I LOVE this book! I loved it even more when my 2 1/2 year old "read" it to me.

The book tells a story of what Mom will do with her baby when she comes home from work. Like "Dance down the hall" and "make a cup of tea and give baby a sip". My daughter tries to re-inact the scenes. One of the scenes is of Mommy leaving on a small light at bedtime. My daughter asked about her "small light". We don't normally read books in my rocking chair, but she saw that in the book and wanted to start. We now dance (or fly) down the hall.

This is an all time favorite of myself and my three year old daughter. The gentel reassurance of all the great things parent and child will do together when mama comes home tonight. This book helps calm children after a busy day and shows them all the things that they can look forward to doing with mama. A touching and beautiful book!

When Mama Comes Home Tonight may retell a day's events for working moms but the message is not exclusive to working women's children. This is a fantastic book because of its literary gift to children. The rhythmic, repetitive text encourages even young toddlers to chime in. I am a huge fan of illustrator Jane Dyer, who's illustrations contribute to the calming mood of the story. This book is a winner FOR ALL FAMILIES OF ALL MAKE UPS AND OCCUPATIONS. (It is a book that children of working parents can greatly relate to as well!) It is definitely a book that will be reread each night since it's message rings true to all children-- a parent's love and time is inmeasurable.

This is an excellent cookbook full of easy, relatively quick recipes. You won't have to go searching for strange-sounding, obscure ingredients, either. These are not gourmet dishes; they are delicious, every-day recipes which will become favorites around your house.

This is one of my favorite cookbooks. My husband and I love the Hunt's meatballs and spaghetti recipe as our very favorite sauce, and it only takes 20 minutes! It's hard to believe that such a simple sauce tastes better than anything we've found in a jar. Many other recipes have turned out great too.

This book would make an excellent gift for someone, and it's also very reasonably priced for a hardcover book.

This book was given to me by one of my aunts for Christmas about 6 years ago. I love it. It was my first cook book and I found the recipes easy to make, had most of the ingredients on hand and have loved everything that I have made with it. When I left home I had to leave the original book behind because my family did not want to give it up. I have since bought a new one and use it frequently.

It was one of the best books I ever read. Victoria was a wonderful character. She would not give up on Quinn and wond up winning him over. Quinn was very set against relationships and thinks he is the death to a good woman's rep. But Victoria thinks she and Quinn have something special and should see where it can go. I highly recamed this book. :)

Lois Faye Dyer is bar none my favorite Special Edition author--and she doesn't disappoint with CATTLEMAN'S COURTSHIP. This book has everything I enjoy about her writing--a sexy, brooding cowboy; a strong heroine; a country-western hangout that makes you want to grab your boots and do the two-step; and the intricate, detailed plots I love. Plus her supporting characters are wonderful (Becky is a hoot!). I normally shy away from cowboy romances, but Lois always makes me realize what I'm missing. A terrific read!

If you haven't read Lois Faye Dyer, you've been missing the very best Silhouette Special Editions has to offer! And Cattleman's Courtship is no exception. Quinn Bowdrie is everything I want a hero to be -- handsome, sexy and in need of the perfect woman to complete him. And Victoria Dunning is just that woman! If you've ever dreamed of finding your very own Prince Charming disguised in jeans and a cowboy hat -- don't miss Cattleman's Courtship or any of Lois Dyer's other books!

An inspiration to us all! A child's last words to mom were asking for mom not to leave her before she slipped into a coma. Get to know these people and see what it has to give us all... Beautiful story and recommended to everyone who is a member of the human race!

I cryed as I heard the story. There is allot of depth to this. I highly recmond it!

This is one of the most inspiring stories I have read. I had the opportunity to see Kaye Oberra on a rare appearance she made in the Detroit area. There was a feeling of serenity and even joy about her. After I read the book I couldn't help but believe That Edwarda will awaken to further the message of her life. Thank You for this lovely book!

