This book has great little stories it, the kids just laugh over all of them! A very cute book!

This book = The adventures of Rusty by Ruskin.

This is a good rabbit story. It's easy to read, and our children love it.

Beautiful words, beautiful pictures. Beautiful book! Thank you Rusty Berkus.

This book has all the ingredients to help communities move forward. It is simple and consice with lots of success stories. It gives a simple overview of the elements of success. It is an easy read that will help any community plan a strategy for progress.

This is a very useful book for students, parents, and educators. Students will be able to have hands on activities while learning phonics and rhyming words.

I loved The Twilight of the Wild. Rusty Johnson is a 21st century Ernest Hemingway, with a conscience. He is a naturalist not a hunter.
He writes about his true adventures studing wildlife and cultures thoughtout the world. He has lived a life most people only dream of. I could not put the book down, only took breaks from reading because I did not want it to end. I highly recommend it!!!!!!

I purchased this book based on some of the reviews. It wasn't what I expected. Some of the products are unsafe for young children of 4 and 5. Depending on the maturity of the child. For example The magic bubble paint. This project requires liquid detergent. I hate to see this accidently get into a childs eye. They use the liquid detergent in the bathtub paint project. I rather stick to non tonxic finger paints that won't as sting. Dish detergent some tends to be harder to wash out. The other project I found unsafe was the foamy paint project which requires shaving cream. My husband can bearly stand the stuff. Accidents happen kids tend to scratch an itch without thinking of wiping there hands. The ideas are fun but I woulndn't walk away from specific ones. There are plenty of projects that we liked out of this book too. The sparkle water bottle, scratch and snif water colors and others. They have a project called magic muck, it is really oobleck. This book has no scientific notations for kids such as why oobleck happens. If you have a kid you has many why questions Isuggest you find another book. O also found that many of these project are available on internet sites.

When I first opened this book I could tell why it was the #1 selling arts & craft book. The projects duplicate toys you would usally buy in the store at a fraction of the price. I found almost all of the ingredients in my kitchen. Other ingredients I didn't have like Kool Aid could be purchased for very little money at the grocery store. I must confess, I don't usally get excited over arts & craft type books, but "The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions" is not only the best art & Craft book I have ever seen it is also one of the most exciting & refreshing children's books I have ever seen. I recently saw the authors on the Discovery Channel, they seem regular pto really be having fun. Hope someday they get a show of their own.

This is the first review I have written and will most likly be the last. I am a 73 year old retired teacher and current educational consultant. This innovative book has changed and continues to change the way children learn and educators teach. I strongly reccmond this book to young (and old) teachers who are looking to make the learning process fun. After all education can be fun and as educators it is our job to do what ever it takes to teach children to think and be creative. Not just recite memorized material like a minor bird. I commend the authors of this series on using their creativity to assemble this wonderful learning tool. You deserve this classic all time best-seller I wish I had a copy when I was a young mother with 4 children.

Kika sets up its audience in a manner that few films could achieve. Initially slated by critics for its shocking content and genre, this film breaks all the rules with its apparent trivilisation of the rape of its main protagonist. Veronica Forque carries of the part of Kika wonderfully but is somewhat undershadowed at times by the powerful performance of Victoria Abril, in Gautier rubber suit...and loving it! The strong female cast and the touching realisation that Juana, Rossy de Palma, has a love so strong for Kika she is willing to give herself to the rapist, her brother!, in order to protect her, causes a confusion in the message Almodovar is trying to relay to his audience. This contrast of apparent exploitation of main female characters and yet the strength of their presence throughout the film, makes this an interesting study of the question of Almodovar as mysogonist. One to watch, if not for the moral implications, then for a look at kitsch at its best!

This is not the easiest film to understand. I think it makes sense if you see it as a transition film for Almodovar. In his earlier films he was so visually audacious that his content seemed secondary to his style, and even though his men and women had very dark desires Almodovars absurdist sensibility kept his films in the comic category. In Kika I think he is leaving behind that comic sensibility and digging deeper beneath that visual audacity and presenting his characters as people not just with absurd desires but with real lives and experiences which are not so easily overcome. perhaps the best character in Kika is Victoria Abril(with dark hair) who plays a tabloid journalist always on the prowl for the next big sex scandal breaking on the horizon. She is both literally and figuratively scarred from a failed love and seems to have gone over the edge. The only way she can get turned on now is by relishing in others tragedies. So of course she is attracted to the dark American writer(Coyote)who seems to leave a trail of dead bodies in his wake. The title character Kika (Veronica Forque) is a make-up artist who meets Coyote becomes his lover first and then his sons lover but she never leaves Coyote. She is not really the central character in this film so its odd that the film is titled Kika. but then the whole film is a little uncertain as to just what direction it should take. Almodovars seems to be experincing some creative indirection and it shows. This film has some of Almodovars bold visual trademark antics like outrageouly costumed and hyper sexual women but as the film progresses it becomes less and less like one of the older kind of Almodovar films and more and more like a new kind of Almodovar film which is to say this is a step toward a new kind of Almodovar film-- a Spanish noir,perhaps--which he will later perfect with the classic LIVE FLESH. In Kika he has not perfected his new style yet but if you are a filmgoer who likes to follow a filmakers progress this is a key film. Many of Almovodar bests films deal with women relating with women ( I would not call these films "noirs") but when he deals with the relation between the sexes he is evolving a style which derives from noir. Far from being a limit the genre seems to have liberated Almodovar from other kinds of constraints. In Kika he is struggling to free himself of some of his own cliches and the noir genre seems to have been just the thing to give his talents a new kind of focus. Live Flesh is his noir masterpiece but Kika was a key step in getting there.

