The "Heroes Start As Kids" series staring Dewey Does promises to be a favorite among kids aged 6-10.

The first book in the series, First Day, follows Dewey, a nine-year-old sports enthusiast, through his first day of fourth grade. Written from Dewey's point of view, the book is charming and authentic. The book has no wizards or dragons, no talking animals or bumbling bad guys. Dewey's thoughts, hopes and fears are presented in a moment by moment format, with such appealing honesty that kids will surely identify with this hero in the making.

I loved this book and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

HEROES START AS KIDS, they all had stars in their eyes & dreams. 9 year old Dewey, entering 4th Grade, certainly has.

Dewey Does is young, unafraid, believing he can do anything, be all things, he is full of awe & wonder, & his energy & love of life are as contagious as chicken pox & not nearly as nasty!

There are so many things I'd like to tell you about after reading FIRST DAY, about his room, his family, his friends, his life, that you simply must buy a copy for yourselves.

If the next books in this Heroes Start As Kids Series is as good a FIRST DAY, then our youngsters have a new author to mentor them through their busy lives.

Highly recommended reading - Dewey's voice is authentic & easily understood - FIRST DAY is a perfect gift for all kids in third grade as well as fourth, any time of the year!

The first of a planned "Heroes Star As Kids" series, First Day is written by John Cooper for young readers ages 8 to 12 and follows the adventures of nine-year-old sports enthusiast Dewey Does as be experiences his first day of Fourth Grade. As Dewey meets old friends and makes new ones, kids are readily able to identify with his thoughts, dreams, and hopes. Enhanced with occasional black-and-white drawings by Jon Roscetti, First Day will prove to be a popular addition to any school or community library collection, and will leave young readers looking eagerly toward the next Dewey Does adventure!

I love her simplicity and down to earth attitude.

I've read Ms. Dewey's column for years in the Valley Journal and recently heard her speak at my MOPS meeting. This book reads easy and is very informative. I now understand the many uses of the herbs and remedies she lists in her book. The next time I get a cold or the flu I will reach for this book first. The quick refernce is also very helpful in the back of the book.

"The Humorous Herbalist" lives up toits name. Most herb books, unfortunately, are BORING, BORING, BORING. Not this one. It makes you laugh and wish you had discovered herbal medicine years ago. Dewey's practical, down-to-earth writing style makes you feel as if she were talking to you directly. Rumor has it Dewey is putting together a TV series based on this and her next book, which I heard is called "PlantPower." I hope this rumor is true, because I'll be the first to tune in!

An outstanding book for the watercolor enthusiast. Dewey's chapters cover materials, subject matter and technique that even the advanced watercolorist can learn from. The book is a handy item to help both the practicing artist and teacher. Not so much a step by step study, but rather information that can be applied to the artists individual style and subject matter.

a comprehensive, knowledgeable, concise survey of watercolor technique and the art theory necessary to watercolor painting. some essential techniques, such as wet-on-wet washes, receive a one-page treatment that encapsulates all text, illustrations, and photos for that topic; others are repeated as themes throughout the discussion. the demonstration paintings are simple and inviting for a beginner to imitate, yet all of them -- my favorites are niagra falls, the japanese arch and the still life on a rug -- are masterfully composed and build from value sketches and compositional studies to show how to think a painting through. the section on color theory is the most coherent and pointed i have ever seen. the sections on materials (paints, brushes, papers, by type and by brand) are excellent too. a marvellous book, a classic of its kind.

David Dewey's straight forward and concise writing makes this among the best Watercolor references available today. I own over 100 watercolor books and this is one of the four I reference continually.

This book came to me as a gift. And what a gift it is. Barbara confirms what we already know, which in turn strengthens our believe, which in turn helps us to grow and evolve. She explains things in an easy to understand way. And she is right on. We are each and everyone of us in charge of our own destiny. We have the ability to transform and change whatever we want to. We do create our own realities. What a great healing tool. What a great gift to give others. It's the only book that I will give from now on.

This book was sent to me by a friend and I am just starting it...for the second time. I recommend it to everyone I know (I won't give up my copy however, you will want one of your own) it's passionate and inspiring. A real spirit opener.

This book will help you heal yourself! Wonderful, i totally reccomond it to anyone concerned with their personal growth.

I'm not sure what philosophers intend to create with their endless excursions into varieties of ways to navel-gaze, but this book has helped me interrupt the endless loop I've seemed to have been caught in with philosophers for several years now. It's certainly not for lack of effort on my part that I've perpetually ended-up confused. Now I learn that increasing the level of confusion has actually been part of the philosophical agenda.

David Hildebrand does me two incredibly welcome favors with this work. First, he gets me started in the right place. That is, he gets me out of theoretical epicycles and returns me to the radical world of reality. Needless to say, having a proper starting point makes a huge difference that I notice immediately.

