Anderson Books

I eat the same thing for lunch every day. Granola bar, string cheese, banana, crackers, pretzels with peanut butter. I like those things and they're easy to pack, so that's what I stick with. I'm not saying this to highlight how boring I am (although... mission accomplished); I'm saying this to make the point that when you find something good, you tend to stick with it. "The Full Belly Bowl" has been one of my standbys for years. It's read aloud gold. If it's not in your collection, you're missing out on a story that truly engages kids.

A folktale, well told, can really draw youngsters in. "The Full Belly Bowl" begins with our unnamed protagonist (known only as "the very old man") rescuing a "wee small man" from the clutches of a fox. In return, the small man gives his savior a gift - the Full Belly Bowl. He also leaves directions:

"Use it wisely or it will be a burden. To empty, pour it out. When not in use, store it upside down and out of reach of children."

Having nothing else to go on, the old man experiments with the bowl and discovers that it duplicates anything that is put into it. His hunger is soon a thing of the past. But when he discovers that the bowl can duplicate things besides food, the story starts getting interesting.

"It made him wonder what would happen if he put a coin in the bowl, and though the only coin he had was a copper penny, he decided to give it a try."

But the very old man's excitement about his discovery leads to a hasty mistake. Tension builds until the man's dreams of a wealthy future are dashed, putting him right back where he started. To the very old man, however, this is not a bad thing.

The colored pencil illustrations are detailed and inventive. When an unfortunate accident with the Full Belly Bowl leaves the very old man's house rodent infested, the page is literally covered with mice. The borders of each illustration also add to the story. When the man discovers he can eat all he wants with the help of the bowl, food is incorporated in the border. Overall, the effect is that of an illustrator who was really seeking to compliment the story.

Add this one to your read aloud menu and it may well become a staple.

My 2.5-year-old loves this book! She wants it read to her frequently and both the story and intricate pictures hold her attention. I appreciate any book that can engage such a small child, but that still has an interesting plot and more advanced vocabulary (not only for educational value -- have you ever had to read the same book over and over?). The story also has some important lessons embedded within it, without being pedantic or preachy. A wonderful find!

Enhanced by the subltly muted colors of Halpern's illustrations, "The Full belly Bowl" is an excellent lap or storytime book which begs to be read to your favorite youngster or group. Gifted a magical bowl by a "wee small man" he saved from a fox, the old man had it all, until his own forgetfullness filled his cottage with mice. What of the mice? What of his cat Angela? Can the old man live happily ever after? Children will love having this one read to them!

My three children and I read this book over the summer. This is truly a story for all ages. My 10-year-old was as enchanted as his little sister and brother. The story has surprising twists and the most gorgeous illustrations imaginable. I plan to purchase a copy for our home library. It's a book you'll go back to again and again. And with us it sparked some interesting conversations: What would you put in YOUR fully belly bowl?

I was sooo amazed by how this woman raised her family. They were able to comfortably raise 9 people on one income. It's amazing!! I have also been looking for new updates on them but it seems nothing. Love to see how they are now!!

This book is one of my favorites! The day-to-day living of a family with quintuplets is captivating. The pictures are precious. You will come away feeling that you know the family. It is wonderful how the Anderson quintuplets were raised as regular children. I also have wondered how the family is doing now, but have not found any information.

I loved this book!
The pictures are so fantastic that I can't help looking at them again and again.
I really want to know how all the Andersons are doing now; I've been searching to know avail. After reading this book, they seem very familier to me. I just envy them.
Anybody know anything?
Must read; a great book for all parents and those who love children.

Can you imagine having quintuplets when it was hardly ever heard of? Karen Anderson describes her emotions, the physical process, and incredible experience of giving birth to quintuplets. This narrative lets you into their lives on a very personal basis, with many funny moments as well as great parental advice.

This book should be published again for the next generation. The hardcover edition includes excellent photographs from the birth of the quints to age 6, as well as comments from Dr. T. Berry Brazelton. A must-read!

After reading Fun, Fast Fusies, I was so impressed by the simple, easy to follow directions that I decided to google the author and find her website. I was delighted to see she was selling the kits for the patterns in the book! I ordered all of them and upon receiving the fabric kits was elated!!! Great author, great book, beautiful hand-dyed fabric kits. If you are interested in art quilts or fabric collage, I urge you to select this book...you won't be sorry!

This author has laid out doing fusible applique and free motion quilting nicely. The book also has great full sized patterns so you don't have to find a copier to enlarge them. A fun way to create a quick, small art quilt.

Fun, Fast Fusies is an excellent how-to book. Fusing images on
fabric is becoming very popular and Frieda Anderson tells us just how to do it with clear directions and illustrations.

