Tracks Books

I've been reading car magazines religiously for the last 20 years, and I have yet to come across a writer 1/10th as knowledgeable, insightful or just plain hilarious as Peter Egan. I bought about 10 yrs of old Road & Tracks off of eBay just to read his columns until I discovered these books. No lie, the best reading I've had in YEARS.

Ok, I'm a car nut. I subscribe to all the major magazines and a few that are not so major, and while Road and Track is not my favorite (too many high-end, grossly unafforadable automobiles), I keep my subscription current to peruse Peter Egan's latest meditations on all things with wheels, wings, or motors.
Here's the thing about Mr. Egan- he's just like you and me. His adventures in internal combustion, amatuer racing, and road trips are familiar to anyone with an automotive inclination. His insights and musings are humorous and profound, especially for baby boomers- start reading and you'll be hooked.
The best way to enjoy Side Glances is to start with Volume 1 and work your way up to the present. Enjoy.

A collection of Peter Egan's Side Glaces columns from Road & Track. If you love sports cars, old cars or working on cars this book is well worth the read.

If you are already familiar with Peter Egan from his monthly "Side Glances" column in Road & Track magazine, this compendium will need no introduction. If you are not, you have a rare treat in store for you when you read this book.

Quite simply, Egan is the poet of the automobile. His columns are topical, well-written, evocative and often poignant. They are sure to elicit an understanding nod from anyone who has ever done battle with "The Prince of Darkness" (i.e., the Lucas electrics) on a 1962 TR-4, or rapped sharply with a spanner on a 1964 MGB fuel pump behind the passenger seat every few seconds to keep the engine running. Egan's tales of the trials and tribulations of restoring his stable of (mostly) British roadsters are often hilarious. His sensitivity, experience, humor and unparalleled ability to say things in a "just so" way keep bringing me back to re-read these little gems over and over again. His craftsmanship is superb. I can't imagine the amount of work that he must put into his columns, carefully selecting each and every word, to make them so readable. There is no better automotive writer. Buy it, read it, savor it--this is the best.

Actually, I own the hardback version of this book which covers 1983-1997. Ever since reading my first Side Glances column in Road and Track ("Lee's TR-3") almost eleven ago I have been a big fan of Peter Egan. Anyone who loves cars (particularly old British cars) should own this book. I only wish that all of his feature stories would be put together in one volume as well.

This book is the best I've read. The trick photos are cool and show me exactly how to do them. I wish he wrote books on surfing too.

I've seen the guy skate before, both in California and up in Canada, and have been blown away by the stuff he's been able to pull off. He lays his book out very well, showing the beginner, and the want-to-be-pro alike, exactly how to pull the best tricks off for themselves. Most instructional skating books are useless, but this one is actually very valuable, which is the first one like it that I've seen anywhere. You won't be disappointed in getting this book.

Finally, someone has written a book about skateboarding that can actually help you learn tricks. The photo sequences and step by step instructions are really helpful and the way the book is organized makes it really easy to learn how to improve your skateboarding. I would recommend this book for any skaters who are looking for some totally useful advice from a guy who has the skills to back up what he is saying. Evan Goodfellow knows skating! Check out the book for yourself and read what a pro skater has to say about the fastest way to learn grinds and slides.

This book really gave me some great tips on learning new curb tricks. I found it to be really informative and well put together. I like the fact that the author is a skateboarder himself and can therefore offer valuable instruction from experience. I would recommend this book to any skateboarder looking to take their skating to the next level.

When I decided to learn street skateboarding I was in a dilemma many skaters will identify with, I wanted to start at the top with some spectacular flip tricks and rail tricks that would have my friends jaws a-drop. But soon enough I realized that skating is an art of slow, small steps, and you have to give yourself room to reverse, always an escape hatch. Evan Goodfellow's introduction to flat world curb tricks was just what the doctor ordered.

I've never seen Goodfellow in person, but the clips I saw convinced me he knew what he was talking about. I started on page one and never really looked back. Funny to think of pro Evan posing for the photo set where he just ollies up a curb over and over again, must be like child's play to him. Soon enough he's onto switch stances and the "half cab noseslide," one of the most surprising of the curb tricks he outlines. On the wax debate, Goodfellow places himself firmly on the pro-wax team, even going so far as to suggest we abolish skate parks in favor of imitation city curbs and lots and call them our parks.

