I read this book as a child and it was a wonderful book.You really feel that you are there with the characters.I went on to read other books by the same author all were written with the same ability to take you to that moment and share it with the characters.Many years later I was fortunate enough to meet someone through our mutual love of horses,who became a good friend.She told me that she was a writer and yes she was Helen Griffiths.The main character of this book was a real dog who the family had adopted from the streets in Spain,I met her too and she was a fabulous personality in her own right.She died of old age surrounded by those who loved her.I feel privileged to have known her and her family,and having known what she went through in her earlier life makes it amazing that she was such an even tempered sweet natured soul.Highly recommended reading for kids (even grown up ones).A book that will definitely be on my sons' reading list

I read this book when I was a kid several times, I absolutley loved it. It kept me reading and also taught me valuable lessons. It teaches compassion- you are reading this with the perspective of a homeless abused dog. It has many adventures and is just a great book for the imagination and soul. I recommend it, as soon as my little boy can read I definatley want this book to be on his list!

This book is a wonderful epic tale with a message that tells you how strong a mother can really be when her children are on the line. It is a story that shows the ups and downs of motherhood, and childhood through a dog's perspective. One example of the ups of their lives were each puppy needed food from their mother, and every day the mother ventured out into the world to get it. Another example, but this time the downs were the mother left to get food,and the pups' got to excited and left the home. The went far away from their current position until their couriosity, and anxiety drove them so far away they couldnt find their way back. Now, this is where the proverb couriosity killed the cat, or in this case kills the dogs would come to place. Never the less, I thought that this book was wonderful, and it even made me cry at some parts. I recommend this book to anyone who is someone who loves epics, but still kind at heart.

Although I'm extremely busy at work I found time to read this delightful story. Not only is it educational, but it is interesting and a joy for any child to read. My ten year old daughter has read it a dozen times and even my six year old likes it! The author, Mr. Carson should be getting the publicity he deserves. I plan on telling all my co-workers and friends about The Living Mountain. Mr. Carson is also the author a nonfictional work on Mt. St. Helens I enjoyed immensely. Rob Carson is the next great author of the Millenium. Tell everyone you know to buy his books and watch for new ones coming out.

Although I'm extremely busy at work I found time to read this delightful story. Not only is it educational, but it is interesting and a joy for any child to read. My ten year old daughter has read it a dozen times and even my six year old likes it! The author, Mr. Carson should be getting the publicity he deserves. I plan on telling all my co-workers and friends about The Living Mountain. Mr. Carson is also the author a nonfictional work on Mt. St. Helens I enjoyed immensely. Rob Carson is the next great author of the Millenium. Tell everyone you know to buy his books and watch for new ones coming out.

the author is my dad so naturally i love it but it was informative as well as fun to read and the climax, plot and characters were so well described! good job dad!

Excellent information on how chemicals in every day things are harming us. The authors also list alternative products to use, and at the end of each section the authors give resources on where to get them. Basically its a book on how to live an organic lifestyle, which is much more healthier.

Its filled with information I never knew before, very very informative, and very much worth the money. I'm glad that I bought this book.

I found this text to be a totally informative and intelligent read. I am constantly using it as a reference book. It outlines organic living for the garden, family and home. Wonderful antedotes and tips on living an organic lifestyle in the everyday world grace the pages. Clear and concise writing together with inspiring photographs make this a great and colourful resouce.

If you have ever wondered why some of your friends are vegetarian, and why this movement is growing so fast, or why people recyle, etc. this is a great place to find the answers. A very inviting reading on why these things are important, how you can get involved-and might I add-feel "normal" about it. Toss off keeping up with the spending habits and overconsumerism of your friends, and get back to the basics...eatting meat without hormones or antibiotics added; recycling, and taking responsibility for yourself and the planet. If you don't, who will?

This book contains many undocumented tricks. This is a book that an Access developer better has to enrich your database applications.

