What a wonderful book! As an interested layperson with no background in philosophy or ethics, I've been trying to answer the question "What, exactly, does it mean to live a moral (Christian) life?". While this clear and highly readable book isn't meant to give superficially pat answers of the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul genre, its thorough explaination and assessment of the dramatic changes of thought of one of the most influential Christian theologians of our time allowed me to understand why Roman Cathohlics currently believe what they (we) beieve and how they got there. This book, while not taking sides, gave me the background to think more productively and clearly about my question.

Josefina's Cookbook has a variety of foods that are common in the traditional New Mexican diet. New Mexican food is unique to the region and includes items that are not even in the Hispanic diet in neighboring states. In a state whose State Question is "Red or Green?" (as in "Do you prefer red or green chile?"), caution must be taken in trying new foods if you are sensitive to spicy-hot foods, as many children are. If you are unfamiliar with what is HOT in the New Mexican diet, going out and buying a New Mexican cookbook to introduce your children to this type of food may meet you with watering eyes and children reaching for tortilla chips to neutralize the burn.

Josefina's Cookbook is a much better choice for children because it is filled with child friendly recipes that still represent the New Mexican diet. Some of the recipes are for small items, like home-made tortillas, hot chocolate, soft cheese, and pinto beans. Empanaditas (little empanadas), posole, green chile stew, and carne adovada are more meal oriented recipes. Just remember the sopaipillas if you are cooking with chile!

The format of this book is a joy to look through even if you want to learn about New Mexican cooking without preparing the more adventurous items. The ingredients and cooking equipment are listed at the beginning of each recipe and the recipes themselves are well written and illustrated. It won't be hard for a girl to find something that she'll want to try.

Is your daughter wandering the aisles of the craft store with you, looking for her next weekend craft project? If your daughter is also a Josefina fan or is interested in New Mexico history, this is the book for her! There are fifteen crafts for a variety of abilities and interest levels, and all of them can turn into something a girl would be proud to have made. Crafts are divided into different sections: "Around the Rancho", "Spanish and Mexican Traditions", "Indian Traditions", "A Stitch in Time", and "Frontier Fun". The Straw Broom, Glass-Bead Necklace, clay Coil Pot, and Cornhusk dolls are quick crafts. Crafts like the Stamped Leather Bookmark require special tools. Making a Colcha embroidered Place Mat or a Hen Pincushion take some previously learned skills. But projects like making a Fringed Shawl or Sash could turn out well enough to show off to friends! Whichever craft you choose, the directions are well written and have a materials list and clear pictures for each step. The format and the pictures are so well done, that girls will eagerly want to browse through it to find their next craft project.

"Oct. 22nd, 1837. 'What are you doing now?' he asked, 'Do you keep a journal?'-- So I make my first entry today." Thus begins Thoreau's Journal, made up of more then two million words and covering about twenty-five years of his life. No other work of Thoreau's better exhibits his discipline as a writer and his devotion to the natural world. In the Journal can be found the fragmented foundations of masterpieces such as Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod. But what is perhaps more interesting to a reader of Thoreau's Journal are his thoughts and insights on topics such as friendship, love, religion, nature, bravery, heroism, war, slavery, the art of writing, and, most important to Thoreau, the art of living. Anyone with any interest in Thoreau will find his Journal to be an invaluable aid in understanding and following the life of one of America's most profound prose writers

Two orphan boys, Jack Trinity and Dusty Swan at Shady Acres Orphanage decide to take a doomed rabbit home. They are accused of a crime they didn't commit and they run from Chicago to New York and then to London as they try to find a better life. Will they is the question? A wonderfully exciting read for both boys and girls. It will hold attention to the very end!
Evelyn Horan - teacher/author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Books One- Three

Reviewers have called this edition, the first true re-edition of the poem since 1953 (Dobbie's, in the ASPR) 'superb' and 'excellent,' and I agree.

'Judith' is a brief heroic fragment found in the same manuscript as 'Beowulf,' and shares some of its characteristics--a stress on heroism, an interest in the trappings of warfare, traditional Old English battle-motifs, as well as a thoroughly complicated position on the heroic woman. Its source is the no longer canonical Book of Judith, telling the story of Judith of Bethulia's victory, through deceit and seduction, over Assyrian general Holofernes, which culminates in his beheading (immortalized by many Renaissance artists, in sculpture by Donatelli, and in painting most famously by Caravaggio. You can admire Michelangelo's somewhat non-descript version in the Sistine Chapel; the sexiest, without a doubt, is Giorgone's portrayal of Judith with her foot on Holofernes' head, showing a beautiful leg).

The Old English version is an adaptation, not a translation--gone is Judith's deviousness, the uncomfortable (for a Christian readership) combination of holiness and seduction. Many details and almost all the names of the participants are not included by the poet; the focus now is Judith's submission to God in typically Anglo-Saxon heroic fashion.

What makes Griffith's edition so valuable is its sheer length: 223 pages for a fragment only 349 lines long. The introduction is indeed superb, presenting not only the manuscript and the linguistic, orthographic, and metrical features of the text, but also, at length, the poem's deviations from its source, and its literary import, a discussion sometimes missing from editions of Old English poems. The discussion includes extensive mention of and reference to earlier work on the poem, especially of the poet's Christianization of his source, and the position of the poem vis-a-vis Old English heroic and Christian (patristic) tradition; the bibliography is comprehensive and up to date. The text is followed by detailed commentary and useful appendices; for me, most handy is the line-by-line comparison of the Vulgate and the OE poem.

Accessibility of style, extensive material, and comprehensive discussion make this edition a must-have for students of Old English literature. I am very pleased with the book, and recommend it highly.

This is a super book, to read aloud or for kids to try on their own. The pictures are fun and Twain is (of course) delightful. You won't regret buying this book.

This book was a nice look at Ken Griffey Jr.'s life through photographs. The photos are awesome and the whole book was super, Indeed, one of my all time favorite books!

This book is the most informative book I have seen on the subject of the dinosaur. It is written in a most readible style. The author clearly has studied his Bible and compares Scripture to Scripture to explain the time-frame best fitted for the dinosaur and why God created him. A Great Book!

Being a member of a Baptist church where the motto is, "Where two or more are gathered-we shall eat"--I found this book to not only consist of great recipes--but was also extremely funny! The authors have also put a chapter at the end on how to prepare and serve a large group of people. The introductions to the various sections of the book were quite brilliant and humorous. Anyone who has ever been to a "covered dish" function will enjoy the book!