Rosie O'Donnell Books

There are enough great ideas to keep my son busy for his entire summer vacation!

I SO love Ro... and her focus on children is No.1 anytime you ask her. This is truly an awesome book that can be used BY childern or FOR children. The supply list is simple and you can find most in your home, or you can adjust accordingly. The time spent with your kids/grandkids is the focus. Anything you do together is beautiful and the memory is something you can never replace. Thanks Ro, you are awesome as always. Now, where's book TWO???

Absoluty LOVED this book. My kids were begging to go get stuff for crafts the day we got it!! Its very affordable projects that are fun and easy for the parents as much as the kids!! My BF and I now get our kids together each week for craft day. They choose which one they want to do and we al have a blast!!

This book is full of wonderful ideas. Lots of great ways to spend quality time with your kids.

As a nanny and a future teacher, I've been looking for a book that has a lot of various craft ideas with simple instructions and that can be for kids of all ages. This book provides exactly just that! I especially like how the crafts are for certain seasons and for different situations like "rainy days" and "everyday". The introduction contains a lot of specifics like how to organize your craft area and what you will need in order to complete all the crafts in the book. I think the best part about this craft book is that each craft has a very detailed picture with it, so you are able to see what you are making! Like I said before, this is excellent for kids from ages 4 and up and the crafts are very cute, some even looking like you bought it from Pier 1. :)
The hard cover and gloss pages also add to Rosie's Crafty-U. I'm excited to start creating the crafts for summer with the kids!

I think children of all ages will love it!!

Kids are so cute and this book lets you know it. It's the cuttest book I've read in a long time. I'll be waiting for the next one to come out.

This is a truly funny book that never gets old and tired. nicely compiled and truley a great gift for anyone age 0-1,000. I couldn,t stop laughing. This book shows that Kids Are Really Punny

I have this book in my classroom and every student has read every joke. Your kids will love it! Tara Winslow

All profits from the sale of this book go to the ForAllKids Foundation dedicated to children's charities. If that isn't reason enough to purchase this wonderful book, just know that you and your children will have countless laughs because of it.

I have three girls myself, and they absolutely love this book. The whole family enjoys the countless hours of entertainment that it provides.

Over the years, Rosie O'Donnell has received an amazing amount of jokes that children all over the world sent to "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." In this hysterically cute book, O'Donnell compiles a bunch of her favorites that she guarantees to bring smiles and laughter to your day. Each page of this book is loaded with humorous jokes that children took the time to send in. The jokes are often complimented with funny drawings, that give the book a much needed personal touch.

This book is a real winner, and a must for any family with children. It will not dissappoint.

I've always been drawn to works of fiction, not psychology, to try and understand the human psyche. But Martha Manning has won over my heart with her new book, THE COMMON THREAD. Yes, it's a book that delves head-on into numerous psychological issues that are born out of the mother-daughter journey. But she uses literature and stories from her own life to make these issues come alive. Manning is such an exquisite (and breezy) writer that you forget you're reading a serious nonfiction book. I got the same pleasure out of reading THE COMMON THREAD as I do reading a favorite novel. I also have an entirely new understanding of my current realtionship with my mother and a new set of tools for navigating our future together. Thank you Dr. Manning for such this truly special book!

In this astonishing book, Martha Manning really pins down the truth of mother-daughter relationships--how difficult, how tender, how involved they are, how they define whole lives. In prose that is often beautiful, she evokes the intimacy and the struggle that exist between the females of the family, and shows how the generations learn to tolerate what they cannot love in each other. What's especially astonishing is that Manning is able so often to accomplish her purpose with gentle humor--the book keeps you smiling from cover to cover, even when it's describing difficult passages in life. I recommend it unconditionally.

