This book is amazing!! I give it 5 stars up. It touched me soo much. I mean we as kids never realize how fast our lives go by. We think it takes a thousand years but to our parents it goes by so fast, i mean one day were a baby coming home from the hospital and the next were getting married and leaving the house. Its about a fathers story of his daughters life and how he sees it. It starts off when she comes home from the hospital and ends at her wedding. This book was inspired by a song by Bob Carlise and even though im only 14 i have already picked it to be my father-daughter dnace song at my wedding! I think everyone should read it!!!

The song butterfly kisses is difficult to listen to without crying. There is something beautiful about the love of a father who cares for his daughter. This is a book for little girls who are "daddy's little girl." The full song is published in the front of this book.

Bob Carlisle is well known for co-writing the song "Butterfly Kisses" with Randy Thomas as a birthday surprise for his then sixteen-year-old daughter. What a dad!

"You were my precious daughter, and I loved you from the bery beginning. I fluttered my eyelashes on your warm cheek. You smiled at me and fluttered right back. That's how Butterfly Kisses started..."

The art of Sally Huss brightens up the text. You see pictures of when a daughter draws a creative picture of her dad and he thinks it looks like a potato head or when his daughter is an angel in the Christmas pageant and how on the dad's birthday the daughter bakes her dad a cake with licorice and jelly beans.

Then the daughter starts to grow up and the dad feels sad that he is going to lose his little girl one day. But he thanks God for her.

Cute book for any little girl who loves her daddy.

Four years ago we purchased this book as a gift for our friends when they had their second baby girl. As I read a few of the stories in the bookstore I had to swallow deep to hold back tears. I was touched by the thoughtfullness of the stories, relationships and memories. Now as my husband will be celebrating his first Father's Day as a loving father of our new baby girl I couldn't think of anything more special to give him than this book. I am so pleased I found it.

This book portrays African American men in a positve light, a book long overdue. I really enjoyed it. It reminds me of men like my father and other men that you don't see on TV or in the movies. I suggest this book to all, especially our young children..boys and girls alike.

Who ever had this idea to praise our black men, should get a billion dollars and then some. With so much negativity in the media about AA males, this book is a definate home run for the trillion brothas who are good men as well as good lovers. I really enjoyed this book and can relate to most if not all of the women (sistahs)on loving a black man. Its not always easy, but it is definately worth it. More power to my AA Brothas! ;-)

I love yall

I've really enjoyed all that I've read so far. Most of these men are in my family. They're my counsins, uncles, brothers, fathers, etc. I'm glad that there's a voice for the unsung heros who are not shown on the 10:00 clock news. not only is Brooke Stephens a financial wizard, but she's a sistah for real....

I've read almost every book written by or about Rupert Brooke and this is the best one. There are a lot of poems that aren't in the Collected Poems and can only be found in this book. It's gives the most complete look into his life as more things about him become available over the years.

wish this WAS a review......i can't get hold of the book,its presently out of stock...i'm an avid lover of anything to do with rupert brooke..and would love to hear anyones review on the mike read book...to appease me while i wait for it to come back! :)

Rupert Brooke has been an infatuation of mine for several years. I have searched for information to little avail, running into a mere paragraph here or there on my favorite poet. I can't describe my enjoyment of having an entire book devoted to him! I couldn't put it down, and if anything, Brooke has only grown in my favor. Amazon's service was incredible, and I look forward to more purchases in the future. If you haven't read Brooke or ordered from Amazon, it is my suggestion you do!

Amy receives a horse called Summer Storm from her father as a present. Storm is a jumper horse and Amy wants to start taking him to shows. But Heartland isn't cut out to home a jumper and doesn't have the money to pay for all these shows. Ty doesn't think Amy will be able to take care of the horses @ Heartland AND go to school AND ride and show Storm AND help Lou how to ride. At a show, Amy meets Daniel, a boy who also does jumping also and has a horse called Amber. She wants to help Daniel achieve his dream which is to become a pupil of Brad Shaffer who runs a well known training jumping stable for Daniel is poor and doesn't have a lot of money. But something tragic happens to Amber and Amy has to help Daniel face his worst fear: that he may risk losing Amber. And also Amy has her own troubles to deal with: the one year anniversary of the death of her mom is coming up and she doesn't know what to do. Of course Ty and Amy have their romantic moments and Ty too seems to be troubled by something... Basically everyone has their own problems to deal with in this story. But whatever happened to Matt? Ever since he's been going out with Ashley, he's been disappearing. And what about daybreak and melody?!?!

