Carter Books

This book is really great. It is full of cute bugs and great pop-ups. My daughter loves it and we sing it all year.

Our great grandsons (ages 2 and 4) are enjoying the book and begging constantly to have them read.

My 3 1/2yr old bug lover is enamored with this book (and Jingle Bugs too). He LOVES to sing the 12-bugs-of Christmas and it is good for his memory skills to try to remember them all. When he hears the 12-Days-of-Christmas on the radio, he always points out how it is so similar to HIS song! Ha!

I am a big fan of David Carter's bug pop up books. At first the concept seems a bit odd and off setting, but they really are cute bugs, and the interactive elements are quite thoughtful and inventive.

This book goes through the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," but makes up new words that are related to his buggy creations. Throughout the book, you open each present (lift the flap), to see the bugs inside. Inside each package is some type of pop up element (my favorite is the one that comes complete with tinsel). Each is creative, delicate (as one reader mentioned), and attention getting.

My only reservation about this book is that the interactive elements are not as diverse as in his other Christmas book, Jingle Bugs. With this book, it is basically entirely lift the flap, whereas the other one has different types of activities throughout. However, I do like the fact that you can sing to this one (a great plus in keeping little ones interested).

My 6 and 2 year old kids love this book and wanted to read it over and over during Christmas. The bugs are really cute and Christmas themed. There are tinsel bugs, gingerbread bugs, fruitcake bugs, yodeling Christmas tree bugs. The pop ups work smoothly.

You can even sing the book to the tune of 12 days of Christmas - if you can stand it.

If you are new to Children's Liturgy of the Word, this is a great book to start with! It is easy for anyone to use to facilitate Children's Liturgy of the Word, and it has all the Sundays for all three cycles. My parish has been using this book as a resource for two years.

A wonderful resource to use for Children's Liturgy of the Word or for catechesis.

I have been in charge of the children's mass at my church for a few years now. We had some old books from the 1970's that we were using, but they had inadvertantly got recycled during a clean out that I missed at our church. So, I went on several sites trying to find a replacement. When I found this book, I was apprehensive about what might be inside. I was very happy when it arrived. Not only does it cover the gospel for each week, but it has a suggested activity to go along with it that you can photocopy. I have requested that my church order one to keep with the children's mass supplies as I plan on keeping this one for myself to use not only for the mass, but also as a reference for the sunday school class I teach. This book will help anyone who wishes to teach a child about their religion in an easy and fun way.

we bought this book this summer, as a workbook/instruction manual for our church's recently re-introduced children's liturgy program. it's perfect! completely scripted, any one of the 4 couples who take turns leading, can just pick it up the night before, read over it and be ready to lead the next morning. in years past, the leaders spent so much time preparing and planning that they could offer only ONE children's liturgy a month! but with so much of the work done for us, in this book, we are happy to offer it EVERY sunday. the gospel is kid friendly, the discussion questions are very helpful and the kids love the activity pages....we love that they directly correlate to each sunday's gospel reading. 5 STARS! highly recommend!

This book is a wonderful resource for RE teachers and catechists. I teach 2nd grade catechism and use the readings in this book at the beginning of each lesson (once a week). The kids love to hear the stories and have told me that it makes "Father's readings more interesting!" The activities are very relevant and complement the readings very well.
The only problem I've had, is that a couple of the readings were too condensed and left out some key details. Therefore, it took a little more effort and time to explain them, and they left the kids a bit confused. But, with careful research and comparison from the readings at Mass, I've been able to clarify any uncertainty.
I highly recommend this book to catechists working at the elementary levels! It is a great addition to the curriculum and helps the kids get more involved in the Mass.

I've been around program long enough to recognize what this really is. If you are in a 12 step group you should give this to your sponsor. It will touch his heart.

It's rare for me to find a book I can't put down. I'm very good at skimming to get the gist of a book but I was only a few pages into Great Wings when I realized I didn't want to miss one word. By the time I was less than half way through I ordered 5 more copies for gifts. Great wings is deeply touching and insightful...a book you will want to share with someone you love. Don't miss this one. It will lift your spirits and touch your heart.

