The Fabulous Journey of Life

" Whoever pulleth out this sword from stone and anvil is the right-wise king of all England" and so, this begins the great legend of King Arthur. In this page turning book, The Knights of the Round Table by: Enid Blyton, readers find various stages of excitement. Many of these exciting points are found in the story, "Sir Galahad and the Quest of the Holy Grail." One of the exciting parts readers will read is, when the war is going on in the castle of the three evil brothers. This is exciting because you can't guess what is going to happen. Another exciting part is found in the " Quest of Excaliber." In this story Merlin, Arthur's trusty friend, helps him find a sword because Arthur's broke in his last battle.
Various signs of uniqueness are shown throughout his book. I think that the most unique part of the story was how it was narrated. The author writes the book so it has certain suspense to it. The book is written in third person and the author occasionally uses dialog. Throughout the book the author uses past tense and future test.
I recommend this book for eleven year olds because, it is a fairly easy read. Also, for people who are interested in the King Arthur story because, it gives the basics of King Arthur out.

My 5-year-old son was lucky enough to be given a collection of Mr. Twiddle stories by a friend returning from England. They have become his treasured favorites, read morning and night, always with delighted laughter. Poor Mr. Twiddle is dreadfully absent-minded and is continually doing things like putting his boots in the pantry and his pie in the boot cupboard. Mrs. Twiddle is continually bossing him around and chewing him out, sometimes in language blunter than parents might like {the phrase "You stupid, silly man" has been known to pass Mrs. Twiddle's lips, requiring some parental commentary). The books are set in England in the '40s (Mr. Twiddle has to queue up for a meat pie) and their dated language is one of their charms. But beware -- your child may start addressing the cat as "tiresome puss." One drawback to this book: It contains only nine stories (96 small pages), compared to the 300-plus pages in "The Mr. Twiddle Stories," the gift that started Twiddle-mania in our house.

I recommend this book for parents who have naughty children. I found that it taught some rather good lessons for what could occur when one misbehaves. I'm sure you'll be satisfied by it.

This is very funny cookbook for those familiar with the Mormon (LDS) culture. It does not make fun of the religion only the culture so Mormons and non-Mormon will enjoy it equally. It has recipes. Includes such things as the Jello-Matrix for all occassions.

My son and daughter (ages 35 & 33) had 5 Noddy books when they were younger (6-9 years old). They still argue over ownership of them. Now their 5 1/2 year old nephew has discovered them and is delighting in the funny characters and their misadventures. The books have short chapters, making them ideal for bedtime reading. Tyler often reads a page or two by himself, & in fact, read a page for the Principal when he was Kid of the month in November. I am ordering several more Noddy books so my children and grandchildren have enough to share.

I've owned this book since I was 5 and now I am 33 and my own daughter enjoys it just as much as I did. I highly recommend for young readers 6 - 10. It is great reinforcement for learning to read and lots of fun to!

My two year old loves this collection of Noddy stories with all the familiar characters. The pictures are bright and colourful and the text is uncondescending.

This Secret Seven story is known as "The Secret Seven and the Grim Secret" in the U.S. (where most of the Secret Seven books are retitled), and as "Three Cheers Secret Seven" in the U.K. and English-speaking Commonwealth countries. Although the U.S. titles don't strike me (as an Australian who has seen only U.K. editions) as properly and traditionally Blytonesque, I have to say that they are far more descriptive of the content of the stories, whereas most of the British titles (the ones chosen by Blyton herself) simply allude to mysteries and adventures in general, or to being on the trail, and so on, or else merely congratulate the Seven and say nothing about the actual story.

In this story, Jack's annoying sister Susie receives a toy aeroplane from a cousin, and she wants the Secret Seven to show her how to operate it. Jack winds it up and launches it - but it doesn't circle round and return as expected; instead it flies right over a high wall and far into the grounds of Bartlett Lodge, a grand mansion which seems to be unoccupied.

But is it really unoccupied? When two of the boys climb over the wall to look for the plane, they are threatened by a surly gardener called Georgie Grim ("Grim by name and grim by nature") who does not on any account want them to enter the property. In spite of this, they creep in unobserved a little later, and climb up to a high balcony on the house, where the model plane has lodged. And at that point the boys observe clues that seem to point to *someone* staying in the room at the top of the house, behind the tightly-drawn curtains with just a crack showing. There seems to be a gas-fire alight inside, and pot-plants don't seem to be withered as they would be if the house were truly unoccupied.

