Green Books

Ignore the cover art, which has nothing to do with the book. The further adventures of Teleri, Ceilyn and some of his cousins. This marvelous trilogy is to contemporary, lumbering epics as song is to speach. The only possible comparison is to Rosemary Edgehill's abandoned series about elfland, and Edgerton actually finishes her projects.

First of all, I like the title of this book. It sounds exactly the way the book is written. You'll know what I mean if you read it. I really liked this book, so far the series has just kept getting better! I am planning to read the last book, _The Work Of The Sun_, as soon as possible.

In this book, Diaspad makes another try for power, this time trying to eliminate Fflergant and Tryffin. Ceilyn and Teleri must go against their principles of not using the old heathen rites to stop her. Afterwards this leads to awful consequences. The romance between Ceilyn and Teleri is really sweet, but sad. This book ends on another cliffhanger. The other thing I like about this author is how she tells you the story from many people's perspectives, but still in third person. Even the villian has her own chapters! I wouldn't suggest reading this book until you've read _Child Of Saturn_, because it won't make any sense to you and you won't know the characters or their backgrounds. However, this series is definitely a must-read for fantasy and Arthurian fans!

I really like this book, almost as much as I liked the first one. The plots ties in with Child of Saturn, and the romance is seemlessly sewn in the depths of the book. I really love it!

This book is in my top ten of best-books-ever-written. There is always action, suspense, and it pulls you in to Moontime and the other times that Minty visits. This book is seems very, very real even though it is very unreal.
If you liked this book, you should read The Watchers by Helen Cresswell or Wait Till Helen Comes.

I think ýt is a very fascinating book and it is my homework, too. I must prepare summary of "Moondial". My work is really difficult.

I thought that this book was quite amazing. It combines normal Helen Cresswell writings with a touch of fantasy and mysticism yet it still remains light and easy. I would recommend this book for young fantasy lovers as I read it when I was 9 and thoroughly enjoyed it and I still read it now even though I'm 13! You're bound to love this book because it really is one of Helen Cresswell's best.

My 7 year old loved this book. He liked it so much that he asked to order another of the Mr. and Mrs. Green books. What was super about this book is that it throws in fun information about many subjects (math, art, and vocabulary) without the reader even noticing it! Pretty, happy illustrations, too.

My 26 month old son LOVES this book! It is longer than most of his books but he sits still through the entire story. Great pictures and great story lines.

The alligtor couple, Mr and Mrs Green are back in More Mr and Mrs Green and they are ready for 3 new adventures. First off it?s timefor fishing! Mr. Green shares his secret for catching the most fish. He uses jelly beans for bait! Then Mrs. Green shares with us her love of art. She paints a portrait of Mr Green and it turns out very unique. Last they go off for a lovely day in the park. Join them as they race for the ice cream truck!

My family enjoyed the bright illustrations. We have red the first book in the series and were excited to see what The Greens were going to be up to in this second installment.

The book is great for readers who are just starting to enjoy chapter books. The chapters are very short giving young reader the boost of confidence they need to enjoy reading.

This is an extension of the authors first book, Silver Wings, Pinks and Greens. The section on pilot and aircrew wings is once again outstanding. Any serious collector of WWII wings and insignia must add this book to their library. Highly recommended!!

It seems to date that the author Jon A. Maguire can do no wrong whenever he decides to commit pen to paper. Yet again we have a title that is truly exhaustive in it's coverage of the topic without becoming staid and condescending. Each page is full of highly detailed photographs that describe and illustrate the items perfectly for the collector. His text is articulate, informative and detailed.

If the American Army Air Forces from the period covered are of interest to you then I can offer you know more words of advice other than buy this book. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have.

It really is something of a rare event these days when someone writes a scholarly reference work that rapidly becomes a benchmark for others to aspire to, but Jon Maguire just keeps on doing it.

Keep em coming, keep em flying!

Written by Kisa Beres and illustrated by Julia Woolf, My Body My House is both a children's picturebook and a cautionary tale against overdependence upon chemicals. A Body (young boy) and a House live together harmoniously at first, but then the Body starts bringing chemicals into the house - pesticides to kill unfortunate insects, air fresheners to make the place smell nice even though they are toxic to breathe, and more. The Body fills the House with so many chemicals that the Body gets sick, until he finally heeds the House's advice to experience fresh air, and regrets his foolishness in depending on so many artificial toxins. In accordance with its message and the author's wishes, a portion of all the proceeds for My Body My House will be donated to the nonprofit organization Children's Health Environmental Coalition.

