My kids have asked me to read this book to them over and over again. It is exciting, mysterious, and fun! I even bought copies for all my nieces and nephews!

I read this book to my two young sons and they really enjoyed the suspense and humor. I was relieved to find a book on Halloween that didn't frighten them, but let them enjoy the holiday, instead.The author seemed to know just what buttons to push to keep a four and five year old on the edge of their seats.They've already requested me to read it three times since the first reading and I have a feeling it will stay on our 'favorite shelf'for a good long while.

This revolutionary take on the healing arts is so fundamentally sound that I found myself wondering why no one had thought and said these things before! Julie's experiences and descriptions of how she helps her patients process their surgeries and illnesses and GROW through them are truly inspirational. Our bodies want to know and understand our choices, and Julie does the obvious: talking to the individual organs and helping her patients truly inhabit their own bodies. This book is SO well-written and moving - You may not agree with every hypothesis she presents, but you will definitely FEEL happy to be human as a result of reading this book!

As healers we often forget to look at the best tools we have been given, our hands. "Hands of Life:Use your Body's Own Energy Medicine for Healing, Recovery and Transformation", reminds us of the blessing of touch. Reflective as well as informational this is a great book to give for a graduate going into the healing or teaching profession. We find ourselves starving for love and affection in our daily lives. Ms. Motz teaches that in this world where touch is seen more and more as invasive and suspicious, we can use the healer in us all to affect this attitude. We can teach others that touch is another form of nutrition that feeds the spiritual heart as well as the physical body. If you are looking for the best book on the subject of hands on healing, this is it.

...if you live it that way. Too many people grow up timid and afraid of new experiences, new foods, new ideas... Don't let your children grow up that way. You might want to talk to them as you read about being careful and the difference between being cautious and timid, reckless and adventurous. But the take home message should be that if they'll exercise some good common sense (and ask you before doing anything dangerous), that life can be an amazing series of experiences that will be richer than anything they can watch on TV.

"Have you ever slept outside on a hot summer night?/Everything looks different/in the moon's strange light./The trees seem to whisper/so you bravely whisper back./Outside at night./Have you ever done that?" Each beautifully poetic question is answered "I've never...", and then continues on with "but I've..." From riding in a storm tossed boat, to picking up a snake, and nursing a sick baby bird, to flying out across the river on a rope swing "...and I knew that the water/was deep and cold and black./And I still let go./Have you ever done that?" Julie Larios explores the small wonders, possibilities, and accomplishments of a preschooler's world in this lovely and evocative picture book. Her rhyming text is full of imagery and magic, and complemented by Anne Hunter's beautiful watercolor illustrations, in quiet, subdued tones that send imaginations soaring. With its soothing, lyrical cadence, Have You Ever Done That? is perfect for lulling little ones to sleep at bedtime. "When the river is deep/and the corn snakes pause,/when the wild waves call/and the wounded crow caws,/Just stretch your wings/in the moon's strange light./You can start by sleeping out on a hot summer night."

This is a great book! The author is apparently an extremely knowledgable indoor gardener and she shares this information in an easy to read enjoyable book. All aspects of indoor gardening are covered from decorating with plants, care and requirements, planting and placement. Included in the book is an encyclopedia of common houseplants with plant requirements and pictures to help you identify all those plants you never knew the names of!! If you have houseplants this book is a MUST.

This book is GREAT!!!! Growing up my mother always had silk plants about the house that were not attractive. Come to find out later in my life she had tried living houseplants but somehow killed them once they were in her home. If she had this book she would have not had that problem!

When I had a home of my own I vowed that I would not succumb to her tactics with plants. I love the look and ambiance of living plants and was determined to have many of my own. Over the years I have become a more avid gardener and have always loved indoor houseplants. Although I have become a better indoor gardener it seemed that I still had my mother's knack of being able to swiftly kill some plants until I came across the Black and Decker series book, "Houseplants & Indoor Gardening". This book gives you so much information for decorating your home with houseplants it is unbelievable. After reading this book I quickly was able to identify some quick targets of my plants demise. One was as simple as the selection of plants when buying them in the nursery. It is a great reference tool that I use almost daily. I really love the encyclopedia of Common Houseplants which breaks all the specifications and growing conditions needed for certain plants. Overall I have found this book to be invaluable. A must have if you want you indoor garden to flourish!!!!!!

