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I would highly recommend this book because the author offers a wonderful plot and storyline. His writing is very descriptive, with round, in-depth character descriptions that transcend the book into a very moving, interesting classic. This is a quality work of art that is based on historical fiction.

May Dodd decides to leave an insane asylum, where her family has sent her many years past, in an effort to start a new life as the bride of a Cheyenne Indian Chief. Learning the ways of the Cheyenne, building a new life within their culture, and transitioning from the world of the whites is truly an interesting plot. This is a classic work, which means no profanity, and the characters and plot are relatively timeless. Treat yourself, and purchase this book today!!!

I honestly cannot recommend this book enough. As a queer person and a Marxist, I am often dismayed by the LGBT movement's myopia concerning other arenas of political struggle. I believe that our movement, feminism, anti-racism, and environmentalism etc. need to be linked to a more comprehensive movement to transform society at its very roots. Nicola Field articulates that vision. She provides a long-awaited analysis of the intersections of sexual and gender identity with class, as well as giving a supert immanent critique of the mainstream LGBT movement, which is dominated by bourgeois perspectives, from a rigorously Marxist perspective. I don't agree with everything she says (particularly some of her analyses concerning the family) but overall, this book needs to be on more shelves. I'm dismayed, but not particularly surprised, that this book is so obscure. I am doing what I can to popularize it.

This is a book that has been in the process of being created my entire life. For it is the experiences that I enjoyed, suffered through, memorized, endured, overcame and loved that gave me the material from which this book was derived. I have been in the depths of despair and survived due to the grace of God, my family and my friends. I have also been to the heights of ecstasy, also due to the grace of God, my family, my friends and those who chose to love me. In my mind I have also been to the mountaintop and have seen that our world as it exists today is not the final chapter in the history of mankind. I have seen the possibilities that lie ahead for us all over the rainbow. I have seen the possibilities and I know that it is up to all of us as fellow human beings to turn those possibilities into concrete realities. I know that if we all work together as one family, as one race, as one country that we can make it work. For I have seen what lies just over the rainbow waiting for us once we have done our part to raise the bar for all of mankind. Let us all begin each day anew with the intent of getting one step closer to crossing over the rainbow. I intentionally began this book with the final poem from Poems from the Edge, because to me it is imperative that God be the guiding hand behind all of my endeavors.

Although OVER THE RAINBOW first appeared in print almost a decade ago, it continues to have no equal in the interdisciplinary study of religion, film, and popular culture. Nathanson's subtitle is THE WIZARD OF OZ AS A SECULAR MYTH OF AMERICA. He takes great care to define terms such as "secular" and "myth," as well as that elusive but crucial word "religion." Thus the reader is engaged in a stimulating conversation with theorists like Gregor Goethals, John Wiley Nelson, Clifford Geertz, Victor Turner, Robert Bellah, Roland Barthes, Elaide, John Dominic Crossan and many others around a familiar -- but via Nathanson, always surprising -- common text, the 1939 film THE WIZARD OF OZ.

While Nathanson himself is a great admirer of the film, the importance of this study goes far beyond that particular production; it sets a standard of scholarship that is unrivaled in the field.

I have used this book in undergraduate religion and popular culture courses at two colleges in the northeast and also at the University of Alabama. It has been exceedingly helpful in introducing students to the religious character that lurks just below the surface of secular American culture -- what some scholars have called the "implicit" religiosity of popular culture. The book has opened students' eyes to religion in places they least expected to find it (indeed, some students even expect to encounter the Devil in productions that emanate from Hollywood). But it has also introduced them to perennial religious themes and enduring problems in the study of religion, thereby demonstrating to them that the academic study of religion is not only fascinating, it is also fun.

Really enjoyed reading this book to my daughter. It posed the question of "what if the shoe was on the other foot" type of moral questioning. It gave us the opportunity to talk about ways we should treat people.

To quote from the jacket -- "If your daily dealings with children alternately frustrate or elate you, Painting Rainbows offers refreshing solace. In it the author takes a lighthearted look at some of the typical day to day experiences faced by those who deal with children and offers them to God attached to a prayer for HELP!"

This book really touches on the love/hate relationship of dealing with God's most awesome gift - children. The author writes as someone who has "been there". I found it refreshing and down-to-earth; inspiring, uplifting and humourous. She reminds us that we are all God's children. I highly recommend it.

As a writer, I've read a number of 'self-help' books on the subject of composing everything from short stories to novels. Doctor Foltz's book is among the best I've seen. Not only does it cover the various techniques of structure and dialogue, it's also an encouraging coach--it inspires the writer in us all to get up, get out, and get started. This manual is essential for the aspiring writer of any genre, professional or recreational. You won't be disappointed.
--Darren James

My 3 year old son found this book one day while waiting the the pediatricians office. He loved it so much I read it to him 3 times before the doctor came in. The language in it was above his level in most cases but the pictures just enthralled him. I will be ordering it for him! :)

A "Reading Rainbow Books", Janice Shefelman's A Peddler's Dream is an impressively written children's color picture book steeped in the journey and legacy of those who came from other countries to make America their home. Set at the turn of the century, A Peddler's Dream tells the story of Solomon Joseph Azar, a man who follows his dream of a better life to share with his beloved across the ocean and applies his industry and intelligence to the task. Classically illustrated by tom Shefelman, A Peddler's Dream is very highly recommended, especially for young readers grades 2 through 5.

These books sparked my daughters intrest in reading chapter books. I started reading them with her in kindergarten and by first grade she was reading them on her own. I would read each chapter as she completed it, then ask her questions. She has really good comprehension of these books and lots of laugher while she is reading. She is a rising third grader now and still enjoys the Fairy book series.