I really enjoyed the book especially when it quoted laws on the right to an education for immigrant students. I am aware of many districts who photocopy green cards and passports. Many are callous and unaware that they can not do that. Some districts have refused service to immigrants without immigration papers but who have met the residency requirement. I even know of a district that wanted to charge tuition.
On another hand, I have yet to see Bilingual education pan out in most schools. Second language educators deny this at their peril. I noticed that the book refers to ESOL children placed into monolingual classrooms as "sink or swim". It is important to note that no child can be denied placement in a regular education classroom solely because they need differentiated instruction. Sink or swim isn't allowed anymore, and ESOL students learn English well in monolingual classrooms with ESOL, Title I and differentiated instruction in their classrooms.

This book was a required text for one of my graduate classes dealing with teaching language minority students. Most required texts I find to be less than stimulating and exciting, but I thought that this book was wonderful. I read even the chapters that weren't required reading because I found all of the information to be very interesting and extremely informative.

The book was short and easy to read, but had a ton of great information. I especially liked the myth/reality format of the book, and the statistics, court cases, etc. that the author used to back up the realities. I also liked the descriptive scenarios and "discussions" about the scenarios, because they help put some of the information into real-life situations.

I love reading. I have passed that love on to my children, my grandchildren,and am now passing it to the children I care for in my Home Childcare. I am a firm believer that children are never too young to learn. The day the children come home from the hospital I begin teaching them to spell their name, using magnetic letters on the refrigerator. My oldest grandson was the first to hear "Nighty Night,Little One". At 1 1/2, it was his favorite book. Sometimes I would read it 5 or 6 times in a row. He knew the entire book. I would read the first part "Slow down little one, nighttime is here. The red sun is setting" and
he would finish "as bedtime draws near. Me: "But out in the forest your nocturnal friends, are just waking up: Isaiah, "as your busy day ends". It would go on until the end of the book. He loved the book and had it so often that I wasn't aware of the book's disappearance for quite a while. I have been trying to find a copy for about three years now. It is such a beautiful story, written in a way that keeps little ones interested and involved. It is books like these that help give children the appreciation for books and reading that carry them through life. The illustrations are wonderful. At the time that I purchased this book, I also purchased "The Little Quiet Book" also by Katherine Ross. I was able to find a copy of it and now the children are not allowed to touch it or read it unless we do it together. I want to have a copy of both books around always. I want ALL my grandchildren and Daycare babies to experience the magic and wonder of them.

I purchased this book for my daughter when she was six years old. She is now 16, and the book is still her favorite. We both have fond memories of reading it at bedtime. But for a book to become a lasting favorite, especially for a child, it must have colorful and interesting pictures and a story that never becomes boring or out of date. "Nighty-Night, Little One", by Katerine Ross, illustrated by Lisa McCue, is such a book. The story gives a sensitive portrayal of various baby animals in their natural daily and nightly routines. Written simply yet very informative, the book gives a child an educational look at the similarities between their world and that of baby animals. The sentences are short and the words are easy for a child to learn and eventually read on their own. The illustrations are beautifully done in soft hues which serves to hightlight the sweetness of baby animals. Katherine Ross, together with Lisa McCue have created a timeless story that has the ability to hold a childs interest no matter how many times it is read. One last point, "Nighty-Night, Little One" is written in the "CHUNKY BOOK" format so it is small and the pages are thick making it easier for little hands to handle. This book doubles as the perfect bedtime story to help a child relax and get ready for sleep and as a wholesome story that can help bring the enjoyment of reading to child.

Katherine Parker Riddle has written a book that weaves a spell as you follow her life in India, China and the United States. She also takes us on visits to many other countries of the world as she fights for world nutrition and to help women to empower themselves. Along the route, the reader not only encounters meetings with world leaders, but equally with people from all castes of life.

The book holds the reader's attention as we travel with Katherine through her life in India first as a missionary's daughter. We read about the roles she must perform as a daughter in the limelight. We then see Katherine in the role of a minister's wife as she moves to China and leaves there as a refugee, returning once again to her beloved India, this time in the role of wife and mother. Katherine begins here to empower and nourish herself as she reaches out to others. Years later we find Dr. Katherine Riddle returning to India once again, not as a wife or a daughter, but as a woman who is respected around the world for her own works.

As a reader that could not put down "A Nourishing Life", I recommend the book not only for the interesting tales of living and traveling in the East in the early 1920's,with return trips to the present time, but also because the book opens the readers' hearts and minds to the possibilities awaiting us to nourish not only ourselves,but others too, if we only empower ourselves to move forward.

In conclusion, I find "A Nourishing Life" to be a five star read that both nourishes and motivates, as well as telling an accurate story about life as an expatriate.