I was enthralled, transformed and left crying. I don't like to write reviews, but this book deserves a lot of attention. Buy two copies and pass them on to friends. It is particulary suited for prayer groups.

I heard the author speak at a convention and then read the book. He was wonderful and the book is delightful. If you are a team player this is a must read.

Insightful life lessons conveyed in an entertaining parable format

the book i purchased was all right. i don't remember reading anywhere that a "tab" for the pop-up was missing. if i had read this i would have opted to purchase a new one. If You're Happy And You Know It, Clap Your Hands!

It kept her attention, night after night. She kept asking
to read it over and over night after night. It is a keeper,
very cute. I am happy I purchased it.

My pre-school children love this book. lots of fun and familiar song.

I saw this book during a library storytime and just had to get it. I thought it was the most creative concept. Both my children (6 months and 2 1/2 years) can't get enough of this book. It's thoroughly entertaining. I sing the song and my daughter pulls and pushes all the arrows to move the different parts. She finds it exciting everytime. I would highly recommend it.

My daughter, almost 2, loves this book and so does everybody else that reads it to her. The whole book is "if you're happy and you know it..." and it has "flap your wings", "pat your head", "touch your toes", "shout horray", "wink you eyes", etc. The book is interactive and allows her to move the parts in the book and also she can do all the activities herself too. Its just way too cute to watch her "flap her wings". A definite favorite in our house!

I was so devastated when my husband left with no explanation. He said it was all my fault, & I could not figure out what I could have done wrong to make him leave. I accepted all the blame. Untill I read this book & I woke up one morning so emancipated & relieved and happy because I realized it wasn't me, it was him! And even though he never hit me I was in an abusive, manipulating, & controlling relationship for 9 1/2 years & really didn't realize it because it was subtle, gradual, over a period of time. He studied me & became caculating, ambivalent, & deceptive. If it wasn't for this book & my logic it would've taken me longer to get over this. Because I was so loving & kind I didn't believe there are people who are evil, & especially to someone they are supposed to love! The intelligent woman that I was, was lost, however I found her & will never lose her again. & thanks to this book will be able to spot the signs so it won't happen again. It's a must read, not just for women, for everyone!

Very good and thought provoking analysis of abusive relationships. The author seems to have a good understanding of the fact that abuse does not require physical damage. Although he starts out with an offensive reference to the abuser who "may be hurting you big time (having and affair) or just a little (putting you down)...", later in the book he seems to get it that just "putting you down" can be the most insideous and damaging kind of abuse. I highly recommend the book for both men and women. Even though most of the references to the abuser are in the male gender, the author acknowledges that abusers ("nasty people") can be of either gender.

I was in an abusive love relationship for twelve years, that finally ended when my husband walked out on myself and my 6 month old baby (I had quit my job, and he decided I was no longer financially useful for him).
I really considered taking this person back when he found out he couldn't keep all our assets in the divorce, and then I read this book. This is him! You won't believe how well this book describes your nasty man. The book is very clear that THIS PERSON WON'T CHANGE. It was these words that gave me the courage not to take him back.

I highly reccomend this book - I can't say enough good things about it.

Jay does a good job of telling women what he would do if he were an abused woman, but he is neither abused nor a woman. He writes with the power and authority that men naturally have in this society. If all women were to follow his advise and become more assertive with their battering men, some would find their situations improve, some would see no change, and some would end up dead.

Jay belittles abused women when he writes, "The amazing thing is that no matter what you tell them, what you do, or what fifty million other people tell them, some women just won't leave. Somehow, the relationship is like a drug for these women." This statement demonstrates a remarkable lack of empathy and adds another voice of critism that abused women get from innocently ignorant people all the time.

Perhaps a good book for some, but not one I will be passing out to the abused women who are my clients.

For the connoisseur of sexist double standards, this book and "Nasty Women" are both a real treat.