You have to hand it to the photographer too. They certainly don't skimp on photos unlike some of the other so called intros to skateboarding. The photographer, Tadashi Yamaoda, prints his slides in a clever greyscale system so that the deep background of each picture, the city skyline and so on, appears only in a fog of light gray, and the important details of the foreground are rendered in sharp black clarity. Very useful. A disclaimer at the beginning of the book says to wear safety equipment while skateboarding, but neither Evan nor any of his fellow models doing the tricks in the book look like they're wearing any gear, maybe a jockstrap possibly? Oh well, we get the picture, it's a sport that takes balls and talent.

It doesn't matter whether you are new to trading or have been at it for years. The Subtle Trap of Trading is a must read. Author Brian McAboy goes to the very root of trading in terms of both its appeal and the pitfalls that lure creates.

Many people in the markets are essentially self-taught to a great degree. That means they were never told about certain stumbling blocks in a personal way - things which can seriously trip up one's trading performance. In this book, McAboy outlines why you can easily find yourself doing things as a trader you would never have thought you'd do - things seemingly completely out of character. This is the stuff that can doom you to failure.

Importantly, though, the author doesn't just tell you what the trap is. He explains in clear terms how you can avoid it and provides exercises to help you along the way. For that reason, The Subtle Trap of Trading should be near the top of your trading reading list.

After buying the subtle trap I realized I was falling in two key areas.
One was the inability to know where my emotions were costing me money.

It helped me to set up a process where by I can not escape those bad habits from being exposed should I fall into them again. For example, after every trade I go through a check list which tells me if any of the bad habits are re-occuring, and I can tell you in less than 1 month this method eliminated a habit that cost me tens of thousands of dollars over several years.

Two, was not understanding the power of setting objectives.

An example was when I entered in a two week trading competition where instead of setting a goal to win, I just set a goal to achieve a certain ROI. In order to do this though, I had to know my win to loss ratio of my system, and the number of opportunities I would get in the two weeks.

Armed with this I knew what I had to do to reach my objective, and I did reach my objectives. The issue here is that unless there's some sort of plan and way to implement this plan, your method is flawed. The subtle trap is great for making all of that so easy to understand.

I will say this, if you've been trading for a while now with no success, and then you read the subtle trap and it makes no difference what so ever to your trading - you need to find another profession.

I've spent the last year just working on my trading psychology, the true "Holy Grail" of trading, and I've heard pieces of the wisdom in this book echoed in many places. What Brian has achieved in this easy-to-read guide is a distillation of how to identify, and focus on correcting, the chinks in one's emotional armor.
The concise nature of his approach makes it much easier to really 'get it' with regard to how, as trader's, our emotions can cause us to stack the deck against ourselves. The exercises help to zero in on those issues that throw up blocks to effective trading.
Don't just read it and put it on the shelf. This book is great for a regular 'tune-up' to improve trading performance and consistency in one tight package.

The Subtle Trap of Trading by Brian McAboy should be required reading for any trader at any experience level. It is not only well written, its message is important and targeted to assist traders of any market at any stage in their trading journey. It is tailored to the individual trader so that the honing of the trader's point of view and style is the area that gets the needed attention. Terrific Value! Great Job Brian!

Sara Peterson
Individual Trader with 5 years experience in Futures Trading.

Brian's book is an ingenious work. It illuminates the path one needs to achieve success in the world of financial trading and it is sorely needed. The staggering amount of money and time I spent becoming a successful trader could have been easily reduced by 2/3 had I followed the outline Brian presents. Its a gift. Dan K, Kerry, Ireland

Given as a present for my 4 year old daughter (now 5) this
book peaked her imagination. In both it's
writing and illustration We found it not only keeping
her interest during it's reading, but a desire to learn
more about the animals We read about. She is read to
every night, and as the books come and go, our little
one has kept it in her rotation, and We never get tired
of it. She now is beginning to read, and yes, it has
helped her a great deal with it's structure in writing.
Kudos to the authors.

"Those Toes" is a wonderful story to read to your children! It is also an easy reading book for an early reader. However, my older children (7, 10, and 12) enjoyed reading this because of the information about the animals and how many toes they have! We look forward to reading more from this author!

"Those Toes" is a smooth, fun, flowing rhythmic book for a toddler! The easy sounding rhythm will roll off any child's tongue as soon as he learns the words. The bright illustrations and clever wording will easily help any child learn that "five of these and five of those....." makes for a 5 star children's book!

