Larry's photo's are pretty good, but Patricia's writing is very informative and she was nice enough to include a map so you can see exactly where each lighthouse is located. I learned much about maintanence, and I didn't even know there was such a thing as the Huron Lightship. This book is well worth the money.

This is a small book that's worth twice its price. Each of the 43 lighthouses gets its own full page photograph. Each facing page has concise, interesting information about the pictured light. A minor flaw is the map of the Great Lakes. Michigan has a strange shape and the Keweenaw Peninsula has become an island. But that is forgiven by the rest of the book. A great plus is the 19 Canadian lighthouses. Up until now all the books I've found only have US lights. The most curious picture of a Michigan light is Sand Hills. Waving high above the lantern room is the Canadian Maple Leaf. Guess that proves that Michigan and Canada are truly good neighbors--as I've always known! Treat yourself to this book if you like lighthouses, out door settings, or good photography.

Thirty-two pages? Unless you're desperate for this information--and I don't see why anyone would be; there's lots of FLW books--be aware that you're only getting about a dozen color pics and a brief accompanying story. Usonian houses are thoroughly covered in John Sergeant's book, in a more scholarly way. Nice presentation though: the cover is perforated like the plywood panels on the house.

This impressively illustrated small volume tells the inspiring story of an important Frank Lloyd Wright home. The Gordon House, 1957, was designed for an Oregon farmer and his wife. This very special house is one of only two houses to evolved from Wright's famous model house design "A Private Little Club", published in Life magazine, Sep. 1938. When new owners planned to destroy the house to make way for a much larger, but very common place design, national media attention, public opinion, and a sizeable tax deduction, pursuaded the new owners to allow the Chicago based Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy to move the building to a new site. However, they allowed the Conserevancy only 105 days to remove the building from their property. The Oregon Garden, a relatively new botanical garden 25 miles south east of the original site, was selected to receive the building. Their team, through heroic effort and impressive community participation, moved and reconstructed the building in record time. It has now opened as the only Frank Lloyd Wright house museum in the northwest and the only "Usonian" design west of the Mississippy open to the public.

Author Susannah Amoore uses her poetically descriptive writing style to tell the story of how she and her two young daughters were "adopted" by Motley, a humongous tiger-striped cat with a wide nose and lime green eyes who was so ugly he was beautiful.

The text is illustrated with marvelously artistic paintings by British contemporary artist Mary Fedden. Her style is boldly primitive images against a textured background.

Cat lovers ought to appreciate the story of how cats use their magic to choose their family. Art lovers will love Fedden's paintings. Non-cat or art lovers might want to pass this one by.

This is a true story about Motley, who found a home with writer Susannah Amoore, in a very cat-like manner, wisely waiting for the right time and circumstance. Susannah is a poet, who also writes for Condé Nast Publications. Motley's story is beautifully written, in what could be called "grown-up language", with words like "catapult" and "frenzied" that younger children might not understand, but would be good for them to hear read and explained to them. Children of all ages however will delight in the whimsical illustrations by Mary Fedden, a superb artist with a unique sense of perspective, and a great eye for color.