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We have a library with over 300 children's books, and Tippy-Toe Chick, Go is a family favorite! Your children will just love this book! The illustrations are cute and colorful. The prose is adorable and catchy. The length of the story line on each page is just right. I can't stand books that have paragraphs of text, yet few illustrations. Smaller children will cheer for Little Chick as she performs the task that her Mother, Big Chick and Medium Chick were unable to do and triumphs over Grumpy Dog to get to her favorite treat - sweet itty-bitty beans and potato bugs! My third grader enjoyed reading this out-loud to the family tonight, and so I came here to Amazon to see if there were more wonderful books by George Shannon. I can only hope they are as good as this one!

Adult readers like to think they're smart enough to read picture books. They like to believe that picture books hold no surprises for them and that the smartest picture books in the world are no match for grown-up wisdom and experience. That's why I always appreciate those picture books that offer the unexpected. Child readers know better than their parental counterparts. They're aware that at any moment a picture book can offer surprising delights and plot twists. After reading through "Tippy-Toe Chick, GO!" I remembered this. At first the book looks like one of those stories in which a baby chicken following her mother and siblings becomes so entranced with the world around her that she becomes lost and confused. There are roughly 5 million picture books with this exact plot. Instead, and to my vast relief, the story was about a baby chick that uses its special skills to defeat an enemy of vast proportions and, as a result, win the love of her fellows. And it's cute too.

We meet a mother hen and her three chicks. Wearing a Charlie Brownish expression of permanent worry, the hen takes her chicks every day to the nearby garden to eat itty-bitty beans and potato bugs (their favorite treat). Big Chick and Middle Chick follow obediently but Little Chick tends to dawdle along to observe the world around her. When she sees that she has fallen behind she runs "tippy-toe, tippy-toe" to catch up. This routine happens with great regularity until one day a dog on a rope prevents the family from making their daily garden run. The chicks are, needless to say, put out. To stop the dog the Big Chick attempts to reason with the dog. No good. Then the Middle Chick tries threats. No good. Finally, the Little Chick decides to try her hand (in spite of the laughter of her siblings). She runs "tippy-toe, tippy-toe" at the dog and around a tree. The dog follows angrily until it gets caught and the others are able to safely get to the garden. The last shot is of Little Chick descending on a large juicy potato bug with the word, "YUM!".

With a catchy title like, "Tippy-Toe Chick, GO!" you'd kind of expect the book to be of the rhyming variety. This is not the case. Though there's a lot of enjoyment to be had in reading "tippy-toe, tippy-toe" over and over, that's about as rhythmic as it gets. The text is rather straightforward, but with a nature that's fun. Some words are in bold or capitalized to help adult readers know what phrases to stress. I'm not sure if there's a moral to the story beyond, "Little people can help too" (a staple in children's literature and folktales). Are we supposed to learn something when reason and violence don't work against opponents? Are we to assume that outsmarting them is the only recourse left? Or am I reading too much into a 27 page picture book? Whatever the case, the illustrations to this story are as simple as the text. Drawn by artist Laura Dronzek (married, as it happens, to the fabulous children's author/artist Kevin Henkes of "Lily's Purple Plastic Purse" fame), the pictures are big, bright, and colorful. With minimum expressions, Dronzek is able to convey each animal's emotions perfectly. The pictures are broken up nicely into full colorful spreads, images where characters react on a pure white background, and (in at least one case) four individual pictures spanning two pages. Altogether, the artist has matched her illustrations nicely to the story.

"Tippy-Toe Chick, GO!" isn't the most original picture book out there today, but it's one of the nicest. And while kids probably won't go gagga over it (as they would with, say, "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus") they'll like it quite a lot. If you're the kind of person who enjoys reading catchy phrases like "tippy-toe, tippy-toe" and want a picture book that teaches a basic lesson about individual talents, this chick's for you.

This is a perfect book. The author packs an amazing amount of story per word - all with fun-to-read rhythm. The illustrations are great, too - priceless expressions on the poultry. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

George Shannon's Tippy-Toe Chick, GO! is an engaging and recommended children's picturebook about a resourceful little yellow chick who must use her cleverness and speed to outwit a fierce dog that is blocking the way to food for her whole family. An upbeat tale of finding one's hidden strengths told with singsong prose and illustrated in vibrant colors by Laura Dronzek.

As usual, Willo Davis Roberts has made a suspensful, scary book for all ages. It will keep you up for hours and on the edge of your seat. I recommend each and every one of her books.

As always,Willo is able to capture feelings and create characters that are identifiable to all of us. Who could not enjoy this book?

