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The beautiful illustrations and the imagination of the author are wonderful! I love this book and I enjoy reading it to my little granddaughter. She loves the pictures of the little Brambly Hedge mice.

The Brambly Hedge books remain one of the sweetest picture book series ever to be concocted for the kiddie set. Of these, my favorite has always been "Summer Story". The plot is not particularly complex. In it, two little mice (Dusty Dogwood and Poppy Eyebright) have become engaged and they prepare for their summer wedding. Similar in many ways to Beatrix Potter's books, the Brambly Hedge series is published small, for small readers. Kids will enjoy the pleasant story while taking particular interest in some of Barklem's more impressive drawings. Her elaborate Rube Goldbergesque illustrations of the Dairy Stump and Mill are delightful. There is an attention to detail in these books that does not go unnoticed. For those kids who are, as of yet, too young to enjoy Brian Jacques "Redwall" books, the Brambly Hedge series may be right up their alley.

I really enjoy Jill Barklem's work, especially this book. Thesummer story is one of the Brambley Hedge season books, and tells thestory of the summer courtship and marriage of two of the mice of Brambley Hill. It's hot outside in Brambley Hedge and the mice want to do nothing but sit and dip their tails in the stream, until suddenly, the hedge is buzzing trying to prepare for the upcoming wedding. The pictures are lovely, as usual, andthe sory simple and sweet. A great book for children and adults.

I was given a copy of this book as a 2-year old, and I am so excited that it has finally come back into print. This book is very endearing. It tells the story of a young mouse, Wilfred, who is celebrating his birthday. The other mice of Brambley Hedge work together to plan a special surprise for Wilfred, and have almost as good a time planning it as Wilfred does discovering it. It is a good book for bedtime reading, or just any time. Everyone will enjoy this happy tale and it's adorable characters.

Poppy Eyebright and Dusty Dogwood are mice that live near a stream. One hot summer they begin to date, and then they announce their engagement. They marry and have a very pleasant wedding ceremony with all of their mousy relatives. The book is quite interesting with its reminders of the customs of times gone by, like engagements and trousseaus. Kids can also learn from it how people use to survive hot weather without air conditioners. The book has about 800 words.

Growing up, Uncle Wiggily's Friends was a favorite of my sisters and mine. The stories and illustrations are great. My three year old son loves these stories, especially Uncle Wiggily and the Snow Plow. The stories have great examples for teaching universal values. We have the 1955 edition with illustrations by the author, which I think are more appealing than the stories illustrated by others.

Uncle Wiggily and his Friends by Howard R. Garis was one of the first books I remember reading (or having read to me). Uncle Wiggily Longears is a "rabbit gentleman." He has a kind heart, goes on interesting adventures and teaches children life lessons.

I have the 1955 edition, complete with a green cloth cover. I will never part with it, even though it has scribble marks in it. It is in fact the copy I had when I was about seven years old and has been to Africa and back.

My favorite story is "Uncle Wiggly and the Apple Dumpling." While I had never tasted one as a child, I sure wanted to! It looked delicious. It is no wonder I was intrigued when one of my mother's friends made such a dessert. Years later I wrote to her and requested the recipe. I also love the little poems at the end of each story.

If you are looking for a book with old-fashioned warmth, line drawings, full-page color pictures and animals that take on human personalities, this is a book you will treasure.

~The Rebecca Review

The most proper Mr. Rabbitt, and his Nephew were able to successfully survive on LemonAide and IceCream, when their hot air balloon would accidently land on deserted islands. A series of stories relating to making the best of things in life.. I grew up with his stories and ended up living in Hawaii for the past 27 years! And sucessfully too

Uncle Wiggly stories were read to me as a pre-school and early grades bed-time routine. Anticipating the next adventure is a fond memory. The problem-solving and very proper bunny gentleman gives a life's lesson that there are clever and common sense approaches to problems that suddenly arise, and that there are continuous problems that surprise our lives. We are now reading these stories to our 4.5 year old (for the last year) and she brings me the books every night. I'm Professor of Biochemistry at LSU.

