I teach 2-6 year old children. What a great help this book has been! The book is broken down into seasons. Many projects are interchangable simply by changing the seasonal theme. The color pictures, templates and simple directions make this a MUST HAVE BOOK FOR ANY TEACHER searching for easy projects that will produce grand results.

I absolutely love this book! It is a little pricey, but well worth the money spent. I teach both elementary and middle school art and the projects in this book are easily adaptable all kids in this age range. The projects are presented with full color illustration (which certainly contributes to the cost of the printing) and easy to follow instructions. Though most of the projects would be considered 'craft' projects, there are many ideas that can easily be adapted to produce 'fine art' results.

She asks for this book to be read every night! It has great rhymes, and now she can almost recite every last word in each stanza -- and she's only 29 months old! It teaches manners, and is very colorful. The shape is great, too, with the handle just like a purse. It's hard to see, but front of the book has sparkle "jewels" attached to the front. The book is getting worn, but the jewels are still stuck on!

Nicely portable and not annoying to read a hundred times, my 2 1/2 year old daughter *loves* this book!

Even if you are not a fan of Barney, (most parents aren't) your child will LOVE this book. My daughter is 17 months old and can tell me what sound each animal on the farm makes. She loves lifting the flaps and discovering the animals behind them! Highly recommend!

This book is a sensational book for a toddler to begin learning his farm animals. Toddler's love it

I have a two year old and he loves reading this book. We have a routine now where I read and he does the sound and hand motions at the end of each page, for each tool. I highly recommend it.

Great book for young kids who like both Barney and tools. My 2-year old tried opening the toolbox Barney is holding on the cover when he first got this book! On each page Barney, BJ and Baby Bop are shown working with different tools: a hammer, a saw, a screwdriver and a paintbrush. Everywhere my son goes, he takes along "Barney's Toolbox" grabbing it by the handle cut-out from the board book itself. I'm pleasantly surprised it's still in good condition after 7 months of constant arduous use by my toddler.

San Francisco columnist Tanzy Harrington classifies the world quite simply around the concept that two types of males populate it: wolves and sheep. Tanzy prefers the dangerous wolves as her bed mate over the flock of dependable husband material. The key to her unusual attitude is that she loves them and leaves them with her heart untouched.

Her Aunt Millicent feels that Tanzy is missing out on real life so she chooses a candidate for her niece. Tanzy immediately blows away Millicent's selection as a sheep or why else would her aunt select him. In actuality Millicent hired security expert Riley Parrish to protect Tanzy from an anonymous fan threatening her. As Riley escorts Tanzy throughout the Bay area they fall in love, but she begins to wonder if he might be a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Fans of chick lit will enjoy this contemporary romance due to the uniqueness of Tanzy. The story line moves slowly forward, as the suspense elements remain de-emphasized though suspects surface. Instead, the tale focuses on Tanzy's Baa Humbug attitude towards sheep and her doubts about which classification Riley belongs to while she disregards the well known fact that wolves mate for life.

Harriet Klausner

Ms. Kauffman just keeps getting better and better. This is a book for all of those who feel like they should be reading Bridget Jones type stuff, but want a good old romance. I found Tanzy to be a well-developed character, flaws and all, and Riley was just great as a wolf in sheep's clothing. The secondary characters spice up the tale without distracting from Tanzy and Riley. I'm really looking forward to more books by Donna Kauffman!

I ordered this book the same time I ordered the Chefmate bread machine, & am very glad I did. The recipes are super - very different & varied - and the baking & ingredient hints are VERY handy. Every recipe I used came out perfect, & we now have bread at almost every meal. The pumpernickle was great for lunch sandwiches, the Stollen unbeatable for breakfast toasted, & the cheese & onion, outstanding! Every bread machine user ought to have this book. Thanks, Donna German. (p.s. Can't wait to try my new pasta machine & her pasta book) Onita

I've had this book (as well as the four previous books in this series) for over three years, and I still use it almost daily. I highly recommend the Potato Bread and the Dill Onion Bread. Yummmmmmmmy! As with all her other books, German includes basic bread machine instruction, LOTS of great hints, trouble shooting and even instructions (and great recipes) for making rolls and pizza using the dough cycle. These are the only bread machine cookbooks I've ever needed, and I think they are absolutely great buys. Try it, you won't be sorry!

From the foreword written by Erma Bombeck:

I do not know nor have I ever met the ten women who authored this book.

But we share a common bond. All of us were watching our prime-time lives pass by when a voice announced, "We interrupt this life to bring you cancer." We didn't even have time to turn the dial.

I have read a hundred books on breast cancer - war stories of women who did battle with the most frightening adversary in their lives. But BREAST CANCER? LET ME CHECK MY SCHEDULE! is different. These are personal stories of ten women, all over thirty, who pursue careers outside their homes......the way they accepted their diagnosis, the decision sthey made, their approach to therapy and the way they coped all reflected their experience in the workplace.

