A terrific children's book that stands the test of time. Enjoyable reading for both young and old, the book features great characters and gentle humor. Should be reprinted today!

This is one of the books I remember with fond memories. Great Boo

When I think of my 10 or so favorite books from my childhood, this one is high on that list. Very funny, lots of magic, well created characters, a really enchanting book. Worth trying to get!

Throughout the nation, innovators in health care quality improvement are trying desperately to engage consumers to give a damn about quality. Right now most consumers are foolishly believing that broad access to physicians is a proxy for quality - not knowing the poor state of quality-driven medicine these days. In our market-driven health care system it is essential to involve the consumers much more in the whole process of decision making and accountability for performance. Purchasers in particular are eager to engage consumers, in the hope they will support purchasers putting pressure on health plans, physicians, and hospitals for higher quality.

In this book, Dr. David Nash, a highly respected expert, conveys useful information on how to truly connect with the consumer. The book goes through the new ways many consumers are getting involved in health care decision making and tells the reader how best to leverage these opportunities.

Passionate and wild, this Home Brew Press publication features some of the best Midwestern poetry and prose being published anywhere. Editor Mary "Casey" Martin selects carefully and skillfully arranges her selections alongside some pristine images. Winter, wolves and love are the three themes celebrated, with the anthology's soaring words and brilliant illustrations (especially DeAnn De La Ronde's cover art) hammering home the concept. Especially affecting are poems by Edith Nash, Mark Scarborough, Jean Feraca and Martin herself, as well as a snippet of a biography of famed Wisconsin naturalist Frances Hamerstrom by Helen Corneli.

I still remember this book from when I last read it when I was about 10 years old (I read it two or three times back then). I was pleased to see I could buy a copy used.

I'm an old geezer now, but I did get a kick out of this one when I was a young troublemaker. In contrast to another reviewer, I can recommend this book because it is lacking a socially redeeming message. It is simply a good read, mostly about a little boy brimming with mischief. Back then he elicited admonition and laughter. Today they would diagnosis him as having "ADHD" and put him on Ritalin. It's definitely not in the league with Huck Finn, but it is fun all the same.

This book is about a young boy called the Toad. The Toad is always getting into trouble. This is a simple and fun book to read. There are a lot of great role models in this book. Mrs. Coverlet is one of them.

Stoddard has an axe to grind. Its one, I'd like to learn about;however this load of poorly reproduced newspaper articles proves nothing. Peer reviewed articles were often incomplete. Copy used is sometimes covered in the editor's markings. The book lacks a commentary. Sadly it does nothing for the cause of removing sweeteners from the market.

Although the message may be important, this book is so poorly reproduced as to render it unreadable. It consists of bad xerox copies of newspaper articles by and about the author. All of the material is available on the internet in more readable form. It is repetitive, self-absorbed and quite unacceptable in its present form. If someone would re-type the newspaper articles so that they were readable or would just download the articles from the internet directly to print it would be worthwhile reading on this topic.

" Get your patients and friends to read Deadly Deception - Story of Aspartame and then do what you can to stop the menace!

One of the opening pages of Deadly Deception - Story of Aspartame hit me: "80% of all complaints registered with the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] concern aspartame's adverse reactions." It is now reported that five deaths and at least 92 different symptoms have resulted from its use. The list includes neurological, dermatological, cardiac, respiratory . . . all the symptoms I have ever seen reported for food sensitivities, low blood sugar, Alzheimer's, Chronic Fatigue syndrome, amalgam-filling disease and methanol poisoning. The Searle Pharmaceutical Company has actually covered up or, at the very least, failed to report adverse reactions just so the FDA would allow this product to be used by millions worldwide." -- Beloved Pediatritian, Lendon Smith, M.D. in "The Facts"

This book was horrible. I was forced to use it in a mandatory brainwash...er, history course for school. The book essentially goes like this:

We settled Massachusetts, and the indians, blacks, gays and women were persecuted.

Then, we started a westward expansion which led to persecution for indians, blacks, gays, and women.

During the revolutionary war some white guys fought or something, but it is important to note that the indians, blacks, gays...

This book is a proselyting tool, a transparent piece of propaganda. I didn't convert.

This book tries to teach history without actually including any concrete information. It outlines general trends without emphasizing the historical facts on which the trends are based. While it's certainly important to recognize progressions in history, it's extremely difficult to learn about them based only on the text's vague, 50-page summaries, all of which fail to mention any form of historical evidence.

As a student, I found this book's approach to teaching history disastrous and mildly insulting. First of all, it fails to convey even the most cursory knowledge of history by shunning, at all costs, cruel Old Regime teaching methods that might require DATE memorization or familiarity with historical FACTS. With nothing to "Lock On" to, it's very hard to retain anything. Even worse, however, are the implications of the book's approach. I like History because I enjoy being able to look at a set of evidence and trying to figure out, based on otherwise stale information, what *actually* happened, what life was like. Somehow, I got the sense that by describing outright "what life was like," the book implies that to force students to learn INFORMATION is useless, that students are unable to think for themselves and interpret historical information with any accuracy.

I think I should comment, also, on one reviewer's dismissal of this book as "Nouveau History." I come close to BEING one of the "Tenured Radicals" this reviewer had so much disdain for, and I still hated this book. I would hate it if I were communist. There's so much wrong with it that to criticize it for its left-wing perspective is plain silly.

I would recommend "The American Promise," by James L. Rourke, Micheal P. Johnson, and a few others instead.

This book provides a balanced overview of U.S. History up to 1877. The treatment of social and cultural history is particularly stong. The prose is, for the most part, quite lively.