Cameron Books

Eleanor Cameron was a very good story teller and her books for youth are some of the best around. This tale of a "monster" near Redwood Cove is no different. The question the towns people ask, "just what have Jennifer and Tom seen?" This fast moving tale still captivates the young reader and I do hope it remains available. This one, first released in 1959, is certainly no worse for the wear. This is a story from a different, more less complicated time. It was wone of my children's favorites and I did enjoy reading it with them.

I found That Kind of Money in a mystery bookstore and bought it for my young niece and nephew. Before passing the book along, I read a few pages, just to get a feel for the story, and the next thing I knew, it was nearly midnight and I'd finished it. How it compares with other juvenile fiction, I can't say, since I can't recall when I last read any, but I found the characters--both teen and adult--deftly drawn and completely convincing. There is a genuine mystery, with a believable solution, at the heart of of the novel; there is a certain amount of suspense and tension. But, mostly there is humor, in the situations portrayed, and in the rueful take the two adolescent protagonists--Woody and Steve--have on themselves and the other people in their small world. A few locutions (like "hydro" for "electricity" and "slivers" for "splinters") mark the characters as Canadian but this is a story that could take place anywhere there is snow at Christmas and Chambers of Commerce to sponsor seasonal decoration contests and teenagers who dream of being rock stars. A book well worth buying, in my opinion; I'll let you know what the niece and nephew have to say on the topic.

In response to what two individuals are saying about myself and my books I would like to share with you what many others have said to balance out their unsubstantiated claims.

* Endorsed by:
* National PTA
* Scouting Magazine - Boy and Girl Scouts or America
* NEA - National Education Association
* Sports Illustrated for Kids
* Mothering Magazine - to name only a few

* Awarded the Robert Burns Medal for literature by Austria's Albert Schweitzer Society, for "outstanding merits in the field of peace promotion"

* Acclaimed at the 1990 Soviet Peace Fund Conference in Moscow and published in Russia by Moscow's Library of Foreign Literature and Magistr Publications

* Selected by the International Association of Educators for World Peace for their Central American peace education project in Panama and El Salvador

* 9-time winner of the Benjamin Franklin Awards for Excellence in Independent Publishing

* On permanent display at the International Museum of Peace and Solidarity in Samarkind, Uzbekistan, the Commonwealth of Independent States

* WHY IS EVERYBODY ALWAYS PICKING ON ME cited by the Omega New Age Directory as one of the Ten Best Books of 1991, for its "atmosphere of universal benevolence and practical application"

* Presented at the 1991 National Conference on Peacemaking & Conflict Resolution

*Approved by the New York Board of Education

* Selected by the American Booksellers Association for its resource listing of "Children's Books About Peace"

* "These topics are excellent and highly relevant. If each of the major countries of the world were to have ten Drs. Webster-Doyle, world peace is guaranteed to be achieved over a period of just one generation."
Dr. Charles Mercieca, Executive Vice President
International Association of Educators for World Peace
NGO, United Nations (ECOSOC), UNICEF & UNESCO

* "Every publication from the pen of this author should make a significant contribution to peace within and without. Highly recommended!"
New Age Publishers and Retailers Alliance Trade Journal

* "Webster-Doyle's insight is that by recognizing, understanding, and accepting our violent tendencies, we can avoid acting them out. These new books...are good for teachers and parents of elementary school children who need appropriate language and activities to help children deal with their feelings and the violence-provoking parts of the environment. To this reviewer, they are realistic and practical."
Young Children (Magazine of the National Association for the Education of Young Children)

* FIGHTING THE INVISIBLE ENEMY and TUG OF WAR recommended by the Elementary School Library Collection as "fine contributions to materials for children"; both books also chosen by the British Commonwealth Collection

* "A Selection of Books and Journals on Nonviolence and Social Change."

