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I loved the book and the price is great for all the ideas that is in the book. She gives you great inspiration with the many different country styles. I would recommend this book to any novice home decorator.......

I thought this book to be very colorful and informative book, Jessie covers the many styles of country living interiors - whether it's country cottage or rustic or primitive she has captured it all. Very attractive design - anyone into Country Style will love this book.

This is a great book for anyone who wants a old world country feel to their home. The illustrations are beautiful and the decorating advice is thoughtfully planned out.

Jessie Walker's Country Decorating
This book was everything I hoped for; it is awesome. My husband and I are planning to buy an older farmhouse and wanted decor ideas, this book has given us several really good and easily done ideas. Thank you!

This book is not only delightful to look at, it's sturdy and holds up well under the wear and tear of being handled by little hands. The message is just as solid as the design, and teaches the concept that Jesus is with your child anywhere, anytime! My son has loved this book ever since he was a baby, and now at age 3, he still likes it!

The repetitive sequence of this emergent reader assists greatly in developing fluency and early decoding skills. My two year old daughter has adopted this as her favorite independent reader. You too will enjoy the down to earth pictures and smiles that will resurface on your child's face each time he/she picks this book up and reads it independently!!

I bought all three in this series and this is my favorite because I love the message that Jesus is with us everywhere. The author has chosen fun places to illustrate, and the words fit easily to the tune of Jingle Bells. Also buy her "Jesus Loves Me" which takes you thru all the times of day and reminds you that Jesus loves you. As the Early Childhood Director of a church, we give them out as new baby gifts to all babies born in the congregation. A great little book and a great price!

This cuddle and sing book teaches children that God never leaves them, no matter where they go. Singing this book to your kids is an amazing experience especially for Dads.

We are familiar with Debby Anderson's books, but this was a new one to us. What a wonderful way to show all the children who live in different parts of the world! There is a page for each of the main cultural areas in which children live (the island children, the small town children, the jungle children, the city children, etc.). Very nice book, and very sturdy board book format.

This is my 2-year-old's new favorite book. She asks for it by name (this and "Jesus Loves Me") every day and sometimes sings the song to herself. I highly recommend this book!

This is our baby's favorite book! It has bright colors, fun pictures with lots of activity and he loves the fact that we sing it to him. We love the message and the fact that the author clearly shows children that Jesus love people all over the world, not just blond-haired American children.

This story goes to the tune of the familiar song, and shows children from a variety of cultures. It will give you more verses to sing to the song, and a basis for exposing your child to other ways of life.

While the book lays out John Wesley's church structure that brought revival to England and North America in the 1700's. And it still works if you work it!

The book includes questions at the end of each chapter for discussion. It also includes a large study guide at the end which is more appropriate for high schoolers.

While it refers to the Methodist denomination many times, that denomination is in decline because they have abandoned the principles laid out in this book.

Yrigoyen book provides a very personal touch to the huge figure which is Wesley. Great for beginners in Methodism and long-timers alike.

Was very useful for what I was doing, and I enjoyed the reading.

This book is excellent for people like me...life-long methodists that need to learn how and why it all started. I would think John Wesley is rolling over in his grave at the current state of the methodist church.

My daughter loved this book so much when we checked it out at the library, that I decided to buy it for her birthday. Of course, I couldn't just find it at a store. Lucky for her, I found it online and with a cd! We love reading it together- she does the line "Jump frog Jump"

I was SO glad when this came back in print. This is a cumulative tale a la "House that Jack Built". You can get the children chanting "Jump Frog Jump!" in a few pages. Barton's bright folk-like illustrations fit right in.

As a teacher and an aunt I highly recommend this book which is a favorite with the kids! It's easy for them to memorize the lines and follow the words (a great skill to develop while learning how to read). A fantastic addition to any child's library of books!

The repetition and predictable outcomes were a joy for my 4 year old boy. After 3 readings he enthusiastically read the Jump, Frog, Jump! page by himself! We used green pillows as lily pads and acted out the escaping frog scenes.

I recommened this book very highly to anyone that has a need for horror

The book is great for any fear loving person. It has action, love, and fear. I'm 12 and got into it and couldn't put it down. I almost got so tearified I couldn't put it down till everything was safe and sound.

...." A clever, hip and frightening adventure faced by the twins and their friends that will leave you on the edge of your seat at the end of each chapter..."

