Jane Seymour Books

I have been looking for this book for years! It was my first book (The Lonely Doll was my second). I am so glad it is available once again!

I read Ann Likes Red so many times to my daughters, that it became a family mantra. Mashed potatoes Susan? No, Ann likes red! she would reply. Stringed beans, Emilie? No! Ann likes red. Imagine my surprise to find that the book is still available through Amazon, and that others loved it as much as we did.

This was my youngest daughter first book and we read it over and over. Now I am getting it for my granddaughter. Can't wait to read it to her over and over.

this is a republished version of the original story from 1965. It looks JUST LIKE the old one and 5 year old daughter LOVES it as much as me and my sister! Thanks for bringing back such an oldie but goodie!

Like the others, this was my favorite book as a little girl. I serched for it approx. 7 years ago when I had a daughter with no luck.
A wonderful easy reader!
I purchased 2, one for me and one to give my mother as a gift (she loved it as well!)

This is such a cute book for kids. It's easy reading and great illustrations to for the kids to look at. This has always been a favorite of mine.

I LOVE this book. It's one of the few books that I kept from my childhood and still flip through it every once in awhile and it brings so many memories back of my mom reading it to me. It's a wonderful and timeless children's book.

I like this book because it was a good story and interesting. This story is about a ghost named Gus that is friendly. The lives in an abandon house that no one lives, but a family lives in the house during summer. Their name is the Scott family, with Mr and Mrs. Scott and theirs children Susie and Sammy. This family isn't afraid of ghost or believes in them, so they like going to the house. During the winters the Scotts go back to their own house. Gus is always lonely without them there because he always amuses the family by rattling and clanking in the attic. One day Gus goes out and finds Mouse, who is very cold because its winter. Gus asks Mouse back to the house and spend some time with him. They go back to the house and Mouse is cold, so with Gus's power he makes a fire. Mouse is hungry and Gus isn't because ghost don't get hungry, so with Gus's power, he makes Mouse a cheese sandwich. The next day the Scotts come back to the house and they don't like mice. Read the book to find out what happens to Mouse and the Scotts.

THIS IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES! I REMEMEBER READING ALL ABOUT GUS LIVING IN THE ATTIC TRYING TO KEEP THE HOUSE HAUNTED BUT IN A FRIENDLY WAY. I LOVED HIS COLORED SHEETS AND LAUNDY DAYS! I DO REMEMBER THERE BEING OTHER BOOKS IN THIS GUS SERIES!

Baseball: The People's Game is the third volume in the series of this famous work and the best of the three books. It's about the way people played amateur and semipro ball all over the country, in schools and colleges, on sandlots, even in prisons and on reservations. It includes five chapters on early women's baseball and of course material on the black clubs and leagues. I'm the wife and assistant of the late author, Dr. Harold Seymour, the historian of baseball. To read more about his baseball books, visit my web site, http://www.DorothyJaneMills.com. Soon I will be opening a new web site about his work: www.HaroldSeymour.com

Harold Seymour made the right move as a kid when he waited on Bedford Avenue outside the right field fence at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to catch home runs hit off the bats of Dolph Camilli and Pete Reiser. Thus began a love affair with the game that has blossomed into three great books including "The People's Game," maybe the best. Seymour goes into great detail about aspects of the game as they relate not to the big leagues or even to the bushes but to stories and anecdotes that anybody who has ever played the game can relate to, especially us old timers. If you're my age, you probably remember continually taping up the .35 ball after the cover came off, generally about the second inning. If it was a really big game, you probably used white medical tape that you had purloined from the medicine chest. But in all likelihood, you used the much more utilitarian black friction tape from the garage.The ball had to last the whole game as no one had another thirty five cents for a second one. And do you remember when there just weren't enough gloves to go around and you had to share a mitt with your opposing player? A myriad of rememberances await readers of this love letter to our National Pastime. But they are six hundred of the liveliest, most interesting pages any player or fan of the game will ever read. Go read this home run of a book! It's a gem.

Jane Thayer is an author whose themes of common decency,innocence,love and respect, predate the politically motivated themes so prevalent in todays youth literature. The are honest, warm, and lovable books that are a timeless treasure to any generation.

This is a great book. Does not scare little kids. My four year old loved it.

My aunt gave my children this book of Bible Stories to my children for Christmas. Its so warmly, lovingly written and the illustrations are beautiful. My children will love it for years.

Nana's Bible Stories will definitely become a Christian children's classic. The stories are told with such vivid description and from the point of view of very relatable characters. Nana has Balaam's Donkey give us the skinny in "A Donkey's Tale". The story of David and Goliath is related by one of David's more timid friends. We experience the parable of the Lost Sheep as we frisk along with a rebellious little lamb and we view the crucifixion through the eyes of a sad and curious butterfly. I have heard each of the Bible stories since childhood but Nana manages to make them fresh and give them more vivid life. I can not recommend this book highly enough. It is a must have for those of us who wish to pass on Biblical values to our children and grandchildren in a way that they will never forget. Don't be surprised if while reading them you are moved to laughter and tears. It is part of Nana's magic. Don't miss this book.

Terrific work (again!) from this major British playwright showing a disasterous family weekend where a would be Casanova sets his sights on his sister in law and the whole family ultimately become involved. Although written and set in the mid 1970s it remains just as funny (if not more so) now. All of the characters are classics and there are a feast of one liners. It really needs a stage production to be done justice though.