This is a wonderful book appropriate for all children. I have the 1986 printing indicating copyrights of 1939 and 1955 by The Platt & Munk Co., Inc. a division of Grosset & Dunlap (ISBN 0-448-40504-0). Many color and B & W drawings are presented in a detailed style common for the period. A typical page is half text and half art. There are simple rhymes accompanying each story. My children enjoy the stories which include tales about helping neighbors in a variety of needs, e.g. being snowbound,or cold. Uncle Wiggily and the Apple Dumpling is a favorite story of my family. The sled and canoe tales are also popular. There are 8 stories in all. The artwork is by George Carlson. This book ought to be reprinted. - Cedric Richeson

I chose this book as my favorite book. This book it is funny. It funny because one time Zack was sleeping his room was clean but someone did it meessing. He clean it again. When he wet to brush his teeth it was meesing aging.

I like this book because Zach is really funny and kind of scary and gives me the chills. I know how Zach feels because my sister messes up my room. I think you should read this book because it's a really great book. If you have a sister or brother that messes up your room you should read this book.

If you like ghosts,this is a book for you. Zack has become a great friend of our class. He gets into strange situations and we like reading about all of them. Can you imagine a ghost writing with M and Ms or Cheerios in your house or apartment? If you don't know Zack, he is a 10 year old boy who lives in New York City.Read his books to learn about more of his mysterious and weird adventures.

I liked this book because i thought it was funny. i also liked it because Zach the little boy acts just like me for example he explianed how he always had a messy room which really relates to me ,and his dad is always is worried well for me it's my mom who worries about me.

I think the worst part was when wanda the ghost met cecil the ghost and they got into a big argument. The only reason i dident like it was because it really dident go along with the moral of the story because Wanda liked to be messy and cecil was very neat and at the end they ended up living together in a haunted house.

I think that the most vivid parts to me were the the setting and the plot .The setting was easy to visualize and see .For an example when wanda messed up the appartment and put suran wrap under the tolite seat ,and the the food falling out of the refrigorator .The plot of the characters was easy to see also like Zach a en year old boy with dark brown hair and blue eyes was easy to see because i think the author Dan Grennburg did an excellent job explaning!!!

IT'S FACISNATING. THERE IS A LOT OF MYSTERY. IT'S ABOUT A GHOST , NAMED WANDA, WHO IS 8 YEARS OLD AND IS FINDING SOMEBODY TO PLAY WITH. WANDA FINDS AN APARTMENT AND MAKES A MESS OF THE FURNITURE IN THE ROOM . SHE WANTS ZACK TO PLAY WITH HER. BUT ZACK FINDS VERNON WHO HAS A GHOST NAMED CECIL. WANDA HATES CECIL . BUT WANDA AND CECIL PULLS DOWN VERNON'S PANT BECAUSE THEY GET ANGRY WITH VERNON. THE STORY HAS A NICE ENDING BECAUSE WANDA AND CECIL FIND A TOWN CALLED SPOOKSVILLE WHICH CAN'T EVEN SCARE A 5-YEAR OLD. SPOOKSVILLE IS IN THE AMUSEMENT PARK.

Just as much fun as the first one, we're really loving Nate the Great!! In this volume, we join Nate on his first "night case." What is this case? Well, Nate has been hired by his annoying neighbor Oliver whose garbage keeps getting dumped over in the middle of the night...WHO would want to steal GARBAGE?! Nate the Great is on the case in no time flat with a LONG, LONG list of suspects....including just about every neighborhood animal you can think of.

Delivered in the same P.I. voiceover as the first book, Nate the Great continues the great tradition of tough guy private detectives...well, as tough as a kid can get at any rate...I can almost imagine it being read by Leslie Neilson (of spoof flick fame), because there is such an edge of hilarity in each book, that you can't resist getting a total kick out of reading how Nate narrows down the suspects and solves the mystery! Another hit for Sharmat! We're still loving the Nate the Great series and plan to read many more!!

Nate the Great Goes Undercover
Written by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

If you like to solve mysteries, you would like to read Nate the Great Goes Undercover by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. Nate the Great has a challenge ahead of him. The challenge is: Who is tipping over Oliver's garbage can? Nate and his dog Sludge set out at night to solve the mystery. They ask friends, look for clues, and they get down and dirty trying to find out what's happening to Oliver's garbage.
Nate the Great books are really fun to read because there is always a surprise at the end. Are you ready to solve a mystery? Pick up Nate the Great Goes Undercover and you will not be disappointed.

Written by: Devan

Nate the Great is a cool detective who solves lots of mysteries. In this story he is trying to find out who is dumping Oliver's trash. We liked it when Nate the Great went undercover to solve the case. The best part was when Nate runs into a "Stinky Surprise"! We think this is a great book for all second graders.

