This book is full of charm and subtle humor. It expresses the joys and sorrows of life in a small hill country town in such humor you find yourself giggling along with her. You'll enjoy this book.

This is a grand and nostalgic look back at a childhood that no longer happens in this country. Here, in small, understated vignettes, is a story of growing up in mid America that can only resonate as being absolutely genuine. Between the High Knob and the Devil's Backbone sharpens our memories, enlivens our spirits and reminds us of the histories we all can share.

This book is a very good read. It's entertaining and fun, written in an engaging and genuine style. Yet after you read it you'll realize that you understand more about rural America - both the joys and the sorrows. These are accounts of family life from just across the Ohio River from Appalachia. Enjoy! I recommend it highly

Our son loves this book so much he's worn it out. We are buying our second copy today. It's great fun and would rate five stars if were a bit more sturdy!

I am here to buy our second copy of Busy Farm, as the first one, three years old now, has been loved to death by my three kids! This book, like Tucker's other flap books and pop-ups, has some kind of intuitive kid appeal. As toddlers and two year olds, my kids have all been nuts about this book. My 5 year old still thinks it's cute. It shows farm machines, the farmer's family, and animals too so it appeals to both genders, and the pictures are bright and simple without seeming babyish. A must-read!

This is my 18 month old son's favorite book. It encourages word development as there are many animals he can identify, both by sound and name. He also likes the different buildings and machines. He enjoys the beautiful color, and the many different types of popup action.

This is an excellent book for young readers, but it will become a little dull for more advanced readers. This book will keep you suspended for quite a while and is a fairly easy book to read.

Who said learning isn't fun? Certainly not Annie! Annie the spider takes the reader on an adventure right into the techno world of computers. Computers can be scary for those who don't understand them. But Annie helps spin this mystery world into a place of many friends. While computers may be small as a bug, Annie shows us the impact they can have on a much bigger world!

This is a great read for 8-12yrs. But just like the "Winnie the Pooh" classics, it can be enjoyed at all ages for its adventure, humor, and joyful approach to teaching big lessons in small ways.

"Input, Input to be exact" says one of the fuzzy data to Annie. Annie is a spider from the park that accidentally gets carried away into a dark building called "WEBTECH". Nico a computer worker has started a program called the "Park Program" to analyze the city's park. After a long while Annie gets hungry deciding she wants some bugs. As Nico leaves the computer overhears Annie talking to herself about eating Bugs. The computer takes it the wrong way thinking she meant Computer bugs. The computer invites her in to eat the bugs. Annie agrees because she saw it would benefit both of them. -----The computer wants the bugs out of it.----- -----Annie wants the bugs inside of her.----- This book I would say is probably about...5th-6th-grade level. The pictures that are included in this book are really helpful to understand the plot of it all. Inside the computer is a dark and sheltered world. The data have a hard time understanding Annie because of their limited knowledge. Annie is willing to help take care of any problem with her new friends inside the computer. Will she get rid of the "Bugs"? Stephen Tucker does an exceptional job at word choice, also using words out of the ordinary but yet kids could understand them!(I thought that would be an Oxymoron?)

I would strongly recommend this book to anyone! It helps with computer language and puts in a more understandable view. It is also very enjoyable, with adventure and having the cold metal parts of computers portrayed as living things.

This is a complete book regarding oral surger

I think that this boog y very good, it's easy to understand, and very clear and gives information very important and useful for the clinician.

The previous edition (2nd) was recommended in "A Basic List of Recommended Books and Journals for Support of Clinical Dentistry in a Nondental Library" in Bulletin Of the Medical Library Association, July 1997.

I am a mother of two boys ages 3 and 4. We like this book. It has cute pictures and the rhyming is fun. It is a book full of questions and then answers the questions in ryhme. Silly and fun.

What a great book! My 2 1/2 year old son loves the rhyming text, the fun pictures, and was particularly interested in what pirates dream of! Of course, parents must put on their salty drawl to make the book even more fun, Matey! A great addition to a child's book collection.

This bright and cheery book about pirates is hilarious. Bright and cheery describes a pirate's life? Yes, as you read how pirates work, if they have pets, and what they dream about plus the answer to many more questions you haven't thought of before. The illustrations are full of life and the rhyming descriptions are a lot of fun. "Do Pirates Have Birthdays? Of course they do--with presents and games and lots of soda pop. The cook makes a cake with doubloons inside and a skull-and-bones on top." Of course the cake is bright pink with a happy skull and bones on top. In the background pirates play pin-the-tail-on-the-whale and eat ice cream by the scoopful. Loads of fun!