After months of crippling fatigue, severe depression, rapid weight gain, swelling of the legs, and hair loss, I had hoped at least one of my many specialists would have considered the obvious: hypothyroidism (I even had thyroid anitbodies which they insisted was "normal"). By some grace of God, I happened to move to the same town where Dr. Langer practices, and found a great advocate in him. He has put me on the right track with dessicated thyroid and already I feel better than I have ever felt in my life. It makes me almost cry to think what my life would have been like had I not discovered this great book and exceptional doctor. Trust your instincts...if you don't feel well, you probably aren't well. Insist that your MD pursues your symptoms until they are gone. By the way, I still refer back to this book on a regular basis.

This was the first book I've read on hypothyroidism, so I can't compare it to others. I found the book excellent in content; it went over many different health areas that could be affected by low thyroid activity. Even though I am taking Synthroid, and my levels are supposedly normal, I too have suffered extreme fatigue, memory loss, weight gain, hair loss, etc. My doctor attributed these to getting older, with no chance it had anything to do with low hormone levels or incomplete medication. This book gave me hope and a way to get help. I thought it was straightforward and easy to read. It was written by doctors who seem to have pioneered (or gone back to) the concept of believing in what patients feel and describe versus what only they (the doctors) think the patients should do.

A friend suggested I read the book because all my complaints point to Hypothyroidism. My rheumatologist did a complete blood work up on my Thyroid and everything came back normal. A few months later I complained to my regular doctor and he did blood work and it too came back normal...my symptoms prove otherwise!!

I am beginning to doubt the doctors who have told me I have CFIDS and FMS and I should leave things as such. I think there is so much more they are overlooking. My normally thick and healthy wavy hair is coming out in clumps and it could beard a man at the end of the week with what I find in the drain, my pillow, in between my fingers when I scratch my dry and itchy scalp and in my hair brush!!

Whenever I read the list of symptoms that are common with hypothyroidism, most, if not all of them are applicable to me. If your doctors don't listen to you the first time, take this book with you and stick it in his/her face. Let them know that it is possible to have a thyroid problem, even if the conventional ways of proving it, are saying you don't!! I am doing that and am hoping to finally get to the bottom of this medical riddle!!!!

I plan to take this book with me when I see the doctor next week and hopefully it will open his eyes to what is really plaguing me.

After reading the book description for this book I was very excited to read it but I was soon to find out that the book description was the better than the book. I really enjoyed reading How to make an American Quilt but this book made no kind of sense at all.

None of the characters were real enough to understand and I didn't care for them at all. In the middle of the book for no reason at all the author inserted little bio's of famous people and they were interesting but I don't understand why they were there. I guess she was trying to take up space because this had nothing to do with the story at all.

If you want to read a good book by Whitney Otto read How to make an American Quilt and pass this one by.

The Passion Dream Book is really like a dream, I felt the highs and lows of the characters unlike any other book I have read. It's easy to devour books and say I couldn't put it down...but sometimes there are just no other ways to describe it. I read How To Make An American Quilt many years ago, and enjoyed it as well, but this one, is completely in a different league. It is absolutely beautiful and so well written. If you are wondering if you should buy it or not, wonder no further, you won't be sorry you did.

I loved this book. I plan to read it again and again. It is the kind of book that you can find something new in each time that you read it. It challenges your imagination and inspires you to dream as you read it.

I love these small books full of great little inspiration quotes. I believe a slightly better book is The Power of Influence - Life Lessons On Relationships by John Maxwell.

The key to ranking this book depends on what you are seeking to get out of the book. I believe the title, Everyday Wisdom, is correct. The only thing that would have been a bit more helpful would have been better organization throughout. It seems to jump around a lot but, overall, the book is very inspirational.

They key to getting long-term value out of a book like this is to highlight the quotes you love and integrate them into your daily life. Practice what you read essentially. Hope this helps everyone.

I found this small book big on inspiration and very helpful. Dr Dyer has wonderful insight and is great at collecting words that encourage and motivate even the laziest of people. I enjoyed it so much that I recommended it to several friends who were down because of lifes turns and needed a pick me up.

I purchased this cassette 2 years ago and am now replacing it; I listen to it A LOT! I find it easy to quote the statements/affirmations in many different situations in life (I have almost memorized them). The tape really does offer words of wisdom. I, unlike another reviewer, like the short statements, as varied as they are, rather than a continuous dialogue. Mr. Dyer states that the tape is designed this way, to pick out one idea at a time. I can listen to it over and over again, and still catch something I missed, or understood differently before. If you want to hear a postive message, if you want to retrain your thinking to a loving/positive mode, I can't say enough good about the message on this tape.

