Adamson Books

This story invovles Easter and what kids get on Easter....or will they? I think this story was very creative. Wilbur gets sick on Easter Eve. This makes everything much harder for the Easter bunny. Others try to do what he does, but they can't. Wilbur is a very big bunny, and that is why he's chosen as the Easter bunny. The story involved some suspense at parts. I like how his friends distracted everyone from seeing Wilbur. Wilbur ended up getting sick on Easter Eve. That made for a very interesting delivery of eggs. I thought it was a good book. I would recommend it to kids to read.

Wilbur is busy getting everything ready for Easter. He made new baskets, painted the eggs, and made lots of candy. Everything was all set to go, until Easter Eve, Wilbur gets sick. His friends try to help him but it is too big of a job for them. Can they save Easter, or won't there be one this year?

This was a very adventurous book. I really enjoyed this version of how our Easter traditions started. The illustratins were great and added to the story. Not only is this an adventure, but it also has some humor involved. I highly recommend this book to you.

This book is about an ex-actress who has taken a liking to a life of crime-solving. This time, she is at a restaraunt and three people come in and start shooting. She wants to find out why.

This book is one of the oddest I've had the delight of reading.The suspense hooked me all the way to its unexpected end.The key to finding the killers of waitress is cleverly tied in with the kidnapping of a red cat and old chinese mysteries.This book is smooth and mysterious,like a cat.

... in a small package.

This book was first published in 1946, and has been revised eight times since. Every revision adds new material and updates information from the previous edition. I picked up the eighth edition (1969) on my first attempt to summit Longs Peak in 1978, and learned more from it than from any other book on the subject. In 1999, when I tried to summit a third time, I bought the 10th edition (1990), and enjoyed the new material and revisions it contains.

The back cover has a detailed map of the Longs Peak Keyhole route trail from the ranger station to the summit. Page 59 begins listing over 100 different routes that spans the next three pages. Page 63 begins a listing of notable events related to Longs Peak, beginning in 1820, sorted by date.

Truly, if you want a concise, yet very meaty book on Longs Peak, Nesbit's small volume is something you should add to your library.

This is a nice brief book on some of the historical aspects of Long's as well as some climbing information. The good news is that this book is so thin you can take it with you on a backpacking trek. The bad news is that because it's so small, it contains limited information, hence the 3 star rating. Overall the book is very interesting and informative about Long's Peak. For a first time visitor to the mountain, this would be a good book to purchase.

Not funny or interesting enough. Kind of cute but could be cuter and not a wordy.

It's time for the penguins to put on a play for Mrs. Beakly's School; Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly and Perfect are all ready, but they're all worried about Tacky (he's the penguin in the Hawaiian shirt). With no practice or preparation, on the day of the play Tacky dons the Goldilocks outfit and flounces onto the stage. It's an absolute disaster...and the best play the rambunctious young penguins have ever seen!

I had this book in reserve, waiting until my baby got old enough to read to, but when my little nephew needed entertaining I dug it out. Well, he loved it! Yes, this is not a nice, uplifting story with a moral. Instead, it's a goofy and very silly book, one that is sure to please a little one with a sense of humor.

this book was very useful in suggestions and placed some things in a different light with regarding, crime fiction.

This book is one of many self help books available from "Teach Yourself." In addition to this writing book there are other writing books on writing novels, poetry, and books for children. In all there are over 200 titles.

I bought this book with the idea of learning about writing techniques, and there are a number of good tips on writing detective fiction. However, the author Lesley Grant-Adams presents an excellent introduction to the whole crime-detective genre. She discusses all the different types of crime fiction. Based on that alone it is worth the price of the book. At the end of each chapter she lists many crime authors with some added notes.

Even if you are not interested in writing, you will find many tips and discover many insights into crime fiction.

The book is short, just 193 pages; but, most chapters have a reading lists along with the discussions.

Some example chapters are:

- To begin at the beginning.
- Ways and means
- A good idea at the time, and
- The vocation of unhappiness.

Altogether, she has 11 chapters. She discusses other styles including James Cain, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, and Elmore Leonard, plus many more.

This is a short but interesting guide. Incidentally, the author has a at least 16 novels in print, and had a fellowship at Cambridge.

A remarkable and moving story. Joy Adamson chronicles the story of Elsa the lion, as she takes her from captivity and trains her to be reintroduced into the wild. Incredible dedication to the task and it is really quite astonishing to see how the humans and such wild animals could get along together and like each other so much.

"You have a most intriguing character. I like his sense of humor." A letter from Margaret Frith, then Co-Editor, Children's, GP Putnam, asking if I would consider illustrating Putnam's "Early Readers and Arithmetic Books" ~ after first installment in Animals Magazine, January, 1975. "The longest book in the West in which animals talk only to each other." Walter Lorraine, the Editor, Houghton Mifflin. The illustrations were inspired by "my" First Farm. The cabin ~ similiar to that in the book, by look and "feel" ~ "came" by surprise, later, there, on a neighboring parcel that we added. "Destructions" foretold in the book, portentous, also came. Now part of the emerging Animal Character Series, Charles Bear will be seen along with PepperRabbit, Oscar Walrus, and their 27 + Animal Friends. For the various books as they come to mind "interweave" the characters! I was surprised when a mother told me her 8 year old daughter read the book 5 times in one week. I had sought to "draw" my book. Too many words came in, I believe. Now am publishing the book as Charles Bear and the Mystery of Sedona. By the author - illustrator, Douglas Adamson

In the second book in the Dr. Nightingale series, Dr. Didi finds herself investigating another murder. This time, the murder is a neighbor that owned a beautiful German Shepherd, trained by monks at a monastery. The search for the killer takes Didi to live with the monks and their perfectly trained Shepherds, leading her to a killer she would never expect!

I enjoyed this book much more than I had enjoyed the first book in the series as Dr. Didi was portrayed as much more sympathetic and kind in this book. I also enjoyed reading about the dogs being trained by the monks, and found this training method fascinating. Overall, this book was a quick and nice read.

The first book in the series is "Dr. Nightingale Comes Home". Enjoy!

I enjoyed the Puss in Boots and Outlaw Colt stories with Didi very much. BUT..how could Allie Voegler have 10 years on the force at the end of "Boots" and only 8 years of service in the opening of "Colt"?If published in reverse order, the alive then dead Wynton poses a dilemma. What's up?

Students enjoy this book because of the large photographs and pictures of different families around the world. However, there is an error in the book. On page 12, New Zealand is erroneously located. It has been located on Papua New Guinea, while the islands of New Zealand do not even appear within the map.