A good book if you like mystery. Good to read because it is about young kids and there is no violenc

In To Grandmother's House We Go there are three main characters. They are Nathan, Rosie, and Kevin, Their dad was dead so then when they find out their mom might be dying too, they decide they have to do something. They decide to go find their grandmother's house. When they get there finally they start hearing strange noises. They start a quest to find out who else was living at grandmother's house along with them, Uncle George, and Grandma.
I liked this book a lot. It is especially good for kids, either boys or girls. It is very interesting. I could hardly put the book down the whole time I was reading it. One of the reasons I like this book a lot is that it is very realistic, but also very fiction because most kids wouldn't be able to go to their grandmother's house by themselves. I gave this book 5 stars.

V. Kasturi Rangan (Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School) presents Transforming Your Go-To-Market Strategy: The Three Disciplines of Channel Management, a guide to improving the distribution systems of one's company. Focusing on three core techniques - mapping industry channels, building and reshaping channels for optimum customer service, and aligning one's channel value chain - Transforming Your Go-To-Market Strategy presents the tools to turn around poor distribution and increase both sales and profits. A "must-read" for professional distributors and owners of businesses large and small.

V. Kasturi Rangan presents a precise and exact step by step process to not only create a channel sales strategy, but to enhance and fix one that is already in place. Many companies and managers today feel all the have to do is sign up as many "channels" as possible to be successful. Unfortunately they overlook the overlook the critical principles of a success channel strategy and fail measurably, taking down the company, its people and alienating their customers. This is a must read and keep for any level of management involved in a go-to-market strategy.

The downside of this book is no color inside and that the Channel Stewardship concept in the book reveals so many opportunities for you in your business, you ask yourself - where do I begin to apply this & take advantage?

Also, the opportunity can be so big - that some readers may be intimidated. It can take years to move a company to implement Channel Stewardship fully - possibly a major change in mind-set.

Great use of multiple industry examples & action orientation / sequence of the chapters ! Your favorite chapter depends on where you & your company are now. For example, favorite chapter for me was #3 'Building & Editing the Value Chain'.

This book is a must read for business managers of products or services or retail. After reading the first 3 chapters, I ordered 10 more copies to give to key associates and started to organize workshops to implement some of the concepts as Global Head of Distribution in my company [Fortune 100].

I really enjoyed this book by Harvard Business School professor Kash Rangan. The authors advocate a disciplined approach to channel strategy that could generate superior returns in almost any industry. In my experience, most manufacturers neither develop careful channel maps nor do they assign executives senior enough to make significant channel resource commitments. As a result, the returns to channel stewardship should be available for any company willing to invest the time and effort.

A major strength of this book is the detailed examples provided in each chapter. Most business books simply provide very short case studies that always leave me wondering what really happened. Here, Rangan and Bell combine company stories with market data. Some of the examples are a bit dated, but that has the advantage of allowing the authors to describe the actual outcomes. The examples include both retail (B2C) and business-to-business channels, showing the strength of channels thinking. They even provide fresh insights into overdone examples such as Dell and Wal-Mart.

The only shortcoming is an over reliance on box-and-arrow diagrams. These are helpful when showing product and information flows within a channel system, but much less interesting when simply summarizing points made in the text.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with channel management responsibilities. This dense and challenging book will reward careful study.

Carolyn Hayes Uber's TRAVELING SMART, takes the guesswork out of traveling. Carry it with you for quick reference. Everything you need to know! IT'S IN THE BOOK!

No international traveler should miss Carolyn Hayes Uber's Traveling Smart. Carolyn's compendium of basic planning, creative hints, useful resources, and cultural etiquette smoothes the passage for both neophyte and road warrior alike. This is one book you'll want to pack.

This book helped convince my husband that we could travel internationally safely. We took our first trip to Italy and carried Traveling Smart in our backpack everywhere. We will take in on all of our future trips overseas.

This book is great! It was so helpful in planning our last vacation to Europe and had so many great tips for traveling with our children. It is a must have for anyone traveling abroad! There were so many things that it covered that I didn't realize we might have to deal with. We had a wonderful vacation thanks to Traveling Smart!

This book has a lot of things to do, but unless you like to bugged to "play" constantly on a trip, make sure you have two kids with you. There is a wide variety of things to do, so there is something for everyone. A good book to have along with other travel games.

A Godsend for keeping kids entertained in the car, the restaurant or anywhere on the go. The book is divided into handy sections with a fun games for any occasion - why not play "Point at the Disabled Man" while waiting at the checkout, or "Puncture Daddy's Eardrum" or "Taunt the Dog" in the car?

This book is invaluable for road trips with kids. It's filled with dozens of fun games to keep the little ones occuipied (while keeping adults engaged and amused).