This book is perfect for the little ones. The introduction to different animals and their feet is wonderful, with the delightful rhymes making it fun to read to little children and easy for them to listen to. My daughter loved the all the toes that she learned about and the fun animals that own them. The brightly colored pictures are a perfect backdrop for this adorable book.

I bought "Those Toes" for my granddaughter. I was attracted by the bright illustration on the cover, and was not disappointed by the text or the interior illustrations. Cheerful, happy book and it looks like considerable research has gone into it, too.

In the days before computers there was Matthew Fontaine Maury. Almost unknown today, Maury was a navigation and sailing genius, a Lieutenant in the US Navy, who was the father of modern navigation and ocean science. He was a land lubber.

During the age of sail longitude was an uncertain calculation. As a result, it was often impossible for ships to know exactly where they were. After the invention on the chronometer, things improved, but chronometers being expensive, route planning was a hit or miss thing. As a result, for the most part, navigation was anecdotal. There were no highways in the seas, no scientifically determined sailing truisms or protocols, and hundreds of ships were lost each year.

Until Maury, knowledge of prevailing winds and currents had advanced little from Columbus. But between 1842 and 1861, he and his staff mapped the ocean's great surface currents and wind systems. They showed ship captains how to shave weeks, even months from voyages. Tracks in the Sea is the biography of this remarkable, self taught, self made man whose remarkable career culminated as head of the U.S. Navel Observatory. In a world interconnected by maritime commerce, Maury's work was critically important, not just to Americans, by to all nations.

This is an amazing story. To have compiled the thousands and thousands of ship's logs and sailing observations, drawing trends and systematic sailing instructions, by month, for all the oceans of the world, has to be one of man's most astounding scientific achievements. This is a most remarkable work about a most remarkable American.

This is simply a wonderfully written book about an almost forgotten man, Matthew Fontaine Muray.

Maury lived in the golden days of sail, the 1800's. In those days, the ocean was a big, mysterious, and dangerous place. Sailors had decent charts of the continents, and by the middle of the century. they had decent chronometers to help them navigate (find the Longitude). But what they did not have was a set of charts showing where the winds blew when. Sure, they had some knowledge, gained by long experience, but no scientific knowledge.

What Maury did was to make a life-long scientific study of the winds and currents around the world, with a view of shortening sailing times, thus reducing expenses and increasing safety. At first glance, this does not sound like much, but it took reading literally hundreds of thousands of logs to collect this information, then making charts showing the direction and strength of the wind and current in every month of the year.

Did Maury's efforts work? Would you call shaving a month off a sailing trip from New England to Rio worthwhile? This was the typical result of skippers who followed Maury's charts.

He also 'invented', to a large degree, the science of oceanography, and did a lot to standardize and strengthen the science of meteorology.

Many think this information has been rendered useless by powered ships. Wrong. People who sail long distances always have a current copy of this type of chart onboard, and plan their itineraries around the winds and tides. Professional seamen, especially of very large ships, also continue to use this information, as the sea can overpower even enormous ships like supertankers.

If you enjoy reading books like Dava Sobel's book Longitude, about John Harrison and his clocks, you will equally enjoy Tracks in the Sea. Highly recommended.

This is a great book for anyone with an interest in or passion for sailing, navigation, mapping and charting or who holds an interest in the challenges of early explorers.

Mr. Hearn's splendid account of the life of the self-taught Matthew Maury is one that should be read by anyone with the remotest interest in sailing or the industrial revolution. He should also be of interest to those who want a concrete account of the benefits of "data-mining" in which miscellaneous, disparate sources of information are aggregated into something which is tremendously useful.

Maury took crates of old ship logs, and extracted the data about weather and currents as a function of date and location, and produced ingenious maps of the sea that could be used to plot voyages that minimized the time of passage. In the age of the American clipper ships, the time saved could be quite substantial, even amounting to as much as factor of two over the haphazard routes used by the intuitive captains of the day.

The reduction of the data and the production of the maps was carried out by only a handful of men at the U.S. Naval Observatory, but produced tremendous economic advantages to those who used them. They were quickly adopted by the merchant marine, and by cleverly requiring the recipients of the latest maps to turn over to him logs taken in a standard format, he was able to gather tons of new data for ever-improving successive maps. Maury also discovered the feasibility for the route of the first transatlantic cable, and fought to establish the first weather bureau in the US.

