Boards Books

Very good, very concise, especially with radiology. Get it - I think it is out of print but you can find it used. Good luck studying!

I found this book to be pretty good review for Part III. It helped with summarizing all the stuff I learned in chiropractic school. It gave good reviews of the clinical impression or diagnosis, physical examination, neuro examination, etc. I also used the following which was just awesome for showing me the type of questions to be prepared for on the Part III and Part IV chiropractic Boards:
National Board of Chiropractic Part III Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations by Patrick Leonardi
National Board of Chiropractic Part IV Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers (Volume 1) and (Volume 2) by Patrick Leonardi.
In fact, Dr. Patrick Leonardi's and Dr. Jeannette Gibson's study guides helped me to pass the boards. I advise getting these four study guides. It's better than taking these boards over again.

I agree that this book is a great asset, and would recommend it to anyone in Chiropractic school, having previously stipulated that it will not prepare you for part IV. The book does indeed review Part III is great detail, but the part four review - with the exception some medical stuff, abdominal exam, thorax, etc. and some others, does not fully prepare you for Part IV. I found the last section on technique extremely lacking, there were no pictures, and very little on the method with which National Boards test you on (vertebral malposition listings [national listings]) since most of us were taught Gonstead (at least at Life West).

In conclusion, I recommend the Irene Gold review seminars. They may help more than this book will. It is a great book, but let's be real here, with the expense of Part IV National Boards ($850), it is cheaper not to buy this book and go to a review and get a passing grade, than to save in the beginning and fail the exam. That's the opinion of someone who used this book and studied in detail and failed the first time around.

4 Stars!

Buy it, study it, and then take some time to relax while the rest of your class tries to learn that which you've mastered. This text allows you to optimize your time studying. No more wasted hours organizing; it is already done for you. Great book. Worth much more than the price tag. I can't endorse it enough. I gave it to my son, a chiropractor for Christmas, and it proves as useful in practice as it is in school. Much thanks to the authors for writing this book. Well done.

At first I thought this was too much information, then I realized it was everything I needed to know for my clinical studies as well as my academic studies. It is hard to understand how this book was written by doctors. I think professional editors would have a hard time negotiating this level of complexity. You both made it look simple and easy to follow. The amount of organization it contains is awesome. I am finishing up school now, and I only have one complaint about this text. It should've been handed out to the students on the first day of class with a schedule of which sections to learn for each year of study. It should be a required text for everyone. My life, my family, and my peers all would have benefitted from the decreased stress associated with a properly organized course plan. I probable could have saved thousands on coffee and actually slept instead of cramming this information for hours on end. This is an entire education between two covers. Thank you, thank you, thank you. My younger brother starts school in September and he is studying this book already! His life will be so much simpler because of it. I not only studied this material for boards, but due to the ease of which it is laid out I actually had time to learn it. You should write a business text next!

My son almost two years old enjoyed the images and words in the book. It was exciting for the both of us to watch his acknowledge of things that he had known prior, and be able to acknpwledge new things that he viewed in the book. I since have purchased a variety of Happy baby books since we are expecting.

Something about the Happy Baby series really captures my son's interest, ever since he was about 6 months old. We started with the colors, then words and most recently we bought this book for ABC's. My son loves them all. They are very sturdy and even easy to clean should something get on them. I also like that these books are thorough and often feature unique things. For instance, this book has some words in it that aren't in other ABC books I have- thus I can teach him new words. The colors book even includes all of the basic rainbow colors but also has grey, white, black, etc. This will be a series that I will recommend to friends and also buy as a gift. I am so glad that a friend introduced us to this series!

great for identifying objects & colors. bright and cheery so babies and toddlers love to look at the pages.

I love Roger Priddy's books. This one is one of my son's favorite books. He loves to point at the pictures and hear us name them. We read it everyday. Good way to increase his vocabulary. He recognizes a lot of pictures though he cannot really say the word as yet

I love this book and all of Roger Priddy's Happy Baby collection. We bought the box sets at a wholesale store when my son was about 1 year old. He is 2 1/2 now and these are still his favorite books. The vivid pictures clearly show the child what the word refers to. These books helped my son learn letters, colors, words, counting, body parts, and so much more. They are also extremely durable. The outside cover has a plastic-like coating to withstand drool and other wetness, and the pages are not easy to bend even when someone stands on the book (like daddy). I highly recommend these books even for infants. Now my son reads them to me!

This is the third book we have of this kind. All 3 have been her favorites. This book has a bunch of animals in it and its colorful. I really like this book and my daughter does too. I would say this book and the others we have like it get the most use out of her book collection. Definately recommend

My three month old granddaughter loves this book. We read the names of the animals to her and talk about the colors. The pictures are bright, cheerful, and simple yet stimulating. I highly recommend it and will be buying the rest of the series.

This book is so terrific for little ones that my grandchildren wore out the first copy causing me to buy a second! A delightful book for babies to age 4.

My two-year-old loves this book. It has been one of her favorites for months now. She likes to match the pictures of animals in the book with her toy animals.

