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Hi. I am a third grader from the U.S.A. I like this book because it's sort of like a mystery book. Aldo is looking for Peabody. You should read this book and find out where Peabody is. Peabody is a fat cat. I would give this book five stars because it is the best book of my life and I like Johanna Hurwitz books.

Unlike most kids music, this one has meaningful content. My 2 year old daughter is now singing the multiplication tables!

The best crossword puzzles are those I come really close to finishing but never do, because that means there's something to be learned from each missing answer. This is the first book, of all the NY Times series, that meets that test. Addictive!

I bought this book because it has nine hundred covers, printed on glossy paper, three to a page (mostly two and a half inches deep) and best of all, in color. The listing is alphabetical with the magazine title, publisher and prices relating to the life of the title. This arrangement makes for some odd visual surprises Jungle Stories (1954) is facing Kimball's Dairy Farmer (1917) or Everbody's Poultry Magazine (1916) facing Exciting Detective (1940).

The color covers are a bit of an extra for a book that is really a listing but you get a chance to see how publishers presented their newsstand wares over the last hundred years or so. All type covers from the nineteenth century change into illustrations in the first half of the twentieth century and finally into photographic covers that we see today.

How accurate the prices are I can't say but apart from first issues most titles seem to be very reasonable. So if you are going magazine hunting in shops or car-boot sales it would be useful to take this paperback as a guide before you haggle.

If you like looking at magazine covers check out these two titles, ' Front Page: Covers of the Twentieth Century' by Stephanie Duperray and Raphaele Vidaling, or the sumptuous 'Great Magazine Covers of the World' by Partica Kery, both books have hundreds of colored covers arranged in meaningful chapters and finally 'Cover Story' by Steven Heller and Loise Fili, a beutifully designed paperback showing two hundred American magazine covers from 1900 thru 1950.

News of natural and human traumas fill the media and frankly depress the life out of me, but after I got through this book, which is admittedly dry in places but gotta-have-it humourous in others, I felt a refreshing sense of unity with all human beings and more optimistic than I have ever been. This was significant for me as a "white teacher in a black school" where race is a sickeningly prevalent issue every single minute of every single day; a great new perspecitive on the contradiction of multiple differences' creating a sense of sameness among all human creatures may be had from this book. Don't miss chapter 2! Pop some popcorn before you sit down.

I've found this to be one of the better books on the subject. The book is beautifully resented and the content is very accessible to the modern reader. The analysis based in this book appears to be entirely consistent with my own 20+ yrs. experience in cheirology.

The book's computer-generated hands are a nice innovation that provide clarification for unusual markings. Also, I found the addition of two new mounts of the palm (Neptune, and Pluto) to be very intriguing -- I only wish that the authors could have elaborated further on this topic.

All in all, a good, solid book that is an enjoyable read.

Do any of you remember a time in grade school when you felt like you didn't quite fit in, and the cool group seemed inaccessible? Times haven't changed in that respect and this book takes Alex through some real escapades as she learns how to cope with "cool kids" being rude to her. Kids will relate and learn valuable life lessons at the same time. My daughter had tears streaming down her face in parts because she was laughing so hard. A quick read and perfect for the age group.

This book has a great message about prayer in a way that children can understand. The illustrations are wonderful. The book is fun as well as educational. My three year old daughter wants to hear it over and over.

General Grant wrote this book while dying of throat cancer. He had been swindled by a dishonest Wall Street Broker and his trophies and possessions were stripped from him to satisfy the demands of his debtors. Bankrupt, suffering from a terminal illness and never passing a moment without acute pain, he produced this magnificent monument to his greatness. Those who denigrate Grant as a drunkard, butcher or bumbling President need to read this book in order to correct these errant assumptions. It is impossible to read this book and not realize that Grant was an inordinately intelligent man and one hell of a writer.

Grant's Memoirs are a deserved classic in American literature and considered the greatest military Memoirs ever penned, exceeding Caesar's Commentaries. Grant wrote as he lived: with clear, concise statements, unembellished with trivialities or frivolities. The only "criticism" the reader might have is that Grant bent over backwards not to wound the feelings of people in the book. He takes swipes at Joe Hooker and Jeff Davis, but what he left unsaid would have been far more interesting. A compelling and logical reason why Grant was so spare in his comments was because he was involved in a race with death. He didn't know how long he could live and therefore, "cut to the chase."

Grant's assessments of Lincoln, Sherman, Sheridan and other military leaders are brilliant and engrossing. His style, like the man himself, was inimitable and couldn't be copied. In everyday life, Grant was a very funny man, who liked to listen to jokes and tell them himself. His sense of the absurd was acute. It's no accident that he loved Mark Twain and the two hitched together very well. Twain and Grant shared a similar sense of humor, and Grant's witicisms in the Memoirs are frequent, unexpected and welcome. There are portions where you will literally laugh out loud.

Though Grant's Memoirs were written 119 years ago, they remain fresh, vibrant and an intensely good read. I have read them many times in my life and I never weary of the style and language that Grant employed. He was a military genius to be sure, but he was also a writer of supreme gifts, and these gifts shine through on every page of this testament to his greatness. All Americans should read this book and realize what we owe to Grant: he preserved the union with his decisive brilliance. In his honor, we should be eternally grateful.

"The pigs are coming to play, hooray!/The pigs are coming today./We'd better take care to completely prepare,/A minute's too long to delay." The entire town is up, out, and busy cooking a marvelous gastronomic spread for their soon to be arriving porcine friends. "We're planning a feast for ten thousand at least,/We're cooking a fabulous meal./We're mixing and baking and fixing and making/A spread that will make those pigs squeal." And after eating all their yummy treats...fried green tomatoes, cheese tortellini, gooey chop suey, pastrami on rye, mashed sweet potatoes, buckets of apple brown betty, mountains of chips with fountains of dips, and coconut chocolate cream pie..., it's the pigs turn to thank their hosts. "They sing and they dance and they swing and they prance,/They light up the stage like the sun./Our hands get to clapping, our feet set to tapping,/And then we all join in the fun." A good time is definitely had by all..... The dynamic duo, author, Leslea Newman and illustrator, Erika Oller are back, and after singing the praises of cats (Cats, Cats, Cats!)and dogs (Dogs, Dogs, Dogs!) in earlier picture books, are now ready to take on pigs. Ms Newman's engaging, rhyming text is filled with rhythm, energy, humor, and fun, and is complemented by Ms Oller's playful watercolors, rich in warm, soft tones and expressive, eye-catching details. With a silly twist at the end to tickle your funny bone, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs! is a rollicking, fun-filled read little ones 3-7 will beg to hear again and again at story time. "We're tired and weary, in fact we're quite bleary,/But none of us can fall asleep./We've got to hold steady, we've got to get ready,/Our next guests are coming-the sheep!"