Hi!I'm from German and I'm twelve,my English isn't very good,but I hope you can read my sentences!Here in German is only book eight the end,now!But book nine and ten must coming!I love these books,and I can't stop read,when I've got the ones side read!I think,these books are so real!Amy is a girl,she understand the horses and the peopels!I don't think what going on in book nine and ten,but I'm happy when they give here in German,because,I love Lauren Brooke,and Heartland!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book as well as the others so far in this series. These books are more realistic than most that I've read. I love how Lauren Brooke is able to portray her characters and describe their emotions so well. I can't tell you which book of the series is my favorite...too many to choose. I like this one a lot because Amy has so many things to do and is struggling to get everything (and more) done. Ty knows something has to give but doesn't want to tell her. I liked how most everything ended. I think several of the things that happened in this book are foreshadowing the next one. It will be interesting to see.

Like so many memoirs, this one is at it's best when the author is self deprecating and humorous. Going to an action movie to fight off a plumbing business funk, he is hilariously able to cite the names and model numbers of the plumbing fixtures that the hero rips off the wall or uses in other creative ways to bonk, conk and stomp the bad guys. The scene was jammed with wonderful ironies and plenty of fun. However, the author has a revolving tendency toward self-pity and overly dramatizes having been born into the ownership (as opposed to a clerkship) of a cushy business and having to work in an office, while longing to protect the terrain, as if the two were incompatible. In those sections, the book gets maudlin and soggy and resembles another fixture--the power flusher. (Hello? Has anyone visited the hospital or getto lately, but then perspective is always on the endangered species list in this type of memoir.) Cut or replace just twenty-five percent of the book, all of the cry-baby-culture stuff, and this would amount to a solid reflection, a hardy effort, something to carry in the backpack over all that resilient and unforgiving terrain we in Utah love so much.

Brooke's wife is Terry Tempest Williams, a local hero of the Utah environmental movement. When she gives a pro-wilderness talk or a reading, the seats are packed and she's the star. You sometimes see Brooke standing in the background, the spouse of the Famous Person like Alice B. Tolkas to Terry's Gertrude Stein. In this book he doesn't talk much about his famous wife, but it's obvious how strongly his life path has been influenced by his marriage. His association with her circle of high-powered environmental activists draws Brooke to feel like he should be doing more to better the world himself. He feels like a stolid and practical business man without the flamboyant ideological passion or natural eloquence of many leaders in the environmental movement, and to tell the truth, he's more interested in outdoors sports than in the spiritual aspects of wilderness. From this standpoint, his voice for wildlands conservation seems all the more powerful. He's not an ideologue, a media star or a nature mystic -- he's an ordinary person who loves wild places and has seen the need to do what he can to protect them.

For all the baby boomers who love the outdoors, this is the book for you. From worrying about the draft in the Vietnam years to fishing for halibut in Alaska, this book covers the experiences so many of us have gone through, with some special Utah twists to the story. We have all delt with trying to find meaningful, productive work. We all cope with balancing the demands and wishes of work, spouces, family, and our own personal needs for space and recreation. Brooke shares it all in a manner that is both serious and light-hearted. Great camping stories and personal revelations on coping with life in the 90's and beyond. Makes me equally eager to go skiing or desert canyon camping again soon.

This book is more about teaching art than teaching kids how to draw. More theory than fun. I rate the book 3 stars rather than higher because there are very few simple to use drawing techniques, the kind of techniques found in the "50 Nifty" and the "How to Draw" series of drawing books featuring simple characters, trucks, airplanes, animals, and monsters that grab kid's imaginations. "Drawing with Children" is more a text for art teachers than for use by classroom teachers, Scout leaders, and parents trying to help kids ages 6 to 11 learn how to draw for fun. I'll be ready for this book in about three years, but I can't start kids at this level.

I decided to teach my children art (ages 5 & 7) during their X-mas break. This book served as the curriculum. It was excellent. I xeroxed the exercises (as instructed in the book), my kids were focused during the lessons. After a total of 6 hours of instruction... they are very good drawers. They have developed their spatial awareness, which was my aim. "Drawing with Children" and its 8 basic shapes methodology is excellent for anyone who wants to teach or learn art in a school or home environment. Especially if the teacher is not a practicing artist.

Woo-hoo! "Drawing With Children" is back!

As an elementary art instructor, I used Mona Brookes' "Drawing With Children" with great success. My students' drawings entered a new dimension when I began to use this mimetic method of art instruction to help them identify, and then draw, what we called "drawing Legos:" the little pieces that can be combined to make a whole object.