A Nourishing Life is a real story about an interesting woman's life experiences. Kittu Riddle was born in India of missionary parents and later became a minister's wife living in China. She tells of the challenges she faces as the daughter and wife of a missionary father and husband.

Kittu's life focus is to help women and children improve their lives through improved and nourishing diets. When she returns to the United States to live, she continues this focus. She also works to nourish the soul.

After raising four children, Kittu begins to explore her relationships with women. She falls in love and is involved in a long term relationship with a woman. To help women find their own power and spirituality, she opens "Nourishing Space" in the Arizona desert.

Kittu is leading a "nourishing life." She has faced many challenges-cancer, serious car accident. She views them all as positive experiences.

This book is better than a "good read." Kittu's life is a spiritual and positive example for all women and men, and I felt wonderful after reading it.

My mother received this book from her mother as a Christmas gift in 1926 when she was just 6 years old. She so loved the book. She tried to copy the pictures over and over by tracing over them. Her book is worn now, but still very treasured. She read the stories to me when I was small and reads them now to my children, now just 4 and 1. The 4 year old loves the book. The stories are not told in a scary manner but are very magical and also moral, with the good people winning out in the end. The illustrations are beautiful. I highly recommend this book. I am very hopeful that I will be able to find another copy of it.

I can recall as a young child curling up next to my mother, while she read to me from her favorite children's book, "Once Upon a Time, A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales," by Katharine Lee Bates (Rand McNally & Company, 1921). She had received this book for her own fifth birthday. In time I knew all my favorite illustrations by the marvelous Margaret Evans Price, and could recite most of the book's stories by heart. My favorites were "Furball," "Hop O' My Thumb" and "The Dancing Shoes." The stories contained in "Once Upon a Time" are part of the time-honored tradition of fairy stories which relied on the imagination of the child and the voice of the storyteller to ignite. Edited by Bates, Professor of English Literature at Wellesley College, the protagonists of the stories are good and often beautiful; they always find love and/or good fortune. By comparison, the antagonists get their just desserts; however, they are obviously bad, and merely scary rather than terrifying. There's something solid and safe about these tales; they're not explosive or bigger than life, just extraordinary in the nicest way. "Furball" tells the story of a motherless princess, who is sold by her feckless father into marriage to an ogre. Innocent but resourceful, she agrees to the marriage on the condition that her father provide her with four lavish and presumably impossible-to-furnish items of clothing: a dress "as golden as the sun," another as "silvery as the moon," a third as "glittering as the stars"; and a coat made of "a thousand different kinds of fur" from "every animal in the kingdom." To her chagrin, her father presents her with all she has requested. Now, faced with marriage to the ogre, she sees that her only remedy is to run away. So she folds her new clothing into a packet so small "she could shut them up in a walnut shell." Wearing her fur coat and staining her face and hands with walnut juice for concealment, she runs until she comes to a forest, where she falls into exhausted sleep. Discovered slumbering in the hollow of a tree by a neighboring young king and his huntsmen, and thought initially to be an odd sort of animal, the young king decides to rescue her and takes her to his castle. Recognizing neither her beauty nor her royalty in her disguise, he assigns her to work as a scullery maid in the castle kitchen. Eventually wooed by her cleverness, soon revealed beauty and unexpected culinary expertise, he. . . well, you know the rest. "Toads and Vipers" is the story of a widow with two daughters. The elder, who resembles her mother in face and character and is therefore favored by her mother, is homely and rude. But the younger takes after her late father, and is pleasing in her appearance and sweet-tempered. One day, a fairy, disguised as a crone, hobbles up to the fair sister and asks her for a libation. The young girl graciously proffers the woman a drink from her pitcher, and, in return, the fairy/woman graces her with a magical gift: "At every word you speak there shall come out of your mouth a flower or a jewel." When the girl's mother perceives the great riches which could come her way, she sends her favorite daughter out to the well, but to very different effect. The grumbling, unpleasant sister rudely rebuffs the crone's request for water, and the fairy/woman bestows upon her an appropriate curse: "At every word you speak there shall drop out of your mouth a snake or a toad." Blaming the beautiful daughter for the ill fortune of the wretched one, the mother chases the innocent girl into the woods, where she is later found crying by the King's son, who happens to be riding by. Impressed by her beauty and the obvious riches that fall from her lips at every word she speaks, the young man takes her to his castle and. . . well, you know the rest. These are just two of the 16 famous and not-so-famous stories that have been compiled into this wonderful book. Also included are Jack and the Beanstalk; Briar Rose, or The Sleeping Beauty; Hop O' My thumb; Drakestail; Jack the Giant-Killer; Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper; King Hawksbeak; Little Red Riding-Hood; The Dancing Shoes; Beauty and the Beast; Rumpel-Stilt-Skin, or Tom Tit Tot; The Frog Prince; Tom Thumb; and The Goose Girl. I could also recap these beloved stories, but . . .well, you know the rest.