He also brought about the convening of a Brussels Marine meteorology Conference in 1853 that was attended by nine countries and resulted in the adoption of a uniform method of gathering and disseminating the information among the world. Not bad for a simple Lieutenant! His quarrels with the jealous Joseph Henry (of electromagnetic induction fame) and others of his ilk are instructive to those interested in stories of how pettiness and obstructionism of powerful men can be overcome by men of true ability.

This story is well researched and ably told by Mr. Hearn, and is another exciting adventure of the heroes who made the industrial revolution.

Maury's life, rising from the humble origins of a farming family in Virginia and then Tennessee, to a career as an internationally renowned scientist, is quite interesting, and generally well told by author Chester Hearn. Most scientists would feel their careers were a success if they made a few contributions to their area of science. Maury's genius invented two whole sciences: oceanography and marine astronomy. He significantly improved navigation by finding "tracks in the sea," the patterns which numerous currents and winds follow all over the globe. Perhaps because he sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War, he became a relatively obscure figure. Since he had an enduring influence on the human race's knowledge of the oceans, he deserves to be better known. This book will help, and is well worth reading.

Professional and amateur triathletes alike will benefit from these tips to help you become a better runner. Find the right training plan for you.

Excellent resource for serious traithletes and amateur atheletes alike. I purchased this book for my triathlete husband and one of his daughters who is a runner. Although he majored in physical education and has been an active athlete, teacher, and trainer himself all his life, this book has still helped him to improve his running ability. He now also owns a Seiko metronome and making good use of it with his indoor training on our treadmill. My husband is now 69 and still a winning triathlete!

Mierke is an expert in Evolution style running and presents the knowledge necessary to improve one's running skills. The author also discusses approaches to racing and ideas for training plans for various triathlon distances. A great reference!

As a triathlete going on my 15th season, I have seen most of the stuff out there. This book is great in that it starts by teaching running technique, which most people ignore. Sure we all know technique is crucial in swimming, but it is in running as well. The author also has a video on his "Evolution" run technique which I have on order.

He claims to have achieved significant efficiency and hence speed improvements in even long-time elite runners, and I believe it. Look at it it this way - you can spend $1000 on race wheels and gain 30secs, or spend a few dollars on this book and/or video and gain more time through efficiency increases.

He also points out that most running injuries are caused by poor technique, and I agree completely. If you have a nagging injury, fix your technique. I have seen this work myself on many runners - try it.

A wonderful bonus is that this book contains one of the best summaries of eating to get and stay lean that I have seen. An entire chpater is devoted to this, and makes the book well worth it if you are just trying to figure out how to lose weight.

This is a worthy and high return on investment book for any triathlete.

Sometimes you're glad when you're asked by Amazon to review a book - in some cases due to the fact that they stink, in others because you've purchased something that you really feel that you can recommend to others. This book belongs in the second category.

The Triathlete's Guide to Run Training is simply the most comprehensive and well structured, easy-to-read, hands-on book about running that I've ever seen (and believe me, as a triathlete I've gone through everything from Posetech to ChiRunning in my quest for reduced run times).

The book will take you through Technique (the actual physics of running, i.e., where does all that energy go that you spend on the track?, how to reduce energy waste and maximize forward propulsion, etc.), Training (planning, bricks, etc.), Preparations, and finally, Racing. The way it's done makes you understand just how good Mierke must be as a coach: everything is short, crisp and to the point.

If you're training by yourself, there are plenty of drills in the book that will take you a long way towards better running efficiency. If you're a coach, there's a lot of stuff from basic to advanced that you can use in your coaching. If you're training with a coach, give him the book and ask him to use it when coaching you - I did and the result has been remarkable: not only do I run faster, I run almost effortlessly after hard biking, and - moreover - I enjoy my running even during races. The only thing that has made that much of a difference for my racing is Total Immersion Swimming (which, by the way, also focuses on efficiency rather than raw power).

In short: highly recommendable book for anyone who's interested in running faster and more efficient (is there anyone who doesn't?). Extra plus for the integration of running into biking specifically and triathlon in general.

