Shepard Books

Oh nooo! The Easter bunny slept through Easter. He wakes up and heads out and quickly learns what happened as people refuse his eggs.

He tries to hand them out by becoming the 4th of July bunny and he tries to give them away for Halloween. No luck! Nobody wants them and some are annoyed he was late.

Eventually he ends up in the North Pole and Santa puts him to work making toys. He also rides with him to help distribute presents as he can get down smaller chimneys better then Santa.

Santa gives him a nice present. A gold time clock so he never misses Easter again.

Overall it's a nice story but I don't think my girl really likes it. For me the words didn't flow right for a bedtime story.

The art work is cute but so far has not interested my girl to want to look at it like she does with other books.

Oh well.....

This delightful story takes you on a journey with a frustrated easter bunny who has missed easter after oversleeping. Not only does one get to experience all the holidays of the year, but one also appreciates the aspects unique to easter.It also serves a good lesson to those children who are loathe to get out of bed. The story is charming and the illustartions are joyful. A treasure!

This is hit book. It is both imaginative and fun. I would readit more than once. i fav character is genma. She is fat. gets theworms,.

Story of a family's attempt to encourage baby Gemma to eat. Problem is finally solved by an enterprising older brother who disguises fruit to look like a lady's hat. Entertaining story, beautiful art, although I was struck by fact that story showed no racial diversity in the family's black neighborhood and church. Story should easily hold interest of preschoolers, and younger.

Harvey is sure that his collection of beer cans will win him the coveted Sixth-Grade Superkid title, but he thinks he's up against former-friend Quint (a talented magician), and skateboarding mentor Eric. What he really needs to overcome are not his classmates but his inflated sense of importance and his willingness to take advantage of younger kids in order to improve his collection.

This could easily have been a cliche story of a boy who overcomes external conflict before glorying in victory, but Jamie Gilson throws a curve-ball here, and what we get instead is a silly, funny, introspective, thoroughly charming study of pride, greed, good advice, and forgiveness. It's not Shakespeare, but it's a fun, quick read middle-grade elementary schoolers will enjoy, and it's a good launching point from which their parents and teachers might begin conversations about ambition and priorities. Gilson creates an instantly likable main character with likable friends and likable siblings and places them deftly in a story where the only real villain is the main character himself.

This is a great book... as I remember anyway. It's been about 20 years since I read it, but I am about to buy it to read to my son. It's basically about a boy that goes around collecting beer cans and the different ways that finds super rare and collectible cans.

On a seperate note, why does Amazon have this and The Great Brain books listed as 9-12 reading level? I read these when I was in elementary school. So, either I was exceedingly brilliant (which I doubt), our kids are getting exceedingly stupid (partially true), or Amazon has many of these mis-categorized (most likely). Just my 2 cents.

Healing Energies is a book that explains muscle testing for determining which foods and vitamins affect our bodies in negative ways. I have used this testing to help determine which foods I can and cannot eat. Read the book to learn how foods that are bad for us can make our muscles weak. Very informative.

Though not a true applied kinesiology treatice, this book was written from the viewpoint of a physician to provide a simple testing method of kinesiology or muscle testing that helps the reader better determine his vitamin and nutritional needs. It is not a substitue for good medical care but provides additional help to restore optimal health. It is a unique book in the field of alternative medicine and offers numerous case studies and pictures.

Sheila Cole's career represents a successful merger between fiction for children themselves and academic studies of child development (together with her husband, Michael Cole, she writes what is arguably the world's leading textbook on child development). In this vibrant storybook, Cole's tale of gender norms and rigid social structure is supplemented by Barbara Rogoff's beautiful paintings. This, Professor Rogoff's first "dabbling" in children's book illustrating, suggests a future career following the dual trajectory of Cole's! Barbara Rogoff is a renowned cultural and developmental psychologist at UC Santa Cruz. The book is definitely worth owning--for students of child psychology and for parents with small children.

