This is the cookbook I grew up using. When I got married, I knew I had to have one in my own house! Not only does it have very challenging recipes, like a huge wedding cake covered with candy flowers: it also contains the most basic instructions, such as how to prepare scrambled eggs or how to prepare steamed broccoli. I am a busy mom with many commitments and I frequently find myself with a few random ingredients and no dinner: this book always bails me out. Plus, the recipes (over almost 20 years!) always taste great, and looking at the pictures is very helpful. People are always impressed with my creations. I love this book!

I have been a chef for the past 19 years, and in the last three years i have been living with my father. He has found my chef books a little hard to understand, then i found out The Good housekeeping Cookbook. This has been a life saver; Dad,enjoying recipes, easy understanding of the text too.My father puts on the table enjoyable meals, competing with me of course!. Well done for a book that anyone can understand and enjoy

Darren Clarke New Zealand

Great cookbook for beginners and experienced cooks alike! I've purchased others but always end up using this book because of the detailed instructions and illustrations. Great teaching tool. It has American and foreign recipes. I've given this book to many brides-to-be! Still great after 10 years.

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After I had completed a four week seminar at the Euro Center Language School in Alexandria, Virginia, my teachers gave me the best training marks a student ever got there: four `10's. Nevertheless, American native speakers were still able to detect my German accent in my English. Then I found Ann Cook's AAT in a book store in Washington D.C. I started an intense training. Recently I attended an English class in Munich, Germany, where I live. The teacher, an American from New York, wanted me to leave the class room because she thought I was an American who wanted to pull her leg by coming to her class. By the way, it's never too late to start with AAT: I'm 60 years of age. Anybody can do it if he or she tries hard.

After I had completed a for week seminar at the Euro Center Language School in Alexandria, Virginia, my teachers gave me the best training marks a student ever got there: four `10's. Nevertheless, American native speakers were still able to detect my German accent in my English. Then I found Ann Cook's AAT in a book store in Washington D.C. I started an intense training. Recently I attended an English class in Munich, Germany, where I live. The teacher, an American from New York, wanted me to leave the class room because she thought I was an American who wanted to pull her leg by coming to her class. By the way, it's never too late to start with AAT: I'm 60 years of age. Anybody can do it if he or she tries hard.

Better get the second edition, it's muuuuuch cheaper!

This is a great, easy to read guide for new parents. It gives great suggestions and information on building a close relationship with a newborn. The book includes information and activities appropriate for each week of a baby's life, up to age 24 weeks. It also has great bold illustrations for each week that are fascinating to babies - very handy for baby's visual stimulation. The book is very pro-baby, pro-hands on bonding, pro-parent/baby interaction. This would be a great gift for any expectant or new mom/dad to give her/him tangible suggestions on what to do with baby to make the most of their relationship and to optimize baby's development. This book is simply wonderful!

Thank you Ms. Stelfox for creating this book! I hung "Baby Be Loved" next to the changing table when my baby girl was just a week or two old. When she was fussy she'd look up at it and she would quiet right down, it was amazing! She was fascinated with the black and white (and later color) illustrations that really drew her attention. I take "Baby Be Loved" along on car trips too. I never leave home without it! I would strongly recommend this book to all new parents. It makes a terrific shower gift too. What a wonderful way to share in your child's early development!

Susan Stelfox's Baby Be Loved is written expressly for brand new parents. It's filled with daily parent-child activities, from songs and exercises to special illustrations, to help stimulate a new baby's senses and development for the first twenty-four weeks of life. All the information in Baby Be Loved is doctor-approved by consulting physician Nancy Iverson, M.D., and is excellent for helping new parents worry less and enjoy the special joys of parenthood more. Baby Be Loved in excellent and highly recommended reference for preparing mothers and fathers to be.

I'm so tired of seeing famous romance writers passing their old books off as new in romance anthologies put out by publishers who fool us readers into believing that new formats mean fresh new stories.
First Night, An Anthology of Romance Novellas, is the real thing.
The four stories in First Night are original novellas by four new writers. Each of the stories is brilliant. Honey Clover by Pauline Shannon is exceptional in every way. I've recommended it to all of my friends and now I'm recommending it to anyone who likes to read romance fiction that is sharp, sexy, passionate, interesting and polished.
Jen Safrey's Fate and Firecrackers is a sharp little ditty that reads very quickly. I like that the lead female character is a drummer and the lead male character is your typical hot Latin lover.
Bobbi Lerman's Providence is a coolly thoughtful story with a nice air of mystery and magic about it. It is a time-travel, and I enjoyed that it didn't get bogged down by ridiculous excuses for how the time-travel occurred, it instead focuses on building the relationship between the two lead characters.
MaryAnn Mangini's Renaissance was the most serious of the four stories. The detail in the story about Venice is rapturous. I very much enjoyed the characters.
Overall, First Night is the best anthology I've read in a long time.

