What's tangy and juicy and red all over? A PASSION FOR RED! In this clever cornucopia you'll find the apple, fire engine, lobster, valentine, stop sign, Santa Claus, Judy Garland's legendary red slippers, and lots more. What fun!

This book was entertaining and fact-filled. Only Ellen Stern and Nancy Weber (what a pair!) could think of such an intriguing idea. Full of pictures and facts on the color red. There's so much more to know than you think! Before this book my favorite color was blue. Now it's red.

This cheerful, charming little book is perfect as a hostess gift, a stocking stuffer, a birthday remembrance, or a present for someone who just plain loves the color red. It's a real pick-me-up!

If I had to pick one book that I am the most glad I bought (when it comes to teaching), it would be this one. The book is broken down into short chapters (a page or two long.) Each chapter addresses a different 'saying' that you might use in your classroom. Some are thing you hear ALL the time, and would never think they would be harmful to the students. This book is a quick read--it's easy to break it up into small parts. Overall, I don't know how ANYONE could be sorry that they bought this book.

This book should be in the hands of every teacher. The authors patiently go through most of the phrases that teachers use DAILY with children and explain their effects on the students. They detail how to make teacher responses better and how to make the talk with children more effective, more humane, and more supportive. This book was published fairly long ago, but the information is as relevant as if it had been published yesterday.

While searching for bibliography for one of my workshops, I came across this wonderful book which focuses on almost every aspect of the teaching-learning situation. It is a must for new teachers as well as the old, great for parents too. If any one book can raise awareness of the impact that the language patterns we use in the classroom have upon our students, this is definitely the one.

I met these authors back in 1983 when I was starting my own word processing business. Their book is still helpful to me today in various areas. It's the best book out there for anyone wanting to start a word processing book.

A wonderful collection of poems that will touch your heart.

I was with a friend in a bookstore today and we were commentingon books we remembered reading. This was one that came up. I read itabout 3 years ago and have never forgotten it. I LOVED it soo much that I search all over for the second, but have never been able to find it and it's now out of print! The books about two twin girls who never knew they were twins and don't know their real parents. One twin moves to the same town the other twins in and they meet, but they don't realized that they're twins. It's an awesome book, and I totally suggest it to EVERYONE! I loved it and I'm sure you will too.

"The Life Swap" sits on my bedside table, ready for me to pick it up at almost any time. I bought this book about 20 years ago on the "sale" table at a Long Island book store and quickly became absorbed in it. It gave me a glimpse into the early-70's, when I had graduated from high school and lived on the fringe of that generation. I enjoyed it thoroughly and thought it reflected the times, the life choices, and the baby boomers in a realistic and entertaining light. Years later, I have wanted to read a sequel--to see how Nancy Weber (who pulled no punches on her choices and lifestyle) and the other people featured in the book have lived their lives during the past 28 years.

How can this book possibly be out of print? If it had been a novel, it would be a classic and a perennial, and the fact that it actually happened only makes it better. I read it every few years, am always royally entertained and filled with a springtime sensation that the world is still full of possibilities; this despite the fact it's definitely a period piece. I buy a used copy wherever I find one -- everyone who receives it as a gift is blown away.

In 1973, the bright and talented but also somewhat ditzy Nancy Weber was living an enchantingly carefree, somewhat cushy life as a freelance writer in Manhattan with a hefty allowance from her parents and a wide and disparate cast of trendy friends. In an act of '70s self-exploration, she put an ad in the Village Voice offering to completely swap lives -- clothes, jobs, lovers, names, everything -- with another woman for a month. This is her fantasy, and she will enjoy it, but the woman who agrees to swap with her, a somewhat rigid and politically correct bisexual feminist psychologist, discovers that -- like most of us -- she really can't stand the idea that other people make drastically different life choices, and begins to meddle in "Nancy's" life from day one.

More than this I can't say without spoiling the suspense and surprises. There is a catastrophe, and then we get both sides of the story in the words of the participants (each trying to subtly discredit the other's account), plus

additional essays from witnesses on both sides of the story; it's a grand, goofy Aquarian "Rashomon." Because Nancy is a superb writer with no internal censor (and her swapee is no slouch, either), the whole thing -- sex, drugs, bizarre interpersonal relationships, seven or eight new kinds of self-embarassment, the beautifully-captured trendy Manhattan milieu -- becomes one of the best satiric and comic "novels" you will ever read, as all the protagonists give away so much more of themselves than they intend with every sentence they write.

So why isn't it a famous classic? Mainly, I suspect, it's because the class of people being exposed in it is the same class of people who wrote all the book reviews, then and now. But if ANNIE HALL and MANHATTAN got past those people, you'd think this would. Maybe Nancy Weber doesn't get credit for the result because she didn't make it up, it actually happened; but I think she could get extra credit for surviving it. I should add that my comments on the actual people involved are only in reference to the way they appear in the book; there's no such thing as completely non-fiction. And although the book is hideously funny and "satirical" in a sometimes unintended way, I don't mean to imply that the author is completely unconscious of the effects she's creating, or that you wind up laughing at her and not with her. On the contrary, despite all her efforts to win the catfight of conflicting stories at the end, she comes off as completely charming and likeable, as well as intelligent and gutsy. I have no idea if I've succeeded in suggesting the unique character of this sui generis book. Buy it, read it, mention it every time you meet a publisher. This should be in print again, and always.

I'm cheating because I am not done with the book yet. I picked it up yesterday in a thrift store and spent the next 5 hours completely absorbed in the story. What a fascinating tale, I can't wait to see how it ends!

Nancy what a wild adventure you went on. I'd love to talk with you about it - please send me an email if you happen upon this review.

This is a nice book to augment a collection, but is not complete. The set of guides written by Smith and his daughter (Weber) do not overlap. This means that you need this book and the edition for the south in order to look up mushrooms in the south. There are no mentions of spore print colors in the individual entries, which makes for a lot of thumbing back and forth between the specific entries and the genus descriptions

This book contains excellent color photos to mach the color tones and size characteristics of the mushrooms in the Midwest. We typically search in the areas south of Lake Superior.

covers all the basics.. in detail.. includes basic taxonomic keys and useful materials.

This is the second in a beautiful series of books, Doulbe Solitaire. It's about twin girls who were seperated as babies and adopted by different families, not knowing about the other's existence. But both of them feel sad, in a way that they don't know how to cure. And then one moves into the other's neighbourhood. Julia Putnam and Catherine Angelos try to get together, both feeling a tug of fate. And in the end, it will bring them together...