This is a great book for Redwall fans of any age. The pictures are wonderful and detailed. Jacques does a superb job in crafting rymes then weaving them together in the form of a story. I am 14 and I loved this book. I read it to my sister who is ten and she loved it. This is one book that simply must be glanced over by any Redwall fan

A masterpiece! The children's poem book by our heroMr. Jacques, and the third book revolving around the latest AbbeyChampion, Matthias, The Great Redwall Feast is a light-hearted trip back into Mossflower. The Abbey is preparing for a surprise feast for the Abbot, and food keeps disappearing at the claws of Bungo, a baby mole! Can the Redwallers stop Bungo from devouring the feast before Matthias and the Abbot return? A wonderful story with a signature twist ending! (Historian's Note: Takes place between Redwall and Mattimeo) Definitely worth it!!

This is the story of an Abbey, Redwall to be exact. The Abbot's Golden Jubilee Feast is to take place and the entire Abbey is a hustle and bustle preparing for the party while hiding the fact from what everyone thinks is an old mouse who is very easy to fool. However they're in for a surprise! This a colorful, fun, and exciting book that has all of your favorite Redwall characters.

No one will let Charlie play with them. Why? They say: "Because you are an ugly caterpillar." Charlie doesn't understand.

Winter is approaching, he's chilly & sad so he wraps himself up in a cocoon. When spring arrives & Charlie comes out he is a beautiful butterfly!

Now everyone wants him to be his friend. Why? Charlie refuses to play with them & finds someone truly worthy of his friendship.

Read the book & you will see why I recommend this heartwarming story!

My opinion about Charlie The Caterpillar is that I liked it a lot. For English class I had to read three childrens books, and write a review on each one. This book is by far my favorite book. I loved each part about it. I like the way the book was set up, and how it coordinated each other. The illustrations by Christopher Santoro, are really good, just like it was real. The book isnt as easy to start kids out to read but it is a fun, bed time story. In conclusion I really really like this book and in my opinion there should be more books just like this one.

One of the joys of teaching preschool is storytime. This book happens to be not only my favorite book but the children's also. Charlie is such an easy character to relate to. It teaches the children what true friendship is all about. Not only do the children learn about friendship, they also learn about how caterpillars become butterflies. The parents enjoy the story also. They especially like the author and are delightfully surprised when I reveal who it is. I would recommend this book to parents and teachers. It would also make an excellent gift!

I think I have this weird tendency to read certain books at the wrong time. When I was around ten or twelve, one of the first books I ever read (not forced by school) was The War of the Worlds. I saw all of my friends reading The Tripods Trilogy, and I was afraid to read them because I thought they would be different from Welles' book. Back then I had this annoying tendency to read the same book over and over again. It always bothered me, because as I got older friends would still mention that book, and even though it was an idea taken from Welles, it still bugged me that I never read them. I finally read them in my twenty-sixth year, and I was not at all disappointed. I got exactly what I expected, an interesting yet simple science fiction story designed to entertain children. I cannot say it was anything astounding, but I can say that I probably would have liked it a lot. I think reading makes you smarter no matter what, and getting children to start reading today seems even more difficult with the computer influence. I think that this series of books is wonderful for a child to begin reading

I have read the first two books of the Trilogy and have found them to be wonderfully interesting and extremely thought provoking. I cannot wait to start the third. I am a 7th grade reading teacher and have been looking for literature that is both educational and fun for early teens to read. I have found The White Mountains and the rest of the series to be both. In order for teens to build strong recreational reading habits, they need good, holsom books that are exciting. The Tripod Trilogy combines exceptional story telling with an interesting plot that is both age and school approapriate. I am pleased to report that my students love the books, despite the story's lack of sex, drugs and excessive violence. I don't recommend as highly, When The Tripods Came (although it is a very good book), but the original Trilogy is fabulous!

My 9 year old son loved these books, it was the first time he had ever become totally absorbed in a story and the characters. At one point he was standing on the sofa shouting "He's going to throw it! He's going to throw it! Oh my God, it's going to explode!" It was wonderful to see a book that finally 'clicked' with him, the sort of book he was eager to read and would keep at it even after he had finished his required daily reading. This futuristic vision of an Earth where adult humans are controlled by another "Master" species and only the children who have not yet been "capped" can free the people. I would pick up the books to scan the contents and find myself wrapped up in the plot many pages later. A wonderful series!

