Z Books

I love this book. I laughed out loud and found myself reading this to my mate and we are in our 50's. I have a new item to give as a baby gift each time I need to buy a gift. The stories as well as the illustrations are just the greatest.
This will surely be the favorite book of many a young child for years to come. Even those children in their 50's.
Thanks Glenn for a wonderful book that will teach and entertain our children and grandchildren for years and years. Please keep up the good work. We need more books such as this to encourage reading in our youth.
GOOD JOB!

Glenn's whimsical artwork is delightfully brought to life with his equally imaginative verse in this MUST HAVE children's book. All my sons are young adults now but that hasn't stopped me from coming up with every reason to purchase several copies of this charming children's book. I've already given it as my new signature gift at 2 babyshowers and 1 birthday.

Looking for THE gift to give every child, young and old? Look no further, you've found it here in this colorfully fun children's book!

I stumbled upon this book at a friend's house when her 4 year old was drawing pictures of turtles in tubs and kittens giving kisses, and I asked why in the world is she drawing such funny things!?! Her mother told me she was coming up with her own ABC pairing's, an idea she got from her favorite book "The A to Z Book". I laughed so hard, it was so creative, and rediculous...I loved it! I can see this book becoming a new favorite among children, one that they will remember for their children as adults.

perfect for the pre-school i am helping teach. TONS of creative ideas. if i had to pick a book all over again, it would be this one.

I love this book, it is so worth the money!! The activities (which include Language Arts, Math, Science, Music, Art, Social Studies, games, and recommended reading book lists) are all arranged in alphabetical order. Each unit starts with a big black and white uppercase letter page to color (and learn), the next page is tracing practice of the uppercase and lowercase letter, then come all of the activity pages, about 12 pages of activities for each letter! You will NEVER run out of ideas and learning opportunities with this book! Take it from me, I've spent a load of money on several workbooks, flashcard sets, this that and the other, to use with my 4 year old little boy, but honestly this book is all we need, it covers everything! And the activities are really fun and enriching, not boring! Happy learning!

This book is a great resource for any parent wanting to start the learning process before they enter kindergarten! The lessons are full of really fun ideas and they flow very well! Great Book!

I bought two of these books. One for my wife (and me too) and one for my best friend's familt that goes to San Jose Sharks games with us. My wife is already quoting things I didn't know. The other family loves it as well. Plus it's compact, so you can stick it in your back pocket and bring it to the game or have it on the coffee table next to the TV watching the game. Great book.

I bought this book for my 9-year old son who is really getting into hockey this year. This book is absolutely terrific and is a must have for the casual or the serious hockey fan.

I love this book and would give it to anyone who is interested in hockey.
I didn't really know much about hockey until this year when I decided to find out why my husband liked it so much, what's the big deal? The action is pretty exciting, althought I'm not into the fighting. So my husband gave me this book so I could look up all sorts of things about the game. What's a hat trick? or icing? There's a rink diagram showing what the different lines mean and areas on the ice. I even stumped my husband with some trivia about awards.
This book lives on my coffee table.

Christine Ammer's outstanding text on foreign musical terms is concise, clear, and handy. I require it for all my students, and use it regularly myself.

I only wish it would come in mass-market size and LEATHERBOUND, so that it could fit more easily in an instrument case and could stand up to the regular beating it takes (because I have it with me at all playing jobs).

For the student to the perfomer to the interested dabler in the classics, this is great aid to understanding over 3,000 English equivalents of musical scores written with French, Italian, German, Spanish, et al musical terms.

Organized in alphabetic order, one will keep this handy to practice area or CD player to make sense of the all the musical guideposts.

This is a FANTASTIC reference for your music library. I have found many relatively obscure musical terms listed in this book. Ammer has done a great job compiling from a variety of languages, and includes helpful things like common variations of terms and abbreviations. I've purchased this book as a gift for college-bound music majors, and it has been much appreciated.

i didn't buy this book. i got it at the libray. i have read every book in the series!

My daughter is working her way through all of these. They flow well, have a great storyline, and yet leave some clues for the kids to solve at the end. I don't know what she will read when she gets to Z.

This is one of the best books I have ever read! This series is about three kids who like to solve mysteries. In this book one of Ruth Rose, Dink, and Josh's friends autographed baseballs are stolen and they need to find out who stole them. If you love mysteries read this series! Ages 6-9.

This is a good book that has a lot of information. It will be very useful to me and my family.

Increasing numbers of people are embracing veganism, a lifestyle that entails avoiding all animal-based products and behaving ethically and conscientiously within our surroundings. In "Vegetarian Resource Book: A To Z Reference Guide To Vegetarianism," by Jacqueline Bodnar explores and illuminates the principles and practical aspects of compassionate living.

This is a great book for anyone interested in vegetarianism. Not only does it cover the basics of vegetarianism but it also covers the more detailed things that the seasoned vegetarian needs to know.

Here are some of the great things in this book:

- Vegetarian Bed & Breakfast's across America

- Frequently asked vegetarian questions

- Vegetarian myths

- Loads of animal and hidden ingredients

- Lots of places to buy vegan goods, including marshmallows

- How to start your own vegetarian group

- How to meet other vegetarians

- Vegetarian dining information

- How many vegetarians there are

- How to get involved in the movement

- Finding out what it compatible with your lifestyle

- Egg substitutes

- Vegetarian socities across the country

- and more!

This book is loaded with vegetarian information and perfect to keep handy to answer all your questions!

This is one of many books that offer medical and nutritional information as it relates to health and healing in Afrikan descendants.

This is also a must in ones library of Afrikan refrences in the journey to obtain knowledge of self.