I ordered this book after attending a lecture/demo by the author, Frieda Anderson. The book pertains to the art of fusible quilting and the directions are very concise. I would (have) recommended this book to others.

Horse won't gait? Off and on? Trots? Paces? Want to sell him? WAIT!
I had a grade TWH colt that at 2, did nothing but trot. Thought I had been suckered in by the seller. However, I soon learned from Brenda's exercises, that he had a wonderful gait hiding behind his natural trot! Some are born with it, some are born with it but take until their 4th year to find it. If you have a gaited horse that won't gait, and don't have a trainer handy, this book is your best bet. Trotting and pacing is easier than gaiting, and Brenda explains some exercises to help your horse find his 'gaiting' muscles. Brenda is also very accessible on her website forum and will gladly explain anything to you that you might need help on. With her help, my 2yr old now will gait naturally on a loose rein for short periods. When he gets a little older, I plan to really apply Brenda's principles and there is no doubt in my mind he will be a joy ride later in his third year. I discovered that it was my ignorance that was keeping us from getting anywhere. Read this book! Check out her [...] forum and read the archives. It just might mean that you and your horse are out of synch and you might be expecting too much too soon. She offers a wealth of knowledge and only the ignorant would not have her book in their library. Good luck!

Gaited horses require different handling than non-gaited horses and this book is one of the very few printed resources available to help you, especially if you are a novice. If you have a gaited horse or think you might be interested in one you will find this book indispensable.

This is by far the most helpful thing I have read on gaited horses. Wish I had seen it before I started working with my Peruvian. It would have alleviated a lot of the uncertainty and anxiety in setting his gaits. Extremely well illustrated and written for the non-expert gaited horse owner. I have purchased extra copies for even my experienced gaited-horse friends. This is a must-have for everyone who rides and loves gaited horses.

Gaits of Gold is truly a detailed book on gaited horses. It goes into how the horses conformation makes a differences in how it preforms gaits. Technics on improving the gait, what are the different gaits. In general it is a well wrtten book that will help anyone improve their horse. The illistrations are very good also.

My son was discouraged in studying for his last test for his GED - math. This book was most helpful and he expressed much gratitude. Thank you.

I found this book to be informative and simple. You can also check and see if you answered the problem correctly and see where you might have gone wrong.

the book is very helpful in the areas that i need for my class that i attend on saturdays. my teacher recomend that we get this book and the topic in the book are very easy to understand.

I have been teaching the GED for 20+ years, and I insist that each of my students own this book. First of all, it breaks down the basic math skill areas into clear steps with helpful examples. Then it gives the student lots of opportunities to review what they have learned and assess their growth with mini-tests after every 3 lessons and unit reviews. Also you can practice for the GED by taking three full length practice tests. The answers and explanations in the back can help a student learn from their mistakes. Best of all, the level of difficulty matches the actual GED pretty closely (not true of other publishers) so if the student can do well in this book, you can expect that they will do well on the GED as well.

My three complaints about this book are:
the chapter on percents is confusing. There is a much better way to teach percents that asking students to memorize and manipulate a diagram.

There needs to be more on charts and graphs, which are getting bigger and bigger on the GED. Also I wish there were more on ratios & proportions. I always find that I have to supplement the book when I get to this lesson because SV gives us very few word problems, and they are all too easy.

There should be a bigger section on multi-step problems, also another huge area on the GED. SV is great for breaking down the test into skills, but sometimes questions ask you to work more than one skill at a time.

SV Math can use improvements, and I would supplement it with some of the newer stuff from Contemporary (another publisher of GED books) but as a basic GED math text, it really is the best book out there. I highly recommend it.

This book is packed with current and useful information about GE foods, farming practices, life patents issues, and the impacts of GE food on our environment. It is an excellent manual for anyone wanting control of their food, or simply to better understand what all the contraversy about GE foods.. It is short & easy to read. There are many interesting quotes from scientists & industry spokes people. The best part of this book is a comprehensive RESOURCE section. Showing points of contact in the US, other international organizations, magazines, journals, email information services, and websites, for GE information. Anyone who wants to start doing something about this important issue needs to start here. The book is full of excellent references supporting the arguments. Also a worthwhile list of recommended readings. Buy it & share that resource information with everyone you know. Can not over emphasize the usefulness of this book.

Here in North America the public generally hears very little about debates surrounding around GE foods, this 1999 book from a UK author is a quick read, easy to understand overview of GE food issues. It is strictly food & agriculture covered here, human GE areas are not touched on. Besides discussing safety & nutrition concerns, chapters cover such topics as control of farming & environmental pollution, patenting genes with a brief history of what's already taken place over the last 15 years, and how the world trade organization is used to force countries to accept these products or to outlaw product labeling. There is a chapter on 2 journalists in Florida who got into a lot of trouble with Monsanto for attempting to run a television series on a hormone injected into cows to increase milk production.

