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This is a great book to read to infants. The pull-tab system is much less vulnerable to rips than lift-the-flap, and the very simple story remains clever. A spin in the washing machine for Teddy is my favorite part.

My daughter absolutely loved this book when she was younger. Her little brother also loved it, but unfortunately he also loved pulling things apart, and even this durable pulltab book did not survive. I bought another just to put away as a keepsake for her - it's that good.

this book is a pleasure to share with my grandson, jack. not only is it colorful and well illustrated, but the message is important - how to keep healthy in the sun.

this is a wonderful book for youngsters of all ages teaching sun safety as well as telliing an entertaining story with pop=ups and tabs. it spells out sun protection aids for children that perhaps even some parents don't know - sun screen, shirt, sun glasses,etc. all told in an entertaining manner for young children.

This book is highly recommended for all beginning home winemakers. The recipes are right on and all the information you need is here.

Start here. Other books are too complicated-and overwrought with needless detail and over sophisticated recipes. Ya just gotta do it to get good at it and this book makes it easy.

Easy to get on making your own hooch of every kind outa your neighbors leftover fruit-yahooooo.

After a brief visit to the Johnstown Flood National Park in Pennsylvania, I started digging at my local library for books and videos. I found this book, which was also for sale in the Park gift shop.

I found this to be very readable. Lots of photos and illustrations that broke up what could have been a very dry, but dramatic text... as a result, this book works for BOTH kids and adults. It frequently refers back to the definitive work from 1968, David McCullough's "Johnstown Flood"... but is a much briefer book designed to tell all sides of the story and illustrates it as well.

From the graphic cover painting, to the wide margins and easy to read type face, this book has been positioned to stand on most school library shelves.... The only problem is that it won't stay there long enough for you to find it.

A fine gift for those of any age who are interested in the Greatest Flood disaster in the USA, that helped to launch the American Red Cross to national prominence.

Definitely consider this book! Reasonably priced, very accessable, recently published in 2000.

*(Now, I'm looking for the other books in the series....)
Enjoy!

PS: I also found the PBS America Experience "The Johnstown Flood" video and thought it did a WONDERFUL job of telling the tale... with emphasis on the life around the lake and townspeople's lives BEFORE the flood. The actually depiction of the flood is fairly short, and comes late in the program, but very worth waiting for. The original short 20 minute documentary won an academy award, and the hour-long expanded video will not disappoint. WARNING: Avoid the Descriptive Audio for the visually handicapped version, unless you need help. The skillful narration sandwiched between the original narrator's voice is distracting and spoils the mood. [David McCullough does a stand-up intro and close at the National Park display too!)
But do watch any version you can find at your library, or order it from Public Broadcasting Service or your local station.!!!!)

The 1889 Johnstown Flood is a story that is frequently difficult to tell to children, but with this book, Mr. Gallagher succeeds.

He tells the story honestly, and, most importantly, he does not "dumb down" the story.

Text is well researched and presented, and the illustrations are expertly chosen.

After using this book, which both kids and adults should enjoy, the reader will have a true appreciation for why the Johnstown Flood is such a significant story, and one that cannot be forgotten.

This is a sweet book. My daughter is 3 and loves to read, she has been asking for some lift the flap books so I tried this one. She loves it and the simple large text is perfect for her burgeoning word recognition. I have since ordered Kipper's Sunny Day.

My son loves this book. We love all the Kipper Lift the Flap books. They're all so sweet. The story is simple, yet interesting, the artwork is cute and soft. I can highly, highly recommend everything Mick Inkpen has ever done.

My son loves this book in conjunction with the Sunny Day Lift the Flap book.

History, a great story and an authentic historical craft! Not only that, but just the right size for girl-sized hands. A+++++++ Cannot be beat!

This is another in the American Girls Short Stories series about Kirsten Larson, a nine-year-old girl from Sweden, whose family has moved to frontier Minnesota of 1854. This book takes place during the same timeframe as Changes for Kirsten, after the fire in their home, and before the father returns from logging. When the two mothers and Lars go into town to shop, Kirsten and her younger siblings and cousins are left alone. Trouble comes in the form of a surprise snowstorm that leaves the children snowbound. Now it is up to Kirsten and her cousins to be responsible, and take care of themselves and the baby.

This is another wonderful story, with a great lesson in responsibility. As always, the illustrations are excellent and a real addition to the story. The final chapter includes a group of newspaper snowstorm stories from a 1888 newspaper, and then a number of ideas on what to do during a snow day.

