May Books

My sister and I read this book numerous times as children and I still enjoy it today. Marianna May is always dressed in prim and proper white. She loves to play outside, but always gets her dress dirty and then gets in trouble. Luckily, Marianna May has a friend who comes up with the perfect solution so she can still wear her dresses, but it's okay to get dirty and be a kid. The illustrations are beautiful as with any Tomie De Paola book.

This was one of my favorite books as a child. I loved the story and the illustrations. I discovered as an adult that Tomie DePaola was the author of many of my other favorites when I was little. This book and Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs are must reads! Try to collect as may books by this author/illustrator as you can.

I thought it was a good book. Marianna May was rich but she wasn't happy because she couldn't have fun or she would get dirty. They solved the problem. Marianna May was a happy girl again.

My 3 yr old daughter loves this book. We read it over and over. It's an adorable story about a spunky little girl who makes friends with an ogre. I highly recommend this book.

My four year old THOROUGHLY loves "May Belle and the Ogre" ! This is an easy-read book....but in no manner does it lack in laughs for kids and adults alike. I was so thrilled to find how inovative the author was in creating and giving a "personality" to the little ogre.... totally non-threatening. May Belle says, "Why, you are just a little Ogre...." and proceeds to clean him up, help him learn some manners, and create a great playmate in the process! Awesome illustrations, and the sweet songs May Belle sings gives you and your children free creativity over tune, tone and volume...(whew...just that aspect is enough for great laughs!)

When I read this book to my little one, I "pretend" that it may be 'too scary'.... "no, bud. We probably should not read this story, it might be too scary. Let's put it down." And of course, I get the response, "Oooo, no Mom.... I will protect you, it isn't too scary... I will hold your hand!" :) It is absolutely one of his very favorites... and we read it daily!

I would suggestreading age from age 2-3 and up. Enjoy!

A plucky little girl and an ogre in need of some manners become best friends in this original fantasy. May Belle gives Ogre a bubble bath, teaches him to bake a pie, and gives him a home in her cozy house. Ogre bumps, clumps, and ka-thumps throughout. The cheerful, lively illustrations are full of humor and delightful details. Short chapters, silly sounds and songs, and lots of repetition make this an easy, fun book for beginning readers. Kids will take May Belle and Ogre to their hearts!

As with the very popular books from Wiley Publishing (Microsoft for Dummies, Gardening for Dummies, etc.), this books breaks down the process for obtaining the desires of your heart for the Biblically challenged. One does not have to be a devout, "never missed a Sunday", christian to understand the message being relayed. Though this book conveys an extremely important message, the language is effortless to understand. "May I Have Your Order, Please", is a book for everyone. It has no age restrictions and no cultural barriers. I highly recommend this book.

This book was so helpful. It was such an easy read yet impacting on my life. If you own this book pass it on and bless someone else with it. The principles presented are life changing. I highly recommend this book.

I enjoyed this book. It helped me understand how to develop patience and how to seek what I want from God. The book is like the services, your teachings are broken down to be understood. Thanks, Pastor Rush.

If you like StoneWall Jackson, You'll love this book. There are so many famous quotes here. Many the Civil War buffs know, many they may not be aware of. From his most quoted lines to some very obscure ones.

You can't go wrong with this book

So much has been written about Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson that at times it become hard to separate the reality from the myths. This isn't a criticism but rather just a fact - history is interpreted in so many ways and this applies to Stonewall as it can to any other historical figure.

This little book of quotes, both by Jackson and by those who knew him give us a better understanding of Jackson - the man and the soldier. There are quotes by Lee and McClellan, Garnett and Ewell, but it is the words of Jackson himself, which come across with power and passion. Indeed, at times you can almost feel the piercing blueness of his gaze as he moved into battle.

This is a good little book, it gives a depth of insight into Jackson without having to read longer biographies. I recommend it to you.

I love learning about the Stonewall Jackson. By reading this book you found out that everytime Jackson won a battle he did not take credit for the victory he would give it to God. Stonewall Jackson would do anything for his contury and God. When reading this you found out how religous he is. My favorite quote would be, "Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude." This book really shows the true Stonewall Jackson. I learend a lot about how even his enemys love him. This is a great book for anyone to read that loves the Civil War or Stonewall Jackson.

The history of sport is littered with nostalgic club histories which read like a laundry list of things which happened and with the worst kind of academic tripe which either belabours the obvious or dresses up the absurd with continental "Theory". This book does neither.

It is insightful and devastating in the way in which the author dismantles the conceits of imperialism through the prism of sport in a way reminiscent of C.L.R James' Beyond a Boundary.

Forget Niall Ferguson's apologia for empire, read this and see the way in which colonizers and colonized worked together and conflicted simultaneously. That's the interesting part of the story. Not paens to the good old days when people knew their place.