I wanted to be part of this book mostly because of its title. It fits me to a "T." I too am a working woman complete with a little calendar that tells me when to have a headache. If it isn't penciled in, I don't have one. On April 23, 1992 under "Things to Do Today" I jotted down, "radical mastectomy, noon."

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As I read this book, I was hoping it would address the one emotion that all cancer patients rarely speak about: the uncertainty of our future. It did. We are a unique group who have been allowed to face our mortality, and oddly enough, it has made us better people for it. There isn't a survivor who doesn't admit she has changed. ........

I've heard women say, "I can't read cancer books. They're downers. BREAST CANCER? LET ME CHECK MY SCHEDULE is not a downer. How could it be when you enter the lives of these ten women who triumph over an invasion of their bodies. These are women with drive and purpose who aren't ready to give up. Cancer? It's a full week. I'll have my people call your people and set something up.

This is a concept book, as you might guess from the title. I didn't much care for the concept.Ten busy professional women, all initially diagnosed with Stage I or II breast cancer, were invited by McCarthy Medical Marketing and Innovative Medical Education Consortium, Inc. to form a focus group that would help to foreground the needs of their special category - busy professional women with breast cancer - for the edification of medical personnel and other cancer care providers. The resulting book, put together in-house by MMM and IMEC, "is intended to provide health-care professionals with insight into what makes this group of women 'different' and, in turn, to enhance their relationships with them." And how are these women "different?" The book explains, "For all ten authors, the diagnosis of breast cancer was a major inconvenience because...it interrupted their busy, active, and fulfilled lives." It turns out none of them felt comfortable crying in doctor's offices or losing control. Nor enjoyed the disagreeable task of "comforting distraught well-wishers" such as their friends and extended family. Nor - back to the title - easily found time for treatment and other medical visits. Why, one woman had the unimaginable experience of being put on hold 15 minutes for her lab results! Whew, what a relief that the rest of us don't have any of that to worry about. As the book progresses and this offensive start-off impression recedes into the background, the characters become more sympathetic and their medical and professional fates interesting. So I'm inclined to hope that these 10 authors didn't quite anticipate how the final draft would make them look. Every woman who has breast cancer has a right to our sympathy and concern. That goes for busy professionals too. Will appeal to: Obsessive fact-gatherers trying to assess their options and eager to learn what happened to other people with a similar lifestyle.

This very surprizing (sorry!) book by a very contraversial author is a true prize. Maybe it had to stay hidden like Terma Teaching until the right time in His Story.

I have read a lot of Tibetan Buddhist texts but this one seems to put it together in a modern, understandable, workable form.

Thank you, Osel Tendzin. Such a shame you had to die in the attempt.

So many books on philosophy and religion talk "at" the system rather than offering a hands on real life feel. Buddha in the Palm of Your Hand is one of the rare books that leaves you feeling like you have something to actually go with in a practical sense...not just another idea to ponder and let your head go crazy with...no pedantic BS here! This easy to read book leaves you with a sense of peace and purpose. It also helps to de-complex a system that people have managed to make more complex than was intended. Loved it

I thought I knew all there was to know about chat rooms, but boy was I wrong. This book brought stuff to light that I had no idea existed. Please if you are a parent read this book. This writer tells it like it is and I mean exactly like it is. Some of the chat room talk was to long, but overall it was a book I couldn't put down.

Wow! A real eye opener. I could not put it down. Takes the reader through the sins, pleasures, and dangers of chatroooms. Be warned this is graphic adult material, but well worth the reading. A must for every parent with kids on the Internet!

This book provides you an opportunity to know about the lives of Chuck & Donna Thomas and their wonderful work at Project Partner.

Chuck & Donna went through a lot, took tremendous risks (personally and financially), and accomplished so much in furthering Gods Kingdom. This book is a great document of the eternal legacy of their work following God's leading by stepping out of the cookie-cutter approach to missions we have traditionally known.

Moreover, this is a testament to the extraordinary things that God can do through ordinary people who will listen and follow His guidance, wherever He may lead... even over "mountains".

Because of Donna Thomas, I've stooped in the hot afternoon sun of India to give a cup of cool water and a ladle of steaming rice to lepers in India. I've seen the orphan children who were left to die in the streets now learning to read and write in the classrooms of the children's homes. I've walked with barefoot pastors into those remote villages and watched the light shine in the eyes of the people as they heard, for the very first time in their lives, about a God who loves them and can help them with their problems.

This book is a collection of stories by a woman who was once a stay-at-home mom in Kansas until that Christmas when she and her husband and her three boys crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico to visit a missionary. The stories trace the founding of a prototype organization that has changed the face of missions around the world.

Climb Another Mountain will take you to India too, and Cuba, and China, and Nicaragua, and Guatemala as you relive with the author some of the most amazing experiences in short-term missions you will ever hear. But mostly, and more importantly, it will take you to the foot of the "mountain" your feet are intended to climb. It will challenge you and direct you to step outside of your world into a world of adventure with God.