Nate the Great, the youngest detective to ever deliver tough guy lines, is summoned to his newest case by his next door neighbor, Oliver. Oliver is something of a pest because he follows people. It doesn't matter who they are or where they're going, if they catch Oliver's eye he will follow them. He's followed Nate the Great around on a lot of the cases Nate has been given to find things his friends have lost. Oliver's problem sets Nate on his first night case as a detective. Someone is stealing from Oliver's garbage can and dumping the rest all over the place. Reluctantly, Nate the Great takes the case and is followed by Oliver. Along the way, Nate finds out what Rosamond's four cats will eat. It is a very long list, and not at all what Nate needs to know. Researching the case also leads Nate to the local library to study nocturnal animals. However, the real culprit who is stealing Oliver's garbage is a major surprise!

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat is the author of over twenty Nate the Great adventures, including NATE THE GREAT STALKS STUPIDWEED, NATE THE GREAT AND THE BORING BEACH BAG, NATE THE GREAT AND THE HALLOWEEN HUNT, and NATE THE GREAT AND THE MUSHY VALENTINE. She has written dozens of books for young readers. She named Nate the Great after her father. Her books have been named as Children's Choice books and Junior Literary Guild selections, and been picked as Books of the Year by the Library of Congress.

As usual, Majorie Weinman Sharmat writes a sharp and smartly told tale. Nate the Great is one of the best fictional heroes to ever come about for young readers and pre-readers. Reading one of the Nate the Great books to a pre-reader is a fantastic privilege. The first-person, clipped dialogue is pure pleasure for the reader willing to do "voices." Annie and her dog Fang were absent from this adventure and long-time readers will miss them, but Oliver and Rosamond are there, as well as the usual stumbling blocks Nate encounters. And pancakes-lots and lots of pancakes. The author's clues are there, though, and many alert readers will figure out the solution to the garbage-snatching mystery one step ahead of Nate, which is the best place to figure those things out. Marc Simont's artwork is simple and elegant as always, adding to the enjoyment.

Young readers will enjoy the whole Nate the Great series because the tales are told in a familiar fashion and involve a solid cast of characters that return book after book. These books are also some of the best to choose for read-alouds to pre-readers or for the last story before bedtime because they can be read in just a few moments. The Nate the Great mysteries are fun and addictive for both parent and child.

That is the question that burned in the hearts of those Greeks, who by their own excellence, or ARETE, made lasting contributions to humanity's imagination about being fully human. Just to add a few words to those reviews below:
This is one of those books that simply cannot go out of print as all who have read it and learned from will not let that happen. It's that important! No study of anything Greek would be complete without reading this book. The mesmerizing power that the ancient Greeks continue exert on all intelligent persons everywhere is summed up in their formulation of PAIDEIA, and the manner of their ASKESIS (discipline involved in forging one's true self) in embodying it. Read it well and this book will cleanse you of the muck of modern education, especially of the public kind, and help you think more nobly. That is to say, clearly.

The book shows how the greek people were the first to concentrate their attention on the perfection of MAN and his place in society. Jaeger traces this fact from Homeric times through Plato and explains it through many outstanding writers such as Hesiod, Solon, Sophocles, and many more. He shows the powerful Ideals of the greeks in all their beauty which continue to live on in the world today. He reveals how Poetry, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Politics, Medicine, etc. have their basis in the quest to reach the highest standard imaginable for man and society. The space contributed to Plato is subtantial and the first volume is really only an intro to Plato by the authors own admission. That's a four hundred page intro! But it all leads to the greatest of inventions...Philosphy. I enjoyed the whole book, but the second volume "the search for the divine center" was the best part explaining many things about Plato. To understand in greater depth the influence of these ideals on the western world I recommend reading a book (which I read first) called "The Classical Tradition" by Gilbert Highet whom is also the translator of this book. That book reveals how most of the surviving great works throughout western history were written by authors who were well aware of the greek world and their ideals including many writers in the Christian tradition. Jaeger wrote a short book called "Greek Paideia and Early Christianity" which shows that connection very well. He has convinced me beyond doubt of his statement that the ancient greeks are the educators of the western world.

