Burnett Books

This was an excellent book as I used it to lead 10 other men in a weekly bible study. This study helped us refocus our minds as we realized that no matter what role we play we are ambassadors for our Lord.

The book arrived in great condition. I was very happy with my purchase!

Do you have a child in high school or just starting college? Are you finally in the workplace and things just don't seem to "click"? Then ask God if this isn't the book for you!
Wisdom at Work redefines the American attitude toward work by taking the reader slowly and definitely through scripture to allow the reader to discover for him/herself what God says on the subject of work.
THIS BOOK WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE ENTIRE MATTER OF WORK AND MAN'S RESPONSE TO IT!
I highly recommend it! BLESSINGS ~WEN~

I live in he Reno Sparks (Nevada) area so it was nice to hear about landmarks I'm familiar with. Good story too. M. Olson

Great stuff! About time someone wrote about rodeos that acutally knew what they were talking about. Interesting characters. Hope there are more books.

"You know, only advertising men hold seminars and judge advertising. The public doesn't hold seminars and judge advertising. The public either acts or it doesn't act." Rosser Reeves

The men in this book cut straight to the point of advertising and they don't mind going against the grain of art director clubs and guilds. I have learned to like that because I now subscribe to their point of view. The success of an advertisement cannot be measured by its pleasing aesthetics or its award winning status. It has to be measured by how successfully it met its objectives - which most of the time is to move product.

I think this is a must-read for young designers as many have a very mis-guided view of what advertising is all about. I cannot find a single design graduate who has learned the principles of good advertising from college. This book sets any print, web or such communications designer on the right path if they ever want to create effective ad's--no matter the medium or technique.

The Art of Writing Advertising is a unique collection of interviews conducted about forty years ago by Advertising Age magazine editor, Denis Higgins. Legendary copywriters William Bernbach, Leo Burnett, George Gribbin, David Ogilvy and Rosser Reeves candidly discuss their craft, their writing processes and their lives in this fascinating book.

The interviewer initially set out to find if these pioneering copywriters had any tricks or gimmicks for the difficult task of writing, but ended up with revealing and at times very personal glimpses into the lives of these five men. The interview with David Ogilvy is particularly poignant and enlightening. This book also includes a few example ads from each copywriter and pictures presumably taken during the interviews.

These great ad writers give some useful advice and share their thoughts on copywriting, but this is not a step-by-step guide for copywriting. If you are familiar with these copywriters and you would like to know a little more about their views on advertising, then I highly recommend The Art of Writing Advertising.

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." ~ James Lane Allen

Karen Gedig Burnett is the author of four children's books that teach life skills. In "Choose Your Life" she now focuses on problems teens and adults face on a daily basis.

Making life easier is something we all can appreciate and this book is filled with tips on how you can find the most positive view of problems you are facing. This book will help you understand your relationship with co-workers, family and friends. It is written in a conversational style and the illustrations make the book a fun read. Some of the main topics include: handling pressure from external and internal sources, how to say NO and mean it, adjusting the messages you play in your head and making the best decisions to keep your power.

"Will your life be full of peace or turmoil?
Will you respect yourself and others, or will you be critical and judgmental?
Will you live with love and appreciations or turn towards anger, resentment, jealousy, and hate?
Will your thoughts and actions lead towards a sensed of purpose and feelings of success?" ~ pg. 259

Each chapter begins with inspirational quotes and there are quotes sprinkled throughout the chapters. This book is helpful if you keep making the same mistakes over and over again. Karen Gedig Burnett shows you how to handle negative emotions like anger. She also explains why it is a bad idea to waste your time and energy on what you can't control. There is a helpful section on meditation and tips for releasing negative emotions.

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes." ~ Jack Handey

~The Rebecca Review

Choose Your Life is very well written, easy to read and grasp book on everyday issues everyone faces. The book is easy to understand and follow for all ages and covers challenges we all deal with.
I personally found this book helped me with issues I have tried to work out on my own and never could quite pin down and understand.
Thank you to the author for sharing her insight with the world to guide so many others.

Biographer Robert Beebe David provides the reader with a straightforwardly narrated account in Finn Burnett, Frontiersman, the biography of an extraordinary pioneer of the American frontier. In the upper Plains and northern Rockies, Finn Burnett was at first a staunch battler against Indians, but later befriended them, including famous individuals such as Washakie, the Shoshone chief, and Sacajawea, known for her role in the Lewis and Clark expedition. Part of the Stackpole Books "Frontier Classics Series", Finn Burnett, Frontiersman is very highly recommended reading for students of American frontier history.

This is a reprint edition of the 1937 first edition, published by the Arthur H. Clark Company. It tells the life of Fincelius G. Burnett, better known as Finn, who became a much-traveled frontiersman and Indian fighter and later a true friend of the peoples he skirmished so often with.