My 2 1/2 year old loves this book. It is simple and fun

My son Steven is now seven years old. He has Down Syndrome. This is his favorite book and he knows it by heart. It brings him so much joy.

This is one of those sweet, gentle books that a child will remember for years to come. The pictures are beautiful, the rhymes almost lyrical and on top of it all, it teaches counting. It's especially fun when the child realizes that other animals in the picture also add up to the same number as the main animal (5 ladybugs, 5 leaves, 5 stones, etc.). My little boy has requested this book consistently for the past year and he's almost 4. Something we'll save for his children.

This is my 3 year old daughter's favorite book. I read er, sing it to her several times a day. Each page is like a new treat, this book is beautifully illustrated. Each page has a certain number of animals, and the same number of other things for your child to find. On the four little rattie's page, there are 4 baby rats(which are adorable), there are also 4 ears of corn, 4 chickens, etc. It has been extrememly helpful for counting practice. Before my daughter knew the name of the book she called it the cute little animal book. After a month, this book still has top honor on my kids' bookshelf, with the fickleness of my children, that is saying a lot.

Katharine Kincaid is a great find for me. She is great. The story captured your heart and lifted you up and threw you into another era and romance. Definitely will look for all her past booklist.

There are a lot of talented authors out there. But Katharine Kincaid, she's the winner this year. My opinion of course. Never have I felt so moved as I have reading this book. What a talent. You have no choice but to relate to all the characters in this book. Matt Stone and Grace Livingston - from two different worlds have met to try and rescue Grace's sister and her two young children from the Indians who captured and killed her husband.

Grace hires Matt Stone, who is the only man who was willing to help Grace find her sister and her children. But first, Grace had to agree to carry her own weight. She had to learn to ride a horse, shoot a gun and live off the land. Imagine Grace - a person from Boston. A strong independent woman who is filthy rich and offers to buy her way into anything.

Matt Stone didn't want her money, didn't want to be bought. I won't tell the story. Read it. They go through trials and shortcomings what no other couple would ever survive. I mean that! Read it... Great book. I shall never forget Matt and Grace as long as I live.

Katherine Kerr has written just 3 Science Fiction books, and a whole lot of Fantasy ones...
In my opinion her sf books are Very good, a step above the competition!
This book is a mixture of detective, cyberpunk, space opera, with some politcs thrown in for good measure

The characters draw you in and you will miss them when the book ends... but then I just discovered that there is a sequel... yippee!

This book is very different to Kerr's other books but I think it is better. Mystery, fantasy and a touch of romance make for a great book. Set in the white slums, police, politics, powers of the mind and a little baseball will keep you interested 'til the end. Just amazing!

This historical biography is terrific! It paints a beautiful picture, both in illustration and in words, of the life of Katharine Lee Bates. Her story is captured brilliantly in the pages of this book and I recommend it to children and adults of all ages. The illustrations are simply gorgeous and the story coincides perfectly. Be sure to look for the "hidden flag" on the first and last pages! A definite must-have for any story collection.

Purple Mountain Majesties is one of the only books I have read that delightfully combine history, information, story telling, and beautiful pictures together. And this has been done in such a way as to make this book enjoyable to read by any one of any age. Barbara Younger brings Katherine Lee Bates and here poem America the Beautiful to life for us. And sometimes we need reminders of just how beautiful America really is! Hats off to Barbara and Stacey for quite an excellent book!

Ed Ricketts was the prototypical beat, the Ur-Bohemian, and much more than the sum of Steinbeck's fictional sketches in Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday et al. He was a brilliant, iconoclastic marine biologist who broke the mold with his book Between Pacific Tides. He was a scientist with the soul of a poet. These letters and Katharine Rodger's biographical essay allow us insight into Ricketts non-teleological philosophy, his thoughts on art, religion and poetry. My vote for best biographical work of the year. Important stuff.

Renaissance Man of Cannery Row finally puts flesh on a real person who has been perceived as a caricature for too many years. In this book Edward Ricketts, a father, a marine biologist, a hard-working figure found for two decades along Cannery Row in Monterey in California (shades of Steinbeck?), and the persona found in at least six of Steinbeck's novels and short stories comes to life. Katharine A. Rodger has done a masterful job of editing that allows a wonderful insight into Ricketts personality and philosophies. The letters include Ed's correspondence with such figures as John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell and Paul De Kruif.

The book is a must read for any student of Steinbeck, Cannery Row or the Monterey area and is beautifully done. As professor Richard Astro stated "to know Steinbeck one must know Ricketts." How true.