Its a beautiful and a powerful book. It presents everyday life situations and a variety of alternative reactions to choose from. The book was written by Dr Dyer in his early days and I would recommend others to read his subsequent more spiritual books like "You will see it when u believe it" as they give one a complete view of Dr Dyers personality and also give the reader a more spiritual perspective to every day life situations as opposed to the practical perspectives offered by Dr Dyer in the above book. Reading the book without reading the later books may trap as victim reader in flipping from being a victim to a victimizer.

Many of us, inadvertanty, or out of fear,respect,socio-cultural norms, or sheer lack of initiative and courage/self-confidence....refuse to take control and surrender ourselves to others; be it family members,parents,friends,peers,superiors, or people in authority etc. and end up being miserable and live a life that's not our own.

Dr.Dwyne Dyer, a psycho-therapist and counselling pyscho-analyst, and author of many self-help books including the runaway bestseller "Your erroneous zones" is back with another very intersting and useful book; Pulling your own strings.

The basic thrust of the book is to make people take charge of their lives and not to let others victimise,manipulate or control our life. Its only when you are in-charge, you can stop being miserable, and guide your own destiny the way you want it.

Many of us with normal faculties have handicapped ourselves and victimised ourselves by belief systems and mental blocks. In search of security, we compromise and end up letting others control and confine us by using our own linitations and fears against us.

To live a life of your own choice, you have to be a bit rebellious, stand-up for yourself, and stop being manipulated by others by acquiring assertive behavioral skills.

The book gives various tips on victimisation, overcoming the fear of the unknown, avoidance of traps,assertive behaviour, elimination of self defeating judgements,creative aliveness, and many other day to day road blocks that everyone of us comes across.

Last few pages ongauging the victim profilei in various day to day situations and the advisible assertive response strategies are very interesting.

The book is a must read for all the adolescents, young men and women, and even grown ups who many times feel helpless, depressed, confused, and victimised. A compulsory reading for all the parents who presume that they alone are best judges for what is good for their children and refuse to let them grow on their own .

Dr Dyer is a rare individual. He really understands. He has found simplicity. The truth is simple, that which I have yet to understand! I read this book first, and felt compelled to learn how to pull my own strings. I freed myself from outside influences by reading this book, Pulling Your Own Strings. We learn to be more than a sailboat, drifting on the sea with a fixed sail, frolicking about, at the mercy of every wave and breeze. I learned how to be effective at grabbing the control panel, that pull the strings of my life, which at times takes a bit of assertion. Combining that with one of his other books, "Your Sacred Self, I gained peace. I finally found the key to dealing with stress. I did so by learning what meditation really is from him. Instead of a lotus position, and humming a mantra, I learned that it is simply sitting or lying still, undisturbed, for ten or fifteen minutes, letting all thoughts leave my mind. Each thought is tied to an emotion. You come to a place that is quiet and peaceful, and your arise refreshed, renewed, and unfettered with stress and resentments. Then your greatest problem solving mind is present, solutions appear. It is true. What a great tool. Instead of resorting to addictive, and destructive habits, or substances to deal with stress, he has shown me the ultimate solution.
So there you have it, with Pulling Your Own Strings, you learn to be the master of your own life, and recognize those, and those things, that try to direct us, and not neccessarily for unselfish reasons. Then freed from outside control, we begin to see that the solutions to our lives are available to us from within. In Your Sacred Self, he teaches us that ego is controlling, and dominating our lives. It is at war with your greater spiritual self. It keeps us from sitting still. Always striving, but never arriving. Let the noise and clamor cease. We are all one together. We don't need ego driven domination, but rather cooperation. Get rid of the anger. Learn how to eliminate the negative influences in your life. The most powerful way for someone else to control you, is to make you angry. Once they see it no longer works, they usually leave you alone, or it makes them angrier that they no longer can control you. "It is like heaping coals of fire on their heads" Then acquire joy and peace. I know it sounds like cliches, but it is true, and I don't know how else to say it.
Dr Dyer gives you the tools, to build a new house. Or should I say, he reminds you of the house that has been there all along. Only the expressions are original, the thoughts lie within us all.

