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I've been a fan of Rawlings since I first read her as a teenager. Reading her biography many years ago, I learned of her pride in her cooking. I didn't even know she'd issued a cookbook until I came across this edition!

Upon reading the book I was immediately reminded of the "Alice B. Toklas" cookbook. The structure and literary emphasis are much the same. Thus, for the same reason, it's a joy to read even if one doesn't cook!

However, like "Toklas", the recipes are also a treasure. Many of the recipes contain ingredients too exotic for the average cook, but many more are easily prepared. This can also be a pleasurable and valuable resource for those, like me, who enjoy reading and preparing recipes from old cookbooks. Our eating styles have changed enormously in the nearly sixty years since Rawlings wrote this book.

If you are a fan of Rawlings, buy the book whether you ever plan to cook any of its recipes. Its reasonable cost is a further bonus!

It is evident from her cookbook that Marjorie tasted of nearly everything and learned to make delicious dishes out of some very odd things: Poke Weed (on toast), Pot Roast of Bear, Smother-Fried Squirrel, Gopher Stew, Coot Surprise, Jugged Rabbit, a host of Pilaus, and an infamous blackbird pie. Of course this book is not simply a culinary freak-show. There are dozens of recipes for desserts, seafood, meats-found-at-the-A&P, jams, and soups, featuring ingredients of which we are all familiar and unafraid. She was proud to share them and claimed each recipe was nothing short of first-rate. Included among these is her piece de resistance, Crab A La Newburg, and the best Strawberry Shortcake ever. Accompanied by anecdotes of Florida rural living in the 1930s and 1940s, this book is a delight and an excursion from a mundane kitchen

As the other reviewer has mentioned, this is a collection of recipes, filled with anecdotes of central Florida life in the 1930s and 1940s. The recipes are fantastic and one wants to try all of them (although it may be difficult to prepare alligator-tail steak). And, what a pleasure it is to read a cookbook written by an accomplished author. You just keep picking it up.

A great read... both for the recipes and for a large dose of Marjorie Rawlings' folksy humor. Loved it from cover to cover.

A big fan of MKR, I stumbled over this little book at a booksale several years ago----it's paperback and coming apart from use, and the pure pleasure of reading Ms. Rawlings' commentary and recollections of living at Cross Creek. Her biscuit and hoe-cake recipes are worth the price, as they evoked memories of my grandmothers kitchen where it wasn't a meal without fresh, hot bread.
Highly recommended---even if you're not a cook!

Fletcher's book demonstrates how teachers learn from their students and has used a clever format to lead us through her adventures in educating her students.

Entertaining and enlightening.

Dickie Anderson
Author/Columnist - Amelia Island - Florida

I recommend this book for teachers and those thinking about being a teacher. More importantly, I recommend this book to everyone concerned about our education system. Ms. Fletcher accurately describes the dedication and efforts of teachers working under very difficult conditions. Now, more than ever, our schools need the support of the public in our efforts to prepare our students for a challenging world.

Fletcher vividly describes what we, as teachers, see each year in our classrooms! I related to so many of the vignettes. As a 11th year teacher in a public school, I have had many of the same characters in my classes. Teachers, students and administrators are sure to enjoy this book! Pre-service teachers would gain from the insight and sensitivity.

I loved this book and the author's warm, authentic voice. We hear a lot about troubled U.S. schools, but this novel shares an insider's perspective. Fletcher creates a mix of humor, everyday realism, traumas and sudden joys. The Florida setting is truly drawn, as are the outspoken characters,from the angry Rochelle to impish Luscious, and tormented Yasmina, among others. It's also a 'coming-of-age' story about the young teacher, managing to do her job in a climate of racial distrust and tense emotions. I hope we get to see many more books from this writer -- she knows her craft and has something to say that's worth hearing.

Author Dorothy Fletcher claims the book is fiction, but surely it is not! As every teacher can attest, these are the students who inhabit--and haunt--every high school classroom in America; yet the characters come across as individuals. The teacher's first encounter is with an impatient, sarcastic junior who announces herself as "Rhodezzzzia." (The intonation is perfect.) The final encounter is by the bedside of Rochelle, a shy student with AIDS, who dies "one week shy of her seventeenth birthday." In the intervening months, the students gain confidence in their abilities, question their values, give up on school, and face some harsh realities of life. Along the journey of one school year, Mrs. Fletcher guides you through the lessons of some of the greats, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Sojourner Truth, T.S. Eliot, and Maya Angelou. She also teaches you about human nature--both adult and adolescent. Read The Cruelest Months! You will laugh aloud, but keep a hankie nearby. You will need it.