In "Nasty Men" the author states that one should never base your self-esteem on another's opinion. However in "Nasty Women" it is evident that Jay considers it acceptable and correct for a man to base his self-esteem on a woman's estimation of him. He goes on to say it is acceptable for a woman to have control over a man's self-esteem and to use that control to motivate said man into accepting and attempting to achieve the expectations and standards she sets out for him.

One of the women in "Nasty Women" describes her husband thus: "When we first married he was a slob, ignorant and irresponsible. He's much better now." Her husband believed, on the other hand, that she liked him better during the initial stages of the relationship, suggesting her highly critical behavior was reserved for later on. In other worlds, she built him up early on in the relationship only to tear him down later on.

In "Nasty Men" Jay outlines the profile of an `invalidator'. An invalidator focuses on the flaws of their spouse--oops, sorry, got a bit gender neutral there--their _wife_. An invalidator praises their spouse--gets them addicted to the self-esteem boost they provide--then tears them down.

Of course from "Nasty Women" we see that when a wife focuses on the flaws of her husband, builds him up in the initial stages of the relationship, only to cut him down later on, this is not at all abusive, but appropriate behavior. Jay explicitly outlines this very strategy for women to wield influence over their husbands. He advises women to offer praise then criticize. To build their husbands up then tear them down.

If we translate the advice given in "Nasty Women" into the descriptions given in "Nasty Men" Jay is advising women to be abusive invalidators! His only caveat is that women moderate their invalidation so that men don't turn off completely--In order to prevent men from waking up to the abuse and exiting the relationship emotionally, women must remember to moderate their invalidation with praise. Interestingly, waking up to the abuse and exiting the relationship emotionally is exactly the strategy he advises women to do when confronted with a male `invalidator.'

Reversing this, let's imagine Jay implied it was acceptable for men to set the standards of behavior and conduct for their wives, then said men should use their control over their wives' self esteem to motivate them to achieve those standards. Then he said that men shouldn't be too invalidating, or their wives will catch on and take steps to protect themselves emotionally. Horrifyingly sexist? Yes it is. But here's a wake-up call. It's sexist BOTH ways. And only one is being advocated by the author.

Finally, some mention is made of the reason why women become nasty--previous emotional abuse, trauma, etc. Little mention is made of the possibility men might become nasty due to some previous trauma (One description mentioned an `overbearing[abusive] mother'.)

It's obvious Jay is speaking to a female audience for both books. (Strangely enough.) I'm afraid I don't think I'm his intended audience, despite being female, because I find his double-standards to be ghastly. I appreciate ugly and horrific things for their sheer shock value--thus the five star rating--but in terms of actual relationship advise I'd steer clear of these `gems'.

This is by far the best book of stories written with teens in mind. I've been a youth leader for the past 11 years and I use this book often. In fact, this past weekend I loaned it to an 18 year old high school senior to use for our lock-in worship. He said he started reading the stories and couldn't stop! He said he was going to get a copy (but I should't tell anyone.) I told him to keep my copy and he did. Buy one for you and one to share. You will not be disappointed!!

I highly recommend this book to all teenagers and everyone else, also. I reviewed the manuscript in an early form, and I'm pictured on the front cover, along with my brother and other friends...Reading the stories made me laugh and cry, they were all very touching. It's a great book.

This book was an inspiration to me. I am going through a lot of hard times right now and this book has helped me see that my problems aren't as bad as I thought they were. One of my favorite stories would have to be "Miracle at the Mall" on page 314. There's always a different way God lets people know he cares and loves us. I look forward to future books by Alice Gray. Also, I would like to thank the people who allowed their stories to be published.

THIS BOOK IS A GREAT READ FOR TEENS.THE STORIES ARE FUNNY,HEART
WARMING AND AT TIMES SAD.MOST OF THE STORIES TEACH VAUABLE LESSONS ON LIFE.MY FAVORITE STORY IN THE BOOK WAS DUMP BOY.THE LESSON THE CHILDREN LEARN AT THE END WAS REALLY TOUCHING.ANOTHER
FAVORITE WAS A POEM CALLED MAKING SARAH CRY(WHICH WILL HAVE ALL
YOU SCHOOL BULLYS WISHING FOR A SECOND CHANCE.BUY THIS BOOK AND LOVE THE STORIES JUST LIKE I DID.YOU WON'T BE DISAPPIONTED.