First Night is a thoroughly enjoyable and wonderful collection of four romance novellas, each of which represents a season of the year. These stories are mystical, yet grounded in a reality I wish was mine!

Honey Clover by Pauline Shannon and Providence by Bobbi Lerman are opposites in season (spring and winter) and in content (Providence is a time travel; Honey Clover is set firmly in reality with science as a supporting character.) Both stories share lovely writing styles and the authors have created heroines that are smart, alluring and complicated enough to be extremely interesting.

Fate and Firecrackers by Jen Safrey (summer) and Renaissance by Mary Ann Mangini (fall) are also opposites. Fate and Firecrackers is a fast, scintillating read that heats up quickly and explodes at the end. Renaissance is a longer, lanquid story that touches every sense.

The heros are fantastic, the heroines are cool, and the stories are unique. I sincerely enjoyed this book.

There are four novellas in First Night and each of them is great. I particularly liked Renaissance. The writing is just beautiful and Delia's story of renewal is strong and realistic. Honey Clover is very good, very original and had me laughing, scared, crying and celebrating with Vivienne and Brian by the end. Providence was mysterious and effective as a time travel. By the end I felt everything falling into place for Amy, even though a lot is left up to the reader to figure out. Fate and Firecrackers was a nice quick read that sizzled and sparkled. I highly recommend this book to anyone that likes romance with edge and originality.

In 1987 and '88 the BSC was everywhere and at school in 5th grade I worked in the library as an assistant and I got to look at all the books coming in. Since the age of 8 books have been my passion. Anyway, I'd clean the books that came back in and put the cards back in and this book looked good to me. This was before they updated some of the pictures and covers on the BSC books, and the picture on the cover caught my eye. Stacey had sunglasses perched on her head and a flashy shirt on. She looked like the actress Tina Yothers from the sitcom Family Ties. I bought the book in the bookstore and read it and enjoyed it. People often told me I looked like the girl on Family Ties, and so I thought I must look like Stacey. I used to dress like her and everything and my mom made me these snazzy sweatshirts and blouses like the kind you see Claudia and Stacey wearing, and I bought cool earrings, and different colored leggings and tennis shoes. That was the 80's. Funny how the stuff we wore back then seems nerdy now! P.S. When I read about how the Baby Sitters Agency's undercover agents posing as new BSC members stood up the BSC's clients and made them look bad, I felt like knocking those snots out of their socks!

Stacey's parents are overprotective with Stacey. She can't stand it! They keep dragging her to new doctors all the time. The BSC is competing aganist The Baby-Sitters Agency. The first time I read this book, I knew the BSC was going to win because the Baby-Sitters Agency has really bad sitters.The BSA send people to the BSC to make them look bad. But the BSC, of course, get the last word and wins thr war!

Just reading the last review of this book made me think of when I was at school and the BSC and Sweet Valley books were incredibly popular. I remember thinking that the club had to be the coolest thing ever, and wanting to set one up with my friends. I always thought Kristy was the coolest because she always seemed in control. I think I liked Stacey the least because she seemed so stuck-up, what with coming from New York ;-) Definitely worth a read, this series is still as entertaining and amusing as it was when I was young.

I was pleasantly surprised to find a book by a new author that kept my interest from cover to cover. The storyline was both suspenseful and cleaver. As an avid reader of another mystery author (MHC), this book is in the same class! As usual, I tried to solve the mystery before the end of the book, and this book was so cleaverly written, I was fooled up to the very end. I am looking forward to many more stories by Sue Ann Jaffarian and her main character, Odelia Grey - who is Too Big Too Miss!!!

This is a mystery novel by a brand new writer, Sue Ann Jaffarian and, like the author, the lead character, Odelia Grey, is a paralegal in Southern California. Odelia is in her late forties, single, 5'1" and 215 pounds. She's lived a lifetime of prejudice about her size but, as a mature woman, she's not going to take it anymore. She and her circle of friends have a support group and are slowly but surely accepting themselves for who they are and taking a stand against the discrimination against them. Odelia is shocked and upset when the leader of their group, Sophie London, supposedly commits suicide. And she is even more surprised when she discovers that Sophie had a porn website and shot herself in front of her viewers. Besides grief, what's a gal to do? What follows is a tight, well-plotted story, with enough twists and turns to keep me up past my bedtime. I really liked it, and that's saying a lot, because I'm not a big fan of mysteries.

However, "Too Big to Miss" goes far and beyond the story. With a sense of both humor and mastery over her material, Ms. Jaffarian has something to say about the politically correct prejudice against fat people as well as the bias against anyone who is different. In the book, there's a romance between Odelia and a paraplegic, Greg Stevens. Gently, we are reminded of the humanity of these characters, while never once forgetting the strong story line of the plot. We root for Odelia in her quest for the murderer, and we also root for her as she breaks stereotypes and establishes a relationship. She's not only a good detective, but also an inspiration to anyone who has ever felt "different". I thank Ms. Jaffarian for writing this book and look forward to her next. Recommended.