I found this book to be very enjoyable. The relationship between a mother and daughter is extremely complex and changes through out ones life. She handles each stage masterfully addressing what is going on with each member of this union. Her style, humor, and knowledge make this easy to read. She uses real life examples that makes her descriptions to flow easily. I found the book to be not only heartwarming, but very endearing, in what is often a love-hate relationship in our lives. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to explore the complex nature of a mother/daughter relationship.

Dr. Manning uses literature and her own personal experiences as she explores the mother/daughter relationship from pregnancy to old age. She helps you to understand this sometimes challenging connection. What I like most about Manning's work, is her humor that shines through, particularly when dealing with difficult circumstances. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is a mother or a daughter.

I liked this book because it is fun to read and interesting. Rosie ROCKS!!!

I read this book for school.I wrote a report on Rosie.This book helped a lot because it is full of interesting stories about Rosie's life.She is so funny. I liked the part in the book where Rosie talks about her childhood.

Wow!! Rosie is a dynamo and I never knew it! This book is well-written and so interesting that you don't want to put it down. I really enjoyed learning about the fascinating life Rosie has had and her wonderful contributions to society.

While not as ambitious as her work in "Toothpaste: From Start to Finish" this book is written in a way that could inspire kids to read. In fact, this may be a great book for some but, the fact that I cannot stomach three continous seconds of anything that has to do with Rosie O'donnell pretty much makes this a no-go for me. I may not like this book, but that doesn't mean your or your child will not. I think book is as good or better than the following titles that you may or may not have read... "Home Surgery:Do-it-Yourself Savings on Costly Operations at Home" "Kids Are Punny : Jokes About Rosie Sent by Kids to the Rosie O'Donnell Show" "The Great Polish Philosophers" "Idiots Guide: Internet Chain Letters" "Idiots Guide: to Dummy Books"

I can't believe this book is out of print. My two children (almost 8 and almost 6) love this joke book. In fact they argue over who's going to read it all the time. And the jokes are cute. Even my husband and I laugh at them, although many are the 'kid classics' we adults have already heard.

Examples of what you'll find:

What do sea monsters eat for lunch?
Fish and ships.

What do cats eat for breakfast?
Mice Krispies.

And...

What do you call 100 rabbits jumping backwards?
A receding hare line.

Five Stars ::: A cute book of jokes that contains about 86 pages of laughs.

Pam T~

I can say nothing but great things about this book ,and all of Rosie's books for that matter. I like her work so much, I can relate to her because she and I are alike. A tell it like it is kind of person. No matter what publicity has/and or does say about Rosie I think she is a great woman, and I adore her work. I enjoy reading her books, and so forth. Personally I am not a reading person, but when I picked this book up I couldn't put it down, I wanted to know what was going to happen! Just like when I read "Find Me" I bought it and read it all in the same day. Now that is a first for me, I have never finished a book the same day, actually I can't remember the last time I finished a book. Anyhow, If you like Rosie go out and buy this book, or anyone of her books, and trust me you'll be glad you did. ...

I appreciated Nancy's humor and wit. She is an inspiration and has gone on with life even when it didn't seem like living. As a person who has lost a child and had other challenges in life, I was able to relate and admire her will and tenacity.

I first read Linda Richman's wonderful book about 3 1/2 years ago, six months after my 31 year old son died. I never thought I would smile again, let alone laugh but Linda made me laugh. I also learned that I was stronger than I thought after reading how nutty she became. I have reread sections of the book many times, whenever I am feeling particularly down.

I also loved Rosie O'Donnell's introduction. I am not a Rosie admirer but her intro to the book was priceless.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has lost a child and is in the depths of despair. Linda is definitely inspirational and she helped me more than she will ever know.

I can understand that some of the readers did not take to Richman's narrative of her experiences with hard times and ways to cope. However, I think there were extremely important messages in the book! She talks about the importance, if not necessity, of allowing yourself to let go and being sad or even devastated - for specific reasons or none in particular - such as her "pity parties." Her ultimate point stated throughout the book is that, in order to get through hard times, for whatever reasons, you must only allow these bouts of despair last a certain amount of time in order to prevent a total breakdown. In doing so, humor, sometimes inappropriate, is a great tool to help you cope and get you through these tormenting periods. I also think that being Jewish, and having relatives who behave very similarly to Linda Richman and her family, made the book very funny and relatable.