The book categorizes games by age groups. From 2- year olds to teens, there are lots of great games to play that stimulate brains-- painlessly.

Playing the games in this book makes any trip more enjoyable and makes traveling seem shorter.

The games even promote conversation. ALL with no batteries required.

A MUST for people with little people.

This book is essential if you are waiting or travelling with your children. It focussess on creativity and imaginative play. It's broken down into age categories, games for 2 to 11 year olds. Once you have it you'll recommend it to everyone you know.

I don't know what people were talking about, this is a great quality book. Very sturdy, very cute. I love that it has multiple textures on each page to find. My son loves it.

Our two year old son loves cars and trucks to begin with, but he truly enjoys this book. Each page has different trucks with different textures. It's excellent for him to flip through on his own. I have found, when reading on his own, that he tends to bend or tear pages in other books that have flip-ups - so this book is one that I can leave out, he uses, and the damage to the pages are minimal, if any. So far, there's only one small tear, on one page. He likes to look at the pictures while I'm spooning him yogurt. I like having books around that he will actually use, and this is one of them. We have other books that may only have one picture of one truck on one page - and he gets stuck there and only wants to look at the truck. So, this book, having many trucks, gets him through it from cover-to-cover. He looks at all the pages. If you have a boy, this book is for them.

I agree with Suzanne's review of this book. I also purchased this for my son, and he really enjoys it. Really, really well made with very thick pages. Multiple textures and colorful illustrations. My only complaint would be that the text is a bit boring... "this big truck has a shiny red door"... "and this big truck has bumpy wheels".. (etc) Otherwise, I would give it 5 stars.
Really good value for the price though.
*** Other REALLY good touchy feely books are "Dinosaurs" and "Mermaids". (also by Usborne - Fiona Watt/Rachel Wells)

I can't say enough about the touchy feely book! It's hands down my daughter's favorite book right now. The pages are VERY thick, making it possible for the touchable parts of the page to be very thick also---they really feel like something---the load of sand feels sandy, the sheep feel fleecey, etc! The greatest part is that each page has MULTIPLE places to touch, and some are little and fun to find---like a dog with a furry coat next to the touchable truck, or a shiny headlight on a truck. The picture are clear and easy for a baby to enjoy, but there are also a few small details on each page for them to notice, like a little worm in the dirt. We have read this book over and over and over, and it's still in great shape---a good investment!

The simple, rhythmic text is the heartbeat of this book, and the joyful illustrations give it breath. The rhyming story spans the seasons as the Willow Ptarmigan's feathers change from winter white, to dapple brown, and back again. But the illustrations really tell the story of a child's observations and reflections of the seasons, the bird, and camoflage. What a delightful book!

I loved Jim's story line. All four of my children admired the beautiful pictures and loved the way he incorporated rhyme into his information about the Ptarmigan. I purchased several books for Christmas presents. I hope Jim writes more books for us to enjoy!

I thought that the story Turnagain Ptarmigan! was a great way to introduce young children to Alaska's state bird. James Guenther has obviously done extensive research on the Willow Ptarmigan so that he could portray in a fun way for children to read and learn about Alaska's state bird. I enjoyed how for each season the author showed a different stage of the ptarmigan ... what they are like each season. I recommend this book to all grade school children.

This book explores the Alaska state bird and why it changes color depending on the season. The concept of nature and camouflage is beautifully presented. The prose is excellent. The illustrations are a delight and show not only the Ptarmigan, but children sometimes camouflaged in the picture as well. A wonderful new book for children!!

I LOVE this book. The rhymes are so catchy that children come away wanting to create their own. The illustrations are perfect, and the message is refreshingly positive. This has become my "go to" gift for showers and children's birthdays. I can't think of a better way to sit down with a child and tell them that you love them.

My daughter brought this book home from school and we both fell in love with it. The rhyming lyrics and the colorful illustrations make this a book we read over and over together. I had to buy two more copies; one for my mother, who is a children's literature enthusiast, and one for my sister-in-law to read to her young son.
This book has remained in my daughter's "favorite" pile since she received it.

We Go Together!
Small children are at their most influential period making this book an appropriate educational tool as well as a pleasing rhythmic tone. To teach a hat goes on a head is an insightful step beyond a rhyming book. To use rhythmic sentences is the childlike learning hook. Beautiful concept. I have purchased four books that are heading under the Christmas tree because: We go together like pictures on a wall We go together like this book in Fall This is my hottest holiday pick for Fall and Winter! Enjoy...

This is a great book! Kids will really enjoy thinking of things that go together. This is also a wonderful book to use in the classroom. Kids can writer their own verses.

