Terrific ABC Book for children who want to see the inside of airplanes. Colorful photos of real airplanes. Great information for junior pilots. Best ABC book I have ever seen!

My 2 1/2 year old LOVED this book. He liked the pictures and wanted to read it all the time. We checked the book out at the local library and he was so sad when we had to return it. He now knows all the parts of an 18-wheel tractor trailer truck and we laugh when he tells us the parts of trucks as we drive by them on the highway. The book also helped him to count and better understand one-to-one correspondence!

Most people don't want to know about the aftermath of murder. But if it happened to your family or friend, you are ravenous for information. And where do you find it?

This book, What Murder Leaves Behind: The Victim's Family details stories of what it's like to live in the aftermath of murder. Are you going crazy? What can you expect from the criminal justice system? What will help you regain a sense of balance in your life? Will you ever again experience joy?

Doug Magee has interviewed family members who have lived through the death of a family member. He presents their thoughts, feelings, and reactions, which can be a roadmap for those whose lives have been turned upside down and who do not know what to expect.

This is a one-of-a-kind book. I hope that more budding authors will pursue this subject and give us homicide survivors more guidelines for getting our lives back on track and, frankly, for giving us a reason to go on living. We are a neglected population among the social scientists. Murder is a taboo topic. But we are just ordinary people whose family member/friend was murdered for whatever reason--which we may never know--and whose killer may or may not ever be apprehended or convicted. More attention should be paid.

My two year old knows his alphabet already, but this book is encouraging him to take that next step of associating the alphabet with words. He is a train fanatic and seeing upper and lower case letters presented with train-associated words and pictures has him spouting off train terms when asked what words begin with particular letters. As noted in the editorial review, some of the pictures are a bit muddy and uninteresting -- but for the most part this book in is my son's daily repertoire of books and one he begs to take with us when we leave the house. I would definitely recommend this book as one which inspires learning about trains, with the sneaky benefit of learning about letters and words. The only reason I will not give it 5 stars is because I think it could have included more interesting pictures for some of the letters, but I give it 4 stars because it does acheive the goal of teaching the alphabet with train visuals - and because this book is dearly loved by my 2 year old.

This is educational and fun. Perfect for my 3 year old nephew.It has real train pictures and the alphabet - at 3 the little ones canquickly recognize and identity trains. Perfect for matching them withletters. A very good book.

My son eats, thinks, sleeps, dreams, breathes, and plays trains on a daily basis. He even talks in his sleep about trains. My son is also the type of child who will look at his father's train magazines for hours, but until recently, had no interest in "children's books". We checked this book out the library, and he loves it. He likes pictures of real things weather it is animals, nature scenes, or train scenes. I would recommend this book because it has pictures of real objects, and it has simple text. Although it is an ABC book, I would recommend it even if it was not. As for the comment about the pictures not being interesting, it depends on what you define as interesting. For example, if you are not interested in trains, a large picture of a coupler is not going to be interesting, but if you are two year old child who loves trains and knows what a coupler is, the picture is very interesting.