Fitzgerald Books

Award-winning children's author Deborah Heiligman presents High Hopes: A Photobiography Of John F. Kennedy. This a thoughtful and wonderfully illustrated rendition of President John F. Kennedy's inspirational life and tragic assassination. Black-and-white photographs on every page add a strong presence to the straightforward narration in a text which is easily accessible for young people at an intermediate reading level and up. Highly recommended.

In this compelling biography, award winning author, Deborah Heiligman, captures the spirit of the handsome, charismatic President, Jack Kennedy,who won the hearts of Americans and people around the world. Born to a wealthy Massachusetts family, Jack had been taught at an early age that his mission was to serve others. The hopes of the family really resided in his older brother Joe, but when Joe died, Jack stepped into his shoes, and despite serious medical problems, became the youngest person ever to be elected President. Accompanied by stunning photographs this eloquent biography is the perfect choice for family sharing.

I've been looking for a good book on JFK to share with my sixth grade class and I'm happy to have found it here! The text is very kid friendly and full of compelling stories from JFK's childhood. The author's style is perfectly suited to the layout of pictures and children can come away with not only important facts, but the feeling that they've spent some private time with the Kennedy family. I learned things I never knew and was very moved by some of the quotes and stories. This is just the book I was hoping to find, for the author has taken a leader and an ikon in American history and presented him in a new and fresh way. I especially liked the author's handling of JFK's early, formative years. After all that's been written about this man and his presidency it's amazing to me how inspiring this book was. I found lots of ways to spin off on this material. Anyone wanting to share the life of this very unique president with school age children could do no better than High Hopes.

We bought this book when my youngest daughter was starting to read. Now, we have MEMORIZED it!! This is a superb choice.

We bought this book for my youngest daughter when she was just learning to read! She read it so often that now we have all memorised it! We will be riding in the car when someone starts by saying, "I Hate My Bow! By Hans Wilhelm. I hate my bow....." I highly recommend this book to all.

My five year old daughter just started to learn to read. She opened the book and read through most of it by herself! What words she did not know, she was able to guess. She was very excited to be able to read, and wanted to try to read other books. Excellent early reader book. Adorable story line.

The story begins when Eric, Julie, and Neal are in art class. New kinds of sparks come out of Eric's fingers. They are silver. They go to Droon and meet Keeah. Keeah tells them about an evil monster named Krog. The knights of the silver snow are with Keeah. One of the knights, Rolf, goes with the kids to the ice caves of Krog to stop Krog from destroying Droon cities. They meet the Ice Man. Neal says something mean and the Ice Man asks him three questions. He gets the first two right but the last one is math and he gets it wrong. This gets the Ice Man angry and Rolf and the Ice Man fall into a giant crack. The kids and Keeah go on without Rolf. The kids see an ice palace. They go in and they find magic food. The food makes them go to sleep. Before Eric goes to sleep he shoots the ceiling with the sparks from his fingers and snow falls in the palace. The snow wakes everybody up and they find the Ice Caves of Krog. Krog defeats everybody but Eric. Krog tells Eric he has two weaknesses. Read the book to find out what his weaknesses are and the true story of Krog! This was a great book.

Eric, Julie and Neal need to go back to |Droon because the ancient beast called Krog is destroying villages. But is there a secret to the beast? You have to read it to find out. I hope you do.

In the now #20th edition of the Droon series, Eric, Julie, Neil and Keeah find that there are now some new problems in Droon. A new snowman seems to have woken up for his deep slumber and is destroying villages all over Droon. It turns our this snowman, named Murn, is not at all a happy camper, and to stop him the kids have to journey up north to the Ice Caves of Krog. The kids have quite a few adventures including finding the tricky cave entrance, but nothing prepares them for the surprise of seeing Murn...

I have to admit I am a freshman in high school, but I have been reading Droon since I was ten. I know these types of books are way out of my reading level, but they are so magical that you really do feel sucked into Keeah's world. Little kids will love this book, and it is a great way to start your children on chapter books. A must-read!

I've given this book to many college-bound. One recipient told me he used it more than he used his high-priced collegiate dictionary (required by the university and also a gift from me). Many people think we no longer need this type of aid with the spell-checks, etc., but I am a good speller and a professional writer, and couldn't be without it.

I received this book (Third Edition hardback) in high school and I still use this book over 20 years later as I type letters for my boss or work on manuscripts. I'm considering purchasing three copies (while they're still in print) for my children who currently are 4, 7, and 8 to ensure that I have a copy to give to them when they get to high school.