This is a delightful Duets volume from Diamond and Tucker, although this offering is a little different from others in the Duets line.

"Kidnapped" is a quirky, funny tale with great secondary characters. But it's a little out of the ordinary. You see, the hero is involved with the Las Vegas mobster scene, and the heroine is a trash tabloid reporter. But don't let you deter you from picking up this incredibly charming story! The characters are wonderful, if out of the ordinary, and their romance is lot of fun. (They'll definitely redeem themselves in your eyes.)

In "I Got You, Babe," I liked the hero and heroine. But Nick's infant niece definitely steals the story! She's really hilarious in her disdain for her uncle Nick. Tucker's style takes a little getting used to, too. It's a little different from the romance norm. But the story is interesting and charming.

All in all, a decent Duets offering. Enjoy.

I've read all of Bonnie Tucker's books, and she never disappoints. If you want a laugh, if you want to love the characters and just have a "feel good" time, grab up this newest creation by Bonnie! Diana and Nick are a wonderful couple -- and the baby sure keeps them on their toes! I loved every single word!

is another winner. Take one teenage crush on the one man she shouldn't want, add one baby whose only word is NO and Diana's in for an explosive time! She's all grown up, but Diana's infatuation for Nick Logan hasn't diappeared, if anything, it's gotten stronger. Watch this modern day Romeo and Juliet pair's romance - it's a laugh a minute.

I was ripped off by my college and had to buy it for $57, if you see it in the discount bin for $20 it's not a bad buy. What's really nuts is I had to buy this book for a Lab and Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PC's for the Lecture... they cover the same thing and Scott's is better. Oh yeah it comes with a floppy disk...for the money they should at least include a cd-rom Gee do ya think one my teachers is on commission.

this book will enable me to better instruct my students because the labs/exercises will save me many hours fine tuning labs that I have prepared. Other instructors in the same boat know how very difficult and time consuming it is to prepare and test lab exercises, and, be successful in ensuring that labs provide a positive learning experience. The chapter reviews and tests are reinforcement and well written and cover all important topics. I feel overwhelmed knowing that, finally, I will have such an excellent instructional computer book for my students. Please share my thoughts and thanks to Cheryl A. Schmidt. Jody Campbell Pima Community College

This is the only book my teacher assigned and I think it is very good. It's easy to understand and the lab exercises are good, too

I was anxious to buy ths book when it came out because of the authors reputation and the scarcity of information about canine movement.

I was disappointed. The book is extremely simple. Filled with line drawn animals of modest detail. Some pages have drawings and almost no text. Some observations made by the author go completely unexplained. A drawing will be proclaimed to describe a undesireable movement but no drawing is given showing correct movement so you are left to wonder what the point of the information is.

Some of it is good, but most of the book is for those who haven't read any other book on canine movement.

If you have never had the opportunity to view a video by Rachel Paige Elliott, this book is the next best thing. An added advantage is that you can always go back and look up a question about gait.

The diagrams are easy to understand and descriptions are clear. Ms. Elliott is reasonable and knowledgeable in her judgment of good and faulty gait.

I learn something new every time I open up this book. It is a great gift for your "doggy friends" and junior handlers.

I own the origional 1973 edition of this book and was delighted to find it has been put back into print. I found this book invaluable when I was fist beginning to show dogs. It was a great help in understanding what I was seeing in the show rings and the why of that movement. I feel anyone who wants to show dogs would benefit from this book. I have loaned my personal copy to many people new to the show rings and all of them have said it was very helpful.

Visual aids when looking at gaits are a must. These are well done and the text is easy to understand. I really like the drawings and think they are the key to what makes this book so great for the begining handler or breeder. Even though I have been in the Dog Fancy for over 30 years I still take it out and look occassionally!

We read this book in our classroom and really enjoyed it. Some of our comments are: I liked how Tucker found his name from the sweet shop; Because they are cute; Like how Tucker goes crazy over food and its funny; Finally how a cat and mouse our friends; If you like adventurous books it is fun; Liked Sid Rat and Charlie; How the three rats have a Boston accent in Time Sq NYC; How they are scared of the rats big eyes; Funny; Dramtic

My daughter's girl friend gave her "A Cricket in Times Square," a wonderful adventure of Chester Cricket and his New York City-savvy friends Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse. Once reading that adventure, we had to read all the others in the series, starting with how the cat and mouse met and became great buddies.

