I have this book, and I do say, it's worth getting the hardcover copy! The pictures are so cute, and the storyline is so original. This is one of my very favorite books of all time!

This wonderful book is a childhood favorite of mine. My copy of the book has been with me since 1969. The well-worn pages and cover are falling apart from many years of reading. I highly recommend the book for people of all ages.

This was one of my favorite books as a child. I was so excited to read it to my own son. I have my original hardcover from 1969 that I recently discoved in an old box. What a find! I still laugh when I read it. Do yourself and your children a favor and get this book.

I first got this book a couple of months ago and honestly was not interested in reading it. Once I finally did, I could not put it down. This book is fiction, but it makes you wonder how much of it is true. You become connected to these five men in such away that you feel like you were there through everything. I cannot wait to read the sequal. I recommend this book to EVERYONE!!! I'm so proud of you Paw-paw!!!

This is very well written book. Clear, Concise phrases. The book flows without the unneeded stops some books have. It is not for the faint hearted. I know Mr. Hardwick and this is a book written with care and a lot of hard work.

Outstanding..........If you read this one, be prepared for an emotional roller coaster ride. This book clearly reflects on the American resolve to overcome insurmountable odds. Bring on the sequel!

PORQUE CUBRE NIÑOS HASTA DE DOCE AÑOS !
Todas las madres damos la bienvenida a un "socio-auxiliar " que nos auxilie a cuidar de nuestros niños !
¿Y QUÉ MEJOR QUE UN ANGELITO ???
UN LIBRO BELLÍSIMO !

dedicados al cuidado de nuestros niños!¿Qué más podríamos pedir? Me enterneciö este libro coo no se imaginan: Nos señala a un angel especial para cada situación o necesidad: El angelito de los resrriados, el de la pureza, el del quirófano.. Es una belleza de libro!

Este libro me arrancó lágrimas de ternura: Hay un angelito especial para cuando nuestro bebé tiene gripa. Para cuando nuestro hijo sale a la calle. Para cuando nuestra hija o hijo tiene que someterse a una cirugía Hay un angelito que se encarga de la salud de nuestros nenes...

El libro nos ofrece no sólo sus nombres, sino también una sugerencia para cómo invocarlos

La verdad, desde su portada es precioso!!

este libro y sentir que los ángeles se mezclan entre nosotros, en nuestras actividades . . . aunque no podamos verlos !

Un estudio maravilloso de Angelografía, que tiene aplicaciones en nuestra vida y nuestra conducta diaria.

Desde la portada, que es una verdadera obra de arte de ñla cual apenas podemos quitar los ojos.
El libro es precioso y nos eleva el espíritu el ir conociendo ÁNGELES POR SU NOMBRE Y SU OCUPACIÓN...
De tantos libros de ángeles, ESTE ES EL MÁS BONITO

angelical !
Con la guerra en pleno,¿habrá alguien que no los invoque?
Pero el chiste es invocarlos adecuadamente, y este libro nos dirige de maravilla !

I became acquainted with this compelling and moving story through an animation festival. Although the crowd of college students had been rowdy this film was the last shown and people all left the theater hushed. The story is not only about a man who plants trees, it is about how each of us can make a difference in the world by every small action of love. If we do not attach a need for recognition or money to our endeavors, they feed the spirit and health of the world. I have read this book over & over and seen the animated film 4 or 5 times, and I see and learn something different every time. What do you see?

This is a wonderful read. It makes a great bedtime story and it is also beautiful (the wood carvings) and inspiring. This is good for people tired of reading what is wrong with the environment. The Man Who Planted Trees is kind of like a sophisticated Lorax book. Anyway, buy this book and enjoy it!

The Man Who Planted Trees is the tale of Elzeard Bouffier, a man who, after his son and wife die, spends his life reforesting miles of barren land in southern France. Bouffier's planting of thousands and thousands of trees results in many wondrous things occurring, including water again flowing in brooks that had been dry for many years. The brooks are fed by rains and snows that are conserved by the forest that Bouffier planted. The harsh, barren land is now pleasant and full of life.

Written by Jean Giono, this popular story of inspiration and hope was originally published in 1954 in Vogue as "The Man Who Planted Hope and Grew Happiness." The story's opening paragraph is as follows:

"For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake."