Finn left his home state of Missouri for the West in an attempt to avoid getting drafted into the Union army. He became a teamster on the 1865 Connor Powder River expedition, witnessing the hanging of Oglala chiefs Two Face and Black Foot at Ft. Laramie, which set off a rash of white-Sioux hostilities. The expedition reached the Powder River country of Wyoming, where Ft. Connor (later Reno) was established. He participated in a number of skirmishes with the Sioux, usually as a member of Frank North's Pawnee Scouts throughout the summer and fall of 1865. In 1866 he helped build Ft. Kearny on the Bozeman Trail, and was there during the Fetterman massacre (he was on the detail that retrieved the dead bodies). He participated in the Hayfield Fight near Ft. C.F. Smith in 1867, and then changed hats from Indian fighter to gold miner during the South Pass gold rush. It was during this time that he forged a friendship with the Shoshone chief Washakie, becoming the agricultural agent at Ft. Washakie; it was also here that he befriended Sacajawea, the famous woman who was with Lewis and Clark (some dispute this was the same Sacajawea). He settled on a ranch west of Lander, WY, a gift from Washakie, and died at the age of 90 in 1934.

Beebe's account of Burnett's life is robust and (to use a term that would've been perfectly acceptable back in 1937 when the book was published) "manly." It's straightforward and concerned with getting the facts right and allowing them to speak for themselves. Anyone interested in affairs of the High Plains West, especially during the 1860s-80s, should find this book worthwhile.

If you need to read about Puerto Rico or are doing research, this should be your first stop. This book is the most comprehensive and well documented book ever written on the legal situation of Puerto Rico. Anybody who has anything to do with the island needs to read this book first.

THIS IS AN ENGAGING AND EFFECTIVE WAY TO PRESENT THE ETHIOLOGY OF A DILEMA THAT HAS BEEN OUT OF FOCUS FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS. THE EDITORS HAVE CHOSEN A VARIED SPECTRUM OF VIEWS, AND IT IS THROUGH THESE DIFFERENT LENSES THAT THE ISSUE SHOULD BE DISCUSSED.

The book is fantastic! I thought I knew everything there was to know about sex, but the author taught me a few things. Through the author's humor and the factual information, this makes it a wonderful book!

I was at first expecting to hate the book, you know how like other sex books, I just wasn't involved in them at all, but GirlsTellAll.com is completely different. I would recommend everyone to read it, at least once, but I really find myself reading it to over and over.

VERY INFORMATIVE, FUNNY, AND WELL WRITTEN. THIS BOOK ANSWERS A MULTITUDE OF QUESTIONS, INCLUDING SOME THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT I WANTED OR NEEDED TO KNOW. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR ANYONE SEEKING TO KNOW WHAT THE OTHER SEX KNOW OR WHAT THEY ARE THINKING.

Hope they get more in stock. It's a wonderful history of Long Beach, as well as a good source of real ghost stories. We've had our own ghostly encounters in a government building here in Long Beach recently. The author offers some sound advice with how to deal with "unwanted guests."

I loved this book. I love Long Beach and Ghost stories. This book was very informative and fun! I learned some history that I did now know and I also learned that the building I work in is built on the site of a catastrophe and may be haunted. It was a very interesting way to learn some little known facts about Long Beach. The book is a fast and fun read. I would recommend it to anyone who lives in Long Beach, has lived in Long Beach, plans to live in Long Beach, likes to visit or doesn't know anything about Long Beach. Anyone interested in history and ghost stories would love it!

Everyone is worried about Katie because she is having trouble paying attention at school. She loves chasing butterflies and would rather take time to play than to learn. Grandma Rose knows that play can lead to learning and tells Katie to look at something special in her garden.

Katie and her parents look at the roses and Grandma Rose explains why children are at times like roses. Then she gives Katie a rose bush to take home with her and of course she plays all the way home.

The next few pages have pictures of trees, roses, babies walking and children reading. Each section explains how growth happens in a unique way for each flower, tree, child, etc.

A special section at the end of the book gives a list of people who bloomed at their own time including, Albert Einstein, Grandma Moses, Michael Jordan and even Karen Gedig Burnett.

A note to parents, grandparents, teachers and all who love and care for children gives advice on how to support and respect children who are late bloomers.

As a late bloomer myself, I can say I understood Katie's need to enjoy the world and live in the moment. I've always thought we all grow up way too fast and children do learn through play and through creative stories.

Karen and Laurie create loving gifts for the world. The stories are positive and the art is just a delight. I love all the creatures roaming about in their books. This one has snakes, baby birds, ants, hiking mice, singing frogs, bees, blue birds, dogs and cats and tiny yellow chicks. This book could also be used for counting how many of each type of animal you find on each page.