This story takes place in an imaginary town called Bean Blossom. There are no roosters in Bean Blossom, because when the sun comes up they crow. The people do not like to be disturbed in the morning, so roosters are against the law. One day Mr. Goodhart, a local farmer, goes to the store to buy some hen chicks. Now hen chicks and rooster chicks look very much alike, and by accident Mr. Goodhart buys a rooster chick. When he finds out that the chick is really a rooster, he decides that the rooster has to go into the soup! Will the rooster ever survive? Find out. - I recommend this book for mothers with young children. My mom read it to me when I was little, and I loved it.

My 9-yr old daughter, lover of cats, dogs, horses and pokeman, really enjoyed this book. She views aimals as members of her family and was Jojofu at her grade school's annual library book parade. This is a great book for all budding nature lovers!

I got this book the same day we brought home our Shiba puppy, and read it to my daughter and Bonsai. They enjoyed it..maybe not as much as I did but the pictures captivated my daughter and i enjoyed the folktale about my new favorite breed of dog.

Historical reprint cookbooks are not the best place to go for exciting recipes, detailed instructions, and precise measurements. But they are a lot of fun to read.
With over 1000 recipes (and some very small print) this cookbook is even more fun than most. The recipes too seem more exciting than is typical -- the author doesn't just offer 20 types of bread, 10 over-cooked vegetables, and instructions for roasting or boiling plain meat. She gives real recipes, some of which look like they actually have flavor!
But be aware that the long list of recipes is a bit misleading. The book is sort of like a chinese restaurant menu, where the same basic cooking method is offered for, for example, beef, veal, chicken, pork and fish; or a dessert might be described with 10 different fruits -- as 10 different recipes.

This book was meaningful to me since I am from Kentucky. It is not only a cookbook but a history book of times when the housewives had to prepare meats without the use of refrigerators and freezers.

This book was about the life of a hero, Martin Luther King, Jr. It tells us how he served his community. There were interesting pictures. Our fifth grade class learned a lot about African-American history through this book.

I feel that this book was written very thoroughly. It included indepth facts that really let the reader know what happened. This book was obviously researched heavily, and I congradulate the author on writing such a magnificent book. Although it was not really my choice in reading this book, I am glad that I had, for it has greatly enhanced my knowledge of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. I, being a fifteen year old sophomore student of Penn High School, find this a great book to use in researching Dr. King's past events, assassination, murder(s), and conspiracy theories. It was well written, and could be easily understood by young readers. I would highly recommend this book to readers of all ages. -Thank You

I was born and raised Christain, but I check this book out from the library and I was fasenated, it's worth a look!

"Live and be Well", a Celebration of Yiddish Culture in America, is a must read for Jews and Non-Jews alike. Personally, I loved the book and recommend it highly for the following reasons: The alphabetical fashion in which the content is arranged makes it so easy to read and reminisce,particularly as an elderly person (85) who remembers seeing so many of these extraordinary people in vaudeville,on the theatre stage, on the screen, in community centers, and hearing some on the radio. Performers like Fanny Brice to Sophie Tucker, writers like Sholem Asch to Clifford Odets, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Social Workers like Lilian Wald,Editors like Abraham Cahan,and so on and so on, become more than famous persons of Jewish heritage. All of these people came to America struggled and contributed every conceivable talent to this country of opportunity. The writers Shepard and Levi, with their wonderful photographs, accurate facts,clarity of descriptions of people and events makes the reader feel proud of being an American!

Maggie is usually a cheerful little girl, but one day her dad comes home from work and says that he is being transferred. Maggie isn't sure what that means, but her whole family seems to be rather upset as they pack their things and say goodbye to their friends. Just before they pull away in their car from their house for the last time, Maggie's mother's friend hands her a present. Once the family arrives at their new house, everyone is sad and grumpy. Then Maggie gets an idea that pulls the whole family together, and helps them make friends with their new neighbors. The idea involves that gift that Maggie's mother had received from her friend. This is a great story, and it could well be based on true life. It's not at all scary, although it can be a little tense or serious at times. The book has about 1100 words.

Can't you imagine the sadness of a family moving away from friends? This book conveys the sadness from the point of view of a very clever, and not-so-sad kid who manages to find a way to make her entire family forget their moving sorrows. I won't tell you the plot, but I will say that this book -- along with a can opener -- makes a wonderful going-away gift for the favorite friends you will miss.