For any child who is struggling to cope with the negative voices parents leave inside you. Parents have a way of repeating the same mistakes their parents made, but this "part-time Angel" helps with insight from his own "conquering" of his parents. A must read for all children reaching adulthood and confused why they are unconsciously repeating the same mistakes they hated as children.

This book is great for learning how to deal with the negative parental voices that control your actions and responses. It will help know how to deal with children in a healthy manner as well as help you to keep negative internalized voices from controlling your actions. It is a fast read and quite entertaining. I highly recommend it for all. What the world needs is more people like Joseph Arthur trying to reach out and help heal the sickness in this world.

Every time I had to put this wonderful book down, I couldn't wait to pick it up and find out what was going to happen next. It is exciting, fun, and interesting. You will love to read it. I enjoyed reading it to my son, He even stayed still long enough to hear the whole book. He love it too

I had this book when I was a little girl. I would read this book over and over again. I lost the book in my travels and havent been lucky enough to find it anywhere. If you can find this book. Read it, you will not be sorry.

My little son loves this book...the authors have successfully chosen pictures and written wonderful poems for each picture that tell a story throughout the book. I find the poems great because they aren't the usual baby drivel and the meter of them is soft and lilting...perfect for bedtime! We also bought the matisse story (the van gogh is a little bit better) but both are great...looking for more!

The author's have taken Van Gough's best and put together a rhyming book about the garden. The rhyme isn't easy but the cardboard backing and the bright photos are perfect for a toddler/new-born.

Second in the girls devotional series developed by Linda Washington and Julie Chen, "It's Me, Leslie," brings us the journal of a young girl trying to come into her own as a believer in Christ.

Genuine and engaging, Washington pulls the reader into the life of Leslie, a lively 11 year old, by peaking into her journal.

Likely in the first in the series, "Just Plain Mel," Chen has amusing sketches and doodling of everything from the "old church mother" (I've got one just like her in my church too!) to dialogue bubbles, ice cream and scratched out portions of entries Leslie must've reconsidered.

There is nothing stuffy about "It's Me, Leslie," and you can be confident that this is not just kid-friendly, but hip to what your preteens are going through. It's fresh, challenging, sometimes goofy, while retaining the innocence and purity of youth. The book always points the reader toward Jesus.

Issues such as materialism, unfriendly churches, self-confidence, gossip, spurring others on to "love and good deeds" are all discussed in this highly creative approach. Bible-centered, verses are printed before each entry area for the reader to think about when responding to the things going on in Leslie's life.

It is well-written, with a focused, stream-of-consciousness tone not found elsewhere.

I fully recommend "It's Me, Leslie," by Linda Washington. Inquisitive and curious preteen girls will love this, and beg for more. Try it in small groups, with a Bible in hand.

Anthony Trendl

I bought this devotional for my nine-year-old. She really loves the format. It is handwriting font with lots of doodles (looks like the Amelia books).The subjects are right where she's at too: Gossip, Do clothes make the Christian?, mean girls, sharing your faith with others.

There is spce for her to journal her thoughts on each subject. I would highly recommend this book as both a devotional for a girl and a beginner's journal.

Julia Sweeney is a comical genious for giving us such a funny character. There is a guaranteed laugh on every page of this book. I LOVE how just when you're about to find out what Pat is, SOMETHING comes up to prevent it. The whole joke will never get old to me. I'm also a big fan of the movie about Pat. I love how Pat thinks it's attractive. Pat's so ugly! It's so hilarious, I love it! I only wish they'd make a movie called "It's Chris". Personally, I think Pat is the guy and Chris is the girl. Just because I see men wear the blue shirt and slacks, never women. And Chris is real feminine, with "it's" clothing. Perhaps I just spend way too much time thinking about it. Ha ha. Anyway, it's a great book!

It's Pat is a great book, and if you haven't read it, you should. I also suggest that you see the movie. You won't be able to breathe. It's Pat, it's funny, it's worth it.

P.S. I love cheese.

This is a great book about all Jackies life.It seems to take you through her life.It takes you from her younger days in george town to her days to the white house.It takes you through her jet setting like life.If you like biographys,Jackie kennedy onassis,even people who travel this book will be great for you to read.

This book seems to take you all through jackies life.It explains how much she loved her children and how much she loved traveling.It seems to take you into her like jet setting life.Its a great book to read if you like jackie,biographys,exciting lives,or even people who travel alot