When I saw the paperback I checked my library which holds all of Dale Brown's work and I did not find it, so I bought it. As I read the book I soon relized I had read it before. I still read the book (again) and once more enjoyed it. If you like Dale Brown, Strike Zone is up to his normal standard. The theme is the tension between Taiwan and mainland China and the desire by some to start a war between China and the USA, which would leave China in a weakend or defeated state. China is not able to take Taiwan by force, especially with USA backing. Taiwan is not strong enough to take China in open warfare, but if the right people had the funding, and some nukes, and the right delivery system, and China were beat down by a war with the USA, that could kill a lot of people and upset the balance of power and bring down China. Of course, Dreamland gets the task of finding out what is going on, and then stopping it. It is no easy task for Dreamland and it is not without cost, but of course Dreamland saves the world again.

My only disappointment is that I can't find my original copy of Strike Zone, which is most likely a hard cover book.

Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice did it again with Dreamland: Strike Zone. This is an excellent read for those of you out there that are Dale Brown fans. The continuation of the storyline along with it being an independent novel makes it a great all around book for any reader. Because of the novels independence, someone that hasn't read any of the books in the Dreamland series will be able to understand and follow the storyline that has been laid out. This series and others by Dale Brown was what made me interested in the war/technology/current event novels. Since then I have become hooked to them.
What I liked the most about this novel is the reality factor that exists and the possibly that there really could be a "Dreamland." The closest known thing to Dreamland is Area 51. I like books like this that make you think about the world around you and what things are happening. Brown likes to use real world events or events and technology. I think that because is a former captain in the United States Air Force this allows him to write books like this. He already has knowledge of aircraft and the general way that the president can give orders to the four braches of the military so for him to write novels about it and to make it interesting for the reader would be easier for him than to write a romance novel.
The characters I think go through an interesting evolution. With what happened to Zen's wife, I don't think that I could have predicted that even at the end of the last novel in the Dreamland series. I also like how the love story that is there between Colonel Bastian and Jennifer Gleason doesn't get in the way of the over all "mission"/ storyline.

Absolutely the best book of the series so far. Full of action from start to finish. Not loaded with as much unbelievable technology as some.

Dale Brown, popular author who has penned fourteen New York times bestsellers, is a former Air Force bombardier. He's an ace pilot as well as a first-rate author. Teaming with Jim DeFelice the pair offer a suspenseful high-tech military thriller.

A dynamite performance by JK Simmons makes sparks fly from the opening lines of this action packed tale.

Far out in the Nevada dessert some of the best minds are focused on warfare in the future. Dreamland force has had their hands more than full in stopping an Asian war that could have been a nuclear holocaust destroying the world as we now know it.

However, an even greater challenge is soon to arrive - radar detection shows there is a major threat nearby. It's a robot warplane capable of unheard of destruction. The "ghost clone" as it is called has no known origin but more than one of them could turn our world into a fiery inferno.

How can this warplane be found and stopped?

A complexly devised plot makes for nonstop listening.

- Gail Cooke

Although I have never been a fan of the double author book idea, Dale and Jim seem to have a good thing going here. Strike Zone continues the main characters as they continue to provide the President with options without an all out war. The story opens up slower than the other novels in this series, but as always, the action scenes are fantastic. As a first reader, this one would hold it's own, and if you have the others in the series, it's a MUST HAVE.

I Loved this book. I hope they wright a nother one. But hey!.
I hope that the Thoroughbred books don't shut down after book 72.
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Jamie Smit

One reviewer said that Darkling was "depressing." I did not find it so. Yes, it is dark, like many of Peyton's books. Compared with the popular series books of today, which are formulaic, predictable, and always have a happy ending, Peyton's books are far more realistic. Life isn't always perfect; things are not always easy. But that is not depressing--it is simply normal.