I really can't understand why this book has come out in paperback edition, so that more people might read it. I read it when it first came out and made me do a lot of thinking not just about affirmative action, but more about just how does any society go about providing ways to bring about real opportunities for various groups of people to access to good education and employment in the midst of adverse social, economic, and political conditions.

The author's chapter "On Meritocracy" was especially insightful. It talks about the need for a "community-based" definition of qualified, rather than an elitist-based definition. This means that when we talk about a community-based definition, we're not looking at just a person's educational credentials, but her ability to contribute to the community in which she will be working. Does her background or experience with that community mean more than her scores on educational tests or her access to priviledged edcuation.

In this regard, the authors write that, "Historically, the demand for affirmative action came from communities with unmet needs. Ghettos, left without basic services because of white flight, needed doctors, lawyers, merchants, and teachers who were unafraid to serve there. Ethnic communities found that, without community-based scholars, their history, their culture was ignored or misinterpreted by outsiders..." Without affirmative action, what we get are people who qualified based on certain instutional credentials, but they lack real talent or history with the communities they serve.

It's really too bad that affirmative action debate has subsided, for it really helps us to grapple with how we build an equitable society where people are not held back because of their lack of previlege or because their racial, economic, or social background.

I am a second-year student at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. I read the book because I was looking for solid responses to the usual arguments against affirmative action -- and I definitely found such responses in this excellently written book. As I read a book, I collect in a computer file quotes or passages that I wish to remember. I must have transcribed nearly one-third of this book. The authors present strong, fair-minded arguments to support the return to affirmative action.

One of their main theses, and a unique perspective, is to redefine merit from merely a test score to a myriad of qualities -- qualities that insure a successful and productive person and also that benefit all of society. The authors also point out that without affirmative action for women and minorities, we are still operating under the status quo affirmative action -- affirmative action for white males.

This book is a must-read for all progressive people who sincerely believe in a return to affirmative action. We must now make our voices heard!

This book is certainly of interest for its individual stories, and I remain committed to supporting A.A. Unfortunately, the two authors are rather chillingly smug; is it so remarkable that an African-American and an Asian-American who have both benefitted from A.A. are both in favor of it? However, as an Indian-American, I have seen serious problems which A.A. presents to Asian-Americans, which economically and educationally priviledged white and Asian-American women pay lip service to but do not confront directly. As a feminist I found most of this book compelling. Nevertheless, they should not be so glib in speaking of 'women and minorities' in that manner because it feeds the stereotyping conducted by conservative critics of the Left's position on A.A. At some point we, as women of all races, have to confront the genuine problems of classism within the ranks of feminism, especially the priviledged feminist elite. Prop 209 could have been defeated in California, were it not for middleclass white women pre empting the much more urgent protests conducted by minorities. 'Women and minorities' is a useful phrase, particularly when addressing political unfairness. But Affirmative Action should *never* be an excuse for the feminist elite (especially academic feminists, who hardly speak for all of us!) to use discrimination as a soap box for their own interests. White women as well as Asian-American women, are well represented as students in most of prestigious academia; it is in teaching jobs that there are still problems of representation. This is ultimately a somewhat sanctimonious book, and is obviously only going to please people who already share their views; it won't convert a soul, and so I can't help wondering why they would risk diluting the field (there are a lot of books coming out of the debate over A.A.) in this manner.

This book covers the history of affirmative actions programs in our country and the positive impacts they have had on all our people. Affirmative action is for everyone and the authors show that. One author comes from an Asian-American background and the other author from an African-American background. They are both keen observers of the American race puzzle. Both are lawyers and sharp when it comes to legal references. This book was a pleasure to read and gave me hopeful feelings about the future of our great nation. Good ammunition for those of us who are defenders of a multi-cultural society. We are not alone and the best arguments are ours. I met Mari Matsuda at a university gathering. She is a wonderful speaker as well as a gifted writer. I look forward to meeting her co-author Charles Lawrence.

This is a cute, funny story to share with your kids, or any other little ones in your life. Most people (especially cat owners) will get a kick out of the antics of this cat, and the anxiety those antics produce in his owner, a little boy who's trying to keep those antics hidden. Comes with musical CD, so you can "sing" along with the words to the book. Gives kids, especially the young ones, both the reading and the musical stimulation so valuable in young life. And fun for adults, too.

My daughter gave this book to me as part of a Christmas gift. The tune on the CD is catchy and humorous. My three year old grand daughter loves it. The singing is different than she has experienced and that, together with the tango beat, has fascinated her. Nice to follow along with the pictures and words as you listen to the CD, so more dimensions. Beautifully illustrated with vibrant colors.

Great book for any cat lover

author of "Hobo Finds A Home"

The grandkids love this CD and book! They think it's very funny, and it's easy for them to follow along with the CD!!