I was assigned this book in an upper level course on the history of imperialism. We read a LOT of things that were competely opaque and seemed more intent and showing how clever they were than actually saying anything concrete about the ways imperialism work.

This book however was not like that at all. It talks about how imperialism actually played out on the ground, if you'll excuse the pun.

I know discourse is important (and so does McDevitt) but so is the material world and that is what is convincing about May the Best Man Win. It was a also a really good read with interesting characters which allowed the stories told here to make the points rather than the usual academic jargon we were forced to read.

It did make me think the English really were b***ards, though maybe that was the point.

This wonderful book does an excellent job of both providing in-depth and thought-provoking historical analysis while maintaining the fast pace of a sports book. It also is very illuminating of the everyday workings of imperialism.

This is a small book, but is everthing it says- gives a good guide to the various wheel ceremonies and how to build the wheels
I'm very comfortable with my spirituality by now following the Native American / Shamanic path despite being an English guy, and this book gives me practical help in moving towards this
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to follow this path, or just wants to understand other cultures-, how people develop, share values and how this is achieved through their religous celebrations

This is a book about the magickal use of the Medicine Wheel, or Circle Magick as it's sometimes called. It is centered not only on the common type of Medicine Wheel--the one we make and hang up--but also on creating a ceremonial space using a medicine wheel circle. In addition to the clear and easy-to-follow information, the authors have included a packet of Medicine Wheel cards with every book. It's a must-have for every magickal library

Medicine Wheel Ceramonies is a great introduction to the ancient Medicine Wheel Circle. The authors have done their homework here, and I was able to set up and execute my own circle very quickly while maintaining an understanding and appreciation for the traditional Medicine Circle. I immediatly felt the effects of this powerful medium. I use it weekly, and have expanded it to include family members. It is truly good medicine. The energy that that one can use for good is really powerful, and I recommend it to all those who wish to bring good medicine to their own lives, and this world in general.

I read most all the books of Joseph McMoneagle, including "The Stargate Chronicles, Memoirs of a Psychic Spy", "Memoirs of a Psychic Spy" - yes I bought the same book twice because the titles were different... Doh!..., "Remote Viewing Secrets". Joe put his life on the line for me as true man of honor and patriot and I believe every word he writes in these pages. Plus I've seen him at work and know what he can do. Main stream science won't even look at the documented evidence. [...]

Memoirs Of A Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life Of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001 tells of the first military recruit for the government to use his abilities as a 'psychic spy' during the Cold War and beyond, following nearly twenty years of psychic spying and reissuing the classic 2002 title The Stargate Chronicles in paper. His predictions and observations were startlingly accurate and his intelligence-gathering results included pinpointing the underground facility used to store Soviet missiles during the Cold War. While the Stargate project was shut down and labeled a failure, it's interesting to note that forty percent of its documents are still classified.

This is renamed; it is originally The StarGate Chronicles. I just wouldn't want anybody to think it might be a different book. It's the same book, but in paperback format. You should read the reviews on tSC if you want to know more about this.

I read this book to the 3rd grade class and they were spell-bound. This book was very accurate in it's description on the molasses making process. The illustrations are great also!

I used this book to teach a reading and social studies lesson to a second grade class. I selected it because of the sense of community it conveys, the excellent illustrations in it that depict the process of making molasses in such an artistic, yet technically correct manner, and because it fit neatly with one of our social studies curriculum objectives: to compare how products are made to day with how they were made in the past. I started the lesson by showing the students a jar of molasses with the label covered - turning it over and around so that they could see the slow flow of the molasses in the jar - and I asked them to guess what it is. I then passed around samples of the molasses in spoons so that the students could smell and taste and touch it. At that point, their interest level was definitely high - so, I proceeded to read the book to them. The lesson was a great success in terms of student engagement. I recommend this book highly.

Kathy May takes what seems to be a simple tale-- the making of molasses, and turns it into a turning point in a child's life. A moment where family and community and the past and the future (the little boy narrator is to become the next "Molasses Man") come together, Ms. May weaves these threads into a story that even very young children will enjoy hearing.

The primitive, at times impressionistic paintings go well with the text, helping small children form images of a world that is rapidly disappearing.

Highly recommended.

A book that most readers can identify with!

I loved this book. It is well written, easy to read, and fun. The poems have a musical lilt, almost like jazz. The topics are of everyday life things that happen to all of us all the time. Good work.

This collection of poetry does what truly great poetry should do -- it touches so truly and so deeply upon the human condition -- the joy and the suffering of it -- that the personal voice of the poet becomes, as Galway Kinnell once wrote, just another voice of a creature on the planet speaking. Whether speaking of difficult or joyous times, the loss of love or its fond remembrance, the naming of a child, aging, or death, the poet's words enliven, enrich and expand the reader's own experience, outwitting despair, careening toward joy, encountering pain with courage, and then letting that pain go to the "dirt-borers," whose job it is to turn the dead back into the living again. This is poetry that can save your life on those dark winter nights when the only voice you can hear is the one of your own despair. If I had to choose one or two voices to have with me on such nights, voices to sail the psyche's frail ship to morning's shore, Ms. Fargnoli's would be chief among them.