Peyton's books spoke to me as a child in a world that often seemed to be conspiring against me, and they speak to me still as an adult who knows that the world does not care enough to conspire! Like Jenny in Darkling, all our lives consist of difficulties to be overcome, risks to be run, and chances to be taken. I find Jenny's handling of those difficulties, risks, and chances to be uplifting, rather than the opposite.

Try it, and other K.M. Peyton books, such as Blind Beauty, Fly-by-Night and the Team, the Flambards series, and the new Small Gains (not yet available in the U.S., but try Amazon.com in the U.K.!).

when i read this book i was totally captivated & throrughly enjoyed and recomend it to any one who loves horses and racing.

I loved this book. I have read it 5 times! I have been reading it since i was in 6th grade! It's kinda sad but it gets better. It gets better everytime i read it.

Darkling is very very depressing. There is simply no other way of putting it. Every beautifully written line of it practically weeps with the sorrow and folly of all human relationships. The book is set in the modern day, and tells the tale of a young girl named Jenny, who lives in desperation and poverty, longing fruitlessly for the gorgeous boy next door and the success of her colt, Darkling in the racing world. Jenny is a sympathetic and very well rounded lead character. Her story is a fascinating one... but brace yourself for realism over sweetness.

"The Day Of The Bomb" is the best history book i have ever read. Giving in complete detail a day by day trial of everything that had happen before the atom bomb was dropped. Always making you question yourself on; "was this the exact manner that things should have been done in?" Hear the struggles that people had to go through in order to survive the horrific tradgedy of "The Day Of The Bomb".

Reviewer: Erin from Peoria, IL This book was one of the very few written on the Hiroshima bombing that I did not find both nauseating and horrifying. The way Mr. Bruckner used the views of characters ranging from a pair of young Japanese siblings, to the crew of the plane from which the Enola Gay bomb was dropped, was very interesting. At no time while reading this book did I find it tedious or drawn out. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes to read historical fiction, but doesn't want to be put to sleep after reading the first page.

I read this book when I was 13. I've re-read it many times since to my children and grandchildren. The immediate association to the two main children characters endows the imagination of the young, whereas the story and the full horror of that day sinks deep in the heart of adults. An ageless book charming and deep.

This book was very realistic in my mind. Karl Bruckner's way of showing readers the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II through the eyes of two Japanese children is creative and fascinating. I would suggest this book to anyone who would like to know more about the atom-bomb explosion and how it affected the lives of all the men, women, and children of Japan.

My mother read this book to me as a child and I had all but forgotten it, although traces remained since I tried (and failed) to make a thousand cranes for my sister when she was ill. Now aged 42, I was sitting in a hotel in Paris watching a program on Canal 5 about Japanese cartoons, of all things, and one dredged up the memory of the book and how deeply it had affected me as a child. I am not sure if there is a Manga film based on the book or if it simply had a similar theme.

I would recommend it to anyone, especially with children, and would dearly love to own a copy now, not only for myself but for my mother. I would also welcome correspondence from anyone on the subject, for example, does anyone know why this was written in Austria of all places?

Emily has a real knack for portraying the personalities of her horse children. Reading the book, I found myself wanting to visit and meet Lilli, Maria, Diamahn Lil, and all. For anyone who has owned a horse, or who has longed to own a horse, this book will be a real pleasure.

Two things bothered me though. Emily did not tell us enough about herself. I would love to know her approximate age and more about her human family. Also, I thought the 9/11 information was distracting, and made the story too "current event". If those two pages are deleted, the book will regain a noncontemporary feel, and should be enjoyable for many years to come.

I would love to read a sequel.

This is definately a book of a true Horse lover,I want to visit her and Summerwind Farms she makes real farm life come alive for me,took me back to my childhood.
I was raised on a farm in the state of Virginia with horses, cows, pigs etc.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has a love for animals be it horses dogs or cats the true love for the animals comes through.
This book also shows the care and love you must give to our 4 leg friends.
I shall look forward to another book by Emily Bridges in the future.

I really enjoyed DEAR DOLLY. Emily exposes her strengths and weaknesses in a humorous way, and in opening her farm and heart to us, we are offered hope in our own personal challenges. My 80 year old mother(who is terrified of horses) LOVED this book as well, it appeals to young and old, and will make a PERFECT gift book.