Next, he tells me what philosophy is capable of. That is, philosophy can actually be engaged in as a MEANS to study, perchance to improve, the experience I find myself immersed in before I open my mouth to speak or poise my pen to write or or even begin to compose sentences.

I have turned an important corner here in my own personal quest to effect improvements in the world. If I never learned where to start or how to employ philosophy, then I'd remain lost in it's self-absorbed, subjective/reflective mazes until I died.

While I admit benefitting from having an erudite response constructed logically to help contextualize Putnam & Rorty, I enjoy most of all the freedom to take my own personal set of capabilities, such that they are, and investigate whether or not I am able to effect improvement in the real world.

I feel very much liberated and very much encouraged in being a practically-minded human creature.

I will add my own deeply sincere thanks to those of the other reviewers here. I look forward to what follows this volume.

Although many essays (and anthologies of essays) have appeared on the topic of classical pragmatism versus neopragmatism, this is the first book-length project I know of to tackle the controversy from a viewpoint fully conversant with and sympathetic to Dewey's signal contribution. It is quite refreshing to discover a scholar who not is not only aware of, but champions, the vital Deweyan conceptions of having versus knowing, primary experience, and the centrality of inquiry. Hildebrand's grasp of Dewey's engagement with direct and critical realism is exemplary, and his "deconstruction" of Rorty's antirealism is nothing short of amazing-"wicked" comes to mind! Although Hildebrand's alternative "practical standpoint" falls short, in my view, of Dewey's full transactional integration of experience and nature, this book opens up an area of research of vital importance. It is well written, informed, and cogent.

This is the best book I have read about Pragmatism in a long time. Hildebrand confronts the differences between Neo-Pragmatism and the classical figures (especially Dewey). He argues that
although Putnam and Rorty consider themselves pragmatists they have failed to understand the more radical and significant insights of Dewey's philosophy. His criticism is not superficial. He
makes an effort to understand even the particular differences between Putnam and Rorty. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!

This has consistently been one of my toddler's favorite books since she was only a few months old. She loves to hear me sing the words to this book and never seems to tire of it. The illustrations are bright and cheerful and it has become a favorite of mine as well. Highly recommended!

My 15-month old daughter loves to hear me read this book! She studies the colorful pictures on each page, and watches my face as I say "Quack, quack, quack, quack." It's short, with just a couple of lines on each page, an it has an excellent rhythm.

We liked the book because it had ducks in it. Jamie's favorite part was when the duck went out one day. Jay liked when Mother Duck said, "Quack, Quack."

It is 1793, and promotions have been slow with the bulk of the British Navy laid up between the wars. Alan Lewrie is still a lieutenant and, without a naval commission, living the life of a country squire with his wife and children. But war breaks out with France, and Lewrie is called to arms, only to find himself with a thankless job in port until he wrangles a commission aboard a frigate with a less than competant captain. Naval service takes him to the British intervention in Toulon, and once again Lambdin carries out some excellent research and covers events not well covered by other writers of historical novels. This is a grand account of the events at Toulon, with a sidelight when the upstart Captain Bonaparte takes Lewrie's sword. Events put temptation into Lewrie's path as beautiful and poor Phoebe is thrown into his arms during the evacuation. Action against the enemy finally brings him promotion, but he must take a ship home for refitting, along with the ! young French refugee Sophie who knows all too much about Phoebe whom he has carefully left in Gibralter. Can he trust Sophie's discretion when he leaves her in the care of his wife? After all, she is French, and are they not more understanding about such matters?

This is in most respects the best Alan Lewrie adventure to date. Great sea adventure, great human adventure, great story. Dewey Lambdin has created a lovable, believable hero. One that is so human, he feels guilty about it. If you are a history buff, a Navy Sea Story buff, or just enjoy a good story that is peopled with real characters that behave like real people, then you will enjoy Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewrie. Very Highly Recommended.

Our hero Lt. Alan Lewrie is called back to service in the British Navy in the late 18 century as England finds itself at war with France. Now the First Lieutenant of HMS Cockerel Lewrie finds himself aboard a ship with a tyranical Capt. and his family. Fate deals him a sudden twist and he winds up in Italy meeting Lady Hamilton prior to her escapades with Capt. Nelson. Then onto the battle of Toulon a little known war of pre-Napoleonic France. Lambdin is growing with his creation. Now melding fiction with factual history to bring us a vivid portrayal of the British Navy at the turn of the 18th century. If you like this gendre by all means read this action packed book. Having read all the authors in this period I welcome any questions on authors of the Napoleonic, Revolutionary and War of 1812 fictional sea stories.