I definitely would recommend this book for anyone who has to write letters, manuscripts, or other publications.

I found an old copy of this at my office -- some idiot had thrown it away. I now use it every day. As a result, I no longer mispell any words.

It is impossible to write about Robert Kennedy without including his brother, John Kennedy. Robert Kennedy was the brother who exemplified fraternal loyalty in his tireless efforts to promote Jack and to serve him during his tenure as president. Robert Kennedy was the man who, to some extent worked behind the scenes to promote his older brother. It has been said that a more devoted or more dedicated show of brotherly love in public office has yet to be found.

The one down side to Robert Kennedy's efforts is that he often sublimated his own identity, interests and needs so as to promote his brother. It is only in the tragic aftermath of President Kennedy's death does Robert Kennedy fully emerge as his own person. The same hard work ethic he applied behind the scenes is shown to the public at large. Robert Kennedy does indeed find his voice and his forte, which is commanding the interest and attention of his public. The man who would be president in 1968 becomes a symbol of hope -- he is the voice representing the disenfranchised, the minorities and those living in poverty. He is the man who becomes personally involved with a large segment of the population that had, up until recent history been excluded from many public fora. It is to Robert Kennedy's credit that he makes himself aware of such issues. Indeed, this book treats the brothers with respect and as with any work about Robert Kennedy, one is always left with the question of what would have been had this man lived to be elected president in 1968.

Jack and Bobby by Tom Murphy (published by Metro Books), is a photographic portrait of two brothers who have left their indelible mark on history. Filled with pages of captioned black and white photographs, this book offers an insight into the lives of the Kennedys through Jack and Bobby's political lives, their families, and their pain. It covers the men from their childhood through the death of Robert F. Kennedy. I recommend this book to any reader interested in the Kennedy family and their standing in United States history.

the books is set up of photographies of the kennedy brothers, there is a lot of rares photos of the greetest men in the american history.
I suggest to all the kennedy fans to buy it.

It is amazing that a man who was only president for two years and ten months had such a profound effect on a nation, and that his life is still so widely read about and researched. Cooper's biography, with its' extensive collection of well-chosen and captioned black and white images on nearly every page, is excellent in it's singular focus on the youth of JFK.

Chronological from birth to college, with a final chapter on the presidency and the assassination, Cooper zeros in on the competition between first and second son's Joe Jr. and Jack, a father's determination for having only winners in the family, and the family's history in politics as keys to Jack's success. She also gives us an overview of the family dynasty and the entire Kennedy clan.

Primary sources are heavily used, and the many quotes from a variety of people who knew the family, as well as from Kennedys themselves, tell most of the story. But the narrative goes beyond the factual; Cooper writes in an anecdotal style about her subject and goes a step further to analyze the pivotal moments that made the man who overcame sickliness, sibling rivalry, and the stigma of Irish Catholicism to become a leader of the free world.

Although all of the facts about JFK ring true and Cooper documents her meticulous research with source annotations from each chapter, she is incorrect in her description of the Irish Potato Famine that brought the ancestors of Jack to the United States. Whitish-green spots formed on the leaves of the plants, not on the tubers themselves, which turned dark brown, black or purplish on the inside. Since she cites Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Black Potatoes (Houghton, 2001) as her source, I am surprised at this error.

This look at JFK's early years is very amazing. I loved the idea of exploring his early years in depth. As a school teacher, I realized that so many of the students we see as average students or pranksters have great potential! The book shows JFK's relationship with his older brother as being very strained. I didn't realize they were so competitive, but this book points out how competitive they really were. I loved this book! If you are a fan of the Kennedys and are looking for a glimpse into the young life of JFK, this book is the one.

this biography is wonderfull, it's one of the most complete bio of young Jack. It tells how he was.
there are a lot of rares photos and a few documents.
I suggest it to all the peaople who are fans of john f kennedy.

Adult, sophisticated, and unillusioned, Gibson has produced an essential volume for anyone seriously interested in the coup that removed John F. Kennedy from office - and much else beside. (The book is worth buying for his passages on Richard Sorge alone.)

His first concern is to demonstrate who compelled an opposed LBJ to convene what became known, entirely misleadingly, as the Warren Commission; he ends by seeking to explain why. His case for Eastern Establishment centrality to the cover-up is convincingly made. So, too, his case for Kennedy's economic and political radicalism as the inter-related roots of Eastern Establishment hostility.

