Perfect for the fledgling gardener, this sturdy board book teaches toddlers about vegetables, colors and gardening in simple language. Bright illustrations with rabbits on every page "helping" Andy with his garden (and getting very fat!) A good first book for short attention spans.

This is an excellent book which quickly became a library favorite for my daughter.
A mouse finds a big cheese and eats it all up. The first five pages are odd-shaped and resemble a cheese. As the mouse eats the cheese, bite marks appear and the pages get smaller until there are only crumbs. The next page is full size hiding the surprise pop-up ending.
The pop-up is very well done. It jumps out of the book and is larger that the page size emphasizing the difference in mouse sizes.
Several things appeal to me as a parent. The metaphor 'eat up and get big' is expressed humorously. The various words used to describe eating change on each page. The odd-shaped pages are easy for little fingers to find, turn and resist sticking together. And Big and Small are demonstrated but not over-emphasized.
This is the first in a four book series including: "The Green Leaf", "The Fuzzy Peach", and "The Silver Dandelion".

My husband is Jewish, but I and my son are not, so as we celebrated Hanukkah this year, we wanted to get a book that would be interesting to everyone. We originally found the book at the library. It is wonderful book and has everything we were looking for: music (Hannukah songs and the tunes for the blessings), poems, stories, recipes, games and of course the Blessings with the words in both English and Hebrew. The illustrations are colorful and really reflect the joy of Hanukkah. We liked it so much that we purchased it so that we can make it a part of our Hanukkah tradition.

Nanney is able to dissect the personality of Dos Passos extraordinarily well. In addition, her writing style has become a favorite of mine. I highly recommend this book to those who are interested in Dos Passos, as well as those who are interested in American Studies in general.

The authors give a full account of this historical trial. I had no background knowledge of the Nuremberg Trial, and I found this book easy to read as well as complete and detailed enough. I would complement it with Nuremberg's Diary, by Gilbert, to get a deeper insight of the defendants personalities. Although I can't compare this book with the others available on the subject, I would certainly recommend it as an excellent choice.

Distinguished British journalist John Tusa is of Czech descent and a child refugee from Nazism. While this accounts for the passion that is evident in every line of this vast book, it does not distort this excellent and beautifully written account of the greatest trial in history: only motivate the authors enough to produce not only an impressively well researched, but also a remarkably well written history that is a pleasure to read. Professional historians may find unprofessional the occasional outburst at some more than usually egregious piece of self-righteousness by this or that defendant; for instance, Neurath's claim that as Hitler and Himmler tended to have their crime planning conferences late at night, he could not be expected to attend them - he was a sound sleeper. The Tusas insert an editorial comment about sleeping the sleep of the righteous while your troops despoil and murder; which a professional historian would not have. But then, the subject matter calls for indignation. The heart of this story is the reaction of twenty human beings, some of quite high talents, to the work of systematic and committed evil; and as the Tusas show, only one of them - the least guilty, Fritzsche - ever actually showed that he understood the reality of what they were doing. Even those of the others who did denounce Hitler from the dock - Speer and Schirach - only blamed him for what he had done to Germany; and the apparent repentance of one of the biggest of them, Hans Frank, could never, in most observers' eyes, be separated from maudlin self-pity.
This book has a few flaws. Typical of the journalist's trade, which is to familiarize him or herself with enough of the evidence to write credibly about any subject, it shows excellent research on the Trial itself - the Tusas have read all the transcripts and interviewed large numbers of witnesses - but far less about the background of Nazism. As a result, it quotes as Gospel the testimony of Gisevius, who was wrong about at least two facts on which he is quoted uncritically: the Nazis did not in fact burn the Reichstag (and therefore his detailed ascription of the fire to Goering was sheer fantasy) and Rommel, who died as a Resistance martyr, was certainly not "a typical Party general". Also, the Tusas are excellent on the British, American and German side, but seem to have made no effort to document themselves on the French and Russian, and as a result tend to downplay some of the Allies' contribution. It took Dan Van Der Vat's critical biography of Speer to point out that the negative assessment of Speer's lawyer, made by one of the British judges and uncritically repeated by the Tusas, is in fact the result of different expectations of what a lawyer's role should be, and that Speer's lawyer was actually good enough to keep his client's neck out of the noose - where, almost everyone agrees, it belonged.
Taking all this into consideration, this is still an excellent, well researched and beautifully written work, taking the time to describe almost all aspects of a monumental and historic trial. I recommend it almost unreservedly to anyone who wishes to familiarize him or herself with a particularly odious period of history.

Don't let any of today's youngsters know that this book exists--they would hoot in derision! Yet this is a luxury edition of the 1903 musical operetta by Victor Herbert, including some music. Accompanied by wonderful illustrations by Victoria Lisi, this volume has preserved the script and even lists the turn-of-the-century cast.

Sugary tale about a stereotyped rich and hateful villain trying to force a sweet young thing to marry him. Many children and even some toys help foil the miser, when he invades the sanctity and threatens the innocence of Toyland itself. The script abounds in terrible puns and a simplistic plot--virtually impossible for kids of the 90's to appreciate.

Toys and dolls plus a kindly toymaker come to the rescue, as the youngsters from Mother Goose Land flee to Toyland to further their dreams and escape their nightmares. The little old Toymaker speaks as the true spirit of Christmas about the importance of bringing joy to young children. Browse this lovely edition whenever you want to return to those ingenuos days of yore--Childhood!