Anyone with an interest in Ancient Greece must read this book! Jaeger weaves elements of history, anthropology, philosophy, and psychology with masterful dexterity. I've read a number of general texts on Ancient Greek culture. There are some quite good ones out there. H.D.F. Kitto's, The Greeks, is another favorite of mine. Nevertheless, Jaeger's work stands well above the others. He provides a great deal of depth and detail but it never seems to wane as his genius provides a stunning insight on every page. Jaeger uses a concept well-known to classicists, arete, as a synthesizing thread. Paideia, which is roughly equal to our idea of culture, in the sense of 'she is a very cultured woman,' defined the aims and ideals of a Greek education. Arete, a blend of excellence, virtue, nobility, and skill provided a telos for that process of education. Jaeger, using the framework of educational ideals, came to present the true spirit of Ancient Greek culture. This idea, of using educational ideals to survey the depth and breadth of a culture, would rightfully scare a well-educated American. For our educational aims, which are primarily vocational or simply technical, represent a vacuum of higher values and ideals. Even the once powerful currency of 'honor' as a unifying goal has long since expired. A review of Ancient Greece, steeped in values and appreciative of the finest things in life, may rekindle the search and development of values in our own time and place. This book should be a guide for the quest.

Chalk me up as another mesmerized reader. Paideia will take you back to the beginnings of Western Civilization to examine how the Greeks conceived of excellence or arete and the disputes that arose as the new definition ran into the old definitions. Plato is the anchor of the three volumes, and Jaeger treats him with a sense of awe, while I found his ideas as listed in "The Republic" unnerving.

The find of the books for me was Isocrates, the master of rhetoric and a hypochondriac who almost lived to 100. The stories of Isocrates and Demonsthenes renewed by interest in the study of rhetoric. Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Socrates, they are all here. Overall a fantastic trilogy.

A comprehensive and fascinating book about the last few decades of chronobiological research. Are you an "early bird" or a "night owl"? Do you want to know how to deal with jet lag and winter blues? Are you interested in biological rhythms from a scientific or professional point of view? The you have to read this book immediately. It contains nearly everything you always wanted to know about rhythms but were afraid to ask. It's a must-read for medical professionals, psychologists, teachers, trainers and consultants of all kind.

For the first few million years of life, time was measured by sunrise and sunset. Now we have switched to clocks. But the biological clocks that are within all of us don't know how to read clocks. Breakfast, lunch and dinner occur at standard times. Tooth pain is lowest after lunch; proof reading and sprint swimming are best performed in the evening; labour pains more often begin at night and most natural births occur in the early hours; sudden cardiac death is more likely in the morning (from Chapter 1).

The study of biological clocks has gone on for a long time, but as a science is a fairly recent development. Research in just the last few years has dramatically altered the way scientists view them. This book is a snapshot of the way the science appears right now. The pair who wrote the book are a leading researcher in the field and a professional science writer. This is a good combination that gives good enjoyable writing combined with accurate reporting.

What do the disasters of the _Titanic_, the _Exxon Valdez_, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the Union Carbide plant explosion in Bhopal all have in common? They involved human error, and they all happened when the humans ought, by biological fiat, to have been sleeping. We are ruled by our clocks now, but even in the unnatural world we have made for ourselves, we cannot get away from the natural clocks that our cells expect us to follow. Like almost all living things in the planet, from plants to bacteria to birds, we have "a biological clock that was first set ticking more than three billion years ago." In _Rhythms of Life: The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing_ (Yale University Press), Russell G. Foster, a professor of molecular neuroscience, and Leon Kreitzman, a writer and broadcaster, have examined the investigations of a relatively new science, chronobiology, to show just how much sway natural time has over us and other organisms. It isn't just a tale of sleepy people in control making bad judgments, although cognition and prudence do have their daily cycles. We tend to have babies (natural birthing) in the early mornings, and heart attacks in the later morning, and lovemaking around 10 p.m. Physical coordination, liver metabolism, body temperature, heart rate, kidney function, and much more all are paying attention to the biological clock, and when we jump time zones or do shift work, we do so at our peril.

Many of these cycles are specifically examined here, along with the historical hunt for the biological roots of the rhythmicity. A couple of the chapters dealing with the dance of molecules will be daunting for those uninitiated into the basics of cellular biology, but they do well to show the intricacies of the molecular mechanisms and the depth of work that has been done in this field. There are not just daily rhythms, but annual ones. Migratory birds the whole world over know when to start their travels north or south; they do so not by counting the days or paying attention to when the weather changes, but by regulation from the annual changes of lengths of day and night. Plants cannot migrate, but they are regulated by day length, too; wheat flowers, for instance, when the days get long enough, and barley does so when the days start to shorten. The almost universal attention that species pay to daily or annual changes indicates that success comes from being able to predict when winter, or summer, or nightfall, or other events, are coming, and from timing leaf drop, coitus, or swimming upstream to meet the optimum times and conditions. Evolution has selected the species that are best able to predict the future.