It's was very refreshing to read a REAL horse book! Being horse owners ourselves, we could relate with both humor and sympathy to the ups and downs of horse ownership! Even if you don't have horses, this book will delight and intrigue. Can't wait for the next one!

Loved how she followed her dream. This book will make someone who is not a "horse lover" want to be one! Full of useful advice!

A MUST read! This information is powerful. It's our responsibility to take care of ourselves. This book gives us the information to educate ourselves about the prescription drug industry.
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This book was recommended to me by a nurse. I was having terrible side effects to cholesterol medication, and my doctor kept urging me to stay on it, despite the side effects. This book informed me that these side effects were nothing to mess with, and could cause serious harm to my liver and kidneys. I just hope I didn't find out too late. I use people to use this, when a doctor gives you a new drug, or one that doesn't agree with you. I really believe if I hadn't stopped the zocor when I did, I'd be dead.

This is an important book for anyone who takes prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs or herbals. The first part examines the relationship between drug companies and the FDA, which has changed significantly since the early 1990's. Much of the funding for new drug review now comes from the drug manufacturers. The approval process is faster and testing time shorter. The author details how the public increasingly plays a role in "testing" in the form of "post-marketing surveillance" and that the adverse drug reactions encountered are under reported. Marketing includes massive distribution of "free sample" to physicians, many of whom may not be familiar with precautions -- and hence do not alert patients to warning signs and symptoms. Also, advertising of prescription medications has increased greatly in the last few years, which has greatly increased drug use and pressure on physicians to prescribe medications.
Other sections of the books discuss similar concerns with nonprescription medications (many of which recently required prescriptions) and with herbal medications.
The book is "spiced" with case histories that are real page turners. The author has done a real service to the public by describing the scope of the adverse drug reaction problem (#3 killer), and by describing several of the reasons why this has become such an overwhelming concern.
This review is written from the perspective of someone who has been in nursing for over 20 years and who has seen lots of people on lots of medications. The author, a physician, is not suggesting that people stop taking medications that may be important to their health. But he provides guidelines and tools to help individuals evaluate what they need, including the use of a pharmacist and internet resources.

When you go to your Doctor, one of three things are for sure. To treat your illness you will either be drugged, or cut, or hospitalized. Never mind Doctors are the 3rd leading cause of death in America (As reported by JAMA) we put a lot of trust in these people.

Most drugs are hostile to the body, and have very negative side effects, and have little more than a placebo effect on what ever your illness happens to be. Akind to going to a doctor with a broken leg, and all he gives you for a treatment is a pair of crutches. This instead of getting to the cause of your hypertension, or diabetes, or heart disease. They throw a bunch of pills at you.

The FDA has the manufacturer's best interests in hand, that is keeping the billions of dollars the snake oil garners each year flowing, regardless of whether it kills you or not. The costs have been weighed, and the patient loses.

This book "Tells It Like It Is", and everyone who takes prescription pills on a regular basis needs to read this book for your own well being.

Billions of pills are swallowed every year in the U.S., and billions more are consumed worldwide. Yet, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and physicians downplay the risk. Many consumers, oblivious to the real danger, risk their lives each and every day by taking 2, 3, 4, or more drugs with potentially deadly consequences.

If you're taking prescription drugs - you need to read this book. If you want a primer on the inner workings of the pharmaceutical marketing machine - this book is for you.

The author's compare and contrast the role of the FDA before the 1990's and the 1990's & beyond. Before the 90's the FDA / Pharmaceutical industry relationship was adversarial, with drug safety dictating long, tedious clinical testing. In 1992, the world changed with the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). Then in 1997, the Food & Drug Modernization Act (FDAMA) really blasted open the doors for the pharmaceutical industry. FDAMA allowed actively promoting off-label drug use and fast-tracking of trials.

Death by Prescription also breaks down the inner workings of the pharmaceutical marketing machine, whereby medical knowledge was hijacked by the pharmaceutical (and medical device) manufacturers. Statistics are skewed by blinding people through relative risk as opposed to the real picture shown by absolute risk.