Homemaking shows provided valuable information for those who lived on isolated farms, newsy gossip, and some scrumptious recipes. (Just look on eBay sometime and see how much the Kitchen Klatter cookbooks go for these days.) An extension of the broadcasts were the magazines published by these on-air homemakers, which arrived monthly at many a rural route mail box. I have an extensive collection of Kitchen Klatter and Jessie's Homemaker magazines (today a box of JH arrived with all the issues from 1949 - 1980) and can attest to the wonderful writing contained within these pages. These homemakers cared about their audience. They were a Dear Abby, a Heloise's household hints, a financial advisor, a party and club meeting planner (parties and clubs were extrememly important in those days before TV and email, and thrived as social outlets) and spiritual encouragement (churchgoing was no less valued.) Reading this book about these admirable ladies you will learn what a grueling schedule they endured, sometimes running a radio show out of their kitchen as their own family life went on about them, printing their magazines on presses run from their garage. These were ladies like their audience. They knew about hard work and hard times, and making do. And in between they shared news about their children, their vacations, their pets, what they made for supper the night before, and their current craft projects. Wonderful reading, written by an old KMA on air hostess herself. Worth preserving for posterity.

I sent for this unusual and interesting book after hearing its interesting and kind author in a radio interview. Not being a midwesterner I had never heard of Iowa station KMA or its "radio homemakers." The author informs us early on that the station "relied on talented and creative women" from the outset, in 1925. These Iowa women were radio journalists, home economists, and radio personalities - all in one. There were call-in shows. Their communities depended on them for weekly entertainment, information, humor, and continuity. These women and their shows, which had great longevity, were loved by their listeners, who considered them a part of their lives.

This book assembles recipes and life stories with equal ease. The careful stories are of the various women who had shows on the radio, the topics they explored on-air (mostly homey ones of interest to Iowa farm wives), and their effect on their listening community.

The photographs are poignant and wonderful. The recipes are mostly high-fat, high-calorie dishes that should probably be eaten in moderation. They are perfect for any one who longs for typical old-fashioned midwestern American food: meat and more meat, potatoes, hearty casseroles, vegetables cooked in old-fashioned ways, cheese balls and dips, cakes, pies, cookies, and candy. Some did not sound like anything one might like to try - "Chipped Dried Beef Deluxe," "Six-layer Washday Dinner" and (to this reader) improbable party foods such as "Crockpot Chili Dip." Some are downright disturbing to read, such as "Chipped Beef Chicken," which combines creamed cheese, chicken, bacon, and beef. Heart attack!

The main thing, though, is the size and the goodness of the personalities profiled here, along with the picture of a mostly vanished world. It's really not about replicating the food. A very worthwhile read about a group of interesting and truly nice people.

This was one of those 'recommended' books popping up under a cookbook I was ordering. I follow these threads because I've made some delightful finds that way. I'd never have known this book existed, had it not shown up under another book. I consider this the closest thing I can do to browsing in a 'real' store. Thank you, Amazon!

I occasionally come across a book covering something about which I know nothing. Other than hearing of Mary Margaret McBride's show during the Depression, I knew nothing of these local radio pioneers, sending news, advice and recipes to small towns and rural areas alike. Radio is still the most democratic of our media, accessible to anyone for pennies, and still a vital force in many third-world countries. We used to have radio that encompassed far more than just news and talk-radio; people expected more from the radio back then, and they got it.

The book is broken up into chapters covering the careers and recipes of women broadcasting from KMA radio in Iowa. There is no doubt that the part of a farm housewife could be lonely, and these radio programs would have provided good company. We have no true equivalent today; these broadcasters usually knew their audience personally, and vice versa. Into the sixties, these women broadcast their programs from their own homes, often from the kitchen, where they'd make recipes while giving them out over the air. Most of these women had an 'open door' policy where any listener coming through town could stop by their home and have refreshments without notice! Who would, or could, do that nowadays?

The recipes are excellent. I've made a dozen of them and all have worked well. My favorite so far is Jo Freed's carrot cake; unlike many, it's subtle with the spices and makes a large, juicy sheet cake.

Truly, though, it's the stories of the women working as 'radio homemakers' that makes the book. Most of these women were working because they had to, and mainstream broadcasting was still unheard of for women. Therefore, these women made successful careers appealing to women.

The author was herself a well-known broadcaster and brings personal knowledge of the other radio pioneers to add texture and substance to the book. It is beautifully written in a straightforward and informal style.

I appreciate the author documenting a small, but important, part of American history before all the radio homemakers are gone. Her book is valuable and engaging reading, even without the excellent recipes.