Karen Gedig Burnett worked as an elementary school counselor for over twenty years and her wisdom is very apparent. Laurie Barrows' artwork is playful and humorous and she brings a vibrant touch to every book she illustrates.

Also look for these valuable books/lessons:

If the World were Blind
The Magical, Marvelous Megan G. Beamer
Simon's Hook

~The Rebecca Review

Katie's Rose: A Tale Of Two Late Bloomers provides young readers ages 5 and older (along with their parents) with an enduring message of acceptance and support in a graphic manner enabling them to understand and appreciate the uniqueness in each child and the individualization of the talents and abilities. That like every rose, every child will bloom in it's own time and in it's own shade. Karen Burnett's has a superb gift for storytelling that is wonderfully augmented by Laurie Barrows as an artist in this superbly crafted and presented picturebook story with its inspiring, insightful moral.

A Little Princess follows the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl whose mother died when she was a baby and who has been sent to bording school. She has the finest clothes and toys and anything she wants but isn't spoiled (the story is a fairy tale, by the way). She imagines herself as a princess and wants to be kind wise and just. She does good deeds as her way of "scattering largess to the population." This results in her being the social butterfly of the bording school and earns her the animosity of its queen bee. All this changes in an instant when her fortune is lost and she becomes a scullery maid in the same boarding school. She works all day, sleeps in an unheated attic, and is underfed. She now imagines herself as a princess in disguise, and continues to try and do good deeds for anyone less fotunate. But now she has another identity too - a soldier, like her father, who must live on rations and bravely face each day.

I didn't find this book to be overly sappy and sentimental, but it got close to the borderline at times. There were plenty of discussions of dolls and lacey dresses and ribbons. I read this as an adult. I guess these are supposed to appeal to little girls who want to have a little princessy playground and so would love to read about ribbons, but I think descriptions of lace would have put me off as a child as well. Like I said, these only get borderline sappy, probably because Sara soon becomes penniless and enters the lower class. As a scullery maid she experiences hunger, phsychological abuse from the bording school mistress, and a grinding work schedule. This is not sugar coated for the children, but it isn't the focus either. The focus is on Sara's internal thoughts, her relationships with her few loyal student friends, and what she thinks of the neighbors and the new people she meets and things she sees. So even though there is all this poverty it is there as a setting and not because the author has an axe to grind. Strangely enough, this book came across as realistic.

This is a children's book, but functions as a book for adults as well. For example, the estate agent's diplomacy in getting Sara hired by the bording school after she is found to be penniless has some subtlties that are going to be more real for older readers.

I recommend this book to all. It is a children's book that works for adults too. It skirts the border of sappy, but for me didn't cross over at any point. It was a good story that I read through quickly and did not get bored with or bogged down by.

Confusing title? You betcha! But just stick with me, and I'll explain very shortly, I promise.

A couple of weekends ago, I was babysitting a young girl who I have been sitting for now for about two and-a-half years. I let her stay up a little later than her usual bedtime, so this dear child was half-asleep by the time I finished tucking her in. I noticed that she had on her bedside table the book "A Little Princess," and I picked it up, closed the light, and carried the book with me to the living room.

I gave it just a very cursory skim; I had read it, and Burnett's "The Secret Garden," ages and ages ago when I was a kiddie, and all I could remember was that while I loved them both, "The Secret Garden" was the more beloved one of the two, for me.

I then settled in to read the book I had brought with me, D. H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow." (A book for grown-ups.) I was up to the penultimate chapter, and it was very slow going -- this chapter was taking me forever to complete, while the rest of the book had read pretty quickly. I gave up and picked up again my little friend's copy of "A Little Princess."

Well, I started to read and was thoroughly, absolutely smitten, enchanted, head-over-heels about this book. I just HAD to continue reading this when I got home, but I couldn't run off in the night with my little friend's book!! (LOL!) It was a little after 10 p.m., and her parents had told me they would be home elevenish. I was almost certain the nearest bookstore was open until midnight, but I called just to double check, and also to ask if they had a copy of "Princess" in stock. They were, indeed, open until midnight, and they did have a copy.

Her parents came home at 11:15; the father, as usual, put me in a cab, but this time I did not give the driver my home address. I gave him the address of the bookstore, he took me there, I told him to keep the meter running, and I dashed into the store, bought the book, and then headed home, hugging the book.

I stayed up late, very late, into the night finishing this dear story of precious Sara Crewe. I had had, indeed, "'A Little Princess' Attack," a la McDonald's "Big Mac Attack" because I had a craving for that book as strong as any "Big Mac Attack" ever recorded!!

A wonderful, perfect book in every way!