An extremely comprehensive, oversized set, beautifully manufactured, and a delight to handle. Accurate, thorough, and exhaustive . . . but it covers only the descendants of George I of Great Britain. Volume 3 is all plates and index.

Ruth Manning Sanders' fairy tale books were some of my favorite as a child. I remember summers spent at the air-conditioned library in town reading her books with those wonderful illustrations, and being taken to another world for a while!

BOOKWORKS: Making Books by Hand is published by Carolrhoda Books of Minneapolis, and so filled with projects that adults working with children may want to be selective in suggesting something simple like a collage & accordion book as a first step.

Whatever is chosen from the many varied examples is bound to be colorful and fun and give confidence which will lead to more complicated creations. Making the paper is a wonderfully squishy adventure which surprises and delights most beginners, even adults. Coloring or marbelizing paper is exciting,too. Sometimes words just tumble from one's imagination and soon the young artists have stories to write down, and perhaps decorate with block prints.

Gwenyth Swain introduces many interesting facts about the history of book-making, and you will feel the enthusiasm of the children pictured as they learn to make something "from scratch." The Minnesota Center for Book Arts offers classes to hundreds of lucky students but your library or community arts group could sponsor similar workshops. Participants could experiment with pop-ups for greeting cards, and make small bound books for special gifts. Their imaginations will suggest projects you can add in the back of the book.

I am a direct descendent of Henry King Burgwyn Jr, with the exact same last name. I know all about my great great uncle and this book is a very good describer of him, his family, and life and times. I have lent this book too many Civil War buffs and it always comes back with a raving review.

BUY IT!!!

For me, as a student in English history of Edwardian epoque, to purchase a book on my subject is a real success. After a marvellous book of Margaret Aston, 'The King's Bedpost' this is the most significant of all the books on this period and subject. Besides it proposes quiet a different point of view of this problem. As A. Pollard said, for the first time a 10 year old boy became the head of the Church, and this paradox, along with his own religious spirit and political intrigues of the time, makes the history of his reign a bit detective and very interesting for study. Nevertheless, the notes of Mrs. Aston became problems in Mr. MacCulloch's book. While Mrs. Aston made an accent on 'creative' and 'destructive' sides of Edwardian Reformation, along with the study of one picture, Mr. MacCulloch is interested in Edwardian's personality. In this case the division of the book is very symptomatic, because it shows not only evolution of the boy, but also the evolution of the King and his image - Josiah and Solomon. The question - if Edward had finally built his Temple - is probably out of place for a professional historian. But when we see such a jealous person in history of religion, besides of a young age, we're always inclined to believe that all that he had done, was not in vain. The growing interest to the figure of Edward VI Tudor in late historiography signifies both this belief and the attitude of the amateurs. As for the latter, this book will be extreamly interesting because of its wide factological material. Along with the facts, some of which are very curious, the reader will find a plenty of illustrations, including not only pictures and miniatures of that epoque, but also some extracts by Edward and some of his contemporains which are good examples of early modern handwriting, to judge by the external view of the document. I would recommend this book for as wide a circle of readers as possible because well arranged and well written historical study is always worth to be read either by professional historians to improve their skill and erudition, or by amateurs to spread their knowledge.

I am always open to fairytales and this is a great one! A awesome storyline and beautifully written!

This is the first book of a magical, inspiring series. Yet the magic is less about the middle-ages universe that the characters are in as much as their personalities.

A peasant boy, Brill, is plucked from his home to be the personal companion to the irritating, obnoxious Prince Grossder. During his time in the sumptuous but dangerous palace, he meets strong-willed Segra and the reptilian dragator (aquatic dragon) Peachy. They both join a rebellion against the evil king...

It is a shame that this series is mostly out of print. It beats most of the pop fiction of the same reading level.

Sorry to see it was out of print - was looking it up so I could buy another copy.
Lightweight, so travels well, has very good info on most everything u could want to see, including Banff/Jasper Nat'l parks, (even though they are in Alberta Province).
Reasonably well arranged.

Get this book, and if you want to know everything there is to know about Canadian Rocky Mountain flora and fauna, add Ben Gadd's book "Handbook of the Canadian Rockies" (a considerably heavier book, due to color plates) and you won't need anything else but a map.

I broadcast baseball, minor and major league for 20 years (also football and basketball) and at the same time taught Broadcast Sports at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. Red Barber's The Broadcasters was my only text. He put together in the first page of his sixth chapter the entire philosophy of broadcasting: sports, news whatever. His six serving-men for the play-by-play profession should be read frequently by professionals and required for beginners. His six are:"preparation, evaluation, concentration, curiosty, impartiality and if such can be achieved, imperturbability." I wrote him trying to locate his paperback publisher (our bookstore couldn't find it) and he replied with the information and typically in his precise reporting told me there was an error on a certain page but would be corrected in the next printing! The Broadcasters is a remarkable history and all you need to pursue a sports broadcasting career. At least all you need to read! Bill Mercer

The world's oldest subway tunnel, the second largest art museum in America, and the greatest concentration of historic houses in New York. These are just three of "Brooklyn's Best" described in this book. Every time I visit New York I always spend time in Brooklyn and with this excellent guide in hand, I now have even more reasons to visit. Brooklyn is huge-it would be the fourth largest city in the States on its own. The authors, both Brooklyn residents, manage to pack an enormous amount of information in its compact 160 pages: shopping, sightseeing, restaurants and "happy wanderings." Few guides to New York City spend much time covering Brooklyn except for the three "B's"-the huge Brooklyn Museum (which has a real mummy), the Botanical Garden (go in May for the cherry trees), and the most famous bridge in New York (which happens to be named after Brooklyn.)

The book's chapters are short-usually two pages-and conducive to browsing. Before you know it you've read half the book and learned that Brooklyn has 93 ethnic groups, the Park Slope area has one coffee shop per adult resident, and the tallest building is the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower which, by the way, is every bit as impressive as anything in Manhattan. You'll also learn where to find the colonies of parrots that thrive in Brooklyn, or the floating barge that hosts chamber music recitals. From its colorful cover to its list of web sites, this is a handy and attractive guide to the best of Brooklyn.