Lisa Beres is a charming writer! Her wonderful book conveys a very important message in a whimsical way that is sure to resonate with children and adults alike. The illustrations are perfectly matched with the story. The tale warns of the toxins present in our homes and encourages an earth-friendly lifestyle in a manner that is poignant but not overly-serious. I highly recommend this book, and look forward to future books from this conscientious writer.

This book is a firm favorite of my [...] son and myself. The story, which is written in wonderful rhyming prose, explains how the little Boy and his House have a very special relationship; but the pressures of `keeping up with the Jones's' impel the Boy to introduce toxic and harmful materials into the House. The House eventually makes the Boy realize that in order to remain healthy, he needs to make environmentally healthy choices.

The book is beautifully illustrated, the story flows flawlessly, and the language is simultaneously simple and loaded with meaning. Although the author's messages are quite deep, she tells them so beautifully and simply that young ones will absorb them without even realizing it.

I would highly recommend this book to children and adults alike.

This is a how-to book about running a d20 campaign in the `Biblical Era'

It includes alternative base classes, prestige classes, spells, monsters and a wealth of information about culture, history and religion of the major powers in the region. Does give a bit more space to the Israelites, but Egyptian, Babylonian and Cannite societies are all discussed in detail. A new tactical battle system is also introduced to run Biblical style wars. (aka. where the actions of a single hero or miracle will determine the course of the battle.)

Players need to be a little more mature than most d20 games to enjoy TESTAMENT. Not because the content is questionable. (although the discussion of Temple Prostitutes may cause snickering in some groups) There is a heavy emphasis on role playing in TESTAMENT. Protecting your tribe, surviving history and maintaining piety are very important concerns in the setting. If your players are looking for a `kill monsters and take their stuff' kind of game, than a lot of info in this book is going to go to waste.

Looking for an alternative to the LOTR/Conan/Magic Medieval setting? Try TESTAMENT. It's Better than you think.

This is an example for any 'historical' or 'literary' RPG supplement. It gives a good overview of the historical and literary inspirations, makes complete and coherent rules for role playing in that setting, addresses fairly the limits and opportunities in taking a setting familiar through history or fiction and making the shift to a role playing setting. Not only did they think up cool and useful feats, spells, etc. they are integrated deeply into the setting & vice versa. There are good gaming products out there, but few that can serve as an example of how to make a good gaming product as well. Some may say it isn't perfect, but until we find something that is, this will serve as something to measure other products against.

Excellent roleplaying guide for any Old Testament story. Covers play as any of the ancient peoples of the Bible and during any period, although there is an emphasis on Israelites and King David. Detailed events system makes village and farming life interesting. Bronze age army combat resolution captures the feel of the ancient ballads. Heroes dominate the ancient battlefield like champions from the Trojan War. Very, very well done and worthwhile for anyone interested in roleplaying the Ancient World.

There are three great characters that Haggard created - that is three great stars: Ayesha( She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed), Allan Quartermain, and Umslopogaas of the Axe. This is the tale of Umslopogaas as a youth, a tale of his great love, his wandering as an outlaw under sentence of death, and of his alliance with Galazi the Wolf Brother, weilder of the great club Watcher of the Fords. Fabulous battle scenes, strong characters - what more does the reader want? And then the reader can advance to the only other two books to feature Umslopogaas: She and Allan and Allan Quartermain.

Sadly, Rider Haggard is no longer required reading in the school system. Nevertheless, this rip-roaring action story about the early life of Umslopogas, a character more usually found in a supporting role in the novel Alan Quartermain, is probably Haggard's most poetic and free-flowing yarn. A multiplicity of interesting characters is to be found in this tale, although the central theme is the moving love story of Umslopogas and Nada (a native girl of great beauty). If you have been moved by West Side Story or Romeo and Juliet, and also enjoy a rollicking action-packed adventure saga, this book is a must for you!

Almost everyone is familiar with King Solomon's Mines, She and Alan Quatermain etc but I have encountered relatively few readers of Nada the Lily. This is extraordinary since it is one of Haggard's greatest stories. Given the scenario of an adventure/love story spread out accross the South African landscape during the ruthless and absolute rule of the Zulu king Chaka, this is, as they say, a story that has everything. In this regard I have often wondered that whilst Haggard is one the most filmed if not over filmed authors, Nada the Lily has never made it to the cinema even though it reads as if it was written for the big sreen and the bigger the screen the better.