Some of the information in this book is quite shocking. The sheer amount of money Monsanto has used to bribe and "settle out of court" tells me there's got to be something very wrong in what they're doing. I enjoyed the "follow the money" advice this book offers - if an "expert" is saying there's no harm at all any of this try to find out who's paying the salary or funding the grant. This quote from pg. 106 is unforgettable, "We paid $3 billion for these television stations. We will decide what the news is......"

Lots of information packed into a small book, also a guide to organizations and further information.

Mr. Anderson succeeds admirably in eliciting shock and outrage in the reader with his clear, succinct, and fluid prose on the visible and invisible dangers of agricultural biotechnology. Modern day manipulation of the food chain and the ecosystems that provide humanity with its food (and other valuable services) has the potential to irreversibly affect both human beings and the environment. While the scientific and industrial cognoscenti exchange increasingly friendly repartee genetically modified foods, and governments turn a blind eye to `scientific progress', Mr. Anderson is right when he says that the human is being unwillingly and unwittingly subjected to an experiment whose long-term effects are difficult to assess.

Written shortly before scientists began to seriously question the effects of even minute quantities of hormone disrupting and cancer-causing, mutagenic chemicals and the potential effects of errant DNA in the greater environment, and shortly after genetically modified crops had been shown to sterilize insects and willy-nilly cross-pollinate with plants of the same species located either nearby or a great distance away, this handy little book introduces a considerable amount of information on genetic engineering and its dubious successes to readers who are not well versed in the sciences. In seven highly fluid and readable chapters, the book addresses a plethora of ethical, economic and technological issues associated with genetic engineering and agricultural biotechnology. The first chapter lucidly explains many of the key concepts underpinning genetic engineering as it applies to agriculture, and introduces most of the very real specters to health and the environment that the technology not only has caused, but also can and ultimately may cause in the future. The author devotes one chapter each to the thorny issues of genetic engineering and its effects on the environment, the way that agricultural biotechnology portents to and actually is transforming farming globally for the worse, and the attempts of individuals, universities and corporations, with all the zeal characteristic of a gold rush mentality, to patent every snippet of DNA they can get their hands on. Readers may find the book's fifth chapter to be truly shocking, as it describes in vivid detail the apparent disinterest of governments in industrialized nations to safeguard the best interests of its citizens- especially in the area of public health, from the bitter fruit of agricultural biotechnology. Chapter six presents a detailed case study of one particular biological abomination- the superfluous use of increasing amounts of biotech hormones to increase milk production, even in the face of persistent gluts year after year. The seventh and final details efforts by many groups to resist the onslaught of the adoption of such biotechnologies, and offers insight into the ways the poor in Third World countries are used as dupes and guinea pigs for these less than optimal technologies. The author also includes a detailed list of resources that concerned readers can tap into in their efforts to learn more or to protect themselves from most, but not all, of the spurious products of agricultural biotechnology.

In reading this book, one gets the feeling that the author wants us to share in his concern about the lingering effects of these overly hyped technologies of dubious merit. While the author clearly did his best to choose many of genetic engineering's most egregious examples, readers of this text should bear in mind that these examples merely represent the tip of the iceberg. As a scientist and engineer, it is hard for me come up with a suitable justification for many of the fruits of ag biotech, given that farmers in the industrialized countries are plagued with the onerous problem of oversupply. Furthermore, with slight modifications to current agricultural practices, and a shifting of inputs and plant resources, every single person on the planet could easily be fed, so the excuse of biotechnology feeding the world's hungry does not quite wash either. Basically, I find the motives of big biotech companies to be less than altruistic: if the biotech corporation controls the seeds and the larger food supply, then they control the people dependent upon them.

In this day and age of financial skullduggery and scientific chicanery, astute citizens must actively behoove themselves to exercise caution and awareness at all times. As Huff told us in his classic little book, How to Lie with Statistics, if the honest person wants to prevent oneself from being burglarized, then it pays to learn the ways of the criminally minded. As such, this book's disclosure of the aggressive foisting of these dubious scientific advances on an unsuspecting public by an unscrupulous gaggle of corporate, academic and government interests clearly demonstrates a most disturbing and peculiar case of criminal intent of the highest degree.

"Genetic Engineering, Food, & Our Environment" is crisply written, keenly argued, tightly and extensively researched. It presents a wealth of facts and possibilities, both an extremely disturbing side in and around the genetic engineering industry, and some encouraging information on potentially sustainable alternatives.

An excellent study for anyone considering GE-related issues, it makes a key handbook for the campaigner. It is a resource one can variously refer to in connection with environmental and other concerns, third world development possibilities, and underpinning issues in the background of global politics.

