This is a wonderful book. It is a great way to teach children how to count with the the characters they love. The book is very colorful and fun to read. I recommend this book to anyone tring to find a fun way to teach their children how to count.

"It is an excellent book on history of Pa.Dutch Hex Signs" Colorful and very informative!

Hide-and-Seek Camping Trip is a interactive children's book. The main characters in the story were Ernie and Bert from the well-loved children's show "Sesame Street". They go on their adventure through the woods. The book is fully furnished with peek holes that bring you to the next page. On one page it's a tree and on the next it's the horns of a deer. It's an easy reading story that your children will love and enjoy!

This book is a fascinating look at the history of mathematics, and is sure to inspire even the most devout haters of numbers.

this accounts a principle line of arguementation in the christianization of hobbes.

E un capolavoro - an excellent study written by an insightful, intelligent mind who's comprehensive understanding of Italy's history during this era makes it a truely worthwhile read.

Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.

To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Make Believe with the Muppet Babies -- A Storybook was one of her picks.

The delightful book has three stories in it, each featuring one of the Muppet babies. In the first, Beyond the Broccoli Forest, Baby Piggy is getting ready for lunch. She has a plate of steaming broccoli, something she had enjoyed the day before. But today, well, she would like something else. Their Nanny has just served all the babies and they are told to eat up everything. Baby Piggy decides to pretend she is very small and wander amongst the food. During her game, she shares food with the other Muppet babies so each gets more variety. Soon, they have finished and everyone enjoys chocolate pudding for dessert.

In the second story, In Search of the Great White Soap, it is time for the nightly bath. Baby Kermit goes last. He likes his bath. He gets in with a new bar of soap and his toys and starts having a ball. But he loses the soap, and plays an adventure game of searching for it. Eventually the soap is totally melted, and Nanny tells him he is clean and should come out now.

In the third story, Baby Fozzie's Wish, Baby Fozzie gets his wish at bedtime to become the world's funniest bear. Soon, he is tired of this game and wants to go to sleep, but his audience won't let him alone. The Wish Fairy grants him a second wish to undo the first wish, and he is soon fast asleep.

One of the things I always liked about this book is that it encourages children to see life as a great adventure, full of daring and fun. The book also gives them a lot of control over this adventure, and sets physical limits without any mental ones.

Now, if your family is like most, you don't have a Nanny. Why would you want to read a book about one? That's part of the fun. Just like Peter Pan and Nana, you and your child can pretend you have a Nanny. (Of course, if you do have a Nanny, the Nanny will love being included in a bedtime book.) Or Mom and Dad can have fun pretending to be Nanny, just while reading this book. I used to try my "female" voice to make reading the book funnier for our daughter.

Many children enjoy having pretend experiences, and this book puts that in the most positive light possible. With that experience, future play can be positive as well.

After you and your child have finished enjoying this book, I encourage you to come up with your own stories about pretend games involving other daily activities. Brushing hair or teeth are possibilities, as is getting dressed in the morning. You'll enjoy being a parent more, and be a better one, if you have more fun with your child in this way.

Light up the day and night with imagination!

Ruth Pennel and Winnifred Merril are two girls living in Revolutionary War Pennsylvania. They are both Patriots. Ruth overhears a British soldier and is able to help the Patriot army. I highly reccomend the whole Little Maid series.

Michael's Journal is the story of Michael Cooke Holt, a wealthy and emotionally delicate young New Yorker at the dawn of the Great War. In some respects a coming of age tale, this remarkable novel charts Michael's departure from the cocoon of his mother's home and his exploration of the "real world" of New York City in the heady years between the outbreak of World War I and 1925. By the end of the war, he has set his sights west, following a young black preacher by the name of Elijah Broom, whom he had known in New York as a tragic street child named Washington. Elijah's tent revivals and crusades take the two men from Memphis west to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and on toward California.

Michael's journey of self-discovery is both exhilarating and painful. He says of his decision to leave home, "I have awakened from drunkenness to life, from shame to decision, from sickness to action, to make something of myself." He loves his new freedom, but he is soon faced with crushing despair as he explores the city. Eventually, he meets a young black boy on the street who touches him deeply with his simple dignity in the face of horrible poverty and injustice. They see each other over the course of only a few days before Washington disappears. But Michael remains haunted by him, and when, three years later, he sees a picture in the newspaper of Elijah Broom preaching in Memphis, he knows he must find him. When he sees "Washington" again, he declares, "He is the force of what is love." Michael may be speaking of a religious conversion experience, an awakening sense of his own sexuality, or both; he does not yet realize which.

Michael's life takes place at a central turning point in modern history, a fact that he seems to perceive even though he is in the midst of it all. Indeed, his observations of the world and society around him are a compelling historical document in their own right. Through his eyes, we learn about the gamut of political, social, and cultural issues and personalities of the day, all with first-hand immediacy.

The best fiction allows us to see the world through the eyes of another and presents us with a vision of reality that we might not have considered if left to our own devices. In Michael, we have a guide of exceptional eloquence and intelligence and unusual temperament. Indeed, his emotional instability (perhaps schizophrenia) colors his reactions to the world around him. But ironically, that fact seems to lend his perceptions added reality and power for us. We are truly inside the mind of another, and it is a fascinating journey. For example, Michael perceives painfully all the contradictions of life around him: war is wrong, yet peace seems an impossible compromise; war as a religious calling; racism and Christian charity; widespread poverty amid tremendous wealth; reality vs. madness.

Author L. M. Young has composed this novel in diary form, a technique that is perfectly suited to the story she wishes to tell. In the introduction, Esterhazy Jones recounts his discovery of Michael's journals in the dusty back rooms of an archive, and his commentary sets the stage for what is to come - a "study of the American character." Jones says that at first he "despaired that [Michael] was just a figment of another time." Indeed, the strength of the novel is the very fact that Michael IS a figment of the past whom we come to know through a shared experience of discovery. He is a compelling, haunting, and ultimately likable character who rings true.

Michael's Journal is a finely crafted and utterly readable novel that I recommend highly to anyone with an interest in American history, the human psyche, or the practice of journaling

I bought it for my niece solely because of the cover...and the "Little Monster" title since that has been her pet name...plus I had found it shrink wrapped and could not view the pages until after I brought it home. I was pleasantly surprised at how much we enjoy this book. It is fun with great colorful pictures, so the kids love it. It is very humorous, so the adults love it. On top of it all it teaches great life lessons. This is a must for any "Little Monster"!