The author writes with enthusiam and knowledge. The depth of coverage is excellent. There are many wonderful features: art terms, teacher tips, addressing special needs, presenting artworks and dealing with safety issues. It clearly explains what to do and say when teaching art to toddlers through 8 year olds. It covers all art media in depth. Special attention is paid to integrating art using thematic teaching and the project approach. It is rich in appropriate theory and curriculum. This is a book for teachers just starting out and for those who want to up-date their teaching of art.

The series of volumes encompasses a full range of information from historical data to specific piece identification. Research & depictions are quite clear & detailed. A must-have reference for collectors. Information is impeccable, both authors exceptional. Reasonable investment.

The H.A.C.C.P After reading the book it changes my whole perspective on catering. I would like to no if you can give me some feed back on applying these safty regulations, if running a bussiness from home. And what requirements do you suggest for safe in house catering.

I am not a cook. I am a rabbi who cannot cook. In fact, it is dangerous to put me in the kitchen. This book though is not just a great cookbook. It is an incredible historical read. If I could cook I probably would give it ten stars. Remarkable, unique, different, poignant, profound are just some of the words that describe this cookbook. Joan Michel came up with a briliant idea. The contributors from Hadassah Magazine's readership tapped into some resovoir of knowledge and history and produced a profound souffle of goodness, down- home historical family recipes filled with the holiness and history of the ages. This one is more than a keeper, it is a gift giver to all your friends.

Rabbi Yehudah Fine
Times Square Rabbi-Finding the Hope in Lost Kids' Lives
Yehudahfine.com

iwould like to read the book hadonfiel

Marie Vinje's Hanna's Butterfly tells a simple, elegant story about a brief relationship between a young girl and a wandering butterfly. Hannah finds a butterfly in the park and, noticing its beauty, brings it home. Her mother suggests that it may be tired or hurt and in need of rest. Perhaps it is travelling to warmer climes before Winter sets in. Hannah provides the butterfly an attractive temporary home in a jar. She looks up migration routes in a butterfly book and, that night, thinks about how much the butterfly needs to continue on its way. The next morning Hannah returns to the park and frees the butterfly, waving goodbye.

The watercolor illustrations by Gail Suess add a lot of beauty and charm to the story of Hannah. They show a pensive, thoughtful Hannah surrounded by the brilliant colors of her natural environment. A variety of visual perspectives are shown, now the butterfly's viewpoint, now Hannah's. The soft pictures and the gentle words work together nicely to give us a story of childhood innocence and compassion. I highly recommend this book.

My son likes this book a lot, he wants me to say here. He says it's silly. I like it because it has an underlying message about appreciating the little things in life: a safe home, a pet, hugs/kisses, clean clothes, etc.

I'm no dummy, but I had a lot of trouble understanding Calculus (had to withdraw 2 times). The teachers couldn't or wouldn't explain, the class text was obscure, but this book explained the basics in a straightforward style leaving you to have to guess very little. Of all the *many* Calc books I tried, this was *easily* the best. Thanks, Ms. Dykes and Harper Collins for making Calculus comprehensible. (PS. I got an "A.")

Though originally written in about 1970 (this edition 1993), Joan Forman's true tales of hauntings in the East of England has lost nothing over the years. This is not a work of fiction (though many might question that), it's a well-researched and well documented narrative of some spooky events that have occurred and re-occurred over the centuries (Complete, in some instances, with photographs).

If the phenomonen of haunted places interests you, you'll love this book. In a short summary, Joan Forman provides her own view of what hauntings might be and how they might come about.

In 1987, Author Joan Forman released two books combining UK royalty and ghost folklore. One focuses specifically on royal spirits, while the other--this one--HAUNTED ROYAL HOMES, spotlights their abodes, regardless of whether or not the entities are a part of the family. For anyone who has an interest in both subjects, this collection of true ghost tales is endlessly fascinating. Forman has an approach and style that lends itself well to this sort of storytelling.

This book compiles accounts of 26 past and present royal residences. It includes mighty stone fortresses such as the Tower of London and Windsor Castle as well as more "obscure" estates like Nether Lypiatt Manor and Gatcombe Park. As long as it's haunted and a member of British or Scottish Royalty lived there at one time, it qualifies for inclusion. Forman reports on the phenomena at each structure and gives thoughtful assessments as to why the dead stayed.

Royal legends and ghost folklore will always have a strong association to each other. The decisions the kings and queens made weighed not just on them, but the people around them and throughout their whole country. A leader's stresses are great and any worth their pomp are sure to be anxious about something at the time of their deaths if they die at a time of crisis. To take an American comparison, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, visiting the White House during FDR's tenure, was discombobulated when she opened her bedroom door to find Abraham Lincoln standing in front of her. Even today, the Queen's son, Edward Windsor (a.k.a. Earl of Wessex), produces documentaries on ghost folklore rather than deny it.

In Edinburgh, Holyroodhouse overwhelms visitors with the oppressive atmosphere created when Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, witnessed the murder of her secretary, David Rizzio, by several of her consort's courtiers. In St. James Palace, there have been sightings of the valet Joseph Sellis, who many believe was murdered by his employer, Ernst Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and a younger son of George III. At Kensington Palace, George II's face can still occasionally be seen peering out a window to check a bane for a change in the weather.

If this book had come out ten years earlier, Althorp Park, ancestral home of Diana, Princess of Wales, would have been ineligible. Guests there have seen servants still going about their duties of extinguishing candles. Since Kensington was her official residence at the time of her death, it's easy to see how she took such an interest in psychics.

With all of the variations that can form around a ghost legend over the centuries, Forman does a great job of reporting all she is aware of and any possible explanations for the phenomena to allow her readers to make their own conclusions. Although she is definite believer in subject, she shows good analytical skills when some of the facts fail to fall into an acceptable order.

There is one slip-up when she expounds on the legend of Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire. She relays some nonsense about Thomas Seymour, who was the brother of Henry VIII's third wife, supporting the plot to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne after his nephew, Edward VI, died. Any student of Tudor history can quickly point out that both Thomas and his elder brother died before Edward VI and John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was responsible for that particular treason. On the other hand, when Forman repeats the story in her chapter on the Tower of London (which has a wealth of stories), she has all the facts straight. (...Go figure.) Since this reviewer saw no other glaring errors in Forman's history, then this must have been an oversight in the copyediting process.

Forman could have generated new information on these castles and palaces if she had taken a medium's impressions and verified the results; however, HAUNTED ROYAL HOMES is an intriguing insight of royalty and satisfying as it is. It's a pity Amazon doesn't offer its companion book, ROYAL HAUNTINGS, as well.