What I can understand from some of those who might not have found the book helpful or enjoyable is that some of the humor IS, in fact, seemingly inappropriate. However, I think that if you put yourself in the shoes of a person going through a personal crisis, regardless of whether you deem it to be so or not, you cannot judge them or their comments or jokes because it is their lives, their situations, their families on which they are commenting. Having been through some agonizing, heartbreaking experiences myself, I can look back and relate to some of what she did to get through her own turmoil. I can remember some people seeing or over-hearing some things I, or my family, said to stay upright and receiving some nasty ot perplexed looks - but in the end, it is you who must cope and do whatever is necessary to carry on.

Lastly, I just want to note that, from the very start of Richman's book, she says quite frankly and clearly that she is not, not does she claim to be, an expert on anything. She is just sharing her own experiences and what she found to be good learning experiences and, ultimately, helpful tools in the midst of hard time.

the author tries to secondguess the main criticism I have of this book not functioning as advertised by opening one chapter with something like "I don't know if it's obvious, but this is allegedly supposed to be a self-help book", and she goes on to say something about how the "self" in "self-help" means that you have to be the one to do the work. in that case, why waste anyone's time spending most of a book repeating several main details of her life and how messed up it is, adding a little more random detail each time she makes an equally random jump back or forth in the chronology?

her crappy writing brings to mind a good writer--john donne. when my high school literature teacher had us study donne's "a valediction: forbidding mourning", she drew attention to the opening image, good men dying in their beds. this Donne compared to the lovers parting as a way of telling the subject that she and the speaker shouldn't make a big show of their grief, even though grief is exactly the reaction the picture he paints would ordinarily evoke. the teacher pointed out that surely only donne, the consumate alchemist, could create love poetry from such unpromising material. the point being that although a creative person like Mike Myers based a character on the author of "i'd rather laugh", doesn't guarantee that she herself is compelling.

hollywood didn't think so. one of the chapters--and to the author's credit, it was the only one which really focussed on the mike myers
connection--described the taping of a pilot for a talkshow hosted by the "real" linda richman and ends with her crying and moaning about how she refuses to continue with the show till myers comforts her by saying "don't worry, they hated you."

the inclusion of details such as this--which show richman as vulnerable and flawed--are endearingly honest, I suppose, if she had any redeeming qualities to make her sympathetic. but the
main problem I had was that it was presented as a self-help book. if you forget that expectation, and read it as an autobigrophy, it's slightly better, but she's still not sympathetic.

as a child, she punched her mother after reporting her aunt's (her mother's sister's) death. and Linda seems still not to have forgiven her mum for concealing the fact of her dad's death. but it's not always clear if the mother deserves as bad a rap as she gets, especially since linda's sister doesn't have the same issues.

Linda's issues are many. She had agoraphobia for eleven years (I bought the book primarily to learn how she fixed it) which she blames--wait for it--on her mother. but when she finally finds out what her agoraphobia is through an article in a magazine about a hospital that treats it and participates in group therapy as part of that treatment, she speaks of all the other patients as "jerks and losers compared to me". she has issues about handling her personal finances herself. she has phobias about her teeth, even though her dentist has told her he doesn't actually do much of anything when she comes to see him cos it's all in her head.

at least she's upfront about not being a great role model, but I still think some of her suggestions are flat-out irresponsible. for instance, her idea about a "pity party" in which one deals with depression by spending two days staying in bed, not bathing and watching the saddest movies one can find. this in a book where watching movies containing negativity and sadness is elsewhere equated with swallowing poison.

she says for the majority of her eleven years inside she read a book a day, which makes her better-read than I, but you'd think through all that reading she would've absorbed something about structure.