This is one of the easiest books to use. It sits on my desk within arms reach. The Q&A format, helps you get answers to questions you didn't know you had. This is a must for anyone developing in Access, beginners to experts

Without a doubt the best, easiest to follow guide on advanced Access 2.0 features and programming. This is the one reference I go to over and over again when trying to solve a tricky problem or find a more elegant solution. It details many undocumented and underdocumented features that make Access 2.0 the powerful tool that it is. This book gave me the quantum leap in understanding Access Basic and associated advanced appliation development tools. I recommend it to anyone building Access applications, large and small, and for power users who want to improve the look and feel of their databases

This book is in my top ten of best-books-ever-written. There is always action, suspense, and it pulls you in to Moontime and the other times that Minty visits. This book is seems very, very real even though it is very unreal.
If you liked this book, you should read The Watchers by Helen Cresswell or Wait Till Helen Comes.

I think ýt is a very fascinating book and it is my homework, too. I must prepare summary of "Moondial". My work is really difficult.

I thought that this book was quite amazing. It combines normal Helen Cresswell writings with a touch of fantasy and mysticism yet it still remains light and easy. I would recommend this book for young fantasy lovers as I read it when I was 9 and thoroughly enjoyed it and I still read it now even though I'm 13! You're bound to love this book because it really is one of Helen Cresswell's best.

An excellent book, completely readable and very informative. I visited the devastated area by chopper within a year after the big one, and Carson's book told me that a lot of the interpretations I heard in 1981 are no longer considered valid. I particularly enjoyed the appraisal of Weyerhauser's tree farms vs natural reforestation. There are favorable points for both, and it's essentially a matter of choosing the scientific or the industrial benefits. I bought the book at the Monument (Forest Service, not Park Service) and reading it while I was there made it all the more exciting. My only complaint: the page layouts. Too many tall, narrow pictures are printed across the binding. Photos of these dimensions would easily fit on a single page, and their impact and beauty are diminished when so much of them is buried in the binding. Possibly this flaw would be less objectionable in a sewn hardcover edition. Also, pictures are often printed as insets in larger photos -- which suggests to me that the book design was considered more important than the photographs. The illustrations are great complements to a splendid text, and they deserve kinder treatment.

The eruption of Mt. St. Helens is captured in photographic glory for any who would learn about the explosion of the volcano and the subsequent recovery of its surrounding environment. Black and white and some color photos accompany extensive descriptions of the eruption, its short- and long-term effects, and environmental changes.

i love this book and the doofus who thought this book wasnt that great(the one below me) needs to read it again he says it moved quickly to the recovery of the mountain: look at the title! thats what it is about retard.you should recognize a great writer when you see one. humph

Helen Chapman's letters provide an interesting and fascinating personal story of an army wife in deep south Texas at the end of the Mexican War. Written primarily to her parents in Massachusetts, the correspondence covers a four-year period and details the domestic, social, and official life that she experienced as the spouse of Captain William Chapman, a U.S. Army quartermaster who exercised important responsibilities in Matamoros, Fort Brown, and the coastal ports of Isabel and Brazos Santiago. Although Helen Chapman does not provide the particulars of her husband's military duties, she sketches an outline of his activities as the army left Mexico and established military posts immediately north of the Rio Grande. The most absorbing aspects of the letters are Chapman's descriptions of the land, the people, and the border life and culture of the south Texas frontier. The depiction of her personal and family life round out this story, revealing a remarkable and intelligent woman who adapted easily to the country and enjoyed the surprises that it provided.

This work contributes useful insights for both military and social historians. The letters that deal with the United States's military withdrawal from Mexico provide bits of interesting information regarding Captain Chapman's role as defacto mayor of Matamoros as well as his responsibilties in moving equipment and supplies across the river and building Fort Brown. It is also interesting to note that Captain Chapman's duties required him and his wife to travel regularly between Fort Brown and the Gulf coast and to maintain homes in both locations.

Military historians will also find interesting the mention of individual military personnel who visited the Chapman home and about whom Helen Chapman commented. Equally interesting are her observations about Mexican military officers Mariano Arista, commandant of Matamoros and later president of Mexico, and Francisco Avalos,also commandant of Matamoros.