I ordered this book because it was recommended by Amazon.com as a "you might like this if you liked . . ." from Lynne Murray's books. I have read all of Ms Murray's books and eagerly anticipate her next installment due this summer.
I am now hooked on Odelia Grey as well.
Ms Jaffarian writes wonderfully with great unforced detail and original metaphors. Her characters suck you in to care about them from page 1.
Not only is this a great mystery but it also takes to task a cause near and dear to my heart -- fat prejudice. Odelia shares many of the feelings, fears and negative self talk prevalent in the mind of the plus-sized female in our thin obsessed society. Throughout Odelia's journey in finding out answers to her friend's death, she grows stronger and more self assured as a person.
This book is a great mystery all by itself but if you are a plus-sized woman, it is a must read!

One day, Abby (a BSC member) comes home to find a baby on her front porch. She naturally calls the police, but the police have no idea where the baby came from. It's up to Abby and the rest of the BSC to discover the origin of the mystery baby, whom Abby, sister Anna, and mother dubbed Eli. The truth about the baby is startling, yet pleasing to Abby and Anna.

Abby and the Mystery Baby was really, really good. One of my friends gave it to me, and I couldn't put it down. It has an incredibly surprising ending, and you would never know that Abby's mom was in on the whole thing!!!

I never really liked Abbey when she came into the BSC but after this book it really shows that Abbey has the power of a mum,a babysitter and a good freind all rooled into one!

This used to be my favorite book when I was younger and I still like it. This book is about a family with ten kids who aren't allowed to have any pets and their adventures while they try to convince their parents to let them have a pet. It's sequal, Eleven Kids, One Summer is also very good.

I loved Ten Kids no Pets. This book was funny and interesting. I recomend that you read this and if you like it read, Eleven Kids, One Summer also by Ann. M Martin and a great book.

This book is great. All the 10 kids really want a pet and keep getting pets, but eventually they have to give them away.I also like this book because of the ending and every chapter is from someone else's point of view.I loved this book and I'm sure you will too.

I approached Ms. Glassman's book with tremendous excitement, having benefitted greatly from her work in The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, and was not disappointed. The book has taken the basic principles of vodou, and made them accessible and practical to serious practitioners and newcomers alike.

With an extremely warm tone and a welcoming voice, Ms. Glassman invites the reader into a wonderful world of mystery and healing. The book eschews tawdry spells for love and revenge and concentrates instead on the real essence of vodou--deep spiritual communion and communication.

The book encourages the reader to explore the world of spirit on many levels and provides ample information in order to establish effective contact with the lwa. It also explores the history of the religion and details rituals from the simple to the extravagant. These rituals can provide a new peace and sense of awe that will leave the reader breathless.

For those who have worked with Ms. Glassman's tarot deck, the information provided relating to the various lwa will heighten and strengthen knowledge of and communication with the lwa. Adding to the descriptions featured in the tarot book, the book takes one that much further on the road to understanding and communicating with the powerful and beautiful lwa.

You will not be disappointed in this book. I give it my highest recommendation

Sallie Ann Glassman has written an extraordinary book about an extraordinary subject. VODOU VISIONS gives a most cogent, accessible, and moving view of a body of sacral thought -- really, an entire imaginative culture -- that is of profound importance, rarely studied, and almost invariably exploited or aligned.

Ms. Glassman's approach is unqiue. She frames her exegesis and celebration of Vodou as a spiritual autobiography. Her persoanl journey helps us understand the religion that she studies, and appreciate its intensely personal transformative power.

VODOU VISIONS is appropriately and vividly personal. But Ms. Glassman also places Vodou in its culture, and in world culture. Her work demonstrates both the singularity and the centrism of Vodou. This is a book that is scholarly in its essence, and historical in its scope.

It is also a book that is remarkable in its art. Ms. Glassman is a stunningly gifted writer. Her prose is brilliantly intelligent, and entirely original. Her artwork is breathtaking, and sublimely interrelated with her thought and her uses of language.

Almost everyone who has reviewed VODOU VISIONS has praised it in appropriately warm and respectful terms. One reviewer, whose comments generally are highly positive, maintains that VODOU VISIONS replicates Ms. Galssman's earlier book. I have reread Ms. Glassman's earlier book (which is superb, and I cannot understand the reviewer's charge. The two works seem to me to have nothing in common, other than high distinction and exceptional scholarship and artistry.

VODOU VISIONS is without question the most compelling work on its subject to appear in recent years. Experts and readers new to the subject will relish this utterly wonderful book.

This book is a great general introduction to Vodou. I'd recommend it for the novice and expert alike.

Glassman, a Mambo and Vodou convert who lives in New Orleans, presents the religion here as sort of a Haiti-New Orleans synthesis and introduces a spiritual practice without orthodoxy (if there is such a thing as Vodou orthodoxy). The book is illustrated with the artwork from Glassman's previously published New Orleans Tarot deck.