I read this book in 3 hours.... NOt putting it down once! Itis a really great story and easy to catch onto.. even if you didntread the first book! (Believe me i know!) The book was really cool. It really gives you a look on reality about how Marin finds the girls even when they are on an island with no cars and riding horse back! This book is so intense and real you will be looking over your shoulder for a while! I really recomend this book!

I really enjoy this book. The blend of science (underwater archaeology) and fantasy (Atlantis) is extremely well done. It's an easy story to read, but improves each time it's revisited. If you've got children (especially boys), who resist reading, this book could well change their opinion.

My mother is the author of this book. She has written a sequel, "Merlin's Legacy", which we are working on getting published. If you liked this book, please add your review.

We have obtained the rights to King Tut's Gameboard and are having 300 more copies printed.

Our family is one of energetically avid readers and this book remains one of our favorites! It is an easy and thoroughly enjoyable book that's storyline about Ancient Egypt and modern finds is really well done. I read it as a pre-teen and continue to read it to my son. It is a subtley intriguing and satisfying read. It's a pity Ms. Ellerby didn't write other stories, I am sure they would have been as fascinating.

I am SO glad to hear Ms. Ellerby wrote another book (see review by her daughter)!!!! I'm waiting to buy it! Thank you.

As for the copyright for the book- wouldn't a movie based on the book be WONDERFUL?! Certainly intriguing!

Anyone who is interested in Ancient Egypt should definitly read this book. I think that was Ms. Ellerby's theory of how Egypt got to be such an advanced civilization. The book is about two kids who make an amazing discovery by looking very closly at a game piece in a museum.Everybody in my family has read it and loved it. If you don't get something it explains it at the end of hte book.

These kipper books are just SOO great! My daughter absolutely loves him and they are great first reading books.

Kipper decides to get rid of his smelly old blanket, threadbare toy rabbit and soggy ball and bone, only to discover that they are what makes his basket so special and comfortable. My 18 month old daughter takes great pleasure in Kipper's attempts at imitating ducks sleeping on one leg; wrens nesting in a garden pot; squirrels building stick nests; etc. which all end in failure of course! The simple yet lively text holds even the youngest of attention spans and Mick Inkpen's humorous pictures are a joy for children and adults alike.

Kipper is a pudgy, brown and white dog, with a twist to his smile. He decides to clean out his dog bed. He learns that by making changes of what is around him, he finds that a new change, makes a big change in how he feels.

Kipper tries several new and different places to hang out. By trying to be where other critters live, Kipper finds he is just not comfortable with those new changes, and he goes back to his messy dog bed, that he had in the first place.

Kipper learned that he really cared about what he had in the first place! There are 22 cute animated large illustrations. Kipper is a smart dog to get to know!

The Kipper books are wonderful! The length is perfect for young ones with short attention spans. With the colorful illustrations and delightful story, Kipper has quickly become my son's favorite book. Great for a bedtime story since Kipper is in search of a new bed!

As a child (I was 4 when this came out) I loved this book and read it countless times. My 5 year old loved when he was younger and now my 2 year old wants it read to him every night. For those who love cats, this book is great.

I read this book MANY times as a child. It really prepared me for the daily handling of my now 5 cats. Not the responsibilities of owning one, but the way you should approach & handle a cat. It is so true to life that I even think anyone that wants to get to know cats (child OR adult) should have to read this book first. Although it is written for a very young child, it covers the things about how cats like to be handled in a very true- to- life way.

I have a one year old and she really loves our cat, so when we started reading this book to her she just got so excited, she was pointing and "talking" and almost jumping up and down!

This book and its companion Puppies Are Like That are written for young children in a readable format that all ages can enjoy. The artist's illustrations are so lifelike and lovable that it is hard not to ah and ooh at every one. The story line tells about the life, habits and foibles of kittens. You will love the many adorable and varied kittens featured in the full page pictures. (...)

This is the finest coming of age novel in the known and unknown universe. It has everything..philosophy, memoirs of a world gone by, lots of quirkiness, and a great sense of heart. The best thing of all..is to have a copy of the 1936 edition. The yellowed pages of the edition are a perfect touch for a book written about time gone by.GREAT