In the late 1970s PBS presented a hilarious trilogy of plays called "The Norman Conquests." I've been trying ever since to find them again. And here they are! This volume contains the scripts for all three of these amazing plays. Their premise: Norman is a real charmer who seduces (not necessarily sexually) everybody he meets. Each of the three plays takes place on a different stage. It's the same story and the same six characters, but seen from what happens only in each room in each play. It's an amazing accomplishment for a writer. This book carries an introduction by Ayckbourn that explains how he did it. And he says the plays are meant to be seen in any order. But I prefer the order given here: "Table Manners" (in the dining room), "Living Together" (the sitting room) and "Round and Round the Garden." If you haven't experienced it, the videos are available now (finally!), as well. The production (the same I saw on PBS) stars Tom Conti as an unforgettable Norman.

This darling and simple reader was the first book I ever read in English, so sweet and memorable that I went on an internet quest for it thirty years later. The illustrations are simple red and black, and the story is told in less than 30 words in a memorable sort of sing-song language I remember to this day. I'm glad this story is back in print - it used to be impossible to get used, as each girl that read it "loved" her copy to tatters. This book would be particularly appropriate for a feminine little girl who loves to dance and dress up. Thanks for bringing this classic back!

Actress Jane Seymour and her husband, Actor James Keach, are among the latest celebrities to jump on the children's book bandwagon and are doing so very successfully. They've created a wonderful series of books in which their family of cats stand-in for their own family, allowing them to share their own experiences as parents and at the same time delighting children with the tales of their twin kittens, "This One and That One."

"Fried Pies and Roast Cake" addresses an issue that parents of young kids have always faced...the different wants of the kids and keeping them all happy. It's lunch time and Lady Jane cat asks This One and That One what they want to eat. Each of course wants a completely different menu. Mom tells the kids to decide soon. They ask Dad for help but Dad tells them to work it out. After much bickering, the kids decide to share and come with a crazy, mixed up menu that mom knows will be unappetizing. Mom finally suggests taking a couple of suggestions from each of them and making some today and some the next day.

Funny and charming, "Fried Pies and Roast Cake" is definitely the most amusing book by Seymour and Keach. The kids arguing over what they want is something that most parents can relate to. The book also teachs kids the value of sharing and compromise and in the end, both sides are happy. Once again, Geoffrey Planer provides colorful and fun illustrations that make this book a winner.

Gus is a very friendly ghost. He lives in an attic apartment of the Historical Museum. His attic-mates are a cat called Cora, and a mouse, aptly named, well, "Mouse". Cora is refered to by the author as "a very nice person", although she is obviously feline through and through. The reference to her being a 'person' is quite endearing, and not the lest bit odd. Mouse is rather cranky, but he knows his place, as anyone who has read "GUS WAS A FRIENDLY GHOST" would certainly know. Mr. Frizzle runs the museum, and he allows Gus to board there as long as he helps tidy the place and keep burglars away. Mr. Frizzle is a bit cantankerous, but deep down you know he has a good heart, as evidenced in "GUS AND THE BABY GHOST". Gus is generous, patient, funloving, charming and a hard worker as well as a dear friend. He has a positive outlook and loves to try new things. This story begins when Frizzle leaves the museum in Autumn, for vacation, and returns in the Spring. During his absence, Gus is in charge and learns some new things. He tries his hand at various hobbies and passes the time exploring new interests. Sometimes he has a mishap and needs a ghostly bandage on his ghostly finger or toe. The story ends with Gus learning to fly like a kite, (the season is Spring now) and then spotting Frizzle on his way home from his vacation in a jet plane. Gus makes a mad dash home through the clouds, goes into a cleaning frenzy, and barely finishes as Frizzle walks in.

As always, the story ends happily and everybody is satisfied. I love Gus, his gorgeous sheets, his bang clank equipment, and his zest for life! Well, his ghostly life, anyway! I remember fondly the Gus books, mostly looking at the pictures in the waiting room of my pediatrician's office, when I was 7 and had the jitters as any child waiting to see a doctor does. The books were a happy distraction for me, and for others I know. Now I'm 32 and love reading Gus to my own 5 children. It was so nice to see another Gus book in print recently. We never grow tired of reading these happy adventures. Enjoy~!

It is a shame this novel is out of print, because this novel brings to life Henry VIII's forgotten queen, Jane Seymour.

Though this novel takes liberties with history, saying Jane was Anne's cousing when the two were not related and having Anne and Jane be on friendly terms when they never were, this is still one of the best glimpses an author has provided into the life of the elusive Queen Jane Seymour. The novel by Frances Clark was boring and Pour the Dark Wine was more about her family than Jane.

This novel focuses solely on Jane herself. It commences with her leaving Wolf Hall, her family home, and coming to serve Queen Anne. The first half of the book deals with Henry courting Jane and convincing her to become queen. The second half deals with Jane's short reign. Though she never wielded any political power the way Catherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn did, Jane Seymour was very important in one vital way-her restoration of Mary Tudor to Henry's graces. Had Jane not done this, Mary would likely not have become queen.

The portrait evoked here is that of a sweet, simple girl who became Queen of England by a stroke of luck. Often overlooked by writers, this book is one spectacular exception. If you can find this book, buy it! Along with The Tudor Rose by Julia Watson, this is the best novel about the forgotten Queen Jane!