Dr. Lovett, the clinical detective (behavioral pediatrician) writes poignant analyses of her work with childhood traumas great and small, in which she applies the bilateral stimulation techniques of EMDR. Her writing style is easy to read, and demonstrates the relative rapidity of trauma resolution when EMDR is properly interwoven into more traditional therapy. Her book is a valuable guide for clinicians skilled in the EMDR technique, as well as informative for parents considering such treatment for their child. As an EMDR therapist who teaches workshops on treating children, I highly recommend this engaging volume. Frances Klaff Ph.D.

This is a well-written book about a pediatrician's experience with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming) as a healing tool for people suffering from the results of traumatic incidents. It would appeal to laymen as well as professionals. The intriguing stories are like little mysteries, which unravel in a hopeful way. The author experienced a serious car accident and was finally helped to overcome some puzzling symptoms with EMDR. She got training in the technique and began using it (with great success) in her practice. This book is alive with vignettes of children with problems that no one has been able to fix, but who have responded to EMDR. This compelling book would appeal to anyone interested in a short term method of overcoming limiting behaviors.

One can always trust the talents of Joan Aiken to put a fresh spin on an enduring classic. It's wonderful to read a version of the Snow White story in which the heroine is not pure sappiness personified, where the wicked queen is not simply the embodiment of all that is evil, where the magic mirror has something of a sarcastic attitude, and where so many little details of the story, long taken for granted, are actually EXPLAINED: why the queen has these magical powers, how she acquired the mirror, how the huntsman handled his deception, what the dwarves' names were, where the charming prince lived...And the embroidered illustrations are, just simply, magical---the detail and cleverness will hold the attention of any squirming small child. I can't wait to read this aloud to my niece and nephew, and show them the wonderful pictures.

All I can say is WOW! It may be hard to tell from the picture, but all of the illustrations in this book are actually very beautiful, very intricate embroidery work. It's unbelievable and very exquisite when you see it in person. ALso look at her other kids book, The Starlight Princess -- Amazon's so great with the ability to see inside of the book and you can see inside the Starlight Princess to see better detail of Belinda Downes' exceptional work. What brilliant illustrations!! Cannot say enough!!

"...a delightful children's book with imagination, fun and adventure..."

What if people were pets and dogs were in charge? Clark finds himself the pet of two kid-dogs on planet K-9. When they realize Clark's more pet than they can handle...

Graham and Scott together have created a very eye-catching look at water in many of its forms. The concrete poems only add to the meaning. It is very well done.

This would be a perfect book to introduce concrete poetry in a classroom environment.

my 8 year old son, who has encouraged and directed this review, thinks this is an excellent book because he loves water, is an avid swimmer and enjoys creative writing. he feels this book has given him a good introduction into modern poetry and has sparked his interest in other books of similar style or theme.

This is one honest book! Regardless of how you feel about Joan Rivers (I happen to like her), there's no denying that she's been through hell and bounced back more times than most people. Filled with lots of funny anecdotes of behind-the-scenes Hollywood. Read this book!

This book is great.It gives you a inside look into the rise and fall of Joan River's career,and how she got herself back together again after being fired from Fox, and her husband Edgar,ending his life,while she was getting plastic surgery.Its also great to read about the different Stars.Joan talks about the late Michael Landon,and how mean he was to her while she was sitting in for Johnny Carson,and her on going fight with Victoria Principal.There's alot of funny jokes,especially the Liz Taylor one's.I think Joan was the main reason Liz got herself together in the 80's,and looked better than ever.Joan also talks about her childhood,and her rise to fame. If you like Joan Rivers humor,you will enjoy "Still Talking."