The Man Who Planted Trees has left a "visible mark upon the earth" having been translated into several languages. In the "Afterword" of the Chelsea Green Publishing Company's edition, Norma L. Goodrich wrote that Giono donated his story. According to Goodrich, "Giono believed he left his mark on earth when he wrote Elzeard Bouffier's story because he gave it away for the good of others, heedless of payment: 'It was one of my stories of which I am the proudest. It does not bring me in one single penny and that is why it has accomplished what it was written for.'"

This special edition is very informative. Not only does it contain Giono's inspirational story, which is complemented beautifully by Michael McCurdy's wood engraving illustrations and Goodrich's informative "Afterword" about Giono, but it also contains considerable information about how wood and paper can be conserved in the section "The WoodWise Consumer." Goodrich writes about Giono's effort to have people respect trees.

"Giono later wrote an American admirer of the tale that his purpose in creating Bouffier 'was to make people love the tree, or more precisely, to make them love planting trees.' Within a few years the story of Elzeard Bouffier swept around the world and was translated into at least a dozen languages. It has long since inspired reforestation efforts, worldwide."

The Man Who Planted Trees is not only a wonderful story, it will inspire you and your children to care for the natural world.

-Reviewed by N. Glenn Perrett

This textbook by the eminent scholar Professor Emeritus Harry Gottesfeld has been used in the USA, Europe, and Africa. It remains the best ever textbook on abnormal psychology ever written. I have benefited a lot from having this book.

This text book is one of the best written books in the world on the subject of abnormal psychology. The charm of the book is that it points out that what is "abnormal" changes as the culture changes. It helps you to understand what & why and what will be. This text is really loved by all my students at the university.

What's normal today? Alienation? Illusions? Depression? Unhappiness? Selfishess? An inability to think? Well, this text book is the only one that explains all those wierd things you & I see each & every day in the actions of our friends, family & coworkers. Couldn't put it down until Iread it cover to cover. Written by the former NYCDirector of Mental Health for 28 psychiatrichospitals, and a Professor Emeritus. He has seenit all, and tells all. Now just get me anothercopy of that book!

I do not often read westerns, however I thought I would give a book like Brules, touted to be more literature than genre, a try. I'm sorry I did.

Brules is too long, too wordy, and unnecessarily racist. Yes, the white men and the indians didn't love each other. We know that. But having that driven home without redemption for over 400 of the 500 pages is nauseating at best. Brules himself is mostly without redemption. There is little to love in a man who views his woman as a beautiful piece of flesh and shoots and kills people to get whatever he needs. Yes, I'm sure there were lots of cowboys like that out there, but do we really want to spend a whole 500 and some pages in the company of one?

That said, Brules is fairly well written, and Harry Combs did manage to create one character I really cared about--the young man we meet at the beginning of the book and to whom Brules tells his story, Steven Cartwright. I hear Combs wrote a whole book about him, The Legend of the Painted Horse, and perhaps I will go give that a try.

All told, Brules is probably a good read for Western readers. I think the rest of us, however, will find it a bit nauseating.

This is one of the best books that I have read about the old west. The detail that Mr. Combs puts into this book is just awsome. After you read this book you will want to go and saddle a horse, strap on you .38 Smith & Wesson, put your model 66 Winchester in its sheath and have your own adventures. If you like Louis L'amour's books then you will love Brules. He is the man that we all wish we could have been, in the time of history when survival of the fittest was the way of the land. This was a hard time that demanded hard men to tame the "wild west". What they got in Brules was one of the harderst and most dangerous men(when rialed) they could have imagined. Brules is one of the men that legends are made of. This IS the best western book that I have read and I highly recommend this book to any person who is fascinated about the time and people.

THIS BOOK BY HARRY COMBS IS FABULOUS. THE DETAILS OF THE AREA ARE SUPERB. AS WE LIVE VERY CLOSE BY AND HAVE BEEN TO THIS SPOT MANY TIMES, WE ARE VERY PLEASED WITH HIS PRECISE DETAIL. THE STORY IS SO EASY TO FOLLOW AND CAPTIVATING, WE COULD NOT WAIT TO OBTAIN THE NEXT 2 BOOKS. MANY OF OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN NORWOOD HAVE ORDERED THIS ON OUR RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU HARRY COMBS.

The book I read was Harry the Dirty Dog. I like this book because of the illustrations. The dog in the story is cute. I also like the plot of the story. The dog doesn't like to have baths. He runs away and gets dirty. He is so dirty his family does not recognize him. Finally he begs for a bath and gets one. His family realizes it is him.