Chapman's letters are a rich treasure t! rove for social and family historians. She comments extensively on subjects ranging from diet and religion to temperance and the social customs and mores of the Mexican borderlanders. A faith in the benefits of education inspired her campaign for both Sunday and regular schools. Her attempts to deal with the guilt caused by the separation from her young son, who remained with her parents in Massachusetts, is evident in much of the early correspondence, as is the joy and pride that she felt in him once the youngster joined the family in south Texas. Letters relating to her own pregnancy and her bout with the dreaded cholera reveal attitudes about mid-nineteenth-century medical problems and their treatment. The social problems of children and family are also emphasized when the Chapmans, at the behest of a Mexican man, "adopt" his daughter and then give her up when the father demands her return.

[T]his work provides a fascinating and riveting account of a four-year period in one woman's life.

This engaging collection of letters provides a vivid personal reaction to life on the southernmost frontier of Texas during the four years following the Mexican War, first in Matamoros during the American occupation, and subsequently at Fort Brown, Brazos de Santiago, and Point Isabel. The principal corresondent is Helen Ellsworth Blair Chapman, the intelligent, compassionate, spirted, and devoted wife of West point-educated Captain William Warren Chapmen, U. S. Army quartermaster at Matamoros and later at Fort Brown and Corpus Christi. He too is represented in the correspondence, but it is through Helen's New Englander eyes, principally in letters to her mother in Westfield, Massachusetts, that we see life in the Lower Rio Grande.

The compiler/editor, a great great grandson of the Chapmans, seems to have chosen wisely among the largesse of the Chapman Family Papers deposited in the Barker Texas History Center.

Thanks to the preservation of this splendid collection and to Caleb Coker's judicious efforts in assembling these letters, both the general reader and the historian have access to an enjoyable, enlightening account of a distinctive frontier experience. Rarely do private letters possess the literary grace, the intelligent observations of new surroundings and acquaintances, and the warmth of family relationships on display in this volume, resulting in a welcome addition to the limited body of published material on the history of the Lower Rio Grande.

Letters stored in an attic for nearly a century and a half are the subject of a fascinating book edited by the letter writer's great-great grandson.

Caleb Coker, an attorney in Jacksonville, Fla., took on the task of preserving New Englander Helen Chapman's voluminous correspondence from the Texas frontier, where she lived with her husband, William, a West Pointer who built Fort Brown and helped found Brownsville.

The News from Brownsville is more than just good reading. Coker has done a fine job of combining the letters with newspaper accounts of the day to create a chronicle of the frontier experience and a portrait of an exceptional woman.

When Helen Chapman left her home in Massachusetts to join her husband after a two-year separation while he participated in the Mexican War, she also left behind (with her mother) her 8-year-old son, Willie, whom she would not see for 20 months. This was a great hardship, but life on the south Texas frontier was too unsettled for a child. For the first six months after Helen landed at Brazos Santiago in January 1848, the Chapmans lived in Matamoros, Mexico. At war's end, they moved across the Rio Grande, where Major Chapman built Fort Brown; it was a primitive home, but the community quickly developed and Helen worked hard for the establishment of Brownsville's first Protestant church in 1850.

Live on the edge of civilization transformed Helen from a woman of privilege who had never had to think much about social concerns to one who was right smack in the middle of them: violence, poverty, intemperance and its results, disease, war, racism, slavery, the ravages of weather and the lack of educational and religious facilities. She wrote about them and she worked hard for change, soliciting funds from Northern friends for schools. She is now credited as the first Anglo to demand civil rights for Mexicans living in Texas. She also defined racism in modern terms as "as dreary hatred (to) be subdued between men who are now living side-by-side as citizen! s of a common republic."

Coker's narrative notes placing the letters in their historical contex and appendices containing profiles of those whose paths crossed the Chapman's and excerpts from newspaper articles are particularly helpful.

Helen Chapman is a woman every reader will be glad to have met, and her correspondence captures a time and place with great clarity.

This book held my attention from beginning to end. I found the story line woven with a lot of contrasts both dark and light. Ms. Haddads ability to turn a phrase and get my attention was amazing. I am truly looking forward to her next endeavor...........if it is half as good as "Picture of Guilt" she will have another hit on her hands..........with anticipation I am, Hope Waldron Samuels (Nom de Plume) of Scottsdale, Arizona

OK, ladies, we all know "Romance Fiction" contributes bodice-ripping escapism to the murky lives of the barely literate and easily bored. Much of it is cranked out in precise, formulized and predictable cliches. It's long on sweat and short on substance and structure. Others certainly admit to reading it; we don't! When "Mystery" is added to the recipe, we ask why the hell the heroine goes back for more...abuse?. . .submission? Essentially, that is the only "mystery."

