes bizarre ways. This story is worth reading...

is as Galeano define "Days and Nights of Love and War". The author open the memory box and let escape the pain and the love, the sadness and the joy. That is not only his box, it's my box too, all latinoamericans' box. So, when we open it we live.

The personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers, Eduardo Galeano's Days And Nights Of Love And War blends memoir journaling with an eloquent history to record the lives and struggles of the Latin American people under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Galeano combines straight-forward reportage with personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore with an impressive and engaging emotional enrichment that includes anger, irony, sadness, and humor. Days And Nights Of Love And War is very highly recommended for students of late 20th century Latin American political history and culture.

This book is for anyone immersed in the human condition, waging a war internally and silently stuggling externally. Galeano's collection of thoughts and essays and stories stirs the emotions of the reader and forces them to consider the entirety of the Latin American canon of literature as a formidable one. It encompasses genres such as autobiography, biography, testimony, prose, and short story. This is poetry of the soul for the soul, and shouldn't be limited to those obscure literature classes dealing with oppression

Whether or not you started with Daggerspell or if you have just recently started reading the works of Katharine Kerr, you should definately read this. I found the book entertaining with all the old characters mixed with the new and their wonderful skill at getting wound up in problems that seem to large to remedy. You get to see parts of her world that you do not see in the other books which is always exciting with this author. She transends into the world "high fantasy" well and the ending is rather different from most of her others because it is sudden and leads into the next book.

Similar to "The Dragon Revenant" Kerr again returns to a linear plot previously set up in "Time of Omens," again abandoning her usual interaction of stories set within differing time periods. Obviously by now I am an enthusiast of the tale and world begun in "Daggerspell" and would recommend fans of better fantasy fiction take a look. Despite the positive response of the previous reviewer, however, Kerr's books are not written as stand-alones, and without the information provided by the earlier works, one's enjoyment of this book will be greatly limited. Despite the fact that it was the weakest book in the series, start with "Daggerspell": By the time you reach "Days of Blood and Fire" I'm sure you'll conclude that the considerable time invested was enjoyably well spent.

I do however have one reservation regarding this book: The introduction of a dragon. It may be a personal quirk on my part, but rarely have I found the active appearance of dragons in a tale either satisfying or credible. Often anthropomorphised in manner either typecast or silly - McCaffrey's romanticized and laughable wyrms are but the most notable examples - their inclusion as characters almost invariably fails to be convincing (At the risk of sacrilege I would include Tolkein's Smaug). Though the dragon here is present for only a few pages, it is apparant that it will play a large role in the next book, and it talks, which may not bode well for the conclusion of the series. Those of you who delight in clever wyrms, carry on. I will reserve final comment for completion of the next book.

This is the best fantasy book that I have ever read, and possibly one of the best books overall. Anyone who is a fantasy reader should definately pick this one up. It kept me on the edge of my seat right up until the end, where I immediately ran out to pick up "Days of Air and Darkness" to find out how this chapter in the Deverry saga ended. Full of action, intrige, and emotion, this book is sure to give anyone a good read. I am about to order the rest of the series to see what else has gone on.

One, of not the only book, I have ever read about Conscientious Objectors in the military. Each of the stories told in the book bring to life the Viet Nam war itself, but the war in the minds of the men themselves. It is a different kind of bravery that is revealed here.

I was in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the 1980's doing some painful rehabilitation work. My psyche was only a shadow of what it once was or what it became later with a renewal of my faith, insight, and energy. I was browsing through the library and saw an ad in the back of "Mother Jones" anout this book in the making. I contacted the author and was interviewed via telephone for a couple of hours. It was at a pay phone and I literally screamed my way through the interview. It was a return to the roots of my dissent. And a healing.

The author has captured a fragment of the in-service dissent during the Vietnam War. When I started my dissent action, I was alone, and endured lonliness. This book has cemented us together in a deepest solidarity. Now I am available for support to others in this dilemma, should the need arise. Heaven forbid. What a nightmare. What a journey. What hope!

"To hope til hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates."

Shelley (peace sisters and brothers)

This book is very real, it emits an aura of what it's really like to fight in a war. Great for all people interseted in the military.