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It is a great book and I am quite impressed by the author. I love the illustrations and the story itself. I purchased it for my grandsons and I know they will enjoy it and the older one will be able to read it when Mommy is busy.

Very well done and professionally produced. I hope they provide updates in the future. Great gift idea for clients in the fashion biz.

Editor Hollis takes the Christmas and winter entries from Edith Holden's (COUNTRY DIARY OF AN EDWARDIAN LADY) books, includes Holden's beautiful watercolors, then mixes other artwork of the English countryside and poetry of the era or theme, adds some craft projects, and produces this beautiful, crammed little book that is well worth finding. Every page has some lovely artwork, text talking about Edwardian Christmas and customs or something about life in rural England. You can dip into it at your leisure or curl up with a cup of your favorite hot drink and enjoy the whole.

A must for any serious collector of Worldwide Antique Advertising. Extra Sharp Photos and as it's on amazon.com, the Price is ALWAYS Right!

This book is a dream. If you like warmth, wood, natural finishes, natural shapes, a relative degree of simplicity where humaness rather than layers of chinz fabric or in-human white lines rules, truth, age and interiors full of love, then this is the most wonderful book on the subject I have ever seen. Of course its dominated by hundreds of full page, color photographs, each one stunning.

The main body of the book (about two thirds) is dominataed by chapters which divide up interior looks according to different countries. Miller covers English Country style, American colonial, Scandinavian/Swedish, Italin and Spanish plus a couple of others. Under each country, we get a tour of a number of special houses which represent the country style of that land. Under Italy, a beautiful Tuscan villa is visited room by room. Under England, a mid-sized Elizabethan home. And so on.

The remainder of the book, is divided into chapters which look at country style according to different rooms: kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms etc. Also a brief, but enlightening tour of country style through the ages - ie by period.

What more could you ask for? Sensational, utterly inspiring photographs - (is the text EVER really that useful in these sort of books?) Incidentally, if you love wood for your interiors, I also HIGHLY recommend Wooden Houses by the same author. all just glorious and real and definitely make one want to either move out of the city or somehow bring the warmth and beauty of this style into one's town house.

I am a 42 year old man, with two daughters. I am the youngest of my parents' three sons. "Cowboy and His Friend", (1961 1st.ed.) is the first book that I remember being read to me as a child. This book was purchased for my oldest brother, but it immediately became a family favorite.

My father, a hard worker, often coming home after dinner had been served, would sometimes arrive home to find his three sons in pajamas, ready or getting ready for bed. He would, at that time, (1968 or so), ask if I wanted to hear a story, which I always I did. (The question was directed to me, but sometimes Bobby and Stephen; the two "olders" would horn in). My father would invariably pull out "Cowboy and His Friend", not only because we loved it but also because he loved it. I would always sit next to my father; still in his suit, smelling of "office things", he would begin by reading every word in the book, including, as he annoyingly continues to do today at age 83, the frontispiece and all the copyright and publishing information preceding the actual story.

When my father would finish reading this book, there was often be a long silence after the book was closed. It took me a small child, some time figure out that this prolonged silence was because my father was unable to speak after reading the book, as very often his voice was choked with emotion and tears were in his face.

Because my family's copy was promised to my oldest brother, I just purchased my own copy, an exact 1961 original printing.

"Cowboy and His Friend" is the most memorable book I have ever read or had read to me. Only "To Kill a Mockingbird" has come remotely close to "Cowboy and his Friend" to being a threat to it in my hierarchy of things. The simplistic sweetness of the prose and the universal exploits of the boy coupled with the innocence of the boy and his friend and the timeless illustrations have lingered in my mind for the past 20 odd years since I last read my parents copy ; that is until today, when my magnificent own original 1961 edition arrived in the mail.

In reading my new old copy, I am transformed in time and place back to the old familiar couch and sitting next to my Father, as he read the wonderful story of a little boy with an imaginary Bear, doing what little boys do, playing football, eating ice cream, etc. Truth to tell, I did not know until I was an adult that the Bear was imaginary. I finally realized that was what Ms. Anglund had done by drawing the "real life" of the book in black and only the Bear was drawn in brown. When I finished reading my copy just now, for the first time, I did not cry, but I had to wait a minute to compose myself prior to leaving for my appointments

This is a wonderful, wonderful book for children and even more so for the adults who, as child were read this book by a loved one. The original printings are getting scarce, I urge all who know of this book, or of Ms. Anglund's work either as a child or an adult reading to a child of today, to get at the very least a 2002 paperback re-print copy via Amazon.com

God bless Amazon for helping me find a book I have searched for for many years.

Our Grade Two class loves to celebrate the holidays with a visit to Cranberryport. Cranberry Valentine is a great book to read on Valentine's Day. We especially liked this book because it showed us that friends are always there when you need them. As in all the other Cranberry books Mr. Whiskers was there to lead us on another fun adventure with Maggie,Grandmother, and all the other Cranberryport friends. Grandmother is the best cook in Cranberryport and we love to try her recipes that are included in each book. We recommend this book to Everyone! Our favourite saying is "suffering codfish".

This book rocks! Keep em' comin! I can't wait for the next one...if there is going to be one?!?!?!?!? There better be!

This book tells the story of Dalton, Georgia, and how the textile mill led to its development. It is a very detailed look at the townspeople and their struggles throughout a century. It provides a unique and perceptive view of the South's economic and social transformation beginning during the aftermath of the Civil War and continuing with the rise of technology into the Reagan years.

I borrowed this book from my library and after reading through it, studying the photographs, and the directions, I am putting it on my wish list as another book I want in my own personal collection. This book is very clear with simple reasons for why or how something is done in a certain way. Options are given on how to prepare to do your embroidery from transfering designs to hooping it. There are simple work pieces that use increasingly more difficult/involved stitches so you will be building on what you have learned. You even get instructions for designing your own designs. I look forward to using some of the stitches in this book for a current project I'm working on as I still have several weeks to keep this library copy.