Earlier reviews led me to believe I was in for a laugh riot that would change my life. And I was really looking forward to this book because I was also agoraphobic for a long time and figured it would be neat to read about someone else's insights about that.

I ended up with some mixed feelings about the book. Didn't love it, didn't hate it, but about 3/4 of the way through, I could easily have put it down and not thought about it anymore. I didn't find it funny, the nearly random chronology (where anedotes are often told twice, with different details) bugged me, and although I sympathized with Linda's problems, I also found them hard to relate to and a bit "much" after a while-- such as her "inability" to write a check because of money phobias (so she has a bookkeeper take care of that pesky issue for her).

It did all start to feel self-absorbed, and in several spots, she admits to being nasty to people, having temper tantrums, or purposely trying to wreck their days. She also seems to go through "stages"-- she's a Jew, she's a New Age devotee, she's baptized, she's a celestial bearer of wondrous love... to me, there's a difference between searching and just randomly radically changing your beliefs every few weeks. Again, these sorts of things came across flaky to me and made it hard for me to relate.

But there is good here. A few nuggets that rang true for me. The Sad Sammy/Happy Sammy chapter-- while fairly out of place-- had some smart insights. The "fun is better than no fun" pep talk toward the end, too. So what it comes down to is that it's a memoir with a bit of self-help thrown in. I wish there had been more of it, because what's there is not bad at all.

If you've ever wanted to push journal-keeping beyond the confines of words on paper, maybe an image clipped from a magazine, lists of complaints and what you had for breakfast--but you were just kind of stumped about how to start--this is the book for you. Filled with ideas and instructions for creating beyond-the-limitations pages, it not only gives you permission to play but also nudges you out the door. My favorite part was the glimpses into the lives of the sisters--now those are some women who know how to have a good time!

Great book, I have used it with my art therapy classes to inspire my clients to create art journals, have found it to be a great resource. Really enjoyed the graphics and ideas.

The cover is exciting but for me, nothing inside measured up. More of the same.

Journal Revolution should be on every creative person's book shelf. It's one of those books that you keep nearby and randomly flip open when you need a double shot of artistic espresso. It is a *great* follow up to their first book, Visual Chronicles.

For me, the best parts about Journal Revolution are the good vibes and great writing. I get really, really jazzed by their concept of Rise Up and Create! Their words/art are empowering and supportive. They don't pretend to have a corner on the art journal market. Rather, the vibe you get from them is one of collaboration. It's like having your best girlfriends sitting next to you cheering you on with each rip and tear of paper. You gotta love that!

The techniques are helpful and cheap because Linda's art supplies are mostly paint, paper and tape. Love their Fauxlaroids (faux polaroids) and faux photo booth strips ideas. What genuinely fun and personal projects to play with and create.

Linda and Karen -- You Rock!

"Barbie" did not write this book, it is not a commercial for 1,000's of products, and it is GREAT!! Different techniques for showing who you are and how you feel through your art. There's no book like this, no book that makes art of a dead-beat dad, a Nordstrom bag, and monks, all in one book. This book changed how I scrapbook, journal and see my self.

I'm a big woman, and I do mean big. Even as a kid, I didn't like to excercise, and it didn't change when I got to adulthood. But, about a year ago, I went to the Dr's and got the shock of my life when I stepped on the scale. I was about 30 lbs. heavier than I'd ever been before, and I'd been pretty darn heavy to begin with! I was upset and rather scared, because I didn't have a clue how to change the situation.