In this, the prequel to "Cricket in Times Square", we meet the very young Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat. Well, actually Harry KITTEN in this case. When our story opens, Tucker is wandering the streets of New York, lost, hungry, tired and even NAMELESS! Determined to make something of himself, he struts off down the street searching our first his own name and then his fame and fortune. A sweet shop gives him his name, and a young kitten, equally lost and alone, gives him friendship. Thus is born the friendship that many of us know and love from "Cricket" and Mr. Selden's other books. Together the pair set off to find a place to live. This proves to be a bigger, more complicated task than one might originally think!! The Empire State Building calls to them--why not live in one of the biggest buildings in the whole city? However, when they manage to finally find themselves in the basement where there are little or no people, the find themselves in a vast, cavernous tunnel of white tiles. LOST!! But, by keeping their wits about them, they manage to get back out on to the street. The old piers seem like a good place to live until our heroes are nearly crushed by falling debris from the crumbling buildings. An upscale park is quite beautiful and peaceful, but too ritzy and, well, DULL for our young companions. Deciding that this is still not the place for them, they set off again, this time toward Times Square. There, they finally find the home in the drainpipe readers know and love so well... There's just one problem though, and that's the local gang of rats with thick, New York accents who want to steal all of Tucker's life savings!! "Cricket in Times Square" is still an extremely popular book, though many of the other works by Mr. S. that feature the same characters are much lesser known. Not as many fans of "Cricket" go on to read "Tucker's Countryside" or "Harry Cat's Pet Puppy." I myself have read "The Cricket in Times Square" multiple times, but stumbles across this book, "Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat" rather by accident! I'm very glad I did, though!! Though the writing is a bit weaker than I expected--the story is certainly not as long as the other's in this series, nor are the events or characters fleshed out as much--it's still a very good book and worth reading. I think Mr. Selden intended this book to be for younger audiences than those who normally read "Cricket", for the story is easier to read with less detail. The pen & ink illustrations by Mr. Williams are as familiar and comfortable as those in the other books; I'm especially fond of the picture of Harry and Tucker clinging together in terror at being lost in the corridors of the Empire State Building! Weak or not, younger audience or not, this book is definitely worth reading, and will add so much to the beloved adventures of two beloved characters. Highly recommended!!

One morning Corporal Russell Gary wakes up in a dingy hotel to an eerie silence. The United States, or, more accurately, the land east of the Mississippi River, has been attacked by atomic bombs and biological weapons. This devastated portion of the United States is now under quarantine. No one gets out, no one gets in.

Gary is now faced with a battle for survival. Trapped in a world returning to barbarism, he's determined to find a way of crossing the river and returning to the civilization that still exists on the other side. But the biological weapons have left Gary and the other survivors infected with plague germs. Anyone who tries to cross the river is killed by the soldiers guarding the bridges, for fear of spreading contamination. Gary is trapped between armed soldiers on one side and lawless violence on the other. Over the months, things go from bad to worse...

"The Long Loud Silence" was written in 1952, the same year the United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb. The novel is grim but not as bleak as some of the other books in the genre. In fact it's quite optimistic in some ways. The novel is set in the 1950s. Corporal Gary is a World War Two veteren. That experience gives him an advantage over the other survivors he is trapped with; he knows the tricks of survival. One expression Gary is fond of using is "hell of a note". Was the author afraid of using profanity? It's an expression I've never heard before. It sure gets used a lot, though.

The cover artwork shows a muscle-bound, macho-looking guy in a ripped shirt holding a gun. Behind him is a stylized mushroom cloud. The only thing I have in common with this character is that he has the same birthday as me. He was celebrating his birthday and recovering from the resulting hangover when the attack happened. That's how he got into his predicament. It just goes to show that getting drunk is a stupid thing to do. You can spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Although this is a good book, an even better one I can recommend is "The Death of Grass" by John Christopher. That too involves unseen atomic weapons and a struggle for survival.

I read this book 20 years ago, or more, and at the time I thought it a good effort in the post-apocalyptic genre. I gave it away, or lost it, or whatever, but since then it's resurfaced over and over in my mind, and the feel and mood of the book have if anything grown stronger over the years. A gloomy, frightening book that ends with a sliver of hope. One of the few novels that have forced me to think about growing older.....

No other author has gone to trouble to rewrite his own work, not once but several times to make it more current. His purpose is clearly to introduce to new generations a frightening view of tomorrow. If you thought 1984 was dark, The Long Loud Silence is midnight in the graveyard. Superbly written and fast paced, it sweeps you along into a terrifying escape adventure. As one of the few who survived the ultimate bomb, Corporal Russell Gary is cut off from everything and everyone he knows and "No-man's Land" is the Mississippi River. Survivalists can use this for their Bible. Anyone that enjoys a good story can find it here.