1/3 of this book - the starhopping section - is excellent. Just the right amount of commentary and detail for intermediate observational astronomy. The maps are also very good. Here's the problem: Only 1/2 of the sky is covered in the starhopping section! Why go halfway? A good number of interesting regions aren't covered at all. Instead, they clutter up the first 2/3 of the book with the usual info about types of telescope, stars, pictures of planets, etc. We've read and seen this before. Any library book tells you the same stuff. Use the pages to cover ALL regions of the sky. It's really a shame.

Another problem is the hardcover format, which makes the book difficult for field use. It's thin and tall, which doesn't help it to stay open. A spiral bound version would be better.

Time was, the Nature Store was everywhere in Canada, and you could depend on them for just the right Xmas gift or whatever. That's gone now, but they left the excellent Nature Company Guides behind.

This is the book of those who have gone beyond "the stars are up there" stage but aren't at the Hawking level yet. I loved the crispy photos and the straight from the shoulder directions (not pretentious or dumb). I recommend it highly if you want something with a little more meat to it.

This book is very helpful, even if you are just an amiture astronomer like me. This book tells you how to navigate through the Heavens. It tells you what stars you can see, the dates that you can see them, even the times that you cansee them. This book tells you what to look for when buying a telescope, how to spot a trash scope, and what types are good to purchase for your needs. This book tells about anything that you need to know, from nebulas and double stars, to planets and black holes. Advanced Skywatching tells you almost anything you want to know. This is a book that no astronomer, begining, advanced, or professional, should be without.

If this were a picture book illustrating fairy tales or nursery rhymes, I could honestly give Blue Moon Soup five stars. Jane Dyer's illustrations have just that perfect, whimsical charm that makes such children's books unforgettable. Unfortunately, this is a cookbook that seemed to forget that its main objective is to provide a collection of soup recipes that the whole family will love.

The introduction hinted at such promising soups that were fun and simple to make that I really wanted to like BMS. In fact, the recipes did turned out to be simple; averaging about 11 ingredients each, including spices, and involving nothing more complicated than chopping vegetables, herbs etc. and throwing everything into a pot to simmer. Occasionally, you have to put something or another into a blender and puree. So far so good. The names and concepts of soup were even fun; Hot Diggity Dog soup (hot dogs), Polka Dot Soup (black beans), Abracadabra (Greek lemon-and-egg), Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater (obvious), and Believe It Or Not Soup (Ice Cream), to name a few examples. I will even go so far as to say that these soups generally are fresh, healthy alternatives to the canned varieties as they contain much less sodium and fat and are made from scratch. With all the chopping required I would limit kids' participation to just standing by and "helping" mom and dad by throwing ingredients into the pot, then stirring, but that could also be fun with a little imagination.

Where BMS lost me was in the flavor. Every recipe I tried needed heavy doctoring to attain a flavor discernable enough to justify going to the bother of making these soups from scratch. Possibly, too, I am used to commercial soups that are thick and hearty, leaving the BMS soups seeming runny and diluted by comparison. The chili recipe, claiming to be AbsolutelyThe Best, was even erroneous in its recommended cooking times by a few hours (dried kidney beans are NOT fit to eat after only being soaked overnight and cooked for a mere 30 minutes). The You Can't Elope soup was a simple mixture of pureed melons, half-and-half, juice, wine and vanilla that proved to be so bland that I found myself wishing I had simply eaten the sun-ripened melon in the first place. And do we really need a "recipe" for what every kid achieves instinctively anyway by mashing ice cream in the bowl until it's creamy and half-melted?

The lone standout recipe among the seven that I sampled in this book was the pumpkin soup, which was a welcome change of pace for pumpkin purees and nicely smooth, neither watery nor artificially thick. Even the spices were right on target.

I imagine that I will eventually try some others in this book, and so perhaps keep it on my shelf for awhile longer. IMHO, Blue Moon Soup is a nice choice for people avidly watching their salt intake who love homemade soups.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle

Looking for humor and beautiful pictures along with fun recipes? You have found it with this book.

What a delightfully illustrated cookbook!! Just received it and can't wait to get started!! The illustrations are splendid as is the easy to read recipes!! Enjoy!