In the famous experiments where humans lived in caves or other light-deprived environments, with no capacity to tell time, they eventually locked into their own cycles of a little more than 24 hours. Like most creatures, we have an internal daily rhythm which is not exact, but only approximate; the day night cycle (or for us, such cues as an alarm clock) "entrain" the internal cycle and keep it synchronous with the rest of the creatures on Earth. There are mutant rats and flies who have cycles that are too long or too short, and researchers have productively transplanted brain parts to find out where the actual clocks are. Chronobiologists (a term that even some chronobiologists think of as pompous) are not just doing ivory tower investigations. There are many practical implications of this sort of work. Breast cancers, for example, have an annual pattern of increased and decreased growths, and so searching for the cancer would be more productive at certain times of the year. Chemotherapy for cancers involves poisoning the cancer cells with drugs that are also poisons for regular cells, but cancer cells, with their out-of-control growth, lose their rhythm of growth and division that normal cells retain. Thus it is possible that administering anti-cancer drugs at the time of day when they will interfere the least with the normal cells could reduce the worrisome side effects of the drugs. Asthma is most prevalent at night; medicine for it would be best taken in higher doses at nighttime, rather than every eight hours. The timing of doses in some cases may be as important as what the doses contain. The authors have given a detailed but readable introduction into a new science that will have increasing importance for human health as more is learned.

A comprehensive and fascinating book about the last few decades of chronobiological research. Are you a "early bird" or a "night owl"? Do you want to know how to deal with jet lag and winter blues? Are you interested in biological rhythms from a scientific or professional point of view? The you have to read this book immediately. It contains nearly everything you always wanted to know about rhythms but were afraid to ask. It's a must-read for medical professionals, psychologists, teachers, trainers and consultants of all kind.

The main character of this novel is James, the brother of Jesus. This is hot because his bone box (ossuary) has recently been found in Jerusalem.

This is a great book for history and religion buffs, especially considering the recent discovery in Jerusalem of a Bone Box that may have belonged to James, the brother of Jesus Christ and the main character of this novel. It is told through the eyes of an enamored disciple and blends intrigue with historical fact in relating the story of the religious sect in Kumran, a sect responsible for writing the Dead Sea Scrolls. This book is captivating, readable, and very interesting. I give it five stars.

Here is what is written on the back cover and on the book's web site:

Jesus Christ had a brother, James, as told in the New Testament and by Jesus' contemporary, Josephus.
A purported ossuary of James was recently discovered.
The inscription on the ossuary reads, "James, son of Joseph, the brother of Jesus".
Regardless of the authenticity of the ossuary, the controversy sorrounding it
led many to learn of James' brotherhood to Jesus,
his immense role in early Christianity and his likely connection to the Dead Sea Scrolls -
all of which were intentionally obscured by the Catholic Church.

Through the eyes of an enamored female disciple, This novel,
The Star of Apocalypse, uncovers the obscured and momentous story of
James [Jacob], the brother of Jesus [Yeshua].

Excerpt from the The Star of Apocalyse:

On our way back to the Dead Sea
we camped near the cave where
I had seen the image of Yeshua
when we had first left Jerusalem.
It was the same time of year and
I walked below the same dome of starry skies,
hoping to see the same vision.
A figure appeared, and I recognized Jacob.
'Here it was that I saw your brother's image a year ago.'
'You will not see it again in this world.'
'How can you say that?'
'Let me tell you a story...'

The Synopsis:

Short:
From obscure beginnings and endings in Roman-occupied Jerusalem emerges a throng of religious zealots living in Qumran by the Dead Sea. Conflict is inevitable: with the Romans, but more significantly, within the Jewish sects, and between the Judeo-early Chrisian leadership. James, the brother of Jesus led one way, and Paul the apostle, led the other.

A fantastic read! Not only is the book historically intriguing in presenting and extending the latest compelling contraversial theories, but also an addictively smooth novel.

I see that the author's synopsis is missing from this site, which is a shame. So i will paste it.