Man....I dunno where to begin with this book. Yeah its that awesome! I've just started reading it and I'm abt 80 pages into it but lemme tell ya , Its just as good if not better than the rest of them in the "Stories 4 the Teens heart" series! I don't think the stories are just for teens either , anyone can read them and they are sure to enjoy them. The stories talk about real life situations and how others have coped with them. This book can really cheer a person up and help them out. I hope anyone who veiws this would read it and enjoy it! Best wishes to all ya'll out there!

hi my name is Trisha, im 16 and and im really excited for aaron because he is coming to lacrosse soon! and i cant wait to see him! he looks really cute in this calendar, so i think its 5 stars !!!

Aaron is so cute,and this calendar is so HOT!
AND ROCK!
aaron is awesome and the world best singer in the world and i really like this calendar,OH this is best calendar in the world....I really like it aaron is rock and oh its so HOT HOT HOT AND HOT..=)
i love aaron carter =)
This is REALLY GOOD!=D
lOVE.Aino-Maaria

HEY I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I RATED THIS ITEM 5 STARS BECAUSE IT ROXS AND STELLARBOY HERE LOOKS SO BUT SO HOT. BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT HAS THE GREATTEST PICS OF HIM, AND BECAUSE IF YOU ARE A TRUE AC FAN THEN YOU WOULDN'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD, NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT COSTS, LIKE ME, I WOULD STILL BUY IT IF IT WAS MORE THAN [price]BUCKS, SO IF YOU R A TRUE AC FAN THEN YOU WOULD GO AND BUY BECAUSE IT HAS GREAT PICS OF AARON, AND YOU WOULS ALSO GO AND BUY NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT COSTS!!!!
PEACE!!!! I LUV AC 4EVA!!!!
ACZ FAN ALWAYS

I LOVE AARON CARTER, HE IS SUTCH A CUITE!!
BUY THIS WALL CALENDER NOW!

All you Aaron Carter fans if you don't have this calendar then you better get it soon. It has tons of Aaron Carter pictures and keeps you on schedule at all times. If you like this 13 year old pop star hottie then this calendar is the perfect thing for you. Rebecca

This is a very light, straight-from-the-pages book. Meaning, it's not like his mother's biography. it doesn't give any insight or past memories or anything of the such. 98% of the stuff in this book is just recycled information from M, Popstar, Bop, etc.

Unfortunately, that's how most Aaron Carter books are. There may not be as much to write about on a sixteen-year-old as a thirty-something-year-old, but you can make it interesting.

All rants aside, again, this IS a fun book. It has the astrological stuff that teen mags repeat every month. However, this isn't the book for you if you've been a fan of Aaron's for a long time. It's very basic, and you probably already know who Nick is, what his birthday is, where he grew up, etc. Not to mention the fact that this book was released when he was just eleven. Most of the book is filler. His life story is finished before hte first half of the book; the last 2-3 chapters are donated to Nick and the BSB.

A recent fan? Check it out. A long-time fan? Skip it.

ohh, if u could read this book ,you will totally screamed.....I have read it and i couldnt stop my self to blushed coz i was amazed by aaron carter.He is so nice than I've known before...You so why wait buy this copy and this will impressed you so much...

