Handbook includes disease states, and categorizes medications of primary choice, and provides secondary alternatives. There are excellent abbreviated text outlining etiology and pathophysiological parameters. As well as step wise flow charts as a decision tool and guideline. The tables for medication dosing and comparability between different classes of drugs are extremely helpful, visually and content wise! In hospital pharmacy practice, this handbook has been my peripheral brain.

very, very thorough book. it covers essentially every common diseaes state and the treatment for each. i highly recommend it.

I liked this book because it is a good story of a girl who visits her neighbor who is old and lonely. This lady (Miss Maggie) tells a story to the little girl who visits her (Ellie) about a doll that she had when she was a girl. For her Eighth Birthday she got a doll with big blue eyes. She laid her doll on the hallway table. Then when they heard a crash. It was the doll. Her Birthday was coming up and they bought a present for her. What happened to the doll? To find out what happens next read this book.

Call me sentimental, but there's something to this story that tugs at your heart strings every time you read it. And I've read this at least a dozen times.

The story tells of the relationship between Ellie and her sitter Miss Maggie and of the very special birthday gift that Ellie gets for Maggie out of "pure love."

The illustrations are quite beautiful and complement the story very well. A tender story creates a tender heart. This is the best book in the Chicken Soup for Little Souls' series.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING! "Written in first person, each poem reflects the thoughts of one of three children. The image throughout is timeless. The verses are simple and follow very basic rhyming schemes, making them easy and fun for younger children to read aloud. The poems are useful as a starting point for classroom discussion, craft projects, or student compositions on a variety of subjects, ranging from the preparation for and celebration of Christmas to the ideas of family, generosity, and tradition. Children may wish to compare their own holiday experiences to those in the book."--Education World

This book will provide us with a script for an excellent Christmas program this year. Thank you!

This was the last sunfire book I read but one of the best. It is so very romantic. It is about a rich American girl who must choose between the rich french man, David and the poor trailsmen, John who is about to leave with the Lewis and Clark expidition. Will she have the strength to follow her heart and dreams?

Diana is the daughter of wealthy Americans living in New Orleans in the early 1800s. Most of their neighbors are French Creoles. When the United States buys the Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans becomes an American City. Many of Diana's Creole neighbors are angry. But Diana has her own trouble. She must chosse between the two men that love her: a rich Creole and a young man in the Louis and Clark Expedition.

This is a great resource book for early childhood nature studies. Great for family or school use. It lists activites and books for many nature topics. The cycle of the day, endagered species, protecting the environemnt and more are all covered with books and activites for ages 3 and up. (probably to about 3rd grade)

This book is an excellent resource for parents and educators who wish to develop environmental awareness in young children. It is filled with LOTS of activities, stories, songs, and resources which help children to establish a spiritual connection with the earth and all its creatures. Through reading this book and utilizing its ideas, parents, teachers, and the children in their care can't help but develop a greater respect for the world around them. I have also found the Dream Starter section in each chapter to be an excellent relaxation tool for myself as well as my children.

This is an excellent choice for kindergarten teachers that are looking for a book that is simple in its vocabulary and number of words per page, yet rich with meaning and personal connections for children.

What a great book for children! Not only is it a well written story with a message that all children can relate to, the pictures are enchanting! --A great extension activity for this book, if you teach, is to have the children use wallpaper samples or wrapping paper to write and illustrate their own version of this story. You may even want to encourage them to turn the story into a play and act it out! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!

This title is a standout in the proliferation of books about young adult services right now. As a teen librarian at a public library, I found many practical display ideas I could use right away. Adult Readers' Departments or School Media Centers will also find a great deal of useful, practical information here, too, including photos of display furniture, and strategies for ongoing teen appeal. Nichols presents the information in a interesting and realistic way that is a refreshing change from some library professional guides! This is a must have for any facility that wants to attract teens to books!