I work part time in a bookstore for a little extra money (I teach high school), and one night came across this book. I was fascinated from the minute I saw it. For the first time, somebody was telling me that I could truly be physically fit without weighing 120 lbs! Judy's book helped me get started on a physical activity regimen that I have been shocked to discover I actually enjoy. Using some of her techniques gave me the guidelines and the oomph to get started, the hardest part of any change in lifestyle. I went from having going from my classroom to the office as the high point of my daily activity to spending approximately 1.5 to 2.5 hours at the gym about 6 days a week. It feels wonderful. I've lost some weight, although not as much as I might like, but I'm healthier than I've been in ages. I've gotten control of some long time back problems, my blood pressure is the best it's been since I was in college, and in spite of a multitude of allergies and asthma, I'm breathing better than I have in years. Without Judy's book for inspiration, I'd never have started. She truly can make you believe that *anyone* is capable of setting a fitness goal and acheiving it.

This audiobook gets 5 stars for Motivation - but overall 4 stars because I think Judy's experience as a teen and college student was so sports oriented that I found it hard to relate at times. Not everyone will want to run a triatholon, but her words and her wonderful reading style make me want to get out and move more.

It should be noted that this audiobook is NOT ABRIDGED as is written here on Amazon. I've listened to the whole audiobook twice now and I am excited because there are certain sections I've written down for whenever I am in need of a quick pep talk. Her methods are sound and right to the point. Get with a nutritionist and understand HOW to eat correctly. Get into a wellness group for support and sharing. Get more active by walking, running, swimming - whatever you can do. She makes you feel like you can do it as long as you stay consistent and always keep looking forward to a goal.

One main thing I've learned is that I should not put my goal in terms of weight only and say "By next Labor Day I will weigh X"... instead, I should say by the end of this month I will be walking 2 miles three times a week. I never thought of walking or running in a 5K (3.1 miles) event.... but why not? Why not put some time toward a good cause like "Race for the Cure" and breast cancer research. I just never grew up with any sports type goals.

Her eating plan is lowfat - high carb. I think that one plan does not fit all, but that would be up to each individual and their doctor. She does however make good suggestions to reduce fats, reduce sugars etc. and she warns that there are no quick fix diet plans - you need to work hard. I am off to purchase a good pair of walking shoes... my first step toward getting healthy and changing my life!

This book had all the ingredients for success: A charismatic author, an inspiring story, and a good message of self-acceptance and achievement. However, the author just couldn't seem to put it together into a coherent, readable book. Judy's story and the success stories she sprinkles throughout the text are inspiring, but she fails to put together a solid, easy-to-follow plan for the fitness novice to follow. Most of the book just falls flat, like the section that lists the kinds of food available in each aisle of the grocery store. I skimmed through the book in about 20 minutes, so I wouldn't recommend buying it.

I ran into this book at the Health Science Library that is part of the Health Sciences Center. I liked the many examples from real people. My life experience has been much like the author's and I can relate to her life pattern of college athletics, sedentary job, accident, and now trying to get it all pulled together in terms of exercise and weight control. I too am motivated by "goals" and found this section of the book very helpful. I liked the sample training program and the explanations for the investment (e.g.,personal trainer, doctor's check up, etc.). Great book. A "Godsend" book for me.

I recently finished reading this book and I must say it was a disappointment. After reading all the great reviews, I decided to order it. I am not a fan of triathlons, 5K's, 10K's etc., so I had trouble focusing on this book. It had most of the usual info. that a diet/exercise book has, but it did not motivate me at all because I don't lead (or care to lead) her athletic lifestyle. I figured that since she was overweight like me, I would be able to relate to her story, but I couldn't. She had been an athlete all of her life. I, on the other hand, have been sedentary all of my life. She did, however, have a reference section and list of websites on nutrition, eating disorders, etc. I hate to give a bad review to a book that everyone seems to love so much, but for those of you out there that don't share her lifelong love of athletics, I wouldn't want you to waste your money. I truly admire her and the fact that she wrote a book about her tremendous weight loss, but I just could not relate to this book. For anyone out there who wants to read a really good, informative and interesting book on nutrition, weight loss and exercise, I highly recommend Strong Women Stay Slim by Miriam Nelson.