Associations Books

My son made me read this book about 20 times in a row after we got it, and now it is among his favorites. he loves the wrecking balls and the character with a backhoe as well as "Jack Hammer". The thick cardboard pages and durable wheels make this book hard to destroy and a great value.

My son loves this book. It's about his favorite cartoon Rescue Heroes and it has great action in it. Every page has a wheel you can turn to make for action (ie: like the strobe of flashing lights, a cat being rescued, a boy throwing a basketball toward the hoop, etc...) My son loves all of the different Rescue Heroes and this book has a lot of them in it. And who doesn't love a happy ending!

Excellent guide to the birding sites of Florida, especially to those birders chasing local "specialties".

We used this book as our itinerary planner for a recent 8 day trip to South Florida. We found the detailed directions to be so helpful to us in finding our target birds!

This book is a 20 ct. diamond. I have used it for four years to plan birding trips. If you want to go where the birds are, this book is a must. It not only tells you where to go, it also gives you a detailed iteneray, tells you when to go, and tells you how many day to plan for your trip. If that isn't enough, it refers you to other more detailed birding books to help you plan your trip.

A do it yourself guide to birding trips around the country including detailed itineraries. Professionals in the nature tours trade may want to keep this book a secret since it allows anybody to reproduce many of their trips at a significant cost saving.

The 5th edition of the Birth Atlas was donated to the Skills Lab at the Medical Campus, University of Pretoria. Since it appears to be very old and unique I would like to know the date of this publication. I would appreciate it very much if you could let me know. Thank you Dr Ina Treadwell

The Maternity Center Association 1940 classic photographic reproductions of Robert Latou Dickinson, MD, and Abram Belskie's famous sculptures are a great teaching aid for anyone in the childbirth profession.

This humorous, delightful true story about a pet cow stimulates the imagination. It made me laugh and cry. Children will enjoy learning about this cow's travels and escapades. The book is not only about a cow, but about the preservation of a family farm.

You see so many books on pet cats and dogs so it is refreshing to hear about a pet cow! As a preschool teacher and a lover of kids books this is a lovely true story. Ultimately it will show kids that it's ok to think 'outside the box. Actually it shows adults that as well! I personally wouldn't have thought of traveling with my cow but now I wonder, "well, why not?"
So now our grandchildren and other special kids in our life will be getting a copy of this book. It makes a great little thoughtful gift!

This book is an excellent resource for any early childhood teacher. It is also excellent for parents of children in the early childhood years. After reading The Block Book, I was able to be a more effective classroom teacher. Children began using blocks in the most amazing ways! Blocks became tools for communication and exploration. The text provides you with concrete information and suggestions making this all possible!

Has anybody read (remembered) "The Block Book" by Elizabeth S. Hirsch?

This is a group of essays on kids playing with blocks. The themes emphasize the importance of "free materials" based on a wooden unit block--she apologizes for not including Lego too. There is a great deal of applied psychology and observation, history of the block materials (begins in 1879), descriptions of classroom setup and use. It considers behavior and learning up to about age 7.

One essay echoes Montessori's observation that play is hard work, while parting ways over the point of that work (specific lessons/skills vs. working out expanding ideas of the adult world through modelling.)

Since the book was researched and written in the 70s, reading it could be nostalgic for many people. There should be more books like this: surely there are teachers illuminating the value of this sort of play still?

I've used many of the props in this book at my library in Janesville, WI -- and they are wonderful! The book is well written, easy to use -- and the overall story selection is excellent. If you're only buying one new prop book - this is the one!

Wow! what a meticulous, thorough job Faurot has done in putting together this book of patterns, props and scripts for the person needing to engage an audience. This is real-life, been-in-the-trenches advice. Some of the patterns are exquisite -- see especially the chapter on a flannel board version of Fish is Fish. Don't try to digest the whole book at once. Read the introduction and the Techniques and Considerations for each chapter, pick a project and go! You'll have everything you need, from how to get permissions, constructing your storytelling props, telling your story and guiding your audience.

This book is Historical information on both the area I grown up in and family bacvkground. I greatly enjojed not only ready this book, but found that being about to see many of the places and items mentioned in the bok added to my enjoyment. Please note that "Boy Captive of Old Deerfield" proceeds this and "Boys of the Border" follows this. All 3 are excellant and contain much interesting information on the settlement of Western Mass.

This is the first in a series that cronicles young Stephen's life in an early American, frontier town and capture by indians from Canada. The book was not only hard to put down because of continual actions, but I was always learning a little bet here and there about early colional life and Native American life.

The first chapter was a little tough getting used to some of the Olde English spelling an phrases. But soon I no longer noticed them at all. I would recommend this book to anyone from about 5th grade and up.

I won't spoil the ending, but do yourself a favor and order "The Boy Captive in Canada" at the same time because the story doesn't end in this book. It continues into the next.

This book is Historical information on both the area I grown up in and family bacvkground. I greatly enjojed not only ready this book, but found that being about to see many of the places and items mentioned in the bok added to my enjoyment. Please note that "Boy Captive of Canada" and "Boys of the Border" follows this. All 3 are excellant and contain much interesting information on the settlement of Western Mass.

This is the first in a series that cronicles young Stephen's life in an early American, frontier town and capture by indians from Canada. The book was not only hard to put down because of continual actions, but I was always learning a little bet here and there about early colional life and Native American life.

The first chapter was a little tough getting used to some of the Olde English spelling an phrases. But soon I no longer noticed them at all. I would recommend this book to anyone from about 5th grade and up.

I won't spoil the ending, but do yourself a favor and order "The Boy Captive in Canada" at the same time because the story doesn't end in this book. It continues into the next.

I bought my copy of this book in the early 70's. It is still on my book shelf along with the more important books in my life such as Bill Atkin's "Of Yachts and Men", Herreshoff's "The Compleat Cruiser" and Maurice Griffiths' "The Magic of the Sands".

This is a book about a trip that a man took with his son. It is a report mostly from a thoughtful log and bears enough interest that there it sits in its plain brown book cover on my shelf asking to be read yet again.

What more could you say about a book than it share space with those others?

I'm so excited to see this book in print again. I read an old copy lent to be by a friend after my husband and I "did the ditch" (traveled the Intracoastal Waterway) from Florida to Maryland. The tale is by a New England gentleman of superb boating skills who travels to Florida along the then-new ICW in a small sailboat with his son and an elderly cat. This was very unusual, people along the way had never seen a sailboat making the trip. And they have some harrowing experiences such as going aground (of course we all know about that!) but there was no Tow Boat US to come get them out of trouble. Particularly for anyone who has traveled the modern ICW, it is a fascinating documentary of how undeveloped the lowlands were back then. And it is written with great charm so that anyone who likes "messing around with boats" will enjoy it.