Many months ago, I purchased "The Ultimate Guide to Handicapping the Horses". I'm Canadian, and grew up loving harness racing more than the runners. The title caught my eye, along with the last name of the author for I can vividly remember a driver by the same name. I'm not sure if there is any relation, but this book was extremely informative and INCREDIBLY INTRIGUING! I haven't received "The Tuttle Way II" yet, but I'm greatly anticipating learning more from this amazingly talented vanity writer.

Good Luck to all!

J.R.

I'm rapidly becoming quite the fan of this relative unknown: Joseph J. Tuttle. It's quite obvious that he was not an English major (if he went to college at all), but his insightful nature and his ability to write as though he is talking to you I find rather comforting. I've since sent Mr. Tuttle an e-mail stating that he has a duplicate paragraph in his book, that needs to be rectified. His response was quite timely, in telling me that he was away in Europe for the soccer tournament and he told me that this would be recitifed within a week. This is the 3rd book of his that I've purchased (either through Amazon or another outlet), and I'm just unbelievably impressed by his strategies and techniques. This may sound corny, but he has certainly enlightened me a great deal with the three books of his that I've read (his baseball handicapping book, his football handicapping book and now this horse handicapping book). Apparently, he also has a creative side, for I'm about to order his novella "Trainer". In closing I'd like to say that I think it's a shame that this man has to "self-publish" and doesn't have the benefit of proofreaders and editors at his disposal. But, I'm sure somebody is going to eventually pick him up and one day these minor-typo-filled books will become collector's items. Good luck to all!

(Her review IS completely inaccurate and despicable!)

And for the record, it has AMAZED me over the years how
writer's of handicapping books have misspelled the word "intrinsic",
by spelling it "intrensic", for YEARS!!!! Yet this man who writes first drafts in
purple crayon, gets it correct?! This women's review was/is completely
defaming, and it's a shame Mr. Tuttle cannot sue on the basis of defamation
of character! At the very least, her "review" in slanderous.


God, where should I begin. First off, I think it should be noted that the
real/true beauty of being a "Vanity Author" (as Mr. Tuttle probably is) comes
from the fact that there aren't sixteen different versions floating around.
Think about it.... Do you really think that the likes of some of your more notable
horse handicapping writer's don't actually need a lot of help with grammar
and punctuation? Joseph Tuttle is clearly a man doing this on his own, in an
effort to better serve us! HE IS A PROFESSIONAL GAMBLER..... www.winners57.com

He makes no bones about it, he is a horseman first and foremost, and his
horsemanship perspective has taught me more than I had ever dreamed imaginable. His methodologies are insightful and stimulating.
I purchased this book (at a different site) some two months ago, and have had
some incredible results. As far as I'm concerned, for someone write a such
disparaging remarks they must have an axe to grind!!! Ms. Shawda Brown....
You should be ashamed of yourself! Didn't anyone ever teach you the old saying....
"If you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all."?
In closing, I want to leave all of you with a wonderful excerpt from "The Tuttle Way".


Excerpt from this book......

".....This is also how you can determine how strong of a "brush" a horse might have,
which can ultimately lead to more winners and a better overall opinion
(for yourself to develop), of horseflesh.


{What I like to do looks something like this...}


:22 (for the horse that led after the opening quarter)
:23 (my "horse of interest" was sitting 3rd, 5 lengths off the leader)

:45(the time that the leader of said race hit the half at)
:45.1 (my horse was still sitting 3rd, but now only one length off the lead)


At this point you need to calculate three of four highly intrinsic variables:......"

I've purchased a lot of different handicapping books over the years and consider myself an advanced handicapper, but after reading this book I'll definately be studying the racing form a little more in depth to say the least. You can tell this book has been written by a real horse bettor and not some ghost writer which is also a plus.

Thanks, PSL King

Definitely some helpful tips on spotting the horses that seem to consistently come in the money. I feel confident that I'll always be getting something back from the window - even if its not my primary bet. And my success on my primary bets has increased markedly as well.

For the price of a couple of races, this was a good investment.

I tried to order this from Amazon but then received a notice that the book would be available in 1-3 months, not 1-3 weeks as listed here. Having already waited 6 weeks for the book to arrive I ended up ordering directly from the publisher (Whitecap Books) and it arrived within 1 week!!! The price was higher but I would recommend this book at any price. There are some wonderful great recipes. Get a copy while you still can.

That's all there is to it. There's not a single miss in this book. Every recipe is a hit!! And the pictures are awesome too!! I'd pay $100 for this book if I had too. Do yourself a favor and get one. You won't regret it.