Great read packed with info. I've always wanted to know more about her, not just the vague references made in books about Keller and Sullivan.

The long-forgotten story of Laura Bridgman is riveting: She was the first deaf, blind and mute American to learn English and she did so through the ingenious efforts of Samuel Howe. If author Elisabeth Gitter had done nothing more than reintroduce this story to the world, her book would have been worthwhile. But Gitter does much more. Both Bridgman and Howe were enormously complicated, infinitely fascinating characters and their relationship was unprecedented in human experience (quite a statement, but it's true!). It is incredible, and in many ways, heart-wrenching, to watch their storybook relationship develop and devolve. Gitter wisely tells the story without literary flourishes; it's so remarkable, it doesn't need any. The author is also scrupulously fair to her subjects (few characters in history go from appealling to detestable, and back again, more quickly than Howe) and provides just the right degree of historical background--enough to inform the reader, but not enough to slow down the narrative. A nearly perfect book!

Elisabeth Gitter has introduced the 21st Century reader to Laura Bridgman, "the original deaf-blind girl" in her well written and sensitive portrayal of "this pitiful little girl" who "became the most celebrated child in (19th Century) America." Along with her teacher and mentor, Samuel Howe, founder of the first school for the blind in America, Laura became an inspiration for the indominability of the human spirit. Yet, as Gitter wisely and perceptively shows, the multi-faceted character behind Laura's public persona was often overlooked by Howe in his zeal to show the world that, in his words, "obstacles are things to be overcome", and that Laura Bridgman was the prime example of the veracity of his statement. With her extraordinary knowledge of the Victorian era in which the story takes place, and her exceptional command of the written word, Gitter has brought Laura Bridgman the honor and dignity she was often denied her life.

When Mitchell announces that he is moving "two weeks away" from the home he's lived in for sixty years, his best buddy (and next door neighbor) Margo doesn't sit quietly by and let him slip away. The tale that ensues speaks volumes about the love of friendship and surprising solutions. If you find yourself reading the same stories over and over, you'll want to make sure this one is among the possibilities.

Mitchell is moving is one of the best books I have ever read. Mitchell has lived next door to his friend for so long so he finally decides to move away, "three days away" to be exact. Margo, his friend, is not to happy about it so she tries to keep him from going. I recomend this book to all ages!

Mitchell the dinosaur is tired of living in the same old place and decides to move "three days away". His best friend Margo isn't happy about that at all. She thinks of some very ingenious ways to try and keep Mitchell as her neighbor. The story stays cute and readable--no matter how many times I've read it over the years.

This book isn't about everything bad that Ingrid did, even though that's the impression the title gives. This is a well and thoroughly researched and very readable biography. Donald Spoto speaks about Ingrid with respect, and although he mentions her weaknesses and failings, I don't feel he's doing it to spread dirt around. If it happened it happened, but he doesn't spend half the book talking about it.

Except where it concerns Rossellini, and that is perfectly understandable, because everyone who knows about Ingrid knows that was a real and terrible time in her life. I think it's sad that she went through all that and the marriage ended up falling apart anyway.

Anyway, basically he speaks of her work. She went crazy without it, and really as I think about it her life was work. That's what I remember froming reading this.

It is a very good book, and like everything I have read by Spoto, is well-written and highly interesting. I recommend it very much.

Is this a creative review or what? I seem to be suffering some sort of blank as far as reviews are concerned this morning.

I was a young adult when Ingrid died and I was not aware of her fame and reputation as a film star. I saw her occasionally in old movies and was fascinated by her glowing beauty and talent. I was appalled by her appearance in her role as Golda Meir; she had changed so much, but now I know why. Spoto's biography about Ingrid revealed her intimately -- from her childhood to her death, throughout her marriages and affairs, the successes of her career, and relationships with friends and family. I didn't know that she had been banned from America for her "sins", and I didn't know she had other children besides Isabella Rosselini. In spite of her foibles, Ingrid still seems like a great woman, thanks to the passionate -- and compassionate -- telling of her life story by Spoto. The audio version of the book was completely compelling to listen to, enhanced by the reader, C.M. Herbert, whose voice had a quality similar to Ingrid's, and therefore made Ingrid come even more to life.

Spellbound, Notorious, Anastasia & many other films come to mind when one thinks of Bergman.

This is a detail packed book covering her personal & professional life.

If you want to learn about her relationships, romantic & professional, how she developed & utilized her talent as an actress, & why people the world over admired, loved her & for a brief time despised her, then this is the book for you.

A wonderful collection of photographs is included, as well as an excellent Bibliography & collection of notes.

This is the story of an actress whose performances on screen & her life off the screen changed peoples ideas of what it was to be a woman, & is a must read for Movie fans.