As a teenager in the early 60's, I slogged through The Lord of the Rings, realizing its worth but never fully understanding the background of the epic work. The recent success of the motion picture, The Two Towers, has reinvigorated my interest in all things Tolkien. I read the Simarillion and am now in the midst of this fascinating compilation of Tolkien's letters.

I highly recommend this book to readers of The Lord of the Rings. It brings to light the background and philosophy behind Tolkien's writing.

Thank God Tolkien was such a prodigious letter writer. We are all the beneficiaries of his correspondence with family, friends such as C.S. Lewis, fans, and critics alike.

J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the best loved authors ever, endeared to millions of readers. Now with the reprinting of his letters by Houghton Mifflin all those who cherish his writings are able to learn a bit more about the man who shaped Middle-Earth.

Reading this book you can't help but think what a warm and charming man he was. His letters are thoughtful, intelligent and often amusing as he converses with the publishers Allen and Unwin, his sons Michael and Christopher, C.S. Lewis, and even fans from around the world who sent him questions and observations. It's reading history and it's fascinating.

A large and rather comprehensive index is included near the end of the book with plenty of notes about each letter and the people and places contained within.

Highly recommended for anyone wanting a deeper glimpse into the thoughts of a brilliant man.

. . .with this collection of correspondence from the pen of the Master of Middle-Earth, Professor JRR Tolkien. Although, unfortunately, not all hobbits are lettered, those of us that are, write letters constantly to our friends and to a selection of our relations. The Professor's habits in this area definitely suggest that he is, as has long been suspected, himself a hobbit. (And, in fact, probably a Baggins!)

From his wartime correspondence, to his letters of love (and sound advice) to members of his family, to the vast amount of commentary on his literary masterpieces, this volume sheds a great deal of light into the life and thought of the Professor.

This book is a worthy companion to Mr. Carpenter's earlier biography. Both volumes should find a place on the shelf of every hobbit in the Shire.

Pike has a great way with words in making everything seem real. Sita is such an amazing character and the plot for the book is great too. This series has me wanting to read more of his books, and I can't wait until I read the last installment!

This is without a doubt the best book of the LAST VAMPIRE series. It brought me to tears at the end (as most Pike books do). I never would have guessed the ending. It was soooo sad!N-E-ways just read it,its a great book! Okay, Buh Bye!!!

This book was great I never knew what was to happen next and better yet who would win the battle. I think Christopher Pike did a great job with this and his series. He made a book just how I like one not always rushing to an ending, he made it into another book. I suggest anyone who likes horror mixed with action to read this book and don't rush! My opinion to this book is a great one and a thank-you to Christopher Pike. Any one else who has read this book would probably agree to just about all my words. Now I tell about the characters and the plot of the story. The to main characters are Alisa, a five thousand year old vampire who is going against her very own daughter to stop her from getting her best friend's baby Christ. Alisa can't believe it herself that the world has now a new Missiah. So now Alisa tries best with her power to try and stop her daughter from killing the new Missiah. However, to do this Alisa gets help from a group to help shoot down Kalika. The great thing about that is that it is a war against to equally as powered beings one with knowledge and one with strength.

I know that this book is the best chose for horror and fantasy because has some really gruesome stuff. This book is great for readers at an average reading level and you must read # 4 before #5. If you read this review please read the book, because it only gets better. I hope I gave enough information to be interested in this book

Mary Amato takes the text of 3 different stories (Fip the worms birth, Lerner Canse's problems at school, and a facory filled with under paid children) and puts them together. This is the story about a girl named Lerner who discovers a magical worm named Fip. If Fip eats a word, that word dissapears of the face of the earth-forever! Lerner learns more and more about Fip. The more she learns, the more the book gets interesting. The book has a unique text style that always keeps the reader thinking: what's going to happen next?