The book Nantucket Summer should be brought back for all to read. When I was going through an emotional time in my life as a young girl, I ran across this book 17 years ago about this young girl finding herself and beleiving in positive things again. The book was so intriguing I have read it aleast 8 times. I have to recommend this book because if I write anymore I will end up telling the whole story of this book. So young girls who feel lost "PLEASE READ"..Take care Charlotte

Thanks to Kelly, the previous reviewer, I found the book I have been looking for! I too read this book in school and was searching to re-read. I was unsure of the title and if it wasn't for the review, I wouldn't have found it!

Excellent book. Even though quite some time ago, I remember it well!

This was my first book. I was eleven years old, and my teacher assigned this book to read. I ordered it again because as I remember, it was rich with adolescence, and the story of a young girl going away and finding herself. That was twenty-three years ago, and I am eager to get my hands on it, so I can read it again and re-live all the wonderful memories of Nantucket Summer.

Every now and then there are gifted individuals who come along who see and understand with new eyes and have a thorough understanding of their subject, not only in its own right, but in the context of how that topic fits into the whole. Fukuoka is such an individual and his understanding and practice of farming is genius and he explains how using his methods will make your farm easy to run, outproduce typical American farming methods without the need for chemicals that have been destroying the soil and poisoning our water and poisoning the farmer as well. His methods are incredibly simple, require no special machinery, no big equipment mortgages, are applicable to all size farms and produce results. Not only that, his methods improve the soil and he has simple ideas on how to bring back areas that we have turned into desert due to bad farming practices and animal grazing. I wish his writing would spread to the whole farming community as I suspect his books have not been noticed. His books are priceless and a real gift to food production.

After reading the one straw revolution i really wanted to see how Fukuokas' system worked. I was not disapointed by this well layed out and functional guide to his methods. While his philosophy claims that no list of rules and time tables can acturatelly set out how natural farming should work, the publication of the hystory and methods of his experiment proves vital to the unhinging of common industrial theories on the subject.

Doing nothing, being nothing, becoming nothing is the goal of Fukuoka's farming method, an approach to agriculture which he has pursued for over forty years with resounding success. With no tillage, no fertilizer, no weeding and no pesticides he consistently produces rice, barley, fruit and vegetable crops that equal or exceed the yield per acre of neighboring farmers who embrace modern scientific agriculture. The basis of his philosophy is that nature grows plants just fine without our interference so that the most practical approach is to get out of the way. In the course of explaining his reasoning and methods, this do-nothing farmer delivers a scorching indictment of chemical agriculture and the human assumption that we can improve on nature. He explains the beneficial role of insects and plants usually characterized as pests, the fallacy of artificially boosting fertility with petrochemical concoctions, the logical error implicit in the use of farm machinery or draft animals, and why pollution is an inevitable result of misguided attempts to improve on nature. Calculation of the energy input versus the caloric output of various farms results in the surprising discovery (perhaps it shouldn't be) that (minimal) human labor is the most efficient way to produce food. Draft animals add more work and more energy input, small scale machines compound the problem and large scale mechanized agriculture proves to be a vast waste of energy. He calls modern American farmers "subcontractors of the oil industry," and claims that traditional Japanese farmers on 3-5 acres achieve a real net income higher than American farmers on 500-700 acres. (A skeptical friend of mine wondered if Japanese farm price supports were a factor here. Obviously a complex issue, that, but the declining economic viability of petro-chemical farming is obvious when we note that the onslaught of monster tractors and oil based fertilizers and pesticides has paralleled the collapse of the family farm. The author, to his credit, rejects any artificial manipulation of food prices and believes they should naturally be more or less the same worldwide.) Nor is this text pure philosophy, including as it does specific practical advice on the transition from scientific to natural methods. Crop rotation programs for cold or warm climates, and a ten year rotation system for grain and vegetables make this a practical manual for husbandry. As Fukuoka eloquently suggests, the universe is a circle returning to nothing. Nothing is the most profitable object of our meditations. Doing nothing is simply going with the flow. (See also his "groundbreaking" (literally) ONE STRAW REVOLUTION, Other India Press; 1992)