Every mother should gift her daughter with this beautiful book! Joan Chittister unfolds beautifully and clearly what every mother wishes her daughters to know in order to become the full persons they were created to be. Each example from the Story of Ruth powerfully illustrates "delineating moments in every human life...... points after which we are never the same again". In The Story of Ruth, Joan Chittister shows us the qualities of Naomi and Ruth as they face life and make choices.... but more than that, Chittister confirms, refreshes and energizes the "stuff" that all women hold within themselves. This is an en-courgaging book for all women...mothers daughters, grandmothers.....women....single or married..... and it is also a book for MEN! For within these pages there is the depth of thought and experience lived by "the other half of humanity." Men will find the richness of this insight invaluable....an enhancement to their own perspective and attitude toward creation.

Once agin, thank you, Joan Chittister, for this beautiful gift of strength.

Wherever you go I shall go, wherever you live so shall I live, your people shall be my people, and your God will be my God, too." Ruth 1:16

If this verse sings in your heart, these reflections and the stunning accompanying art will only add to the song...

This book may be of special interest to homeschoolers since the main character Jessica is homeschooled (as was the author).

Part of Jessica's story is about her having her faith challenged by a skeptical friend and then trying to figure out why she does indeed believe in God. The author cleverly weaves Jessica's struggle into the story so that it flows naturally rather than dominates the book. In an afterword the author presents some classical arguments to prove God's existence, as well as some discussion questions. I thought this was an interesting and thought-provoking addition to a youngster's novel.

This is the kind of story that I would definitely recommend to young girls between 7th and 11th grades. The story was very well-written and entertaining, and it kept my interest the whole time. It is extremely appropriate for and applicable to teenagers because they need to have real answers regarding the origin of the world and their faith, and this is a fun story that solidifies the answers to the questions we all ask sometimes. It is a great story of discovery and soul-searching, but it does not come across as an over-simplified religious doctrinal statement...rather an honest search for truth that ends in a young girl's confidence in her Maker. Anne is a masterful storyteller who weaves the events of the story into three arguments for the existence of God in an understandable and memorable way. The characters and places she creates from her own experiences come alive to her readers. The readers can relate to the struggles Jessica faces, even if the remote surroundings and unusual events are far from familiar to them. The importance of the issues Anne tackles cannot be underestimated, and she brilliantly explains from different Scriptures and experiences how a person can know that there is a God and what that God is like.

SUSAN ROTHENBERG's animals are recognizable and simply drawn on flat but energetically worked surfaces to capture movement and spirit: they in particular link the impulsively figurative Abstract Expressionism of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock with the geometrical Minimalism of Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt. In fact, she sees art as needing a maker to change a familiar object into something other than itself: her horse paintings call up the direct, subtle imagery and tonality of cave paintings on abstractly lush surfaces; "Mukuhara" shows a sprightly single bound in midair and midfield with a hinted vertical divide in the overall sienna surface, and "Flanders" barely details black figure and ground within white outlines. But when she starts talking about landscapes and portraits, it means that she is putting a stop to serializing her images: bikers; dancers "Holding the floor" by firmly grounding an arabesque and countering with a sweeping arm gesture, jugglers, spinners, and vaulters "Vaulting" in the one continuously steady step-by-step movement of Marcel Duchamp's "Nude descending a staircase"; hands and heads; horses; and U-turns. Her "Grandmother" portrait is the first time that she has two separate figures relating to each other in her art. Her daughter "Maggie's cartwheel" portrait is one of my favorites, partly because it makes me think of the artist's hoop performance in a beach piece by friend Joan Jones. Her "Mondrian" charcoal on paper portrait is the first time that she brings an art-historical figure into her work and that she paints after drawing instead of her usual turning a drawing into a painting. I particularly like the work that she does in blue: "The blue chair," which author Joan Simon describes as Matisse-wise in the sitter giving off comfort, composure and containment while looking toward the unknown; my two favorite landscapes, "Blue frontal," with upturned white horse legs framing a blue-black field with a blue horse, and "Foxes on a hill," with the asymmetrically symmetrical composition on a deep blue with black field; and "Blue woman," "Buddha with bamboo," and "Folded Buddha" in Giotto-style blue. The book's beautiful illustrations and clear text do justice to the artist and her work: it leaves no doubt about how she fits it with THE IMPACT OF MODERN PAINTS by Jo Crook and Tom Learner, MATISSE, by Lawrence Gowing, LEE KRASNER by Robert Hobbs, and PIET MONDRIAN by Hans Ludwig C. Jaffe.

