We received this book as a gift for our son's first birthday, and he has loved it to death! He loved to fill in the missing words as we read to him, and quickly learned all of his nursery ryhmes. Now at age 2, he is rediscovering this treasure...he has fallen in love with the illustrations all over again, and he understands the meaning and humor in these wonderful rhymes!

I got this book when I was little and now I want this book for my little girl. My favorite nursery rhyme is the one about the Crooked man. I reccommend everyone buying this book for their children.

The Classic Mother Goose is the perfect book to introduce nursery rhymes to kids of all ages. The illustrations in this book captivate the smallest children and they will choose this book over and over again as a favorite for bedtime stories. My kids read our first copy to death. That is the true test of how good a book is.

Great book. My son, 11 months, loves Elmo and loves this book. The flaps are laminated and so are great for little hands. he loves lifting up to see the puppies.

This book is a must have for any parent of a toddler that loves Elmo and also loves dogs! My 15 month old can't get enough of this book! The hidden pictures are a plus too! Enjoy!

After reading this book, my 20-month-old son would follow what ELMO did in the book, pretending to be a cat, a lion, a worm. For example, he would "meow" and creep when he saw a cat in the book. It was fun for a baby boy to learn about animals in that way.

Our toddler loves this book. Particuarly the confusion between "flamingo" and "flamenco". Now when he sees flamingos in real life he says no and vigorously shakes his head. "Not the flamingo, the flamenco Dorothy" ;-)

If your child is an Elmo lover, then it's a guaruntee that they're going to love this book!

The pictures are very colorful and fun to look at. The text is simple and kept short for each page (you know how eager little ones are!) And my son just adored the flaps.

My son enjoyed the Elmos World books so much that I've bought 6 of them.

I got this book for my niece as well and she loved it too. I highly recommend it!

Very good book.....very interesting insights into some of the "big" Internet players and their thoughts on the future. Most interesting was the chapter written by the CEO of Egghead....Definitely recommend the book.

As a business user in publishing who's just upgraded to Windows XP I found this book excellent. It's mercifully free of jargon and provides a comprehensive guide how to get maximum use out of XP. XP is fast - but it's significantly different in appearance to previous versions of Windows. I'd recommend this guide to the general home XP user as well. It supplies all the basic info you'd expect - creating folders and files, printing, internet use, shortcuts, using the explorer bars - as well as some you might not (eg. how to customize XP for a user with a disability). For the business traveller there's a helpful section on how to use XP on a laptop, including tips on how to specify new dialing rules, use a calling card and encrypt folders.

As someone who in the past has struggled even with one of the Dummies guides I found this book very straightforward as it cuts its way through the jungle of faxing, blocking or routing messages, security settings and conferencing with Net Meeting. Not to mention how to set up a distribution list or a Newsgroup account.

The section on Administrative Tools Demystified is very useful. As the authors point out, data has an inherent tendency to fragment and no user, no matter how expert, can avoid this problem. The advice on checking for disk errors and defragmenting files is lucid and to the point. With this guide every XP user should be able to optimize their system for peak performance.

The book has a pretty neutral tone (unlike the sometimes irritatingly folksy tone of the Dummies series), though a dry wit sometimes surfaces. The section on what the authors' call XP's plumbing aims to supply "all the information you need to appear very knowledgeable the next time that bad-tempered tech-support guy barks his questions at you".

A final section is devoted specifically to business projects. Topics include setting up a small network, working with a client/server network and last but not least troubleshooting system problems and errors (including guidelines for setting up a diaster recovery plan). A useful glossary defines terms like "Ethernet address" and explains enigmatic acronyms (IAB, IANA, ICANN, ICS, IETF etc).

For business users this is definitely the authoritative guide to XP Professional but XP Home users should find it useful too since it also covers features like Media Player and Movie Maker, printing photos, protection from viruses, working with floppy disks, and all those other things which the home PC user is likely to use.

Not quite as wonderful as the first John McPhee reader. But that may be because the first collection inspired me as I was beginning my career as a reporter. Objectively, the second "Reader" is every bit as inspiring in its lucid, meticulous prose and McPhees ability to convey the details about a person or a place that make them come alive on the page.

I bought this book for my 1 year old niece, and she loves it! Any book that has flaps is a sure-fire hit with her. However, this book's flap construction doesn't live up to the rigors of a 1 year old. She's torn off 2 flaps already and she's only had it a month. I wouldn't consider her an extra strong toddler, nor is she hard on her toys, but the flaps in the book just aren't strong enough. For that reason alone, I'm giving the book 4 rather than 5 stars.

We have four Elmo's World books and this one is my 17 month old daughter's absolute favorite. Night after night she will pick this book for me to read to her. It is a really simple book with nice, clear pictures. We have read this countless times and yet she continues to love it. Highly recommended!

My daughter loves this book! We own 3 out of the 4 Elmo's World books and this is by far her favorite! She loves to lift the flaps and can point at the different types of balls described! The only drawback is that the book isn't very sturdy-other than that-it's great!

A great dictionary along the lines of the red Nelson classic. However, even though we all have the red Nelson for completeness/nostalgia/history's sake, Nelson itself has been put to shame in the recent past by dictionaries like the Spahn-Hadamitzky yellow one - with more characters and a far easier way of looking things up. This little Nelson shares the good features of the big one, but (and a big but) it is ultimately frustrating. This is because after Spahn - Hadamtizky, having to trawl through the first kanji is very annoying when there is a much easier one in another position you know you could have used. It still suffers from what another reader called the 'baroque' radical classifiction (try remembering where the normally 3 stroke 'snail' radical for movement is - as in shuu for week - unless you remember that it is buried near the back in an archaic character count/form) Add to this the most frustrating thing - very soon you will need to find characters that are not in the semi-official 3000 or so in the book - and then you are stuck (I can guarantee this - try reading even Mishima who died in the 1970s - let alone Soseki or Basho or the Manyoshu - with only the official kanji) . Ultimately frustrating - pay the extra 10 or 20 dollars (even if you are a struggling student) for the big Nelson or Spahn - Hadamitzky if you are a serious student, otherwise I can guarantee you will rue the false economy when you need to trade up!

Nelson's has been the standard for English-language Kanji Dictionaries for some time now. One of the reasons might be its similarity to Japanese-language Kanji Dictionaries, both in its look-up system and sheer number of characters.

And this is perhaps its strongest aspect: even though this is the abridged version of this dictionary, the 3,000 some-odd characters compares, for example, to the UN-abridged NTC's. And of course, the unabriged Nelson's 7000+ characters is nearly exhaustive. There is little in the way of stroke order or usage information, but for sheer number of entries, it is really only rivalled by Japanese-language Kanji Dictionaries.

The look-up system can be cryptic at times...but this shouldn't be surprising. Welcome to the world of Kanji. What is intuitive for one person is mind-boggling for another. The addition of the Universal Radical Index proves to be helpful in most instances when you just can't figure out which radical that character is listed under. Most instances.

I've been using this dictionary for a couple of years now, mostly translating contemporary literature, and have had little need for any other Kanji dictionary. It isn't perfect, but it is a great resource. Take this on the road with you, and keep the unabriged Nelson's at home and you can't go wrong.

If this doesn't do it for you, I guess it's time to buy Morohashi's Dai Kan-wa Jiten, which has some 50,000 characters and is so authoritative it has been translated into Chinese.

This is the best Japanese dictionary I have come across in all three years of my language studies. It is comprehensive, easy to use and just all around wonderful. My only complaint would be that the print is a little small, but that is only because they packed so much good stuff into it! Buy this book! It will help you ace your next Japanese final, trust me.