This is the perfect present for an Oz fan who is studying Spanish. I got it for my daughter who is taking Spanish in middle school and is a real OZ fan (expert she would say). Needless to say, this is a great deal more fun for her to read than the typical thing she gets to read for her class. Although it is a very inexpensive edition, it has the bonus of having all of the original Denslow illustrations from the original hardcover edition. I wish they would publish all of the Oz books in Spanish!

As a bilingual elementary school educator, I read much children's literature in both English and Spanish for personal pleasure. Frank Tashlin's portayal of a wild bear habitat being "gobbled up" by sprawl and big business, as well as the bear's efforts and the problems he faced proving his credibility and identity that he IS A BEAR hits close to home in the 2000s. Although Tashlin wrote this book in the mid-1900s, it is applicable to life in the United States today. The book gives an ecology lesson to children today, it allows children to see the difficulties others face - in this case the bear's problems, but most of all - it's just a darling read for children and adults in both Spanish and Engish, ( I read the book in Spanish first.)

I literally grew up with this book! My folks still have the dog-eared copy that we got back in 1971. This was the book that got me started on a life-long love of local history (no matter where I lived at the time). If you live in El Paso now or have ever lived there, you'll love this book -- great photos, wonderful stories, and contagious excitement that can only come from someone who loves and understands the town he's writing about.

In his overview of Mrs. Roosevelt's "My Day" newspaper columns, Elmblidge succeeds by converting each year of columns into its own chronologized, self-contained chapter -- and within the framework of that chronology -- allowing the excerpts chosen to represent the most telling events of the "day," translation: fifties decade.

Elmblidge enables us to glide through this volume with his rich chapter introductions and an exposition preceding each excerpt. The result is not only a thorough understanding of the former First Lady's opinions on a wide array of social issues, but an absolute appreciation of an era in which she was so active and outspoken.

This book should be back in print! It is exceptionally well structured and straightforward; the personal stamp of the seasoned Mrs. Roosevelt is everywhere. Elmblidge's Volume III is an especially smart choice for those who did not experience the America (and world beyond) of the 1950's firsthand, but would wish to.

I thought this book was great. Origins and descriptions of flavors of all beans were so interesting and informative. Wonderful recipes. Personal notes of Elizabeth's favorites was great. Finally, where to find these beans was so helpful. Some recipe books leave this one out. Also,lovely pictures.

This book deserves a write up, so here goes. Elvira everything is about a little girl who is given a magnificent, albeit kinda' rude and obnoxious doll that takes over the whole household, and usurps the affections of the girls parents as well. Funny and brilliantly illustrated in black and white line drawings, this book amused me constantly as a youngster, and I still re-read it from time to time. When the daughter gives annoying ( and not water-proof) Elvira a bath, it is a moment of great triumph and vindication for kids everywhere.

This book has information on every movie, song, and the days of Elvis' life. It's like DAY BY DAY by Peter Guralnick (spelling?) but not as much $. Awesome color photos and a really nice cover make this book something to show off. 5 Stars!

If you want to know everything about Elvis, then this is the book you need. It contains everything about his personal life, his music, his movies, his friends and family, his likes and dislikes and more.
It was compiled by his stepbrother David E. Stanley and it has a foreward by Lamar Fike, Elvis' best friend.
It also has an Elvis trivia quiz for the real fantics.
If you need to know those more obscure songs he sang, you'll find it in here.
Since this book was first published in '94, I can only spot two original albums missing from the "his music" section.
"For the asking" and "Tomorrow is a long" time were supposed to have been released in the early and late sixties respectively, but instead they were dropped in favour of soundtrack albums. A lot of the songs from these two albums were used as fillers on soundtrack albums of the sixties.
Now these two long lost albums have recently been released by RCA. So the only reason they're not mentioned in this book, is because they weren't commercially available at the time this book was published.
It does mention at the beginning of the music section "this anthology contains only records released commercially - no bootlegs or unauthorised material".
They released this book with an alternative front cover in '98 (in the uk anyway), and I'm assuming it's exactly the same. I might buy that book because I've looked at my book so many times, especially in the music section, that some of the pages have come out. This is probably due to flicking back and forth so much.
Buy this book! You won't believe the amount of info in it.

this is the best book showing Elvis's from more of a personal view. It has some of the best pictures I have ever seen.

Compiled by Frank Crocitto, Emphatically Emerson is a welcome collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "piercing and poetic insights", enhanced with brief notes and thoughts which Emerson originally jotted down with no particular purpose in mind, yet which contain moving reflections of humans and our place in the greater scheme of things. especially recommended for students of Emerson's life and work, Emphatically Emerson is an insightful and recommended collection. "Little things are often filled / with great beauty. / The cigar / makes visible the respiration of the body, / an universal fact, / of which the ebb and flow of the sea tide / is only one example."