This is my personal favorite of Almodovar's films. Those unfamiliar with Almodovar's work should take heed...this is a totally off-the-wall adult film. He is famous for pushing the boundaries of taste and outrageousness to the extreme and beyond. However, his movies entertain nonetheless. "Kika" is a cosmotologist on a quest for love and happiness. The film chronicles her (mis)adventures and encounters with all sorts of people who either don't understand her or seek to use her. She ,like Lulu in "Pandora's Box", is a free spirit adrift in a sea of miscreants. Almodovar deftly blends slapstick and drama together with his trademark color motifs, bizarre costumes (by Gaultier), over-the-top dialogue and stock cast members to enliven a fairy tale that, to me, stands unique among his other films. Of course, without Veronica Forque as Kika there would be no film. She is a total delight from start to finish and carries a difficult film soley on her bravura performance and irrepressable personality. And don't miss Victoria Abril as a reporter with an unusual way of getting the scoop on film! There is much to relish here and "Kika" can be watched again and again and still remain fresh and entertaining. A must for Almodovar fans.

Bottom line: Comic book grading is THE most difficult component of the comics collecting business side of the equation. Subjective interpretation lends disparity between any 2 people's grades, but the more experience that you have, the better equiped that you are to make qualified decisions about a book's grade. This book was much-updated from its previous version, so is an improvement. Bashing the book for not giving a "Cliff-notes" version of how to wave a magic wand, and "poof!" get a grade is a poor position to take. Yes, the book needs work in terms of pictures of defects and corresponding adjustments. One should also keep in mind that there is a functional aspect of grading that allows for a given defect to be (somewhat) offset by a strong characteristic in another are (e.g. stress marks bring book to FN, but stunning colors and/or supple white pages might boost it back to VF-, as a potential example). Given that there is NOT a lot of documented information on this subject, this book is helpful as a reference ONLY, and should be used in conjunction with other references (ComicBase, Wizard, Overstreet Guide), to make a good determination of a grade. Certainly times are better now than they were, say, 10 years ago, when only pros in the business for years could make an accurate estimate. Be thankful for that. CGC info, by design, is not going to be released - it's a Trade Secret for their business model, and if they gave it all away, they would not be in business. Does Proctor and Gamble give away its recipe for its products, or DuPont? - of course not. The discerning investigative researcher uses multiple sources. One such source (if you had bothered to read the Overstreet 33rd Edition) is that Metropolis Comics helped CGC develop the standards that they use. Also, many of the MAJOR comic dealers contribute heavily to the Advisory Board for CGC, so if you look at the sources, you could glean more information as well. Stop whining, and start learning ! This book is a valuable tool to be used with the other resources available to comics collectors, but it is not the de facto "guide" for grading. There will never be such a guide, so get over it.

This 2nd edition is an improvement over the 1992 edition and bolsters the viewpoint that Overstreet standards must be recognized as the primary source for grading decisions. While this guide does not provide specific CGC guidelines - which CGC refuses to publish - there is an overview of CGC by CGC Primary Grader Steve Borock and there are several examples of CGC-graded comics in various grades pictured. This, of course, merely provides examples of CGC grading and does not address the issue of CGC's well-documented inconsistencies.

In this guide, you will find advertising by some of the largest retailers in the nation, several interesting articles with topics ranging from comics history to restoration to shipping comics. Each grade has a fairly comprehensive one-page description of necessary qualities inherent to the grade, along with a full checklist of 21 grading considerations like spine roll, cover creases and staples. The pages following are filled with clear and illustrative examples of covers of books fitting the grade, with appropriate annotation of defects.

While there is still room for improvement in future editions, such as addressing the topic of grade "qualifiers" - a defect impacting the grade of an otherwise NM comic, it is the premier guide to comic book grading and is a must-have for any serious collector or dealer.

If you sell on EBAY or just want to track the condition/current value of your personal collection, this is the quintisential book to have.Every major player in the world of comics bases their grading on this book.A wonderful guide with picture representation to ensure accurate grading of individual comics.From the beginners to the experts,a true comic collectors "Must Have!"