The Word Eater by Mary Amuto wrote a story about a Worm that had to do a dare before he could be in the Mpooe club.Mpooe stands for Most powerful ones on earth.The Worm gets on a window to escape from the other Worm.He gets saved by a Girl from the window seal from a bird when she walks in the room.In the story the Worms name is Fip.The Girls name is Lerner Chanse.If Fip eats something it will dissapears.Once he was eating oxygen off a Science book but he only ate oyxg when Lerner came in.At the end Fip eates.....Can't tell you because its going to be the best.I rated it five stars.This is a can't put down book.So read this book and relax reading it.

The "word eater" in question turns out to be Fip, a worm who likes to eat words -- but once he eats a word, whatever that word signifies disappears from the world permanently. Lerner, the book's protagonist, has to learn how to deal with the amazing power she has acquired because of the worm, while she's also learning how to fit in to a new school.

I really enjoyed reading this book. Even though it's aimed at kids (our 11-year-old liked it, too), it has aspects adults will appreciate. It sure made me wonder how I would deal with that kind of absolute power -- possibly not as well as the heroine of this book.

This was the first btech novel I read. Although i found it hard then, to understand this book, i wouldn't reccomend to first timers. It took a few more novels until I read it again and loved it. The effort stackpole has put in this novel is amazing. The characters eg, Vladimir ward, Phelan kell and Kai Allard are exceptionally well. Vlad's brute force, fiendish mind and role as the heel made him my favourite in the novel and still is throughout all Stackpole's novel's. This novel and the trilogy should definately be made into a movie. It would surely please the current fans of the series and no doubt bring hundreds more. This trilogy is one of the more keypoints in the battletech world, with the coming of the clans. a movie made from this would be easily possible with the support it would be shown.

A great book. Stackpole did a great job of an intro into the clan invasion. He created two of the best characters i've ever read in Phelan Kell and Victor Davion. It's also great reading about Hanse and Melissa Davion. Everything great about the Federated Commonwealth and Battletech is in this book, from nonstop action with the clans, to the 1st Kathil Uhlans and Andrew Redburn. Stackpole does a great dramatic job aside from all the action. Read it!! And then the others in the trilogy!!

Yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! This is an awsome book from Stackpole. THE CLAN INVASION! this is the first book including the tech and mech superior clans.It as plenty of mech action and 1 thing there has never been before! The Inner Sphere Uniting? i recomend this book to everyone who enjoys battletech

I have read the first book of the Final Friends trilogy (The Party) and it was brilliant. I can't wait until I read the other two in the series. It is awful not knowing who the killer is but I think Christopher Pike writes his books really well. I would recommend this book who likes mystery, horror and suspense. The charachters were very well portrayed, Micheal, Nick and Jessica were my favourite charachters. Polly was cool too and I liked Sara although she was cruel to Polly. Overall I really enjoyed it!

All I have to say is this is a brilliant book - great mystery.

I love Sara. I'm actually a lot like her - we have similiar personalities so I guess that's why I like her so much.

This book is a fabulous starter to the Final Friends Trilogy and will definitely leave you gasping for more. It introduces all the main characters and plots. I love how it's like loads of short stories all rolled into one, how each indivdual is connected to one another. My favourite character has to be Sara! She is just the funniest character ever -- I laugh at everything she says. I also like Michael, and Bubba is fun. However I wasn't that keen on Jessica, she was just too snobby, always trying to be popular and desirable. But overall, it's a great book! I prefer Final Friends 2 myself 'cause it's where Sara and Russ hook up but that's a different story!

I have always been fascinated by novels of ideas. I do not think that putting ideas into a narrative is easy and "Knowledge of Angels" is successful in bringing back to life the lively debates of the Medieval theologians. However, when it comes to philosophy the story is weak. It builds on a now somewhat outdated Enlightenment idea of Reason being natural and self-sufficient. Here we have a Prince who comes from an unknown place (a sort of rationalist Utopia of the 18th century) and ends up disputing with Medieval scholars. It is as unbelievable as a story where Plato is tele-transported to the British Library in the 19th century to have a discussion with Karl Marx. On the whole, however, I recommend the book as it is well-written and a good read