Our hero has everything - intelligence, beauty, wealth, education, wisdom, steadfastness, imagination, an athlete's grace and strength - but somehow that is not enough and this is the story of his unfolding consciousness and gradual recognition of fatal spiritual strengths and weaknesses. This sounds very dull, but one is wonderfully swept along from an overprotected childhood in New England, to his father's yacht and to English student life at Oxford. Oliver cannot be called a wit, a social lion or a womanizer; but he admires those who are, and two of his close friends are merry, sophisticated men of the world. A thoughtful, well-endowed young man with time on his hands, he seeks the meaning of life from a certain distance, and we explore this theme with him from many fascinating angles. He does suffer. His father considers him weak and indecisive and his mother thinks him heartless and inconsiderate; he fights to gain his independence from them both and succeeds. He despairs and agonizes over his course of action, scrutinizes his motives for hypocrisy, dishonesty and self-delusion. Aesthetic beauty, ethics, the spiritual life and poetry are centrally recurring themes. Love also is explored. Our poor hero who has everything turns out to be the most awkward, ungainly, pathetic wooer imaginable. But Oliver is worth it all, and you emerge heartened and profoundly enriched by having known him and survived the various turns of his exacting life.

One of the finest books of the 20th century, The Last Puritan was a sensation when published in the 1930's. It tells the triumph and tragedy of Oliver Alden, a youth born into a strict, "Progressive" Unitarian family in late 19th Century Boston. As his life progesses, he struggles to reconcile the harsh idealism in which he was raised with the beautifully chaotic nature of the real world. This conflict gives Santayana the ability to discuss God, love, morality, politics and the permanence of human nature all without ever losing sight of one man's heroic and tragic attempt to find his place in a world not meant for him. The Last Puritan remains the only book that has ever driven me to tears, and the only novel that has ever truly changed my life. If you've ever counted yourself a "lost soul" in the world, this book will hit home like nothing you've ever read.

THE LAST PURITAN is a sort of education of Oliver Alden. The atmosphere of the work is that of a Henry James novel. Initially the chief subject is Nathaniel Alden. Unitarianism has replaced prayers at breakfast with wholesome food. The book is cool and funny. Nathaniel Alden is an awful snob and is supernaturally quiet and unengaged. He has vowed to abstain from carriage travel and so must walk. He lives in Boston in the Back Bay.

His younger brother Peter is being sent to camp in the west prior to beginning preparation for Harvard at Exeter. The camp life in Wyoming is to Peter a godsend after living under the dictates of Nathaniel. Genuine cowboys would sometimes ride into the camp. Peter grows up to attend Harvard and to acquire a medical degree. He never practices medicine. His son Oliver is born. His wife is from Great Falls, Connecticut. Oliver manages to escape almost all the ills of childhood. He has a foreign governess, a German woman.

While boating with his father, Oliver is given THE LEAVES OF GRASSS to read. Oliver and his father visit an old kinsman, Caleb Wetherbee. During the winter Caleb resides on Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill. He is a cripple and has adopted the Catholic religion and has become highly knowledgeable about European matters. He invites Oliver to to participate in his Sunday evening parties when Oliver attends Harvard. Observers find Caleb's deep religious interests to be a clear case of sublimation.

Olivers's mother is apt to take no notice of genius or style, she is concerned with social propriety. Oliver, invited by his father to spend a year abroad, makes a decision to stay at his day school in Connecticut and live with his mother for the final year before college. He also decides that Williams College is good enough for him. He fears that universities are filled with snobs. Football more than anything else restores Oliver's conventional tone after spending time with his father and his father's companion Jim.

Oliver does spend the summer with his father and learns that his will has been ripped up and that the older man fears he is dying. Oliver promises Jim he will take care of him notwithstanding the fact that some of Jim's conduct shocks him. Oliver learns to punt. He meets his cousin Mario at Eton. Mario's grandmother is Peter Alden's sister. Oliver and Peter are detained at Eton when Peter falls ill. Peter is pleased to see that his son is so wide awake intellectually. Oliver feels a need to justify his natural sympathies theoretically. Peter dies.

Two years later Mario and Oliver see each other in Manhattan and in Cambridge. Both of the cousins are attending Harvard. Oliver, spending three years at Williams, suffers a football injury and decides to rededicate himself to his studies in the wider academic setting of Harvard. Oliver never flinches in his determination to pursue higher things. At Harvard through chance Oliver occupies the room occupied previously by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Santayana himself is a character in this tale, a member of the philosophy department at Harvard. Oliver joins in the fighting of World War I. He is described as an ascetic without faith. When Oliver dies, Mario is the executor of Oliver's will. Mario tells the supposed biographer of Oliver in the epilogue that he idealizes Oliver and makes him too complex.

The book is very satisfying. It raises issues that are still pertinent. It is scarcely dated at all.