Living Things Books

I should have realized that when the author used the word "girl" she meant child, rather than a term for an energetic, youthful woman.

This book is for pre-teen, and young teen girls.

I was VERY disappointed with the content in this book.

First off, there are only 5 or so hairstyles covered in this book. Easy hairstyles that for even the hair-retarded, like myself, could figure out eventually.

Second, the "crafts" for hair are things that are obvious, like gluing a rhinestone on a bobby pin. -WOW! I NEVER thought of THAT!!!---

I was looking for a book that had great hair styles -- and gave step by step instructions (maps, diagrams, etc) on how to accomplish them, but that is nowhere to be found in this book.

If you are over the age of 12, and are looking to do more than a "prom" look, temporary "dreadlocks", and other silly, non-work friendly hairstyles, then look elsewhere.

I would give this to my nieces, and think I probably will.

Utterly useless book for people living in the adult real world.

This book is ok. It didn't have that many hair styles. It would have been better if it had more picures. Its hard to do somthing without seeing what its supposed to look like. I'd recomend getting it from the library because it isn't that great.

I was so excited when I saw the title "Hurt No Living Thing" but was dissapppointed when I received the book. I thought that it would be a story about not hurting inscects or something. Instead, it was a colloection of poems and "Hurt No Living Thing" was 1 of them. In the book was twinkle twinkle little star and other little poems. Someone else might like it. But someone buying this book specificaly to instill values/virtues in their child would be dissappointed.

This book contains many errors, bad descriptions paried with horrid illustrations, and many other dissapoinments. It may teach you what you need to learn, but not very well at all. I DO NOT reccomend this book. Unless it is required.

This is such a good book with thorough, well illustrated and clearly written coverage of so many important concepts of bird biology, adaptation and natural history. It's well laid out and well illustrated with a mix of drawings and photos. I liked that it covered feathers and flying mechanics. But it has a fatal flaw in the paragraph on bird evolution. Commendable that they even mentioned evolution I guess, but they did so in such a way as to promote the confusion and misunderstanding of this important biology concept. Here's the paragraph: "Scientists believe that birds were reptiles millions of years ago. Some reptiles evolved, or changed, in order to survive. They grew flaps of skin between their front and hind legs and used these flaps to glide from tree to tree. In time, these flaps became feather-covered wings. It took millins of years, but these ancient reptiles learned to fly. They became birds." This is followed by a picture of a reptile climbing up a branch, gradually morphing into a bird that takes off to fly. There are several problems with this explanation--birds weren't reptiles millions of years ago--modern reptiles and birds have common ancient ancestors. Evolution happens at the level of a population, not an individual, so evolution is not change within an individual, it is change within the genetic makeup of a population. And the reptiles didn't "grow" flaps of skin between their front and hind legs, again, this happened over time through changes in the genetic makeup of the population when those individuals who had the flaps because they were born with them had a survival advantage and passed this trait on to their offspring. Lastly, the photo of the reptile morphing into a bird all taking place on the same branch give the impression that evolution is quick rather than taking thousands of years and thousands of generations. I don't know how I would describe this to an eight year old, but I wouldn't do it the way it was done in this book.