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Ages 3-7 will relish this story of one Ruthie, who loves Superman and wants to be him - and who decides her desire to help her pregnant aunt will led her to become a hero. Thwarted in her efforts by an appealing box of kittens, Ruthie finds herself facing some hard facts about her real desires in this fun, realistic story of a Bronx child who longs to be a heroine.

The book is great. It arrived as expected and was all it was described to be. Great color pictures and handy information about hundreds of corkscrews. The price was very good for this book.

What a touching and sensitive approach to help children with the pain and loneliness of divorce! The author uses beautiful imagery to explain that a parent's love does not diminish when divorce occurs and guides youngsters in realizing how fortunate they are to have so many loved ones in their lives. The photos and colors are captivating and make the book come alive. Children in separated families will find comfort and reassurance by reading it or having it read to them. It would be appropriate for families, schools, day care centers, libraries -- any place that children can be found with occasional tears in their eyes or spells of sadness because of family situations.

If you read Joy Dryfoos' book about Full Service Schools, you'll be excited about this "how-to" guide...it helps you turn dreams into reality for children and their families!

This is a good, inexpensive way to have the full score to this singular work. Offers errata on the same pages of the passages in question, and the score is easy to read/manage. A reprint of the kind of score you would find with a set of parts.

From 1906 onward, R.F. Outcault's "Buster Brown" strip went to work earning a richly deserved reputation for self-righteousness, each Sunday crowning several panels of mischief with a sermonizing platitude. The artwork gradually went downhill as well as Outcault relenquished it to various ghosts.

But from 1902 through the end of 1905, Outcault and Buster raised the devil with society, and the final panel's aphorism often wasn't remorseful at all but full of regret that Buster's scheme hadn't been hatched with better foresight. This particular collection from Dover is a reprint of "Buster Brown and His Resolutions," which offers an excellent cross-section of Buster's wickedly fun forays from 1902 and 1903.

The chief drawback of this collection is that it offers no improvement on the "Resolutions" collection, which like practically all those published by Frederick Stokes, took a random handful of strips and published them in no order whatsoever; 1903 strips are followed by some from 1902, and then it's back to '03. In spite of this haphazard treatment, it's easy to see that Buster was no cutey-pie sissy in his early days, but nearly as homely as his Yellow Kid predecessor, just dressed in nicer clothes.

Animation fans may want to take note of reactions from Buster's adult victims. Buster's mother, drawn almost photorealistically, praises Buster for sitting so nicely in a chair. But when Buster gets up to reveal he's been sitting on a dozen eggs (to hatch them), her mouth drops open nearly a foot, anticipating similarly wild reactions from Tex Avery's characters in cartoons made over three decades later.

This book is a wonderful introduction to a character we hardly know (beyond the grimacing shoe trademark). How about some more (pre-1906), somebody?

I loved this butterfly sticker collection! I used the stickers over a period of a year or two, mostly on envelopes/correspondence and on gift packages. I'm always looking for beautifully detailed stickers suitable for adult use. I'm a mother and school teacher as well as an artist myself. I am a huge fan of letter writing (now called "snail-mail"! Sticker collections such as this one add a not often found personal touch of beauty.

Great product, prompt shipping, all materials present. What I expect here at AMAZON.

I was fortunate enough to receive an advance copy of this VERY detailed work on California's early Spanish history, and what a stunning read it is. Complete with pictures of today's missions, historical artifacts, and detailed accounts of past events, Ms. Lake takes the reader on a both passionate and thought-provoking walk through this time of our great state's history that should never be forgotten. Well done!

Michelle has a problem. Make that two problems. She promised her friends Luca and Evan she would work on a science fair project with them. And she agreed to be on a team with her best friends, Cassie and Mandy. Both teams are doing a project on the solar system, so that's the easy part. The hard part is keeping the whole thing a secret. Because if anyone finds out Michelle is helping two teams win the same prize, she'll be in a world of trouble.