This book is a must read for all people, not just African Americans. Understanding that there are definately minor physiological/genetic differences among ethnic groups is critical to receiving and providing healthy treatment for disorders. Knowing what vitamins and minerals are key to human development gives the reader an informed perspective on how to change diet to increase the standard of living. The author has made a solid effort to inform the reader.

This is a wonderful book that details a medical perspective of differences between Africans and Caucasians and will point you in the right direction toward health. It is fantastic to read a book written by someone who has had the "benefit" of western training and realizes the gaps in "knowledge" in that system.

Dr. Jewel Pookrum does a marvelous job of chronicling chemical reactions, differences that are melanin-related and opens the doors to a deeper understanding of health. This is information that we as a people, MUST grasp before the human genome biological apocalypse is released.

I recommend also any books by Queen Afua and African Holistic Health : Complete Herb Remedy Guide, Disease Treatment, Nutrition, Diet, Wholistic Perspectives, African Herb History, Self Diagnosis by Llaila O. Afrika.

This is an excellent book for watercolorists interested in learning the difficult art of painting one of the most difficult and yet common subjects.
Starting with colors and methods Adelene Fletcher goes on to describe in some detail how to paint a variety of common and not so common trees. The joy too is in the little paintings on some of the pages which illustrate the leaves, fruit or whatever, just thrown in for fun!
If you are interested in painting in watercolors - you should buy this book - you will learn a great deal whatever your level of skill is.

I found this artist to be very excellent. She not only showed a wide variety of trees, but had excellent technigue, and wonderfully detail instructions and demonstrations.

This is a BEAUTIFUL book by Adelene Fletcher, who also wrote her A to Z book on painting flowers in watercolor. Both of these books are tops on my list of great watercolor books to learn painting from.

This book begins with the materials and pallet she uses, then she teaches you the techniques you will use in the rest of the book, such as washes, brushwork, various wet in wet methods such as water-spotting, crisp defined shapes, crisp edges, glazing, creating soft blends, various wet on dry methods such as softening with a tissue, softening with a sponge,,various texturing methods such as spattering, granulation, sponging, wax resist, feathering , Other techniques taught are reserving and reclaiming whites and the various ways this is done, and negative painting, using body color to define the lighter shapes, and highlighting.

The teaching of the techniques Fletcher uses are followed by a two page spread of the 26 trees that she will teach you to paint in this book Each tree lesson is given in a fully detailed step-by-step sequence with color close ups of each step, Also given are close ups of the branch structure without leaves, and the leave appearance and coloration of that particular tree along with it's seed shape and coloration. Each tree lesson gives the pallet used for that exercise. The end each tree lesson has two pages of a painting of that tree in close up view in a nature scene, allowing you to have a good idea of what the final painting should like with it's trunk structure and texture, branch structure and leaves.

This is an excellent book for watercolorists at all levels. Beginners will benefit greatly from its easy to follow lessons on the various techniques used. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and are based on the lessons she gives you in the beginning techniques section, where she demonstrates how these are used in particular to paint trees and their various parts. The paintings of the various trees are beautiful, and the instructions with close-ups of the detailed steps are well written and easy to follow.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning watercolor techniques and also, for the mores advanced student on learning more detail about specific trees and their structure and textures. It is also a beautiful book to enjoy for the paintings alone. GREAT BOOK!!"

I was given this book as a graduation present when I left Malawi, the setting of the book, to come to university in America. I adore this book. The illustrations are incredibly beautiful pastels. The colors are fantastic and the people have wonderfully expressive faces. The story is sweet. I can identify with the main character because of my upbringing as a white child in Southern Africa. However, I think that the experience of moving away from home and being homesick is a universal one. For any child, being taken from a familiar to a strange situation is difficult. The only drawback the story might have in that sense is that the main character is able to return to Malawi at the end of the story. While that is hopeful, there are children who will not be able to return to their former homes or lives. For those children, this could be a hard book.

There are several examples of Chichewa, the national language of Malawi, in the book. All of the words are used accurately. The Chichewa words are not difficult for a parent or teacher reading the book as all of the words are pronounced phonetically.

My parents gave me this book for Christmas a few years ago, and, although I am a grown man, and I left Africa 15 years ago now, this book makes me cry, and want to return home. Like Peter, I'm a white African, although I'm a Kenyan. I miss Kenya, and even if I never get a chance to return, it will always be Home.

This book is a great gift for "third culture" kids, as well as for those trying to understand what it's like for kids to leave home and move far away.

My daughter and I were simply delighted with this book, and we are voracious readers of tales from foreign lands. For the protagonist, a little American boy born in Africa, Africa is not another place, a foreign country, but the home that he knows and loves, described poignantly through the eyes of a child. It is the USA that is foreign and strange to him, although he acclimates with a sort of resigned acceptance. I won't spoil it by telling the end; I can only say that I hope you and your children enjoy it as much as we did.

I like this book because it is an adventurous book and it is also a mystery. Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose help their friends by saving baby wolves from wolf-nappers. If you want to find out how they rescued the wolves and who took them, just read the book! The White Wolf is not the only good book in the series - all the A-Z Mysteries are good. There is one book for each letter in the alphabet. The first one is The Absent Author. Once you read that, you will want to read all the way to The Zombie Zone!

(8-year-old reader) Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose just got to Wallace's cabin. They have seen lots of wolves. Soon pups are taken! Read this book to find out who took the pups!

(8 year old reviewer) I really liked this book. It kept me interested until the end. THe best part was when the pups returned to the mother, but I won't tell you how that happens. You will just have to read it!