My daughter loves the Happy Baby books (her favorite is the Spanish/English Palabras/Words) and she likes this one, but I find the concepts in it to be a little complex. It has sections about animal patterns, matching animals with colors, etc. that are a little over her head. In a year or so this will probably be a good challenge for her, but right now it's a little too much. Still, a great book - she brings it to me regularly to "read" to her.

My daughter is a year old now and has had this book since she was only a few weeks old. She loves everything "Baby Einstein" and this is by far her favorite of all the BE books. In fact, her first word was "book" and she was holding this one up when she said it! I really think it's the bright orange tiger on the front. :)

You can't go wrong with any of the BE books. They have bold, bright pictures and poetic content. I love reading them to her but she also enjoys sitting on the floor and "reading" them to herself!

This book is colorful, simplistic and really does teach little ones about numbers and counting. This was one of my son's favorite books. I'd recommend it along with the one about shapes. If you read these to your child starting at age one, they will most likely learn them by age two.

Great book, but your toddler have to be able to sit and count. Its fun to have it if your baby is in that counting stage.

When I was majoring in education, I bought a lot of books for my classroom. I was planning on teaching small children, so I bought this book.

The back of the book says that it is for ages 1 to 4, but most 4 years can count past 5. Still, if you consider it be be for say ages 1 to 3, I think it is a very good book.

The pictures are bright, like other books from the Baby Einstein Company. The bees are cute! The text in the book is kept simple, so it is easy for little ones to comprehend.

The best way to encourage a child to read is to have books in the home.

This is a family favorite. We love the bright pictures and enjoy the interaction with our 10 month old. The pictures, as in most of the Baby Einstein collection are intriguing (looks intently with interest and points at them). Our baby has begun showing us with his fingers how many "five" is, how many "two" is, etc...What a fun way to learn about numbers!

My daughter is 14 months old and insists on being read this book about 10 times a day. She'll pick it up and bring it to me, which is nonverbal communication that even I can understand. She can make all the sounds that the babies in the book make (except for "night night"), which may be why she likes it so much. She also likes seeing the babies and playing with the flaps of the book. She loves this book so much that I'm buying my third copy. She's destroyed the first two, not due to any fault of this sturdy thick cardboard-paged book, but out of sheer hard use, and the fact that most 14 month olds are engines of mass destruction. It's cheap and kids love it - you can't go wrong with this one.

"Noisy Farm," also from BK, is also a big hit in our house. Amazon often offers a deal when you buy both, and if you have a 1 year old, I would just go ahead and buy both. They'll both be a hit.

My daughter (and I!) absolutely love this book! So much, that it has had to be replaced a couple of times. She gets so excited to pull back the flaps and shout out what she is expecting to see. We started reading it at about 6 months - and now at 11 months, she knows it cover to cover!

This was one of the first few books I purchased for my son because I read that babies like to look at other babies. He loves this book! Even at 3 months he would squeal at the pictures. At five months he was trying to lift the flaps. The pictures of emotions with the simple labels are now helping him to imitate sounds at nine months. I highly recommend this to moms looking for books for young babies.

My daughter has loved this book to pieces. The sturdy flaps are perfect for tiny hands learning to turn and flip pages, and what baby doesn't LOVE seeing other baby faces?! This is a great gift for new parents because it's enjoyable for all from day one.

Our son really responded to this book when we first showed it to him when he was, oh, I don't know 6 months or so. Since then, he has come back to it over and over and over, plucking it from his stash of board books which now runs 30 deep. Now at 18 months, he still loves it and says the simple words that correspond with each picture before he flips open the flaps. ("Hee hee" was the first one he said :)) Of all his books, this is the one we have counted on to keep him occupied and engaged while at restaurants, in the car, or as a distractor to head off a mini-tantrum. I am now buying a second copy of the book as the last page of our first one got soaked (juice? water?) and has warped. Actually, I'm tempted to buy a 3rd copy and keep it on hand for baby #2...

When I first got this set as a gift, I didn't think it was anything special. Plus, my daughter immediately started destroying the books by ripping off the flaps, so I put them away. My daughter is now 20 months old and loves books but will not sit still through a whole book . . . except these. She wants me to read them over and over, and they have replaced her regular bedtime book. She's completely mesmerized by them! I just ordered four more of Karen Katz's lift-the-flap books so that my daughter (and my husband and I) have something else to read.

The books were just what the baby ordered. They are fun, colorful and are perfect for a 1 year olds birthday, plus they arrived just in time for the party. They made a perfect gift.

My daughter loves these books now... She didn't love them when I first purchased them, when she was 9 months old. But by about 13 months they were her favorites since she had figured out how to lift the flaps on her own. The books have held up well to her rough handling. I think the price is excellent for 4 board books of this quality and will use these as shower gifts in the future. The books are very colorful, cute and fun and help build baby's vocabulary without being too heavy on the amount of words per page.

This is a very cute little box set. My daughter has always enjoyed books by Karen Katz. I love the interactive aspect of it. However, as is the case with all Karen Katz's books, the flaps come off way too easily when a child pulls on them slightly. I have to use clear tape to attach the flaps back where they belong in all of the books. We already had to buy 3 replacements for the books my daughter enjoys the most. Perhaps it's the publisher's way to ensure constant demand. I found these books at local TJMaxx and Marshall's for $2-$4.

