Excellent overview of BRASSENS's life and career.By reading this,you'll know the important things about him;complete discography;his relation with JEANNE and her husband;the way PATACHOU first gave him his start by featuring him in her cabaret and by recording a few of his songs;you'll also learn that his misoginy was often overlooked in the fifties.In fact,he had a great tenderness feeling for them(women).It is also very interesting to know that behind many songs hide many of his friends with whom he had a lifetime relation.BRASSENS has influenced many FRENCH singers like MAXIME LE FORESTIER and RENAUD ,who like him gave emphasis to the lyrics of their songs.There is also about BRASSENS a terrific book released this year(i hope that they will translate it in ENGLISH);it's a complete scrapbook full of pictures,featuring originals sleeve LPS among other things;the title is BRASSENS AU BOIS DE MON COEUR 30 ANS DE CHANSONS by JEAN-PAUL SERMONTE.

I was very satisisfied. I found it to be very helpful in teaching a club about wolves. I think it would be helpful for teachers as much as it helped me.

This book really seemed to affect me when I was young. I first read it in fourth grade and continued to read it at least once each year until I was in high school. The story centers around fishing, backpacking, and nature. Two young cousins go hiking looking for the origins of a very large Rainbow Trout.

Read this book in leiu of a vacation--it is just as relaxing and you don't have to travel!

I read this book in the 70's when it first came out. Georges Joubert was the coach of our ski team at the time and the most respected coach I have ever known. His book is very explicit and easy to understand and follow. The French method is tried and true and the best one going. Read the book and follow his advice to imporve your racing.

My daughter finally caught the reading bug at 11 1/2 thanks to this author and the Julie Wolf Pack series. My daughter can't put these books down! I am so grateful she finally found something she's interested in. Great stuff!

Best-loved children's nature writer Jean Craighead George generously lends her most dedicated fans and admirers a look into her personal life in this dramatic autobiography. She covers her life from the shaky beginnings of co-writing with a dominant husband, to the proud winning of the Pulitzer Prize of children's books, the Newbery Medal. Struggling to achieve independence and recognition for her work, Ms. George does a good job of portraying her feelings toward her life as a parent, writer, and naturalist. Throughout her life Ms. George constantly compares herself with the animals she studies and writes about--from the song sparrow couples who befriend her and her husband, to the matriarchal nanny leaders of rocky mountain goats and the magnificent black alpha male wolf of a Mt. McKinley pack. In doing this she forms an increasingly powerful bond with the natural world and her words build more meaning throughout her long career. Ms. George covers the turbulent and problematic events leading up to, and following, her separation from an unsympathetic husband, the joys and troubles of raising three children, and the constant struggle to deal with her femininity in a time when men were often more highly regarded than women. When times are hard--when teenage drug dealers and little money threaten--Ms. George always finds strength in the natural world both inside and outside her home. Her pets, besides the usual dogs and cats, often included a menagerie of wild beasts--raccoons, bats, skunks, crows, owls, and frogs--providing humor and warmth both to Ms. George's life and to the book. Outdoors, Ms. George spent hours observing the characters in her books--the goats of GOING TO THE SUN, the gulls of GULL NUMBER 737. She dreamed of living off the land and surviving among nature like Sam Gribley in MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. There is a long, fascinating lead up to Ms. George's greatest work, JULIE OF THE WOLVES, in which she journeys to the tundra of Arctic Alaska to observe and communicate with wolves and befriend the efficient Eskimo people. JOURNEY INWARD was published in 1982, and since then Ms. George has written dozens more marvelous children's books and continues to write in her home in Chappaqua, New York. This is a fascinating glimpse into the life of our finest children's nature writer, an author of over eighty books, and a spectacular person.

This little book is a facinating verbatum collection of personal accounts of a common foot soldiers experiences as a soldier enlisted with 3 brothers and a cousin to fighrt for the North. The insight expressed by this uneducated but observant man,his candor in exposing his doubts and fears during this horribly intense time makes informativem heartwarming reading that even young student will benefit from.
Ken Burns of P.B.S fame and Former President Wm. Clintom were also interested in reading this book.

I love *good* seafood and I am very picky about taste. I have a small collection of ~15 cookbooks and I have looked at over 50+ while browsing in bookstores. I got this cook book as a gamble (you can't browse when you shop online) but because I love seafood and the book was inexpensive, I said "What the heck" and brought it. What I've tried from the book was simply delicious. It's well written, easy to follow, and for the real chefs out there, you can either read it for a skeleton for what you want to make or maybe give you thoughts of different combinations of ingredients you didn't think of or have forgotten about. I normally do not rank many things very highly but this is one of the few that made it to the top of my list. Oh yes, did I mention that the book is less expensive and has better receipes than other more expensive cookbooks out there? One thing I should mention is that it's not just a seafood cookbook. Happy Cooking!

I thought I'd take this space to review not only THE MOON OF THE OWLS but the whole Thirteen Moons series, rather than all thirteen books in different areas. Jean Craighead George is the author of the JULIE OF THE WOLVES books, the MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN trilogy, and more than eighty other spectacular nature books for young readers. With the Thirteen Moons series, she introduced the worlds of different, often little-known-about animals to children. Now, even though the books are over thirty years old and out-of-print I, a huge Jean Craighead George admirer and nature lover, am enjoying reading them one by one, checking them out of my local library. Here is a list of the Thirteen Moons series: The Moon of the. . . Alligators Bears Chickarees Deer Fox Pups Moles Monarch Butterflies Mountain Lions Owls Salamanders Wild Pigs Winter Bird Gray Wolves The stories concern the habits and activities of all of these different animals, under the light of the wintery full moon. These would be excellent resources for a nature or science class, for children can learn about animal behavior, and the cycle of the moon around the Earth, and enjoy doing so. Each book is interesting and well-written, as are just about every one of Ms. George's books. (Moles? you may say. Who wants to read about moles? Really, you'll want to go out in your backyard looking for these small, but nonetheless exciting creatures once you read the book!) I wish these would be re-released, as were VULPES THE RED FOX, DIPPER OF COPPER CREEK, and a few other of Ms. George's books. But no matter how you read them, you can't help falling in love with them. Any nature lover will find herself looking closer at the lunar surface, more alertly at the soil, more admiringly at the birds. The illustrations for each book are just fine, too, but the true poetry lies in the words of Jean Craighead George, a naturalist and one of our finest children's writers.