Death by Prescription is an absolute page turner, peppered with case histories and heart-retching stories that blow apart the industry's efforts to conceal the real dangers posed by drugs.

Opportunity is in the air. Pharmaceuticals are facing huge uphill battles as they confront dwindling drug pipelines, devastating lawsuits, and are struggling to cope with the dawn of genetic medicine which will destroy mass-markets.

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Michael Davis - Editor, Byvation

The book "Decision" is a stand alone book written after the two trilogies. The book contains ten God Principles divided into ten chapters. Choices we make each day result in the life we live. The book talks about many subjects - wholeness is one - "every cell in my body responds to Wisdom, for that is how each cell is made. Your cells remember their inheritance and seek what is pure intelligence." Then later says, "Pure intelligence lies within us and only waits to be claimed." - - "Only people who decisively claim this Truth (principle) and demand that it work in their lives will prove our theorem." There are nine other principle to explore. This book is Powerful!

In this book, the principles of the two God-Mind trilogies are laid out in simple, organized and understandable terms. They are practical to living our daily lives, as spiritual principle ought to be. I keep this book as a handy reference book, as well as a nightly review before bed. The principles remind me of the same as Dyer's book ("Manifest Your Destiny"), only much more concise.

This book is a summary of all Jean Foster's previous books. I find it to be full of spiritual wisdom. In my opinion, it is by far one of the most practical spiritual books I've ever read. As I spend alot of time on the road, I keep it with me in my car at all times. It is something I refer back to time and time again, and it has helped me to achieve many of my life goals.

This book summarizes the unifying concepts from the Jean Foster's previous two trilogies, offering concise thoughts to help our spiritual awakening. I found the book both thought provoking and challenging.

I found this book to be a well-written overview not only of the author's previous books, but of Spiritual Principle's in general. Although the God-Mind books are wonderful and I highly recommend reading them all, reading this book is not dependant upon having read the previous books. I found the detailing, explanations, and practical guidelines for implementing Spiritual Principles into our daily lives to be among the best I have ever read. This book reminds me of Wayne Dyer's book, "Manifest Your Destiny" only more concise. I highly recommend it to all serious spiritual seekers!

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Nancy

We live (as western Europeans or Americans) in a culture where “war” is something far away, usually on the other side of a TV screen. Our kids are living sheltered lives – and often we would like to see them even more protected. So, if it’s always difficult to understand the motivations behind a soldier’s will to fight, it’s even more difficult when the soldier is a 18th years old girl. Born and bred in a cultured family, she could have easily avoided being involved, and instead escaped to choose the worst kind of war – partisan duty behind German lines on the Eastern Front, paying the ultimate price for this choice. There could be a strong potential for the worst rhetoric on the “beauty” of patriotism and self-immolation, but “Defending Leningrad” (another entry on prof. K.J. Cottam series of books on Soviet women’s role during WWII) avoid these simplifications, giving us an invaluable insight on a teenage mind reacting to the reality of conflict.

“Defending Leningrad” is actually a collection of writings. The emotional core is the diary and letters of Ina Konstantinova, the above mentioned teenage, who volunteered to join a partisan brigade stationed behind German lines on the Leningrad front from 1942 to 1944. She worked as a scout collecting intelligence on German troop movement, was arrested several times (always escaping fortuitously), and finally was killed while covering her comrades retreat when her unit was surrounded by German security troops. It’s a remarkable document in its sparseness, its simple, almost banal candour.

Before the war, we see Ina being emotional after reading Victor Hugo “The Miserables” (typically, she idolised Jean Valjean but despised Cosette) and Jack London “Martin Eden”; daydreaming on her future; getting romantic – all summed up, being a very ordinary teenager of her time. The was comes as a big shock, but in her heart Ina seems to be unchanged, at least until her boyfriend is KIA on the front. This event, plus a confused desire to “do something more” – and a not-so-vague longing for independence and adventure – precipitate her choice. The letters to her mother and sister and her diary’s entries from the front reveal a mix of emotions: fear, homesickness, pride for her role but also horror for what she’s seeing – and not always confined to Nazi’s actions, see her reaction to the execution of a collaborationist. She does what she can to reassure her mother that after all everything is OK, that her dad (actually, the Intelligence Chief of her brigade) is protecting her. She’s hardening (at one point she remarks matter-of-factly that her “bodycount” amount to 15 Germans killed), but even if she tries to hide it, the war hardships are progressively taking a toll on her resolve. She never doubt that what she’s fighting for is right, but her unexpressed desire to find again the pre-war serenity is highlighted but the banality of most of what seems important to her – her family well being, getting food and clothes, her young sister’s studies. The abrupt ending of the document seems only to highlight this loss.

