Lincoln Books

Very, very funny! Well worth the price. An excellent gift to give or receive.

This book is a great teacher resource book for learning about animals that live in trees. I use it with my Pre-K kids during our forest animals unit. The lessons include a raccoon puppet and an owl art project, but this guide is more than just a craft instruction book. The children will learn all about raccoons and owls and other animals before making each project. The art and science lessons are very well integrated. Many of the animals also have large pull-out posters to use during discussions.

Absolutely wonderful book. A gift for my daughter, who has loved tree houses since she was a toddler. She says it is one of the best she has ever seen! It's worth buying, just for the concept.

I loved this darling book. The illustrations were great. It is a wonderful for young children.

I've read Tulliver's Tunnel to the 4- and 5-year-olds in the preschool where I teach. They love this story of a young rabbit leaving home because he doesn't want to wash his face. Children can easily relate to Tulliver's insistence on doing things his own way. He meets other animals as he travels across a field to find a place to dig his own burrow. The little bunny gets quite muddy and hungry as he digs, and his new burrow doesn't feel very homey but he spends the night in it. Tulliver is in for a surprise when he wakes up the next morning. The story gives a positive message without being preachy.The illustrations are warm and engaging, as is the love between Tulliver and his mom.

I have over 115 books on Lincoln, and try only to buy the ones recommended. This was one of those books, However, I waited over a year to finally buy as I thought the books I already owned covered everything. This focuses on his death, and those people and places involved until interment. Note the 1965 edition can be bought on amazon for about 1/3 of the price. Great pictures, and good articles. Does not go into extreme detail, but has enough new and different material to give it five stars. If your interested in Lincoln, and about his assissination you can't go wrong if you can find under twenty dollars.

This book is a true masterpiece; an adventure book which is as readable as it is fascinating. Whilst it tells of true-to-life danger on an ill-fated expedition to arctic Greenland its language is both unpretentious and highly accurate, but it is not remotely dull.When reading this book one feels a most desperate urge to not only go to Greenland but also to indulge in the sometimes reckless activities of Amundsen and Ellsworth. Unfortunately this is an adventure from a forgotten age, when icebreakers could not sail to the north pole, helicopters did not patrol the North Atlantic and satelite-phones did not provide constant contact with the "real world". The book shows, beautifully, the danger of this perilous situation without wallowing in the courage of its subjects, Amundsen and Ellsworth. For this reason I believe that it is a fantastic book to be read and cherished.

By the Grand Master of American Historians, the late Bruce Catton and his son William.

In "Two Roads to Sumter" the Cattons brilliantly analyze how the Kentucky roots of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis molded their character and their Allegiance to the Union, but also why those two great men chose to walk down different roads in the quest of keeping the United States united.

Always thought of as a kind, gentle man - which he indeed was, Lincoln nonetheless emerges from the Catton work as someone in the Sam Waterston (himself a Lincoln admirer of great standing) lawyer role on "Law and Order" - passionate, yet a pragmatist - and someone who was willing to compromise as he was to stand firm on principle. Lincoln detested Slavery, and was willing to do all he could to preserve the Union - but he chose to be pragmatic in those crucial, fatal months between the outcome of the 1860 election and the firing on Fort Sumter - staying quiet up to the inauguration, and appearing to be uncertain in those last two months before Beauregard gave the order to open fire. David Detzer in "Allegiance" has criticized the great man for this approach, submitting to the reader that a Jacksonian approach to the South might have prevented war.

But - it might have forced the "war hawks" hands much sooner, and that point is well taken by the Cattons. Their premise is that the South was ready and willing to go to war - and might have felt that way from the Kansas-Nebraska Act on. Unlike Detzer, the Cattons applaud Lincoln for staying the course, and being the brave and true man he was.

By contrast Jefferson Davis - who was described by Sam Houston as being as "ambitious as Lucifer" - and with his pointed beard even bore a sad resemblance to him, comes off better than he has at the hands of other historians. The Cattons were among the first to show that while Davis was uncompromising in his views on Slavery and state's rights, he was a fervent believer in the Union who unlike Lincoln had actually shed blood in battle for this nation. They describe his outstanding tenure as Secretary of War in Franklin Pierce's administration; his role in the Gadsen Purchase, in establishing the Camel Corps, in urging the building of railroads across the country. In all this Davis took the high road of country first, region second, even if he was also bettering the South.

When push came to shove however, Lincoln chose the Union, while Davis eventually became an uncompromising acolyte of secession and the south as a separate entity, even if his initial decision to leave the U.S. Senate and declare for a Confederacy was a reluctant one.

An immensely readable history of the story of two Americans - Lincoln and Davis, and the events leading up to the Civil War. To be placed alongside the three great titles on Secession and Fort Sumter - Detzer's "Allegiance"; Swanberg's "First Blood", and Klein's "Days of Defiance".

`The Ultimate Container Garden' by David Joyce, under the imprimatur of Reader's Digest is the kind of book I always leapt to buy in the `good old days' before I started seriously reviewing books, and saw my share of `Complete...' this that and the other thing, rarely fulfilling its promise of covering all bases adequately. In spite of all that pessimism, this book has served me well, even going so far as to entice me to build not just one, but two of its wooden window boxes, which I did a good eight years ago, and with but a single new paint job since that time, the noble boxes have been serving me well. That alone has this book repaying my trust in buying it.
Like most `Complete' books, this one does too much in some areas and too little in others. Its four main sections are:
Versatile Containers gives a few very general notions less to cover the ground completely as to get you give you a pep talk to warm you up to the subject. This is done with very pretty pictures of very nice container plantings and some text on general suggestions. It is useful to note here that the author lives and works in London, and all the pictures are done of scenes from English gardens. So, unless you happen to live in an area which reproduces the climate of Devon or Hampshire, some of the models presented may be a bit of a stretch.
Successful Gardening in Containers is the section where the book really gets down to business and provides step by step procedures and techniques, including the plans for the aforementioned wooden planter. Here, the author covers just about every modality I can think of, including window boxes, hanging baskets, and water gardens. I'm especially fond of the section on using `Unusual and Recycled Containers'. The book draws outside the lines a bit when it also goes on to cover things such as pruning and topiaries, not strictly `container' topics.
Model Plantings may be the very best chapter, as it deals with that most mysterious subject of planting a grouping of plants in a container with varying looks and colors, to have the whole thing look simultaneously planned and random. One note is that the emphasis here tends to be on large to very large containers. There is little coverage on what to do with that 8 inch pot aunt Mildred gave you when she moved into an apartment.
Plants for Containers is the kind of chapter I always think is either inadequate or totally unnecessary. That is because of the dozens of great encyclopaedic tomes on plants available now. The section is in encyclopedia form, giving a photograph of about ¼ of the plants, and one or two paragraphs on each, with the plant's botanical family, genus, and species name(s) and the US zones in which they thrive. If you have no other books on flowers, and you have no interest in acquiring more, this may be useful, but for the real plant hobbiest, the three paragraphs on Clematis are not much use. The only really valuable thing here is the kind of potting mix to use to put Clematis in a container. There is nothing on the dozens of varieties of Clematis and nothing on the fact that the genus likes cool feet, planting it with other plants which have shading foliage.
Still, this is a better than average book on the subject, and if you want and needc

Fantastic book in English and Spanish. It tells a the story of a little monkey who goes looking for his "safe place." Just when he thinks he can't find it, his mom helps him to see that his one safe place is in his arms. I do therapy with parents and children and this book is a beautiful way to talk about safe base and attachment.