Merchandising Library Materials To Young Adults by experienced librarian Mary Anne Nichols is an informed and informative introduction to creating and overseeing a library collection that young people will want to return to again and again. From understanding how teen library patrons think, to the maintenance of a fiction, nonfiction, magazine, comic, and audio/visual selections that will appeal to young people's desires and needs, Merchandising Library Materials To Young Adults is highly recommended a first-rate instructional reference and a core addition to Library Science collections.

Colored pages, a different color for each month. Lots of space for drawing pictures. Many different topics to write about. This book really helped my older boy feel comfortable writing and illustrating his writing. He used it in second grade, and I am now buying another copy for my younger boy.
Excellent!

Lots of empty pages with seductive artwork to grab the attention of reluctant writers, interspersed with lightly structured ideas to get the words flowing ("the best surprise this month was..."). Not a bad way to begin the journal journey.

I found this story among the books on tape at our local library. It was one my children had not read and so I took it out to preview it. Listening to it during my hour-long drive to and from work, I found this story haunting.

One terrible night, a cloud of some unspecified but man-made substance passes over the surface of the entire earth, causing all living organisms unfortunate enough to be found above ground to vanish suddenly. The central characters, a recently widowed mother, her son and her son's friend, awake after spending the night in a makeshift fort in the old foundation of a silo to a world in which everyone in their small English village and in the world beyond, and most of the animals, have disappeared. The only evidence that the disappeared ever existed is the hair they left behind on their pillows and in the cars that litter the roads, having crashed as soon as their drivers were gone.

What I found most haunting about the story is the way the author evokes the emptiness of the world in which the protagonists find themselves, especially its profound silence. Since the birds and insects disappeared along with most of the people and other animals, there is simply nothing to make noise. A true silence pervades the changed world, silence the survivors have never known. Many is the time since listening to The Sixth Seal that I have noted the noise that constantly surrounds us all no matter where we are - the songs of birds and buzzes of insects, music from passing cars and houses, the rumble of automobiles, distant trucks and airplanes flying high overhead.

This story focuses not on how the apocalypse happened, but on how the survivors cope with the horror of the empty new world to which they awake. The disaster described seemed particularly relevant in the age of genetically modified organisms and biological weapons. The behavior of the characters is not that of the frenetic heroes of movies, but of individuals numb with shock and struggling to find the will to survive. This story struck me as a strikingly realistic vision of how people would act in the face of a suddenly depopulated world, what choices they would face and how they might choose. I recommend it to all ages, especially as a book to listen to on a long car trip.

I found this book in a pile of discarded libary books, it was 15 years old, i was drawn to it only because i had enjoyed other Mary Wesley books. However the 'The Sixth Seal' turned out to be nothing like the rest. I found it impossible to put down, it made me comtemplate things that in my short 13 years i had never before considered. In truth the book terrifies me, but reassures me at the same time, i feel in some way perpared now for a world disaster. I am now 17 and have just rediscovered the book for the 4 time and am enjoying it just as much. What surprises me is that i have meet no one else who has let alone the book, i tried to make a friend read it but she never did, just so that i could share it with someone else. I most definitely recommend this book and i would love to hear from anyone who appreciates it as much as me.

This is the only book that I could easily find about this difficult subject. It dealt clearly with all the issues concerned and did not tell you what to say, rather it gave you ideas and the confidence to find your own way. It is beautifully written. It covers many areas the ordinary person might not think of. I recommend it to counselors working with bereaved children. It is very helpful.

This is a handbook for adults to help children cope with death and dying. These are difficult subjects to broach with other adults, and more difficult when talking with children, who may have very different fears and thoughts and misperceptions. Ms. Turner presents death and dying in their place as part of living, accepts their inevitablity, the pain and, most importantly, how there are sometimes no answers to the question "why?". The book is for adults to use, then to adapt to the needs of the child they are talking with. It is sensitive to different attitudes to dying among different religions and races. I would recommend it for teachers, counselors and parents. It is particularly helpful in giving insight into how a child's mind works. I have never seen a book which covers all the areas as this one does.