Quite simply, this is the book I will use as my primary resource to teach the Harry Potter from now on. I teach both undergraduate and graduate English Education majors and plan to order this book for all of my Adolescent Literature sections this comming year. Not only are the essays interesting and diverse, they really show how many different ways a reader can think about a text. Most interesting, however, is how these very different essays (and authors) speak to one another. Overall, a really fine group of essays about some very important works.

This book gave the complete and acurate history on Red Wing MN and it's stoneware companies that is in print. It should be noted that it was written by Gary and Bonnie Tefft

The Remarkable Return of Winston Potter Crisply is the best book I have ever read. I finished it in 3 days.

The point of this book, is that a boy, Winston Potter Crisply, has been sighted by his two younger siblings. He is supposed to be away at college, so they want to know why he's back and why he hasn't told his family. His brother and sister follow him all around Manhattan trying to be detectives. They go along Manhattan streets in weird costumes. They think all crazy things about why he is back. In the end you're in for a suprise. Eve Rice's light-hearted mystery is a fun book. It is really cute too. I couldn't put the book down. It is a must read for lovers of light-hearted mysteries.

This is one of my all-time favorite discourse analytic books. Jonathan Potter, a professor in the U.K., illustrates how rhetoric and discourse analysis can come together in provocative ways. The initial two or three chapters are, in my opinion, a bit tedious in their set-up of later chapters, but the analytic sections in the latter half of the book have no equal in this area. Potter's writing is fun to read, and the examples he uses are sometimes humorous. Fans of Potter's other work will not be disappointed

My son and I had a delicious thrill when we first read of Tom Kitten's tumble into the rat's nest. Peter Rabbit's encounter with Farmer McGregor is no comparison to the trial endured by poor Tom Kitten. The first few pages description of Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit's search through the house for Tom is a bit tedious for young listeners- but the patient are rewarded by the description of Tom's misadventures and the attempt make him into a "kitten dumpling roly poly pudding." This book, as with others by Potter, is a marvelous source for toddler quotes: "It is of no consequence"..."We are discovered and interupted..."

I work in the mentally handicapped room of an elementary school and we were doing a unit on Harry Potter. The kids were entranced with the story as I read it to them, but they wanted pictures. Does this ever fill the bill!! There is a picture for every major event. The see through pages color beautifully. The publisher suggested markers so the pictures could be placed in a window and look like stained glass. I was going to put mine in a book so I used colored pencils and they turned out great. I recommend this highly. If you want more pictures get the other stained glass coloring book too. I did!

There have been a few hack-jobs bookwise since Potter's death in 1994- that have focused on the typical associations made between his art and life (not necessarily true) and the gossip that justifies the publication of most biographies. Seeing the Blossom, alternately, is the best book to arrive after Potter's sad demise.

The book is subtitled 'Two interviews, a Lecture and a Story'- the main interview (from which the book title stems) is the key element here- coming from a famous TV interview screened on UK's Channel 4. This interview took place on leather chairs (as seen on the cover of this book) on a bare set between long time advocate Lord Melvyn Bragg (who supplies the introduction) and a terminally-diseased Potter- who had to break off from time to time to swig morphine from a flask. Despite the obvious trauma and pain which Potter (and to a degree Bragg) is in, the interview was amusing, informative and illuminating. I think that anyone who has problems with death (don't we all?) should read or watch this interview- as it seems the closest Western Civilisation at present can get to death are entertaining autopsies in London or Six Feet Under- this clearly will not do!

In the interview Potter's 'last words' (excepting the plays Karaoke & Cold Lazarus) move backwards and forwards over his life and career- this notion of memory locates itself more in the universe of Samuel Beckett than Proust, the great quote here being: 'And we forget or tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense, it is IS, and it is NOW only. I mean, as much as we would like to call back yesterday and indeed yearn to , and ache to sometimes, we can't, it's in us but we can't actually, it's not there in front of us'- Potter mentions his version of God (that relates very much to his play Son of Man), his childhood, works like Blackeyes that were censured by the tabloids (who trade on diluted-pornography in this country) and his fears for the BBC and TV in general (borne out by the digital expansion and the formulaic drivel on TV these days).

The other works here include the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture from 1993- which will be of interest to those studying media/television as it demonstrates how adventerous television like The Singing Detective & Twin Peaks has been largely abandoned (and the British film industry has all but ceased to exist). There is also an interview with BBC-head Alan Yentob (from 1987) and Potter's last short story, Last Pearls (which very much relates to the Bragg interview and Karaoke/Cold Lazarus). Seeing the Blossom is an excellent book that should appeal to those interested in what TV can do and what this great English dramatist did...

Almost impossible to find. This book tells how to build everything you need to set up a pottery studio including detailed plans for a treadle wheel and kilns. It tells how to make your equipment on a budget -- an important consideration these days.

I checked this book out of the library years ago. Since then, someone has stolen the library's copy. I have been looking for a copy for years. If you find a copy, I strongly urge you to buy it.

I picked this up for our daughter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Splash Zone exhibit. I had some reservations at first but they were quickly put to rest after my daughter started laughing and quoting facts about penguin behaviour and penguin species (for about 1 hour of our drive home). The book is nicely done with a combination of simple cartoons, jokes, beautiful photographs, and natural science information. I'm hoping that the authors come up with more of this series. I've already put in an order for their other book, "Cat Nap". Nice job folks!

This wonderful book features historic Shaker style crafts and old-style Shaker recipes for both adults and children. Some of the crafts and recipes require intermediate skills or better so the book is really for those 9 years old and up.