I remember reading this book when I was in school and I always enjoyed it.

Harry takes off from his family, and gets so dirty they don't recognize him. He has a fun time around town, but when he realizes his family does not know him, he needs to have a bath to prove that he is their dog.

This is a cute story, which my 7 year old loves to read over and over. A five star read for kids of any age.

Late last summer I was at a loss for what to get a 4 yr old for a birthday present. I did not know the child well but had been invited to a party (I am 33). I went to a bookstore since I decided books were pretty safe. I thumbed through lots of books but Harry... was the first one that I got sucked into and read cover to cover. I found lots of other fun books but some of them concerned me in that they may not be "P.C." in the family of the intended recipients. Harry was just the best choice. I bought about 15 kids books that day to have on hand for gifting. I bought multiples of Harry and now I need to replenish my stock. The last kid I gave it to asked me to read it to him. I did and he loved it (plus his mother remarked that she had the Harry books as a kid and loved them as well).

Bill the Galactic Hero is the epitome and parody of every sci-fi book. He's the ultimate hero and the total loser. You have to love the sci-fi genre to appreciate Bill. Sure it's corny, and some of the jokes are rather low brow, but it's not meant to wring your brain in comprehension. It's a book that you can sit and read without shifting your brain out of first gear.(No offense intended, Mr. Harrison.) Lots of fun.

I first read this book back in Junior High where some family member most likely found it at a used book store and some how it made its way into my basement. When I read it then it was one of the first books I truly enjoyed page for page. It was certainly the first book that ever made me laugh out loud. Now, 5 or 6 years later I have found myself a new copy of the book and it is just as great as I remembered it. A hillarious take on the future of war. This story follows a gentle farmer through the many obscure misfortunes that make up his life. Very similiar in style to Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, or even Kurt Vonnegut. It's really hard to find, but if you can get your hands on it I deffinatly recommend it.

Forget the series written (much later) with a co author, they are labored and derivative. This book proves that some originals are too good to ever be repeated. While it's overly tempting to read this solely as a "reply" to Heinlein's Starship Troopers (which in part it certainly is), it manages to skewer almost every cliche and convention of vintage SF. Even Asimov's Foundation Series, represented by the planet covering imperial capital gets a gentle tweak, as a question possibly never considered by Asimov himself is examined, to wit: in a planet sized city, who takes out the garbage? Still bitingly fresh and irreverent, it's harder today to understand the impact this book had when published 30-odd years ago, before it occurred to anyone that SF could be funny. But read it as an original and a trailblazer. It's a gem.

Esta novela me esta gustando aun mejor que la primera. !Que divertida es!

The translators and publisher are Spanish. There is much vocabulary from Spain, just as the English version has much British vocabulary. I really enjoy learning about regional vocabulary differences, whether in English or Spanish, so this was a big plus.

A friend claims the American editions have been Americanized, although I don't know if it's true. (The American editions still have many British words, but do use some American words, like "sweater" instead of "jumper".) It's funny how the Brits understand us from seeing our movies/television, but we don't understand their vocab or accent as well. It's great to be exposed to different forms of languages we already know.

The translation seems very good, but some things seem wrong, such as "?QUE TE TENGO DICHO?" on the second page of text. I think this should be "?QUE TE HE DICHO?" Maybe this is a form with which I'm not familiar, because I can't imagine a native speaker and translator would make such a gringo ("guiri" en Espana) mistake.

Ahora Harry Potter se encuentra en segundo año de la escuela de Magos. Este es un libro que una vez lo comienzes a leer no podras parar como si realmente tuviera un hechizo. Ya he comenzado a leer el Prisionero de Azkaban que es el tercero de la serie y espero ansiosa que el cuarto libro salga en español. Definitivamente la narrativa es increible,la forma en que JK Rowling describe a los personajes es impresionante. Te los puedes inmaginar tal y como son y a la misma vez te transportas a la camara secreta con Harry. Es una serie de libros completamente fascinante, tanto para adultos como para niños.

I just LOVE this book, and all the harry potter books. I wanted to say to Eric J Justice, who wrote a review above, that your review was incorrect. It DIDNT have a mistake; saying QUE TE TENGO DICHO es right. In fact, im pretty sure what you said was right too. But anyway, anyone who hasn't read this should, but read the SORCERER'S STONE first, because it's really best to read them in order.