Knowledge of Angles by Jill Paton Walsh is one of the best books of our time. Its richly illustrated plot was truly unique. We read this book for a high school English class and both agreed that it was one of the best books we've ever read. The story of a wolf-girl slowly interwines with that of a man unjustly persecuted because of his beliefs. A young girl, raised by wolves, is captured by men and brought into the human society. A kindly boy finds help from the Cardinal who in turn decides to perform a religious experiment with her. She is brought to a secluded cloister where she is to be kept without any mention of God in her presence. In this way, the Cardinal tries to find out if there is actually a high spirit, that seems to guide you. This careful experiment soon leads to surprises, that would best have been left unknown. The story of a wrongly persucuted man makes "The Knowledge of Angles" even more amazing. Palinor, a king from an unknown "perfect world" fell off a boat and swam to a nearby island. He is immediatly thought to be an athiest because he neither knows that God exists, or knows that He doesn't. Palinor was put into prison, then released and taken to talk to the Cardinal. His arguments are so convincing that he even has the Cardinal somewhat doubting his faith. The two stories come together to create a very important theme, one of love, hate, God, and sympathy.

Jill Paton Walsh's "Knowledge of Angels" should havewon the Booker Prize. It is arguably the most outstanding yetaccessible of the five novels that made the shortlist in 1994. Set in the medievial ages, KOA is a brilliant and highly intelligent fable of ideas. Controversial perhaps, but timeless. Even today, we continue to debate the question of whether the concept of God is innate to man or acquired through the intellect and the socialisation process. In the middle ages, certainly during the times of the infamous Spanish Inquisition, it was heretical to espouse the creed of atheism. The crime was punishable by torture and death. The story of Amara (the wolf child), brought up and suckled by wolves before being returned to human society, was to be the great experiment by which learned scholars of the day sought to prove the existence of God. Palinor, the castaway who hails from a world where people live by the principles of humanism, finds his life endangered when his unconventional ideas threaten the orthodoxy of the day. Paton Walsh's novel isn't even specifically about religion or humanism. It is about the need for human society in its search for truth to understand the confining nature of paradigms, to continually challenge conventional wisdoms and reinvent itself, and to practice tolerance if the search for truth is to be served. Astonishing, yet not. "Knowledge of Angels" is a beautifully crafted and highly entertaining novel of ideas that should be read by those who love good literature. I can't recommend it highly enough. END

This book is a great lead in to the next book "Dark Times." It is set in the beginning of Season 4 and Buffy is feeling the pressure of being the Slayer and being Buffy Summers. She begins to detach herself from her friends, to keep her Slayer life from her "normal" life. Then, that's when things start to not go her way. There are some new vamps in town with bats tatoo's on there face and flaming eyes. That's all I'm going to tell you! You have to read the book to see how it goes. I loved it and the ending shocked me. I recommend you clear some time because you will want to read the rest of the serial.

this book was so good i read it in three hours. it starts out with buffy trying to balance her life as a college freshman and her duties as a slayer. she does a horrible job of it, missing assignments, being rude and abrubt with willow and giles. to add to the slayer's headaches, a group of well organized vampires have hit sunnydale and she barely escapes with her life. when her and giles go to investigate, giles is taken hostage and the leader of the group gives buffy an ultimate. she of course flees and calles upon the help of lucy hanover(for anyone who does not know a long dead slayer). she tells buffy that she needs to get in contact with a prophet and when she does she tells buffy that she will show her the future so buffy will try to avoid it. what happens next is just too good to tell but i think you get the gist and need to run out to the nearest bookstore and get this copy if you buy no other book in your life. no buffy book has had me this enthralled and i see that the next one is out so i need to go back and get it. you will not be disappointed.

This is a fantastic start to a series that will go down as a classic.

Buffy's having trouble adjusting to college life, and it takes a toll on the friendship she has with Willow. As if this wasn't bad enough, some vamps come to town that dont' act like normal vamps. (I can't say how, b/c I dont' want to ruin anything. To make matters worse (this is from the back cover) a deceased slayer Lucy Hanover, comes to Buffy to warn her about a danger...

One of the strongest parts of this book is that Golden has a strong grasp of the char of Buffy and the slayeretts. The reader can actually hear the char speak the lines, it's that realastic.

I also like how the reader gets into the head of Buffy and the other char to see why they act they way they do. The reader will actally feel sympathy for the char. It shows how much everyone cares for each other.

If yer a Buffy fan, then you need to start this fantastic series. You won't be sorry.