Quite mystified, the Secret Seven investigate, determined to find out who is living inside the house, and why. The surly gardener, Grim, seems to be involved in the strange goings-on at Bartlett Lodge - and yet, for all his bad temper, everyone who knows him attests to his complete honesty. Is it perhaps burglars who are in the empty house, gradually moving out valuables at their leisure? Is Grim somehow involved with them, in spite of his reputed honesty?

The suspense builds up quite well within the simple terms in which this book is written, and the answer to the mystery, when it suddenly comes, is well prepared for and dramatic. The actual resolution is totally unexpected: you would never guess it ahead of time, and yet it makes perfect sense once you know what it is, and in the end the story is rather touching in the ramifications that flow from this, as the Seven pitch in to help someone who turns out to be in a lot of trouble.

There's no doubt about it: the Secret Seven stories are rather simpler than most of Enid Blyton's other mystery and adventure stories, and are probably intended for a younger audience than most of the others. However, seen within that context, they are quite effective mystery stories with a few elements of dangerous adventure, although less so than some of the other adventure stories for slightly older children. They are, in Enid Blyton's mystery/adventure stories, at the opposite end of the complexity and sophistication spectrum from the Adventure series, the 8-book series featuring Jack, Lucy-Ann, Philip, Dinah, and Kiki the parrot, which are full-length novels of considerable complexity and excitement, and sometimes incorporating within their international settings quite complex political elements.

The main problem I have with the Secret Seven books is that the characters do not seem to have much personality, and are not easy to distinguish from each other. The boys are vaguely boyish, the girls girlish - but otherwise they are rather alike, except perhaps that Peter can be distinguished for his occasional bossiness as head of the Secret Seven and his pedantic insistence on the letter of the rules being observed, which sometimes makes him appear a little unpleasantly peevish and petty. But I honestly cannot tell Pam from Barbara, Colin from George, and so on.

So the Secret Seven books do have relatively thin characterization compared to most of Blyton's other adventure and mystery novels, which are never deep in characterization, but at least give you a feel for the various characters. However, this is probably the unavoidable result of the fact of these novels being so much shorter than most of the other adventure/mystery novels Blyton wrote: "Three Cheers Secret Seven", which is a quite typical Secret Seven book in format, style, and length, is, in the original hardcover edition I read, approximately 110 pages long, with large, well-spaced print and dozens of illustrations - it cannot come to more than about 20,000 words, and is more likely closer to 15,000 - hardly a novel at all, in reality.

At this length, there is not much room to develop character, and this would be done only at the cost of simplifying the already simple plot even further, and would probably not improve the book as a whole. So, within these limits, the books are probably as effective mystery and adventure stories as you could reasonably expect, with the emphasis more on plot and action than on character portrayal.

Indexing isn't just for books... there are journals, databases, government documents, recordings, cd-roms, product catalogs and more. Unless you've done some indexing, you may not realize that indexing requires considerable knowledge--and this rings more true when you consider that 35% of the indexers appearing in this book's 1997 survey have master's degrees.

This book does not explain how to do indexing... although it does list books and courses where you can get that kind of instruction. Instead, as its title suggests, it focuses on the business aspect.

There's information about how to find indexing jobs, decide on billing, and select the equipment you need to get started. There are indexing agreements (designed by the American Society of Indexers) that you can take directly from the book and modify for use with your indexing business. Because the vast majority of indexers work from home, there are also tips for how to continue working full-time, while running your indexing business part-time out of your den.

I liked the survey section of the book the most because it reveals a lot about the standard practices of indexers... how they bill for their work, how they handle billing issues, how often they work, and how much they make. The survey also includes demographic information.

My only problem with this book is its price. There is some excellent information and it may be difficult to find it elsewhere, given that indexing will probably never experience the popularity of day trading or web design. However, this is a *thin* little book, and there is a chunk of space devoted to some *very* general suggestions on how to set up your business. Some of it just seems like common sense.

this was agood book. it was easy to read and the storys keep you reading. I recomend this book very much.