Rooney looks at life the way only he can. From tabloids, to squash, he's got it covered. The book allows you to see a lighter side to all those daily, around the house occurneces, and annoyances.

While trying to be educational, it seems that these stories have been overanalyzed and miss the point. The story is about how one thing leads to another, chasing a butterfly and then knocking over blocks and then letting the class hamster loose. The author tries to write about the stream of events and talk about emotions and sounds all at the same time. "oopsie-daisy!" There goes Elmo's Ball. Bouncy, bouncy, bounce..." Alot of the text could have been left out and left up to the child to come up with. When I try to read these to my 18 mo. old and my 3 year old, I end up "making my own story" to go with the pictures.

While this book is definitely for the toddler age group, it is a fun, attention keeping, silly story. A good transition from "baby" board books to "big kid" books.

This book goes as far back as the Moors in Spain to explain mission style architecture. There is a great deal of discussion of exterior mission style and relatively little example of interior design. A great reference if you want to study the foundations of mission style, and view current examples of the architecture. Not very useful in interior decorating.

this book focuses on the history of actual missions. It is not meant for a person looking for suggestions or ideas on early american architecture/arts and crafts/mission style interiors.

I think the other two reviewers here are kinda missing the point. There are scads of other books out there showing interior decorating ideas for Craftsman houses. This book, while superficially resembling those, has something else in mind. It traces the mission style from the actual missions, through the style's collision with the Arts and Crafts movement, and the subsequent development of what we know as the Spanish style house. It continues on from there, showing how the style then went on to influence Modernism (through Irving Gill). Yeah, so it doesn't have lots of pictures showing A&C interiors. The terms "Mission" and "Arts & Crafts" are used a little too interchangeably by most people. There is a difference, and this book explains it. If nothing else, it's got a little more meat to it than most of the picture books.

The description calls this book a paperback, but it is actually a coloring book.

I've bought a lot of Sesame Street books for my son (he's addicted) and this one is a pure waste of money (sorry to say that). Other titles - especially flip up's are great and worth all of you cash. This one is a mistake - a couple of pages with no content, no learning, no nothing. I was really sorry when I saw that book, when it had come from amazon - there is nothing you can enjoy with your kid, except the pictures...