Ina’s diary (originally published as “The Girl From Kashin”), is not a literary masterpiece, and you’ll not find the harrowing passages of Anne Frank’s famous book. But this – in my opinion – just add to its sincerity. And compared to it, “Defending Leningrad” other sections are more problematic. The first is Ina’s father tale on his daughter predicament. It’s an interesting counterpoint, but raises more questions that it solves: was he right? Torture and a painful death were the usual fate of captured female partisans - doubters can look the pictures a page 71-72 of Erickson’s “Eastern Front In Photographs”, and remember that such horrors happened even on the Western Front. How could a father rationally send his daughter to face such risks, even for a cause that he sees as good? Ina’s dad never answers, and this silence is revealing: but truth is that we don’t have an answer as well.

The last two pieces are straightforward narratives dealing with the fate of two of Ina’s comrades-in-armes. “Masha’s Birch Trees” is a short story on the life – and death – of Masha Pryvayeva, another partisan scout that was captured and gruesomely executed by German troops in summer 1942. It’s a sad piece, and seems to underscore the problems I mentioned before (Ina, sent in mission together with Masha, barely escaped the same fate). The last, "The Secret Of Zoya Zuglova”, tells us of a girl who did spywork for the Soviet “socialising” with German officers, just to be tortured and executed when caught.

Prof. Cottam’s translation is impeccable, as impeccable are the notes punctuating and explaining the text, giving us the correct historical perspective to evaluate a book that is, without doubt, an exceptional document on the history of partisan warfare on the Eastern Front.

"Defending Leningrad", formerly published as "The Girl from Kashin", ought to be required reading for Holocaust History, right alongside "Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl" and "Because of Romek". Ina's journal, and her father's post-humous tribute are extraordinary -- precisely because the Partisans were, in fact, very ordinary Soviet citizens. Ina's diary in her own words is heart-breakingly intimate and a very powerful account of one young Lenigrader's resistance against the blockade.

While I deeply enjoyed all 4 of these books, this was my favorite. We get an in depth look at a young Russian teenager through her own diaries and letters.

This inside look helps to break down social barriers we may have implanted in our minds. It weaves the fabric of this heroic young girl's involvement tin the war, her great pride and honor in being involved in the protection and defense of her country.

The book as a whole tells the story of 2 partisans and 1 spy. But the story of Ina Konstantinova told in her own words through her notes and letters is my favorite part of the book. The other 2 women detailed are inspirations as well: Masha Poryvayeva and Zoya Kruglova-Baiger.

As with all of MS. Cottams books this is a must read for women's studies and just a plain good read for the rest of us. Leslie Blanchard

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K. J. Cottam's books are invaluable. This topic has been so neglected by historians in the West, and Cottam's books have done much to rectify the situation. They are a must read.

The grandkids loved the book. They live in Tucson and see the Saguaros every day!

This book is very educational to use in a classroom or an education focused day camp and is not an easy read as a story book at bedtime.

I have used this book every year as a third grade teacher. It is wonderful as a read aloud for science to illustrate how animals and plants adapt to their environment and rely on other plants and animals for survival. This is one of the best books I have ever read to my class because it is not dull science jargon but presented as the story of the life of the cactus. Don't miss this one for teaching and learning about life science in the desert.

We have been reading many different desert books for a unit study. It seemed that we kept running across the same old information in every book. Then we read this one! It tells you things that you just don't find in other books. This turned out to be our favorite book. The pictures are wonderful and it is easily understandable by young children, thought adults will learn a thing or two as well! Highly recommended.

Our third grade loved your book. It gave us a lot of information about the desert. The illustrations were excellent. We especilly liked the use of author techniques such as diagrams, onomatopeias, catchy title and colorful illustrations. We would love to contact Barbara Bash.