[For those adults interested in reading adult historical fiction about Swedish immigrants, please consider reading The Emigrants series by Vilhelm Moberg.]

Inspired! Hope is present on every page expressed beside the stark protrayal of the consequences of carbon combustion. The analogous use of mythology creates a balanced view of timeless humankind. The message of this book has been inside of me since birth and looking for kinship expression for at least thirty years. Thank you Michael Osborne!

Lightland presents a truly global perspective on energy. It makes connections between the factual and the intuitive that are rare in other books on climate change science. This fascinating philosophical discourse should be essential reading for anyone involved in making energy policy.

We love the Little Red Car books. Too bad they seem to have gone out of print, because in our house, they are classics. They feature sturdy, inventive pop up gimmicks and a lovable car as the main character. Perfect for 2-3 year olds.

A fun, transportation oriented pop up book, like the Ken Wilson Max transporation series, but simpler, and so slightly more durable. This book and one other of the Little Red Car series kept my two year old fascinated during a difficult airplane ride and dinner out with his grandparents. He particularly loved the page where the little red car sleds down the side of the hill.

I highly recommend it!

I've owned this book for many years and still refer back to it, especially during these times climate change. Taivo Laevastu was a genius. This book is one greatest works available for the undergrad, grad or researcher. This work is applicable across the marine, oceans and atmospheric disciplines.

The material in this book will also help researchers further investigate some of the first data concerning the Pacific Decadal, Artic and North Atlantic Ocillations. Though these climate patterns weren't understood at the time of this writing, Taivo's research and those cited in the book create a base-line of observations and data.

Another excellent resource is the works of Dr. Michitaka Uda, however his work is still in Japanese and needs to be translated. Both of these men are the pillars of modern fisheries and fisheries oceanographic thought.

A must read for anybody in the oceanography field! Dr. Laevastu is a genius!

The applets available in association with this book (The Why Files Interactives) have been nominated for excellence in website design that incorporates motion. See the press release below:

3rd Annual Pixie Nominations Honor Online Films and Animations

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 17, 2004 -- On the heels of an earlier than usual Oscars, the Directors Board of Broadband Motion Pixure Arts and Technologies today released nominees for its 3rd Annual Pixie Awards, which honor achievement in online and broadband motion picture production.

Formally known as the Directors Board Awards for Achievement in Broadband Motion Pixure Production, the Pixie Awards are widely considered the top award -- if not the only award -- in a burgeoning area of artistic endeavor that includes animation, film, and web site design.

"It's an enormous honor to be nominated by the Pixie Awards in one category, but to be nominated in two categories is simply over the top!" said Looney Bin Animation Studios creative director Stan Holden upon hearing the good news about his animated feature Rebel Without a Claus.

"It's the equivalent of being nominated for an Oscar!" Holden added from his offices in Orange County, Calif.

The Pixie Awards include categories for Best Web Design that Incorporates Motion and Best Original Score for an i-Feature -- a film that resides entirely on the Internet.

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The nominees for the 3rd Annual Pixie Awards are:
(edited for appropriate category)

Best Web Design that Incorporates Motion

SantaFeHealingArt --
Anand Nunnally, Jill Schwarz, Jason Goodyear, Clarence Cline, Lucinda Dykes, and Michael Tincher, Designers

Jibjab -- Evan Spiridellis, Mike Jaffe and Gregg Spiridellis, Designers

***The Why Files Interactives -- Sue Medaris, Tom Whittaker and Steve Ackerman, Designers

This book has won a Talby Award from the Society of Academic Authors. Please see release below.

Meteorologists' book wins visuals award
WINONA, Minn., March 24, 2003 -- A college meteorology textbook by Steve Ackerman and John Knox won a William Henry Fox Talbot Prize for excellence in visuals from the Sociey of Academic Authors. The book, Meteorology: Understanding the Atmosphere, published by Brooks/Cole under the editorshop of Keith Dodson, was praised by one member of the SA2 panel of judges as an "exceptional job pulling together relevant data to be presented in original graphic formats." Said other judges: "The text is visually sophisticated, truly interesting, and up-to-date, with always apt and sometimes ravishing images, figurative models, and tables used to support its thoughtful pedagogy." "This book has some of the most pretty and apt graphics that I have ever seen in a textbook.""Quite simply, the production quality is superb." "Visuals are integral and are used generously." Learning of the award, Knox said: "I'm excited to see that the judges appreciated our efforts so thoroughly -- especially since Steve and I are both first-time authors. Knox is a research scientist and lecturer at the University of Georgia. Ackerman is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The announcement in the fourth in a series on the 2003 Talbies.