Luke Anderson's book entirely deserves the wide readership and serious attention gained by Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." Carson's book detailed impacts and threats of industrial chemicals in use forty years ago; Anderson's is an effective sequel, an update on the state of play today. Depressing how some of the villains in the story are the same - or rather, grander and more dangerous. Inspiring how voices will yet courageously emerge like those of Carson and Anderson, with the wits and the research base to point to the toxins dribbling down the Emperor's new clothes (or carcass) and explain where they came from.

Altogether a thoroughly useful, troubling and galvanising kind of book. If you haven't got it, get it.

The Gift Of Time: Making The Most Of Your Time And Your Life is an inspiring compendium of insightful and poetic commentary combined with duo-tone photography that will enable the appreciative reader to create more meaningful time for themselves; to find serenity in a hurried modern world; to become patient, balanced, and aware within the moment; to let go of the past and turn dreams into reality; and best of all, to embrace very moment of life as an irreplaceable gift. If you only have time for a single self-help, self-improvement, inspirational, life enhancing book, make it Alexander Anderson's The Gifts Of Time.

Excellent, thought-provoking, consciousness-raising, inspirational book. Couldn't put it down. A must read over and over again.

Excellent, thought-provoking, consciousness-raising, inspirational book. Couldn't put it down. A must read over and over again.

The dear friend who gave me this book two years ago died suddenly last week. In reading the book again, within this new context, I am struck by the wisdom given freely and simply, beautifully demonstating the importance of the moment, the simplicity of quality rather than quantity, the gift of being truly present in our own lives. What else could possibly matter? Time can be used rather than abused, a friend instead of an enemy. The photos are well chosen, contemplative, restful and speak volumnes. I'm ordering copies to give as gifts as he did, while I have Time.

This book is a must-read for any young lady that is interested in business. Clear and easy to read, it is filled with inspirational tales that will motivate your fledgling businesswoman. Highly recommended

This book is very easy to read. It has some great links to major associations that I will be looking into further. This is a book I will pass around to others, that need to know how to get started.

Girl Boss seriously changed my life. The book taught meeverything that I need to know about starting, my own buissness. Evenmy mom liked it! Buy this book if you want to work for yourself, become rich, and famous, or just want to earn some pocket change.

This book is a great roadmap for any woman interested in starting a new business. I could not stop reading it.

This was a great read. Easy to visualize the settings. Andy Anderson had a real talent for drawing the reader into the action. I am a fan!

I don't normaly read this type book, but it was great. I couldn't put it down. A lot of action, great nail biting suspence.

Great book, once I started I coundn't out it down I had to find out what was going to happen next. Lots of surprises and plot twists. This guy has a great future in front of him as an author.

....his research rivals LeCarre, his ability to spin a tale is unique and
enticing, his character development is pure and logical. This is an
excellent read.....

Louie Anderson once again brings the struggles of his life to print, and opens up his heart and soul. I found this book even better than his first. I hope he decides to keep writing, he is very talented at bringing the reader into his situation.

Funny and poignant, from Anderson's heart and stomach are a guide to life, coping, eating, love, comedy, and performing. Also manages to be downright hilarious with straight-ahead stand-up comedy. Somehow it all works. And very nicely, too. Inspired and inspiring.

Louie Anderson continues to battle the demons of his dysfunctional upbringing in this second of his three books. In his first book, Dear Dad, Louie focused on his abusive father's alcoholism and the impact it has had on the comedian's life and overall psychological well being. In this book, he tries to come to grips with his own obesity and the negative impact it has had on his life. He largely attributes it to his father's alcoholism and the lack of love he received as a child. Anderson's reflections are often laugh out loud funny. Yet, throughout the book, there is an overall sense of pain. As somebody who grew up battling obesity (I eventually lost 150 lbs), I can understand the psychological abuse that fat people receive on a daily basis. They are insulted, ridiculed, and treated like outcasts. This leaves the victim feeling angry, bitter, and very lonely. He or she turns to food to ease the pain, which only makes the problem worse. For anybody who has battled obesity, this book will be very therapeutic. If you've never had a weight problem, this book will no doubt give you more compassion for those who have. The 250 page book is an easy, quick read and is very inspiring.

Louie Anderson does a wonderful job of revealing the true self. Especially the dialogue where he becomes Jumbo the elephant. He never mentioned a Love interest (human, not food) who could be support he so needed during these transitions he struggled with, the treadmill, death of his mom, selling the home, etc. Louie remains a real human, down to earth, complete with dysfunctional family. It was difficult to see him as the superstar wealthy comedian image we see. Whether it is food or some other controlling addiction, low self-esteem, children of alcoholics, pained school years, many can relate to his struggle. A good book by a funny man!