I think his book was very well written book.Once i started reading i was devoured into the book. It felt a lot like i knew aaron from reading this short biogrophy. It let me kinda take an inside look at aaron...i learned a lot more about him. I also loved the color photo section in the book. And since i didn't know much about him at the time and i wanted to know more...I read this. I felt like i got to know him. I rate this a 10 star book! Ok I rate it a 5 outa 5..there that better??? So if u are an aaron fan...i suggest you read this! I luv u aaron! Luv, ~*~*KRystal~*~*

THIS BOOK IS BRILL IT TELLS YOU TONS ABOUT AARON AND HOW TO CONTACT HIM IT ALSO TELLS YOU HIS OLD ADDRESS IN TAMPA BAY.I KNOW EVERY ONE SAY THIS BUT I REALLY AM HIS NUMBER ONE FAN, OH BOY WHAT ID DO TO MEET HIM ID DO NEARLY ANY THING. I THINK HES GREAT AND THIS BOOK IS BETTER THEN WORDS CAN SAY...I LOVE AARON VOICE AND PORSONALITY AND THIS BOOK TELLS YOU EVERY THING,I JUST WISH AARON COULD WRITE HIS OWN BOOK THAT WOULD BE SO COOL WELL AS I SAY I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I JUST READ IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN ITS SO GOOD SO BUY IT!!!!!

well..I think if you read this book you would be soooo suprised about Aaron Carter..that he's so awsome..and cute too!!!

Joyce Meyer did an amazing job writing this book about dealing with the lies that the enemy makes us believe as truths. This book helped me to see things that the enemy didn't want me to see and it brought me closer to God. Now, I can say I'm free from all of the enemy's lies. It also taught me how to pray in a way that pleases God. This is a must have book for Christians who truly want to develop a closer relationship with God.

This book came into my life at a time when I had struggles that were suffocating me. My head was in a fog. I felt like a snail without it's shell - exposed on a hot day. Though I had a close relationship with God my focus wasn't on Him as it should've been but on the issues I was having to deal with. The wisest thing I did was pick up this book and, along with my Bible, studied God's message. The Battle Belongs to the Lord is straightforward and helps you to enter God's presence in a strong and powerful way by teaching you to praise and worship Him at ALL times; especially during the tough times.

This has to be one of my favorite books by Joyce Meyer. It gives you practical strategies to overcome life's every day struggles by handing them over to the Lord. This book has so many realistic tools that can be used to live a life of victory through the Lord. I have to admit that when I read the Bible I sometimes have difficulty getting the true message or meaning that is being conveyed. Joyce has a remarkable ability to translate verses for people just like me, as well as give practical methods of putting these passages to use in every day life.
READ THIS BOOK AND START YOUR LIFE OF VICTORY.

This book is a great resource in your walk with the Lord. Too many times we try to take care of the battles ourselves and when we do we will always lose. The only way to win the battle is to let the Lord fight it for you and have complete trust in him. This book helps you give your battles to the Lord by reminding you that the battle is not yours to fight anyway and that God will ultimately win the battle. This is a great book to read if you are having problems giving your battles to the Lord.

My attention was gripped from the very first sentence and held "captive" throughout the entire book. It was well written and spoke to issues we all deal with in our desire to grow and mature in our relationship with God. This is the first book of Joyce Meyer's that I've read and I have been greatly blessed by it. I highly recommend this book for anyone who struggles with fear and defeat in their lives.

I've read this book several times, and it never fails to move me. I don't think I've read a more powerful book. Oprah needs to get on this one.

Brother to a Dragonfly is the story of 2 brothers who, in their own way, idolize each other. Will looks up to his older brother Joe. Joe is the protector. He always wants to make things right. And Joe knows that Will is destined to have a mark on the world. But Will D. Campbell has written more than a memoir in writing about growing up with his brother Joe in rural Mississippi. He has captured a piece of America's past. This book reads like a novel - poverty, war, race relations, the civil rights movement, drug addiction, domestic violence - it's all there. Occasionally Campbell makes an awkward jump in the story, but this some how enhances the voice and reminds the reader that this is life. Life doesn't always flow like we would like it to. While telling the story of his brother, Campbell paints a portrait of southerners (himself) during the civil rights movement that don't always get the recognition they deserve. I was surprised by the insights he had 40 years ago about both sides of the civil rights movement. I was even more surprised to find that I had bought into many of the southern stereotypes, and I'm southern!
If you are interested in southern literature, coming of age stories, family relationships, American history from 1930's to 1960's, or the Civil Rights Movement, you need to add Brother to a Dragonfly to your list of reads. Will D. Campbell gives a first rate account of his experience. While it is only one man's view, it is a rich one!

