Barton Books

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Johnny Gruelle's stories are delightful and the wonderful illustrations were much of the charm of the original books. This reprint has none of the pictures, none of the little fairies, the cute little bugs, or any of the creatures that made the originals something special to show children while reading to them

These two annoyed me. Hank and Susan have wanted each other for years. Hank and Susan are pregnant because Susan's dead husband begged Hank to donate his sperm. When we get to the real story, both the h & h lack the courage to go after what they really want - each other. Instead of being honest and talking with each other, they allowed themselves to be dictated by other people's opinions of how they should live their lives. This book was 200 pages of "We shouldn't do this. We shouldn't feel this, but I really want you" until they finally realized that as adults, they can do and feel whatever they please.

This is the second romance book in my life that I had to skim through the pages just to finishes it.
This should not be considering as a desire book. I think this book applies more to intimate moments category in which suspense is evolved.
The characters were well developed so I have to give the writer some credit for that. However the story by itself is really bad. It was hardly romance in this book. The first romance scene happens on page 136 (a kiss) and there is nothing again until page 153. The book has 184 pages. That says a lot.
The whole book is about a cousin that was muttered. Not really emphasizing the characters passion for each other.
Surprising, but this one is not one of the best book of Justine Davis

Josef Barton's book Peasants and Strangers: Italians, Rumanians, and Slovaks in an American City, 1890-1950, did not impress this reviewer. Barton compares and contrasts the immigration and livelihood of Italians, Rumanians, and Slovaks in Cleveland. He examines not only the first generation of families, but also the second generations rise or fall in status. His use of Stephen Thernstrom's quantification in reviewing urban history in Cleveland lacks emotion and creativity. Barton states fact upon fact, which the reader finds difficult to follow and sort. One catches themself going back over paragraphs time and again in order to reach some understanding of what Barton is arguing. In conclusion, this book is not an ideal read for someone who seeks to learn more on the social history of immigrants in Cleveland. If one is of the type to enjoy urban histories from a Sam Bass Warner or Stephen Thernstrom ideology this book is a good example, but it must be noted that this type of ideology is taken to the extreme by Barton. It has left much to be desired.

I didn't even open this book during my college 300 level course. If you've ever been in sales, or had a class that "briefly" covers selling...you know what's in this book. There is a website associated with the book that offers practice quizzes and that was plenty for me and my class.


For the record, I ended with a 98% in the class.

THE NEW TARZAN SERIES. One of 5 unauthorized (and plagiarized) Tarzan novels, which --- due to poor distribution and legal action which caused unsold copies to be recalled shortly after publication of the fifth title, with unsold copies then destroyed --- are very scarce, particularly in collectible condition. Cover art by JACK ENDEWELDT.

my son is a huge byron barton fan; we read _machines at work_, _planes_, and _trucks_ several times a day. i was VERY disappointed to see that _tools_ is merely pictures with the name of the tool below/beside/above it. tools included: clippers, rake, electric drill, pliers, hammer, saw, hoe, shovel, screwdriver, monkey wrench, trowel & mallet and chisel. first of all, i wouldn't classify a rake as a tool. secondly, the pages feel flimsier than on his other board books.

save yourself the trouble. this one's not worth getting.

This is a book that I purchased about 8 years ago, shortly after the birth of my first child. We love the bright and childlike graphics, and the general story line, it is easy to read and easy to understand. However, before my children learned to read and I was still reading to them I would always omit the line on page 3 that goes as follows..."And, sometimes he caught a hard smack across his backside when he was late for dinner!." I find this line terribly offensive and completly out of context to the rest of the story...We have actually blacked it out, now that the children are reading their own books. I would be very curious to know, how in this day and age of anti-child abuse literature and people being better informed of the alternative forms of discipline available to parents, how did this book ever get published with such a blatant display of child abuse. I find it harsh and offensive.

Ms Barton barely has a base hit with this story. Her heroine Laurel Drew is an uptight, snobbish southerner who is steeped in her southern pride. She is a history teacher writing a biography of her great-great grandfather Johnny Drew who was a wounded Union soldier but deserted the Union to assist the south after he fell in love and married her great-great grandmother Clarice.

John Mason is from Ohio and is in Alabama to investigate whether his great-great grandfather J. T. Andrews was buried in Alabama after the civil war. John has a suspicion that JT and Johnny are the same man which would make this southern war hero a bigamist since his grandmother insists that JT was married to her grandmother.

Laurel is attracted to John whom she meets at a local fair but he is just a crude ex-navy man and a Yankee to boot while she is a true southerner with a mile long pedigree. She is almost obsessed with Johnny and Clarice's story so when she hears that her idolized hero might have been a bigamist she becomes furious and will hear nothing of it. After all he is revered in their home town and it would be such an embarrassment if it turns out he was less than perfect. John Mason wonders how Laurel can live so much in the past.

This novel is really about Laurel getting over her prejudice and in many ways giving up her girlish dreams of her ancestors. It was odd because she never knew them and worse she referred to John Mason as Johnny any time they were in a romantic moment which makes John and the reader wonder if she imagines she is with Union soldier Johnny Drew. I could understand her desire to write her biography about a war hero but to act as if her whole world will be shattered because one of her ancestors had a checkered past is stretching it a bit too far.