Elsewhere in the book's course, he comprehensively demolishes the work of the establishment's left-wing gatekeepers - most predictably the risible Noam Chomsky, less expectedly, but more welcomely, Peter Dale Scott, the subtlest of them all - and offers compelling evidence for the continuity in US establishment practices: Chomsky and Scott had predecessors, and Gibson correctly identifies at least one of them; veto by assassination and smear emerge as the American elite's norm in the face of charismatic centre-left politicians.

He is equally dismissive of the Right's heroes: Tailgunner Joe, for example, couldn't distinguish establishment tree from Commie wood. But here we come to an area of weakness. If Acheson and circle could persuade LBJ to launch a commission he didn't want, how come they couldn't silence the Wisconsin Senator? To put it another way, who within the Eastern Establishment licensed McCarthy et al publicly to assail Acheson and circle? Was the Eastern Establishment really as united as Gibson insists?

Still, it is a measure of this book's worth that such adult questions are begged. Buy it!

The great JFK assassination research community, after forty years of wandering around in what the great cia asset Kenneth Rahn calls a "quagmire", apparently still remains clueless as to how to even begin to think about the Kennedy assassination.
Fortunately for these space cadets, and for the rest of us, there are some people who have left a few clues for us to pick up.
Sociologists like G William Domhoff and Donald Gibson are pointing in the direction of the true causes for the president's assassination. Domhoff's books on the power elite in this country are a good beginning for the material Gibson presents in his two books.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has some basic background on the murder, enough to know of the continuing massive cover-up, and who is now wondering on what line of research to pursue next.
This book will give you some leads.

To anyone thinking about reading this book, I would like to make a few suggestions.
1)If you can, find and read Gibson's first Kennedy book, "Battling Wall Street", before reading this book. Not absolutely necessary, but it sets Gibson's basic ideas in motion.
2)After having read the two Gibson books, begin some basic research on Nelson and David Rockefeller, John J McCloy, and Allen Dulles, particularly in regards to their relationships to an american institution known as the cia, another organization known as The Council on Foreign Relations, and their ties to these groups and each other. A Cary Reich book on Nelson, for example, has some information on the brother's cia involvement.
3)Connect the dots.
4)Case Closed!

This was one of the first books I ever read by myself, and I frequently used to go look for it in the library to re-read it. One of the more endearing books in my memory.

I came across an old copy of this book at a thrift shop. After reading this book to my 4 year old son it became a favorite of his.

A strange object falls into the middle of the woods where a group of animals inspect it and wonder what it is. Soon a boy comes to get it and takes it back to the football feild. The animals follow and watch from a distance as the boys play football. Then the animals have an a brilliant idea to play their own game of football. What will they use for a the ball?

This is a great book for 2 to 6 year olds and any child learning to read.

Both of our sons love sports. And both have loved this book. It's simple, easy to understand and easy to enjoy. I, and my boys, like it because the stars are the animals, and the little boys that play football. The pictures are simple and descriptive enough to convey the message and the story moves along quickly enough to keep short attention spans occupied. We've read Kick pass and Run hundreds of times in the last 4 years, and now that we own a copy of it ourselves, we'll probably read it twice as often.

My children loved this book, They couldn't stop laughing at the funny exploits of the main characters. They also loved the great artwork in the book. I have bought them all the books in this series so far.

Here are some delightfully zany characters - Morris, Boris, Doris and Norris, who manage to flaunt what they don't know in the most hilarious ways. Their goings-on are guaranteed to have readers laughing out loud.

The Know-Nothings is such a hilarious book. It is a perfect reader for kindergarten - 4th grade. The characters are so funny that they make me laugh. I liked the part when they are deciding what to eat and thought they had to walk all the way to France to buy french fries. Another great part was when they wanted to eat bananas. They didn't realize that they must peel the banana before eating it. So, they put the banana in their mouths and said, "yuck". They said they couldn't peel the banana because they didn't want it to shiver without its coat. The illustrations are funny too.

After the last couple of crappers I've read, this book was like a cool breeze on a hot day. Snappy writing, interesting characters, great plot, funny repartee--what more can you ask for? Love this author and plan to read more Stuart Hoag books based on my excellent experience with this one.

Handler is a scream. His stories are orginal and his characters are very lively. No trends are spared from Handler's savage pen. I hope Handler enjoys writing the Hoagy series as much as I enjoy reading it

I have never been shooshed so much while reading a book - I was chuckling at Handler's wit every other page! Hoagy is a great character and the plot is a pretty twisty one as well. A great read! I've said it many a time to emphasize how good a book was, but this is the first time I actually FINISHED A BOOK IN ONE SITTING! I couldn't read it fast enough. GOOD STUFF!