* "Helps young people deal with conflict and violence by describing practical skills for Peace." Holistic Education Review

* "Inverting the timeworn axiom about preparing for war in a time of peace, to help the upcoming generation prepare for peace in a time of war, these books offer welcome encouragement." Rutland (VT) Herald

* "I realize TUG OF WAR's urgency for every child and adult -- especially at this moment of unrest... my daughter couldn't stop reading it!"
Marina Dubrovskaya, Assistant Director
Department of Sociology, Lenin Library, Moscow, USSR

* "The book excels at impelling children to understand how conflict works within themselves. Tug of War offers engaging exercises that enhance a child's ability to understand the world. These exercises inspire self-observation, and the drawings of award-winning illustrator Rod Cameron enliven the book." Forum (Newsletter of Educators for Social Responsibility)
* to name only a few.

Very funny riddles and easy to read for beginnning readers. Would like to say that I hope that you get this book even if you aren't getting it for a child, get it for yourself, I did! =-)

It took me forever to find the th volume of this series. I don't know if I was looking to hard. I had the 9th before I got this one.
Great story, things get stickier for Professor X and his X-men. I can't wait to see more characters from the X-men world.

I found this book to be captivating and very hard to put down once I started reading it. I now understand better than I ever have the sacrifice that men and women have made for this country. It is a book that everyone should read.

It have everything you need to learn about contingent valuation, an sophisticated and controversial method to value public goods.

I gave this book to one of my neices for a gift and the others love it so much I gave them the other two Jungle of Utt books.
They now spend lots of time reading to each other.
Thanks for making me a favorite aunty.

Linguists, most of them scholars and academics, tend to accept that language is in a continuing state of evolution and change. They consider this the natural state of language, and that any attempt to stop change with a set of rigid grammatical rules and notions of standards is either counterproductive or simply wrong-headed.

Lined up against them is a more traditionalist army of grammarians, plain language enthusiasts, and keepers of "correct" usage, who feel that change is undesirable and that the laissez-faire attitude of linguists is an invitation to cultural chaos. These two groups have been at loggerheads for decades, each deeply suspicious of the other.

Along comes Deborah Cameron, a linguist at Strythclyde University (UK) who decides to take a more open-minded look at the attitudes of the traditionalists and offers her colleagues a number of insights meant to scale down the level of hostility between the two camps. Her central notion is there in the title: verbal hygiene.

She proposes that not only does language evolve; it generates its own "caregivers." These people look after its welfare, wrong-headed or not, and practice a kind of "hygiene" that counteracts the messiness of uncontrolled growth. The evolution of language, she says, is actually a dynamic between opposing forces of conservation and innovation. While there is no "right" or "wrong" way to use language, Cameron suggests that language is enlivened by the push and pull between these opposing ideas.

To challenge the idea that standard English exists apart from the people who use it, she provides an account for how it comes into being, at least as she sees it among UK writers. And she challenges the confident trust we might have in the use of dictionaries as a measure of "correctness." Reading her analysis, you realize that dictionaries are part of a circular process that both reflects and determines usage.

Cameron extends her discussion of language with insightful and entertaining analyses of "political correctness," communication between genders, and the types of politically-inspired public hysteria that spring up around the schools' perceived failure to teach correct grammar. She even takes to task our confident acceptance of George Orwell's dictums in his often cited essay, "Politics and the English Language."

This is a book for anyone fascinated by not only the language of politics but the politics of language. Its ideas are argued thoughtfully and with considerable insight. As companions to this book I'd also recommend the books of American linguist Deborah Tannen ("You Just Don't Understand") and Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, "The Professor and the Madman."

The book review does not lie when it calls this book a major contribution. To political scientists interested in formal theory, the presidency, executive-legislative relations, or divided government, this book is one of the best to come along in years. Especially in presidential studies, this book is probably the best to come along since Light's "President's Agenda," and perhaps the best since 1960 and Neustadt's "Presidential Power." For formal theory people, this book is an exemplar of how good, rigorous theory and careful, skilled empirical analysis can work together to produce both a well-reasoned and well-supported picture of the veto and its affect on policy. For those who abhor formal theory, the rich case studies are informative reading, too. Overall, this book is what political science should be about.