While this method may be viewed as limiting creativity, I believe that it offers an important, foundational tool for anyone who is learning to see things as an artist sees them. Just as a pianist must learn the scales before he can play Beethoven, I believe that it is only with such an artistic foundation in place that students are able to truly express what they are trying to communicate through their art.

As a university instructor training future art teachers, I am glad to be able to pass on this gem of a book to my students, who will train a new generation of children to see as the artist sees.

This was a really good book! Amy tries to help a horse named Boxer who won't eat and he has been at Heartland for 3-days. Amy is now into showing 3'6" with her horse, Storm. They go to a show and see Ashley. Ashley has her new danish bred horse, Bright Magic. Magic is a gorgeous horse, and Amy knows he could be the perfect show horse. However, he also has a harsh kimberick and a restrictive standing martingale. Magic explodes in the ring, and Ashley takes a tumble on top of the wall jump. Amy wins, but her victory is hollowed when she sees Ashley truely scared and pale. Amy comes over to Heartland and pleads Amy's help with Magic. Meanwhile, Amy is taking care of Boxer, Sundance, Dancer, Storm, and Red. Plus, Matt has broken up with Ashley, and Amy needs to be there for him...despite all that is going on. Amy and Ty are getting really close, and they kiss in the grocery store, and Ashley snickers and tells everyone, which gets MATT mad at Amy! Despite ALL of this, Amy still works with Magic. Can Amy heal Magic, show storm, work at Heartland, and STILL have time with her family? Most of all, will Ashley listen to Amy or just blow away her training...?

HI MY NAME IS ANNA AND I JUST LOVED THIS BOOK.AND ALL OF LAUREN BROOK'S OTHER ONES. TRUE ENOUGH IS ABOUT A YOUNG GRIL NAMED AMY. ONCE AGAIN SOMETHING COMES UP IN LIFE AND IT'S UP TO AMY TO FIX IT. IT STARTS WITH A BRATY GRIL NAMED ASHLEY GRANT. SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN RUDE TO HEARTLAND BUT THEN SHE TURNS AROUND AND ASKED AMY TO HELP HER TRAIN A EUROPEAN SHOW JUMPER NAMED BRIGHT MAGIC. AMY CAN'T SAY NO. SO SHE DECIDES TO HELP THE RICH,RUDE,ASHLEY BUT AMY DOES IT FOR THE HORSE NOT THE RIDER IN THIS CASE. I AM A WRITER MYSELF AND I WORK AT A HORSE FARM. LAUREN BROOKE HAS HELPED ME BECOME A BETTER WRITER AND GIVIN ME IDEAS FOR WHEN I WORK AT THE FARM. SO I HOPE SHE INSPIRES YOU IN SOME WAY AND TO FIND OUT HOW THE BOOK ENDS YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO READ IT FOR YOURSELF.

I thought this book and the rest of the Heartland series was absolutely brilliant. I love the original approach Lauren has taken by having her main characters use join-up and alternative remedies on the horses. I also thought the conflict between Amy and Ashley was dealt with in a very realistic way. I hope Lauren continues with this series because I never want it to end!

Amy is doing what she has always wanted;She's showing her horse Storm and taking care of damged horses at her farm Heartland. But its starting to become to much for her. To much that she almost hits one of the horses. When realtiy hits she sees that she must make a choice either showing her horse Storm or working at Heartland.If she chooses Showing she will lose her heart because her hearts at Heartland.But if she chooses Heartland will she be able to keep Storm happy with out shows?She can't seem to win either way.
If you haven't read this book u really need to because its good.
I wan't able to put it down and read it in less then 3 hours.

This book was one of the better Heartland books. It's about Amy having to decide if she wants to give up Heartland and show, give up Storm and heal horses, or keep both and stress herself out. In fact, Amy was so stressed she almost hit one of the horses. Every time Amy goes to a show, she feels guilty, because one time when she left, Sundance got colic, and another time one of the horses got her foot stuck in the barn wall.(This horse is scared of everyone except Amy.) But at the end of the book, Amy did make a choice, to find out, you have to read the book yourself!!!!!!!!!!!
This book was definately one of my favorites out of the series!

Sooner or later is a great book! The whole series is! This one is about Storm, Amy's powerful dappled grey show horse. Amy is spreading herself thin by all the work she is doing at Heartland and at shows. Amy is showing Storm and continuing her work at Heartland. Amy is telling her self she can do it all and have it all. But having it all is hard. So sooner or later Amy is going to have to make a decision between Storm, her beloved horse or Heartland her beloved home.

I believe that the author is sincere about her claims that drawing with the other hand can lead to well-being. However, it is very common knowledge now that artistic creativity involves the whole brain, not just the mysterious right brain. Using one hand or the other does not just use the right brain-- in fact, if you saw someone draw while hooked up to brain scan, many parts of the brain would literally light up.