Some of my favourite recipes from the amazing whitewater cafe. They bring back great memories of growing up in the Koots, and my winter at the Whitewater ski hill...
And it's great food, with tastes coming together from around the world.

Over the years I've had the pleasure of visiting the Whitewater Resort and the Fresh Tracks Cafe many times and neither I, nor anyone in my family has ever been disappointed in the food that we've had - we've always enjoyed it. So when I found out that they had a cookbook, I immediately bought it - and again, I have not been disappointed.

It's full of great recipes (I've tried several and LOVE them all) that are fresh, easy and yummy. The recipes tend to be on the healthy side (which I like) but are not lacking in flavor in anyway - they are some of the most flavorful I've had. They are also very simple and most could be made quickly on a weeknight. This is a definite keeper for us!

I love this cookbook. The pictures alone are wonderful, and the recipes themselves turn out both beautiful to look at and delicious to eat. I've made about ten of the recipes. So far, our favorites are the black bean vegetarian chili, the corn bread, and the white chocolate-hazelnut brownies. The only criticism I have is that the book is poorly edited. Some of the ingredients are not specific enough (for example, "1 tsp mint"; dried? extract? fresh chopped?) and the instructions are sometimes incomplete. Still, by guessing as best I could, the recipes turned out well. I hope that the next edition of this book is more complete and specific.

This resource is worth 5 stars - it is specifically for adults and is easy to read, easy to access. All steps are described and illustrated. Worth purchasing especially if you are a beginner.

This book provides a good solid basic technique overview. It has been used as a textbook at some colleges, and was highly reccomended by my former headmistress. I found the text interesting and helpful, and the illustrations sufficient. Of course, no book can replace a talented instructor, but as a supplement to a dance program, this book is superior.

Finally a good ballet instruction book that's encouraging and doesn't talk down to adult beginners. The more ballet classes I take, the more I realize how well this book distills the important aspects of ballet. Sketches and photos showing correct (and incorrect) body positioning are appropriately used. When I started ballet, I picked up a handful of books, and I always reached for this one when I had 10 minutes to learn a new tidbit. The brief history of ballet in the final chapter is added bonus. If you're an adult beginner, start with this book and the David Howard videos, plus a good teacher once or twice a week. You won't be auditioning for the American Ballet Theatre, but you'll become a proficient dancer pretty quickly.

I have the 3rd edition of this book, which was required for a college Ballet I class. As a beginning, adult, male student, I found the book to be very detailed - which I like. She gives you illustrations of steps, with the French name & pronunciation, why your doing it (e.g. to stretch certain muscles), a description, etc..

Initially, working at the barre (e.g. how to stand, plie', positions of the feet) Sandra gives correct & incorrect drawings. Of course, no book or video can replace being in class nor should it. With ballet you need a teacher to correct what your doing wrong so you can learn from it. Then having good books, videos, etc. as reference material helps you learn.

The book is written for us beginner adults, not children and not the pro's, which is really nice. Since we don't have nearly the flexibility of them. It also includes some history in the back of the book. Illustrations show men as well as women. Also included is what to wear to class, what to expect in class, how you should act, etc..

Get her other book once you get beyond the basics.

Got this for my 7 year old daughter before we went on a trip to Yellowstone. She loved the pictures and turned out to be pretty darned good a spotting and identifying many of the tracks from it. Great little book...was her favorite of several that I got for us.

Big Tracks, Little Tracks is a beautifully illustrated book for young "nature detectives." All animals leave different tracks and if you know just how to study them, you will find out how they walked, what or how they ate and sometimes even what way the wind was blowing as they walked!

A fun activity page explains how to do an experiment with leaving tracks of your own and making plaster casts of tracks that you find. Fun read!

The book is a great way to get children involved in their reading. The questions in the book encourage reflection and help children make predictions about what they are reading. The concepts can be applied to anywhere in nature, and are appropriate for all children no matter where they live. The book gives important facts and information, but also allows children to become "detectives" and take an active role in the book. It is great for science discovery with young children!

This book is written in a style that promotes problem solving and develops inquiry skills. It is a wonderful introduction to animal tracks. After a child reads this book they will be able to differentiate between several common tracks and have an understanding of how to interpret tracks to understand the behavior of the animal that made them. I highly recommend this book to teachers, families...