Rothenberg exceeds her catagory of "neo-expressionism" without rebelling from the masters and painters that she has always admired. The full color photos of her paintings are beautiful. How can she not be trusted? There is so much evidence of her working and reworking her surfaces that it is easy for any painter to see her deliberation with the medium.

I love to use this book with my kindergarten students because it tells them how scary it can be to try something new. The little polar bear can't learn how to swim right away, an experience they might already have had themselves. When he tries, and tries, and finally is swimming on his own - my audience cheers for him! They're all clapping by the end of the story!

The pictures are very engaging and warm. Lots of love and support is given by the mother polar bear as we see the little bear struggle with his insecurities.
The triumph at the end is well-written.

I use it as a take home book in a story bag with a stuffed polar bear, artist pad, and markers. The children share the story at home and then write their own story to share the next day at school. They illustrate the story and sign their name to their work. It's a great story extension.

I am a second grade teacher. This book doesn't stay on my classroom library shelf! The kids love it! I bought this book because the pictures were wonderful, but after reading it I also fell in love with the story. This is perfect for a read aloud, bedtime story and any other occasion! I can't recommend it enough!

If you are a woman, this book is your guide. It's a guide to long-lost secrets of true womanhood that we usually dare not openly discuss, but that we all feel in our hearts. Although in the forword there is a sort of disclaimer from the author that "..the feminine and masculine are not used in this book interchangeably to mean woman and man," the subtle implication in the book is that woman has abandoned her true role in this plane as the feminine half of the god-head to become a poor imitation of a man, a point that was more explicitly made in the now out-of-print work by Dr. Marie Robinson entitled "The Power of Sexual Surrender."
Between the births of my first and second children, a twice-married, cigarette-smoking Texas gal shared with me the secret of the glowing health of her infant daughter: the lost art of breast-feeding as it really works. I learned from this girl of the seventies, invaluable information that at the time was not to be found in any book I knew of. My incredibly fabulous now age eighteen daughter was the beneficiary of this learning experience of mine.
What that information on breast-feeding did for my second child, is comparable to the impact of Joan Tarpley's little book on the nurturing of my own embattled feminine self. It has litterally set me on the path, the tao, MY tao, as a woman, as goddess-on-earth. I have read more books than anyone I know, but this one book has been of more benefit to me than any other. Ms. Tarpley

wrote the book by "channeling" the actual words of the goddess as revealed in meditation. Something that my tradition would have called "revelation," which indeed it is.
I found the author's own take upon the words of the goddess,
the words under the headings of "My Own Understanding" to be at variance with my own understanding of the goddess's messages.
I wrote my OWN understanding in the ample blank spaces that take up most of the pages.
There are really very few words in the book, as compared to most books of the same size and price, but this is an asset. I have read the book countless times, and always keep it with me, writing on the pages any thoughts that occur to me as I continue to ponder the life-saving wisdom of the words. I reiterate that no book I have ever read has been of such personal, transformational benefit as this one.

This book was very informative and helpful on how to better myself, mentally and spiritually! It's an easy read, which is good when reading a self-help book. Some pieces of literature get too complex when it comes to describing how to visualize or meditate(i.e-10 steps on how to get what you want and do these steps every other day). This book is clear and consise. Miss Tarpley tells you what she's learned and how you should apply what she's learned from The Goddess to become in touch with your spirituality and you as a person. If you are interested in becoming more of a spiritual being and seeing your life change for the better, read The Tao of The Goddess!