I give the exercises in this book 5 stars and I think it is great way to discover your creativity and experience parts of yourself that are otherwise untapped (although that it "heals" is yet to be proven-- it would be great to see the studies that prove this claim). It is the theory that the author is basing her claims on that is the problem. Artistic expression, even with a non-dominant hand, is a little more complex than the "intuitive" part of the brain or the right brain doing all the work. This idea has been proven incorrect for the last 10 or 15 years, it is time the author caught up with the literature in order to give her readers the best possible information on why art expression is a way to health.

I picked up this book while going through a phase. I was trying to tap into my more artistic side which had been easy for me up until about three years ago, with real world concerns pressing in and working at a job that didn't spark my creativity I found it harder and harder to distinguish what I really wanted to do compared to what I thought I should do. This book I was hoping would help-and it did. It has many, many exercises to help you get more in touch with your more spontaneous, child like side. Many of these exercises were uncomfortable for me at first for me because they involved giving up the control I held so rigidly to.In fact I found it very hard because giving up control would mean I would have to trust in myself. I didn't know how to flow anymore and this book is all about flow. Some of the exercises involve drawing pictures with your non-dominant hand and others involve getting in touch with different parts of yourself you might have left behind for some reason or another. I find Lucia Cappachione an author who's style is very warm and the personal stories she tells in the book set her apart from self help guru's who just preach and preach and give nothing of themselve's in turn. This book is never boring and is like a kid's activity book for adults.

I've recently started doing the exercises in this book, and I am already progressing in my efforts to overcome fear (fear being the only thing which holds people back) and achieve happiness. This book can be a major help to everyone in moving along their path of personal growth. I've always sensed that life didn't have to be a painful struggle, and getting in touch with my inner self by dialoguing with myself using my dominant and non-dominant hands is providing me with powerful insights into how I can live the life I want to live. I recommend combining this book with "Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life" by Vimala Rodgers (who also recommends writing with your non-dominant hand). Happiness is possible for everyone and not nearly as difficult as it may seem.

When I purchased this book my intent was to gain insight into Brooke Ellison's life. What I actually had in my hands was a book about courage, setting goals, and a concrete example of family love, specifically a mother's love. Although I could not imagine living through their ordeal, the book was so well written I was filled with the pains and joys they describe; I thank them for sharing their story. I found the book to be truly inspirational. This memoir could be motivational to many people in many situations. Disabled or not we all have obstacles in our path along the journey of life. If more of us could adopt the 'Ellison attitude' towards life and living, there would be less of us waiting for some good to befall us.

However, let the reader beware! This is not a book, manual, or guide for the disabled. It is an autobiography of a young lady and her family. It just so happens that this extraordinary young lady's life was marked by an unfortunate accident. Read the book to enjoy the story and praise the accomplishments of an extraordinary family.

The most remarkable part of the story is the Ellison family. Their love and commitment to each other is the real miracle. There are those who scorn these most basic but vital family values and therefore cannot see this family for what it is. The love found within this family is so rare in families today that the Ellison's do seem to be straight out of the "Good 'ol Days."

Good luck ladies. I can't wait for your second book.

Once again the famous more-or-less-anonymous 'Reviewer From Katonah' strikes. This time he/she reminds us that Brooke Ellison is a 'public figure' and therefore was somehow not entitled to write her own life story, but rather had an obligation to write a book about disability rights. This is truly at the level of the absurd. Would we dream of requiring African Americans, Gays and Lesbians, Hispanics, and Vietnamese boat people who write about overcoming adversity to forever tailor their prose to the needs of political movements? Let's take one point the reviewer makes, about Harvard. Brooke and Jean Ellison praise Harvard for the way Brooke was treated there. The 'Reviewer from Katonah' says, in effect, 'fooey, it was Harvard's obligation under the law.' Now that's an interesting point to consider, and in a more balanced review we might have all stopped to think about it. But the 'Reviewer From Katonah' is so unfair to the Ellisons and so absorbed with his/her own agenda, that the very movement he/she purports to represent is discredited in the process. The Ellisons have written a powerful and moving book about the life of a human being, and about families. It should be treasured for that.

I came to this web-sight to see if others shared my sentiment toward this tribute to the human spirit. I am dismayed and disappointed to see someone use this venue to promote his or her own agenda. Let's stick with reviewing the book.

This book came to my attention somewhat serendipitously one winter day. I was pleasantly surprised by this beautifully written story from two unpracticed authoresses.

Buy this book and read it.