These painstakingly detailed, beautiful drawings are serene, pensive, yet light-hearted 3-dimensional renditions of these tiny creatures. The text and illustrations inspire a closer look and sense of wonder for small children and their adult companions. And it fits in your pocket!

Author Corns has studied Ohio's Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway for decades, and his passion for the subject shines through in this definitive volume. Hundreds of sharply reproduced black-and-white photographs, thoroughly captioned and most never before published, augment a detail-rich text that brings to life an important and relatively unheralded piece of American railway history.

Train and rolling stock photos predominate, as would be expected, but remarkable images of long-gone stations, engine terminals, yards, and workers also grace the pages.

The W&LE, itself an amalgamation of small companies, was leased to the larger Nickel Plate Road in 1949, and it is at this logical point in the Wheeling's rather tumultuous history that the author concludes his review.

This book is a gem, and holds much of interest for railfans, modelers, historians, and Ohioans alike.

I am a mother of two small children ( 2 & 3) and they really enjoyed listening to this story being told aloud at a recent book signing. The colorful art on every page keeps my children very interested in this wonderful book.

In Where The Mountains Meet The Prairies, Graham MacDonald surveys the history of one of the most popular and beautiful national parks of western Canada. The park was named in honor of British naturalist Charles Waterton. MacDonald examines the conservation and ecology of the park; Native American traditions and treaties, townsite development, and the current challenges related to the development, use and preservation of the Canadian national parks. Highly recommended reading for students of nature and ecology, the Canadian park system in general, and the Waterton Lakes National Park and Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in particular, MacDonald's informative and engaging text is enhanced for the reader with a great number of photos and maps.

I use to go to Havasu Palms resort as a pre-teen with my parents and the pictures and stories brought back lots of memories. The recipies in this book are very good, and if you have ever been to havasu than you will remember the good cooks at the resort!

I found this book invaluable in developing a program to teach my third graders about the local American Indians, the Lenape. The illustrations are joyous and precise, showing how the natives dressed and lived. The books ends with directions for making an ancient children's toy, which we executed in class and had a wonderful time learning how children of long ago amused themselves. Great for in class or out.

This book is a great piece. Simply said. With the impressive illustrations, and the depiction of every slight detail that occured, it is an impressive account of the Serbian struggle during World War I. It accurately states the story, and it is a very touching and eye opening tale of what many Serbian-Americans had to endure in serving their new country. This book is excellent, and is definately worth buying.

Sincerely,

Nick Mandich

The Women's Great Lakes Reader is an impressive, informative, superbly presented contribution to women's studies, native American studies, regional and Midwestern history studies. Victoria Brehm has assembled an outstanding contributors writing on the theme of women's roles in the cultures, development, and history of the Great Lakes region of the American Midwest organized into five major sections: Anishinaabeg: The First Peoples of the Lakes; Women Pioneers on the Frontier; Women Travelers on the Lakes; Women's Work; and Women's Lives, Women's Lakes. Of special note is Judith Minty's "The North Woods" (1981) which serves admirably as an introduction to the wealth of informative, insightful, and engaging commentaries comprising The Women's Great Lakes Reader which make this work a seminal contribution for personal and academic studies.

The poet shows incredible "versatility and poise" in his examination of consciousness against the backdrop of the Central and North Okanagan's exquisite scenery.

Eliot-like in its interiority (bad pun), the poem has a narrative drive (another pun) akin to Wayman's poetry.

One of the few poets of substance in BC.

Mr. Beers' passion for the Canadian Rockies is evident on every page of this beautiful guide, history, and photographic masterwork. I only wish this book had been available when I started hiking this area 30 years ago. It is with me at all times when I visit this fabulous area, and whenever I just want to go there in my mind. This is the best book of this type that I have ever seen. The author knows exactly what information the hiker craves, and his command of the natural and human history of the subject is total. Don't miss it!