These books are a must-have for all babies! The artwork is adorably colorful, and the interactivity of the flaps makes reading more fun; it gives baby something to do while you read.

This book has photos, babies, flaps AND textures. What more could any child want in a book? This is a no-brainer for little hands. My baby won't put it down. It's held up pretty well considering and, a little clear packing tape helped after months of abuse on a few pages. This book is made for children rather than cutesey artwork geared at amusing the grown -ups.

My 15 month old daughter loves all the peekaboo books. This one and Baby Says Peekaboo are her favorites.

This is a really cute book for babies & toddlers. My little boy is three and is now starting to outgrow it, but has really enjoyed tall of the "Peekaboo" books for a couple of years.

This whole series is terrific. The simple writing, colorful photographs of children and dolls and the whole "peekaboo" concept captures the interest of young children. My 14 month old twins can't get enough of Bedtime Peekaboo. They no longer will let me read any other book at bedtime! My whole family gives this book five stars!
Dr. Jenn Berman
Author of The A to Z Guide to Raising Happy, Confident Kids

My 8-month old loves this book and I love it because he can look at it on his own without ripping any pages. There isn't as much to "touch and feel" as I thought there would be, but there's enough to make it cute!

We started reading to our baby when he was just a few weeks old. This was the one book that stimulated his senses right away. The bright and contrasting colors captured his attention as an infant and now as a toddler, this is still his favorite book.

My daughter loves this book. She has to have it at least once a day--if not 15 times. One of the first things she would do once she could walk was carry it to me so I could read it to her. As her vocabulary has developed she asks for it by name and loves to point out the things she knows the words for. And after having read it hundreds of times, I still find the art freash and amusing. How many children's books hold up to that test?

My son usually can't sit still for long periods of time and this book is PERFECT. He loves my exaggerated pronounciation of the text and the pictures are big, bright, and appealing. His favorite book, by far!!

This book is very cute. Its size and the bright colors grab babies' attention. The pictures and writing are bright and big. Although my daughter is not yet 1, I think she'll enjoy it for a couple of years as she learns colors, articles of clothing, etc. Definitely different from typical childrens books and lots of fun.

This is a bright and exciting book (it's on our list for the grandparents as a "not-before-bedtime" book) with fun pictures for toddlers. Our toddler loves to look through the pictures and although she is WAY too young to think about reading, the words are also very appealing and large and attract her attention too.

The drawings are bright and bold and show children of diverse skin colors (including green and blue) in outlandish clothes that are way too big for them. The underlying message is one of diversity, but it's not sappy or pushy.

Keith Haring was one of the great artists of our time, and it's tremendous to have a children's book that introduces children to his art in a casual way. This is not a "let's study the art of great artists" book, it's just a children's book filled with great illustrations that happen to be by a great artist. I suspect that many of the children who are enjoying this book as toddlers or preschoolers may have one of those tremendous "ah-ha" moments five or ten years from now when they end up on a school field trip to an art gallery and think, "I KNOW that artist."

I am an Early Intervention therapist for children birth-age 3. Every time I buy new books to use with my kiddos, I find myself always choosing books by Roger Priddy. I love (as do my children and those I work with) the REAL pictures rather than drawings and the solid backgrounds. It's very clear what vocabulary I am trying to teach. Again - I LOVE this book, and all of the others I have in my collection. I return to them again and again.

I read this to my one year old and it is just a bunch of colorful pictures of animals but she loves to point at them and I say the word and make the sound of the animal. The pages are board and very sturdy. They sell this book in many museums, it's worth the amazon price!

My 14-month old daughter loves the pictures, but has a little bit of trouble handling the book. It is really big. I recommend it nonetheless.

I bought this book after buying the four pack of first words and the My First 100 Words. My 18 month old absolutely loves these books and I highly recommend them! They are a great teaching tool for teaching words, especially names for animals children normally don't see. I highly recommend!!!

We have many, many books for my 1 year old son and this has been his abosolute favorite for months. It is bright and big enough for him to turn the pages. He loves to point at the animals and hear us say their names. The pages are thick and indestructable. He lights up when we bring this book out.

Blood, Bones and Body Bits is a wonderful book exellent for children but also very good for adults.It explains in a very nice and funny way about your body. And Nick Arnold is a exellent writer and the drawings of Tony De Saulles are nice but also funny

I liked blood bones and body bits because i thought it was funny and interesting. I would like to publish a book like that myself oneday too

I use to be bored about science,but after I read this book, I love it! And EVERY SINGLE WORD he wrote is true.I swear to God.Poke a Neadle in my eyes if its wrong!

My kids loved the series of these books. I really enjoyed them myself. The book talks in child language and often makes them
laugh or say "Gross!". It makes the information stick in their
minds. Nicely written in a child's point of view.

I believe this book has to be one of the best science books in the biz. It got me wondering all about the body and how it works. It's a must read if you love science or even if you cringe at the word, it will make horrible science come alive.