This book sets the standard for brotherly love: through the joyous days of youth, through sickness, through the reversal of who worships who, each standing up for the other no matter what.

This book also wrestles with faith, guilt before the law versus guilt before God, examines stereotypes and throws them away.

"Suddenly I knew a lot of things I had not known before. I knew that I had been caught in my own trap. (In a discussion with a Klansman) Suddenly I knew that we are a nation of Klansmen. I knew that as a nation we stood for peace, harmony and freedom in that war (Vietnam), that we defined the words, and that the means we were employing to accomplish those ends were identical with the ones he had listed."

Follow Will Campbell in his journey with his brother and your horizons will be broadened.

If you were raised in the south as I was, have an interest in the civil rights movement, or want to enjoy one of the most irreverent Christian curmudgeons ever to irritate the church, then read Will Campbell (b. 1924). Campbell was born and raised in the rural and very poor deep south of Amite, Mississippi, "ordained" by family members at a local Baptist church when he was seventeen, and, in a delightfully improbable life, played a central role as an activist and agitator on behalf of African Americans. But to leave it at that would badly misrepresent him.

After World War II Campbell studied at Tulane, Wake Forest, and Yale. He served as Director of Religious life at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), but left after two years because his controversial views attracted death threats. He then did a stint for the National Council of Churches where he worked with most of the civil rights luminaries. In 1957, Campbell was one of four people who escorted the nine black students who integrated Little Rock's Central High School; and he was the only white person to attend the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. So, how did he come to sip whiskey with the KKK and get hate mail from the left?

Campbell came to distrust all movements and institutions, especially the church (he once referred to television preachers as liars, frauds, and "electronic soul molesters"). He dismissed all politics as impotent. It was less than Christian, he realized, to agitate for the oppressed but to hate the oppressor. No, one could not preach what Luther called a "fictitious grace." God loves the redneck Klansmen as well as the disinherited blacks. For the most part, Brother to a Dragonfly tells the story of Campbell's deep love for his brother Joe, and how the latter's tragic demise to alcohol, drugs, and domestic violence led to his premature death. But it was through Joe and an overtly pagan family friend that Campbell had a conversion later in life. Without realizing it, he recalls, his twenty years of ministry had become one of "liberal sophistication. An attempted negation of Jesus, of human engineering, of riding the coattails of Caesar, of playing on his ballpark, by his rules and with his ball, of looking to government to make and verify and authenticate our morality, of worshipping at the shrine of enlightenment and academia, of making an idol of the Supreme Court, a theology of law and order and of not only denying the Faith I professed to hold but my history and my people--the Thomas Colemans [who murdered two civil rights workers]. Loved. And if loved, forgiven. And if forgiven, reconciled." There was all the difference in the world, he realized, between being a "doctrinaire social activist," however laudable, and a follower of Jesus. The key? "I came to understand the nature of tragedy. And one who understands the nature of tragedy can never take sides."

Christian renegade, preacher, author of twenty books and plays, farmer, country musician, friend of Thomas Merton, and agent provocateur, Will Campbell loves a good chew of tobacco and will strike many as enigmatic. Not everyone will appreciate his rapier wit. But PBS profiled him in their documentary "God's Will," in 2000 President Clinton honored him with a National Endowment for the Humanities medal, and Brother to a Dragonfly won numerous literary awards.

Brother to a dragonfly, Will D Campbell's brilliant,evocative, nostalgic luminous memoir teels the story of his family in the pre-tva rural south. Though much much more then a simple coming of age story,it is the story of 2 brothers,their lives amid the greatest change in this ountry since the civil war. Will D Campbell and his brother Joe stories are told so movingly,and with such deep power that ,by the end it will move you to tears. It is the sory of a man,family,RELIGION,the south,race,addiction,love and death. It will shatter any preconcieved notions and stereotypes,for Will D Campell is a true iconoclast. I run out of superlatives to describe this book. Read it.