Not so in Helen Haddad's debut effort, "Picture of Guilt," which presents a subtle element often absent in this genre: PLOT! She gives us a well-crafted and cohesive whodunit set in Granite Run, a rural suburb of Pittsburg. Attention to detail and plenty of indirect (but deceptive) clues entice readers to stay with her on a convoluted path of treachery and greed. Off-beat characters, plenty of red herrings, and gore galore are interspersed with lovely descriptive passages. Great dialog between the principles includes several laugh-out-loud gems.

Perhaps there's potential for a television series under the Jerry Bruckheimer umbrella, as la "CSI." It could be called "Forensic Art Granite Run." Or not.

It's all good, unpredictable stuff, lots of fun. To echo the heroine's enticing post-coital request, "May I please have some more?"

This lady does not insult the readers intelligence! Her characters have depth and substance, her plot is complex enough to befuddle ones best attempts to out think her. In other words a fun ride, a great read and when is her next book out????

Having never read one of Helen Mittermeyer's books, I didn't know what to expect, except from reading the back. The Heroine, Princess Iona, didn't have the fears of a normal woman of that time, because she trained as a warrior, a leader of her people and a healer. She had gone through a horrible experience as a child, and thought she would never marry because of it.

The Sinclair was the Laird of his people, he too had gone through adversity as a child, and had overcome, and reclaimed his people and land. He thought when he married, it would be a "marriage of convenience" politically. So when he met Iona, and her pride and courage was something he thought only men had, he defiantly was intrigued. And the more he was with her, the more he wanted her for his very own.

But both still had enemies, and both had to learn to trust the other.

A very good example of Medieval/Viking story, with believable people, motives and actions.

This is one of my favorite books. It has strong characters, strong emotion, and realistic conflicts. It is set in Scotland during the 11th century, and vividly portrays the life of that era. I understand it is out of print, but if you can find one for auction snap it up.

I read this book while camping.I stayed up until 12 O'clock A.M reading it,it was too good to put down."Princess of the Veil" is an excellent book to read if you like strong women in historical fiction.It's worth your time and you'll be happy you read it!

This book defined some of the mechanics that help children learn to read. I found it useful in providing me with some basic knowledge that will help me make reading time with my kids more meaningful and beneficial for them. The second half of the book provides 60 book recommendations for preschoolers along with activities to provide the child an opportunity to relate the story to real life. The examples in book provided me insight my child's perspective on learning to read. I would recommend this book to anyone with a preschooler.

In Ready For Reading: A Handbook For Parents Of Preschoolers, Ashley Bishop, Ruth Helen Yopp, and Hallie Kay Yopp collaborate to provide clear, concise information about how preschool children learn to read and how parents can substantially contribute to their child's ability to read with competence and enjoyment. Ready For Reading is enhanced with sixty engaging and "kid-tested" book-sharing activities, recommendations for more than 400 books and 400 poems for early readers; as well as convenient end-of-book indexes to help parents quickly and easily locate the sharing activity best suited to their child's situation and interests. Ready For Reading is highly recommended and invaluable for concerned parents wanting to insure their child's academic readiness for school through preschool reading readiness and learning activities, skills, and abilities.

I stumbled upon this book while looking for information on dyslexia. As a speech/language pathologist, I work with pre-schoolers and primary grade students with language difficulties, speech disorders and phonological disorders. This book has become a wonderful guide for my clients' parents. The authors have cleverly laid out a fun and inventive handbook for reading to any child. Each "Book Share" has valuable information to help make the reading process fun as well as valuable for various language processes and pre-reading skills without being "work". If you are an educator as I am, you probably have these books as I do already. I read a lot of these to my children when they were young... Whether a parent or educator these books are timeless. I still get warm fuzzies... You will not be diappointed. I credit these authors with a well thought out format.