News and Media Books

Compiled and edited by Ralph Grizzle, Charles Kuralt's People is an anthology of newspaper columns written in 1956 by Charles Kuralt, who was then a print journalist with the Charlotte News. From a newspaper columnist, Kuralt went on to join the fledgling CBS network and became a household name in American television influenced culture. The timeless treasure that is his collected wisdom and recorded insights remains as fresh, eye-opening, and timely today, as it was nearly fifty years ago. An intellectually stimulating collection of insightful and occasionally poignant commentaries, Charles Kuralt's People is very highly recommended reading for students of the human condition in general, and legions of Charles Kuralt fans in particular.

This story is the story of a little gril named Fern who loves a little pig named Wilbur- and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte, a beautiful large grey spider who lives with wilbur in the life of Wilbur. Who is some pig.Atimeless tale of friendsship. i recimmend this book to kids who like animals and like to take care of them.

George's Pond: Created in the Beloved Tradition of Charlotte's Web
West's Time Machine

Being a children's author and teacher, I often enjoy reading Charlotte's Web as a child and now I enjoy reading the book to my son and my students. I think part of the reason this book has remained one of my favorites is because of the classic friendship between Wilbur and Charlotte. Both characters demonstrate an unselfish kind of love that is demonstrated from the time they meet. As a mother I want to teach my children the valuable life lesson of being a good friend and I think this story teaches that lesson in a non-didactic fashion. Charlotte's Web will forever be a classic in my heart.

"He may be smaller than average but Chicken Little has some big ideas. He knows in his heart that he can be a hero; he just needs a chance to prove it. "

The pictures in this book are especially interesting as this particular cartoon seems to jump from the pages. In one of the pictures where chicken Little is holding a baseball bat, he looks like he is going to fall right off the page. The high quality of the printing even seems to show textures on the characters shirts.

As usual these book always have a lot of humor that may even amuse adults. Fun to read to kids or to give them as an extra guide for the movie.

"The alien family visits Oakey Oaks every year. When they visited, a piece of their ship fell off. Perhaps it hit a certain chicken on the head and he thought the sky was falling!" ~Fact

One of my favorite DK Essential Guides.

~The Rebecca Review

Purchased this book after months of my son suffering from constant ear infections even with anti-biotics and two ear tube surgeries. This book shares with us a much different approach to treating this problem then our pediatricians do. I was shocked to read the information and studies about alternative treatments vs. traditional treatments and feel like this book is the key to those parents who are going through what I have been. Your pediatricians will not share with you the research this book reveals. I wish I would have found this book sooner.

You're thining "UFOs.... right!" Well, so did i before I read this book.

This is from the back cover of the book:

"In 1982 when I was sworn in as a veterans administration police officer. The director "Mr. Garland Evers" advised me I would officially be the first black empowered as a VA police officer in Chillicothe history. I took the oath and performed all of my duties to the best of my ability. I hope this UFO research publication is clear indication of that.

Through hard work and sacrifice success is attained. When I took that oath, I had an obligation as well as a true adventure.

Although UFO stories are being validated, doesn't mean mankind has to panic. The Lord of Lords and King of Kings still sits on the throne watching over all things. I learned first-hand though these strange objects and their occupants continue to amaze us, they cannot compare to the glory of the creator."

I can't imagine what the author went through as a government employee in having seen this himself, investigated the incident, and then go on to write this book.

Adorable. Sticker book that narrates the movie Happy Feet. Any child would have fun reading this book and placing the stickers in place.

Young fans of eight-year-old Nancy Drew will learn tons of new things about Chinese culture, as Nancy's class prepares for a Chinese New Year celebration. There's going to be a parade, and the entire art class is going to create the dragon as a group project.

Somebody just doesn't want the parade to happen! Could it be the stuck-up girl in class who seems to be the likely suspect? Have no fear, Nancy Drew will pull out her trusty blue notebook, and like a true detective use logic and reason to assemble clues and identify every suspect until the case is cracked!

The Chinese New Year Mystery provides a good storyline and educational backdrop that will be of value to Nancy Drew fans for years to come.

Recommended!

This book is packed full of heartwarming and inspirational stories - all true accounts - which will entertain those who read it. Teens Dreams captures the spirit of life and all of its ups and downs as a teenager. This is a perfect book for light summer reading. One of the finest in the Chocolate Series!

"Christopher Columbus and the First Voyages to the New World" makes the case that what Columbus did in 1492 was "the most momentous miscalculation in history." Stephen C. Dodge tells the story of the stubborn captain-general who led at iny fleet of three ships from the Spanish port of Palos that August. Columbus was convinced that by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean he would reach the Indies and claim the riches coveted by all of Europe for Ferdinand and Isabella, the king and queen of Spain. They sponsored the expedition that after a voyage of a little more than a month discovered an island gateway to two new continents that had been forgotten by whatever Europeans had ventured that far in the past.

The meeting of Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas on the tiny island of San Salvador was arguably the most momentous in the history of civilization. Although Dodge only touches on the treachery, mayhem, slavery, and genocide that followed that first peaceful encounter, such things are much on the minds of students today who see Columbus as the father of all of the evils of the world represented by dead, white, male Europeans. The flip side of the coin is the entirely new civilization that Europeans built in the New World on the ruins of their old one.

The Columbus of Dodge's book is a man who made three voyages of discovery to the Americas, all of which were filled with high adventure and made possible by his uncanny seamanship. But he was also a man who died bitter and neglected, not to mention unaware that he had given Spain the foundation for a massive empire that would make it a world power. The book begins with the first voyage to the Americas and then goes back in time to tell how Columbus first tried to persuade the Portuguese to underwrite his enterprise to the Indies before getting the backing of the Spanish. Chapters are devoted to the rest of Columbus' voyages and then the attacks that targeted Columbus after disillusionment over the realities of the New World made him the devil incarnate to his opponents on Hispaniola. The last chapter on "The High Voyage" tells of how Columbus died hurt over the loss of his privileges and feeling he had been cheated by the Spanish crown. In the middle of the book you will find "Widening the Globe," a photo-essay in color of maps and paintings reflecting the world of Columbus. The rest of the book is illustrated with black & white paintings, etchings, woodcuts, maps, writings, and artifacts, most of which are fairly contemporary to the life of Columbus.

This volume will provide young students with an understanding of who Columbus was and what he did in the context of the era in which he lived. Although some of the information about Columbus is now in doubt (that recent special on cable television convinced me that Columbus was really Spanish, not because of those failed DNA tests but because most of what we have written in his own hand is in Spanish and none of it is in Italian), his voyages and what happened afterwards are the core of this book and remain solid. Other sources will certainly provide attacks on the consequences of what Columbus did, but understanding his accomplishments in the context of his time is a necessary foundation for all of the latter criticism as well as for any attempt to judge the man fairly.

The World Explorers series of 33 volumes is divided into four categories that recount the exploits of the scientists and sailors, missionaries and soldier, mountain men and astronauts, whose journeys of exploration advanced human knowledge. The first looks at explorers of the ancient world such as the Vikings explorers of the 9th-11th centuries along with Marco Polo and the medieval explorers. The other three parts cover the three great ages of exploration. The first is the era of Columbus and Magellan in the 15th-16th centuries when the New World was discovered and explored. The second is the age of science and imperialism made possible by the scientific advances of the 17th century where the world's last two undiscovered continents, Australia and Antarctica, were discovered and the entire world was mapped. The final age looks at the ambitious quests of the 20th century with the exploration of the depths of the ocean and the final frontier of space.