The Light-Up Bible: A Bedtime Devotional For Children features a real "pop-out" light, 260 bible stories from both the Old and New Testament featuring scripture text from the Contemporary English Version, lively and colorful art, memory verses, and prayer starters. The Light-Up Bible: A Bedtime Devotional For Children is a unique devotional bible made just for young readers and is ideal for bedtime story reading to kids by their parents, grandparents, and care givers as well.

Forget "Jurassic Park," "We're Back!," or "Land Before Time" I through VII. For a truly wondrous dino-adventure, dig up a copy of "The Little Blue Brontosaurus."

The voice-acting is stellar, and the music and sound effects pull you right into the lush jungles of the early Cretaceous Period!

When Li'l Blue faces off against the mighty Gorgosaurus, I had to cover my eyes, even though it was only an audio tape!

When I was younger, the adventures of Li'l Blue made me wish for a pet Brontosaurus!

You'll never look at (or listen to) herbivorous thunder-lizards the same way again.

The vivid colorful pictures attracted me to this book and the nice story of the little fish looking for his mother kept us going back again and again. My daughter (2) loves to look for mother fish on each page. There is always a little part of mother fish to see - although little fish doesn't see her until the end. Sweet story and great pictures. One of our family favorites!

This is a wonderful songbook and tape to lull your child into a sweet slumber. Whether you sing along with the music or just let it play while you rock/hold your child you and baby will enjoy the experience. I use it night after night!

Sigmund Brouwer's The Little Spider is a wonderful picturebook retelling the classic Christian folktale about the animals who lived in the stable when the baby Jesus was born on a cold winter's night. Here youngsters will encounter a fickle mouse, an easily distracted cat, a fearful dog, and a loyal donkey. But it is with the lowly spider that they learn that even the smallest gift, given in love, will never be forgotten. The accompanying CD offers a multi-cast dramatization of the story, enhanced with "What Can I Give?" an original song written and performed by Cindy Morgan. The Little Spider is a story for the season, with a message that will be enjoyed and appreciated the whole year round.

An extrordinary read. For a narrow genre reader [sci-fi!] this book represents a departure from my normal reading.

Liv traverses vast human journies.

From sci-fi I want the enormity of an unknown future, its technologies pulled from the brink of magic. Liv is a kind of "soc-fi" a social fiction of great breadth. In Liv we awaken the hidden lives of three generations of women, their lovers, nightmare husbands, humour and courage. You catch this book and it catches you.

The immensity of their lives is already underway. Vestigal 20th century inertias stir us awake into the thought diary of Olivia - "Liv". Her scent pervades the book. She seems at the margins of all the stories whether they are hers or not.

I's guess she is a projected self, a protective self who took the author through the journey of the writing, and Yasbincek takes us through the gamut. Through exquisite sex or raging violence we retain a misty voluble centre.

I was fortunate enough to catch the launch of the book in Fremantle earlier this year where Yasbincek let us know a little of how she wrote against and across narrative: the book was written in fragments - scraps of memory, sheaves of imaginitive cadence. She said she had 5 files and would write fragments randomly into these files. At the end of the work she randomly put these files together.

As a result - this is the ideal quick read book. Short, sharp penetrating insight into lives that leave you time to think if you don't have time to read - but be warned - its hard to put down none-the-less.

I am a different reader now. That is why this book matters to me. Good luck with it yourself.

Fremantle Arts Centre Press say the book has sold a couple of thousand copies fo far - I'd love to hear what other readers have to say...

I keep thinking that this books can't get any better, but each book in the series continues to enchant me even more than the last one. Way to go K.L. Morgan, keep putting out books like these that are clean, entertaing, and stand for something worthwhile. We need more true heroes like your characters in this epic series.

Dan

This book is fastastic. It is engaging, colorful and whimsical. My daughter's teacher loaned this book to us out of her special collection and we found it enchanting. Please bring this book back into circulation so that we may purchase a copy for ourselves!

This was a great book. Some of the stories had no resolution, or no point. Inheritance, in particular, ended with a dream rather than conflict resolution. That was really the only stinker, though. A story that would fit well in a collection of Fairy Tales was 'Brass Man That Would Sink' (my favorite of all the tales in the book). Some of the stories were too short (The Light in the Forest), but still managed to deliver an enjoyable read. "...And I must admit... I love (driving) it; it is so choice. If you have the means, I highly reccomend that you pick one up."--Mathew Broderick, 'Ferris Buelers Day Off'

I found that this book can provide a great writing scaffold for older students who are struggling writers. Often, students in 3rd grade and above who are emergent writers are embarassed to write, as their writing looks 'babyish' compared to their peers. Here's an idea I've used, with Making Big Books as a resource: Have your students create simple story lines that are used with patterned books for preschoolers, kindergartners, or primary special ed students. This has the benefits of: giving a sense of purpose to the activity; engaging students in a modification of "language experience" in which students write down their thoughts, then use those for reading. Remember the strong reading/writiing connection (Adams, 1990). Pattern books such as Making Big Books can help jump-start your students!