The Time is fall, A.D. 62 at Qumran, in the Roman province of Judea.
A Jewish woman laments the death of James, the righteous leader of her sect. She is dismayed that the sect's apocalyptic hopes dependent on James' success have not materialized. Will her soul now be lost forever?

The anonymous narrator reverts to tell James' story. It starts with his appointment as successor by his brother, Jesus at about A.D. 36 and ends with James' execution in A.D. 62.

During the period of James' ministry, his doctrines and authority are continually challenged by Paul, a former persecutor of the sect. Throughout the story, the narrator warns James about Paul's activities. She follows these activities and travels in Paul's footsteps to Tarsus, Antioch and Ephesus. James is not very alarmed about Paul. Thus James' tepid actions aimed at containing Paul do not succeed. Paul becomes uncontrollable in his anti-Jewish actions. James only realizes the reality of Paul's threat at his own execution. After being stoned, James murmurs "How odd of God to choose Saul".

The narrator details her ascetic life with the Qumran community in the Judean desert. How she falls in love with James but realizes that he is unavailable, being a holy man sworn to celibacy. And how in her frustration and self search she marries Eleazar son of Dinai, a real life Robin Hood figure of the first century. She travels around Judea and Asia Minor and describes the scenic, social and religious geography of these areas. She recounts the meteoric rise and untimely death of the last Jewish king of Judea, Agrippa I, who captivates the love and hopes of the people. They believe that Agrippa is the nation's savior.

The narrator befriends Agrppa's daughter Berenice, the skeptic character of this novel, who proffers logical explanations to some of the momentous paranormal events in human history. Berenice also explains the reasons for the deadly hostility between the brothers of Jesus and the priestly brothers, the sons of Hanan, in relation to the literal texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. She proves that Hanan son of Hanan is the "Wicked Priest" of the Scrolls and that the two families were engaged in a blood feud with no holds barred, beginning with Jesus' crucifixion.

Enjoy!

I have a half class set of this book, along with others in the series. I use this as a class assigned book, and have found it to be an excellent way to start the year. The writing is engaging, entertaining and informative. We end each week's reading with a corner book talk which always proves lively and fun.

Great subject for a children book. I got this series of books for my daughter and she really enjoyes reading them. Great read and educational too.

I read this book to my kids and they were completely engaged from cover to cover. Wonderful information is packed into this entertaining book with great illustrations. This book inspired several discussions and projects in our house and we all agree it is a must have for any home library.

I bought this book for my students reading about the American Colonies and Revolution. I didn't feel that I knew enough about Ben Franklin and needed to learn more. My students were facinated about him because he was an inventor and did the experiment with the key and the kite to learn about electricity. I learned so much from this book that I had never known before and the readabilty level is perfect for my students. I can't wait to share this book with them!

A great book for kids that are learning to read and write. The book is about trivia and you learn a lot of little things. My favorite part was when they got to the castle and they went to suite D and Bradworts' anger caught up with him.

I think this book is awesome I've read the book two times My favorite part is when they go to get breakfeast and all they find is ell because the cook of the school was the cousin of the cook at Dragon slayers academy.

I just finished reading aloud book 7 of the Dragon Slayer books to my children (10, 9, & 7). We laughed out loud over and over, again. Personally, I was a little disappointed that no dragons were slain in this book but the kids didn't mind in the least. We especially loved Bragwort running around saying "Who?" and Zelnoc wondering why Wiggie would be bragging about his wart. Keep up the good work, Ms. McMullan!

When I was about 8 or 9, I read all the Bobbsey Twin Books that were available. Of course that was in 1936. Now that I have a 9 year old Grandaughter, I thought she would enjoy them too. And she does. I was really surprised to see how many more books have been written about the Bobbsey Twins. The service was very prompt and she loves the book. jh in CA

My mother ordered the collection of The Bobbsey Twins for me when I was a little girl. I would forward to the new book for the month. I enjoyed many hours of pure pleasure reading those books. My mother had read them when she was a little girl. I was ecstatic to find the series at Amazon.com. I have purchased them all so that I can share them with my niece. I wish I had found them when my sons were growing up. My mother mentioned the books at Christmas when we were talking about how my niece reads everything she can put her hands on. So I searched for the collection and found it at amazon.com.

This book was probably the second book I ever read as a second
grader in 1945. It took me into a mysterious and fascinating world which captivated my imagination ever since. Subsequently I read every Bobbsey Twin book I could get my hands on. Extremely well done series by an outstanding children's author.