Stray

"Butterflies," a field guide co-authored by Jonathan P. Latimer and Karen Stray Nolting, is a beautiful and informative guide to this fascinating family of insects. A well-written introduction gives basic information about butterfly anatomy, the butterfly life cycle, and other relevant matters. But the main body of the book consists of individual profiles of many major species of butterfly.

Each two-page spread consists of text, a full-color photograph of a representative insect, and excellent full-color drawings by artist Amy Bartlett Wright. Highlighted sections of each spread focus on each butterfly's habitat, its favorite plants, and the best times of the year that it can be seen. By the time you finish the book, you will be familiar with the Tiger Swallowtail, the Variegated Fritillary, the Red Admiral, and many other colorful species.

This is a fascinating book which will be useful to both adventurous types who like to view butterflies in the wild and to those who prefer to read about butterflies from the comfort of their study. And although the book is marketed for young people, I believe it would also be appealing to adults. Ultimately, the authors and illustrator have created a beautiful tribute to a marvelous family of living beings.

We thought Rowley was funny. We liked it when he used the bathroom in the cave. While meanwhile Henny was trying to save another boy's life. Our whole group laughed when Henny asked Rowley what kind of music they played at the dentist and Rowley answered,"The Beatles!"We thought Henny was weird. We thought the book was great.

My book is called The Stray, It takes place on the beach and at a nursing home and a house that a old lady runs away from the nursing home because she was bored at the nursing home. This book has lots of action. This is sad too because the old lady thought this boy at the beach was drowning and she thought it was a boy that she knew and she went out to the water and picked the boy up and carried him to the beach. The boy was saying let me go and this boy's dad said to this old lady let go of my son so the old lady let go of the boy and saw the boy that the old lady was looking for then she had a heart attack. Then she fell over on the beach. Then the boy's dad came to the beach and saw the old lady that he lived with on the sand of the beach.
I think everybody that likes to read should like this book because it has lots of action. I think all ages would like this book because it has kids in it that little kids would like and it has hard words in it for older people.
The author's main idea is a old lady running away and living with 4 kids and a mom and a dad. In the morning the kids and the old lady goes to the beach. and at night they go home and sleep.
I would give this book 15 stars if it was a scale from 0-15 and i would also give it two thumbs up.

this book was a nice, pleasant, funny, book. though it is short, it has great characters like henny, rowley, and sweep. sweep is so cool.

I bought this book in a paperback version at a book fair. I heard good things about it and I like Marc Simont's illustrations in other books. I picked it up because it is a Caldecott Honor Book. It turns out to be a beautiful story that everyone in the family will enjoy. It is based on a true story but depicted in a way that children can understand the storyline easily. It shows children that fall in love with a stray and the parents tell the kids that the dog must belong to someone else. Eventually, everyone in the family is thinking about the dog and what happened with him. At the end of the week, they return to find the dog running from the dog catcher. I am not sure if children are familiar with dog catchers but it can lead into a discussion. It shows that the family is willing to take on the responsibility of loving a stray. It shows empathy to animals and caring by kids. Children need to learn love animals but to be careful of stray animals. However, children will be moved by this sweet story and cheer for the dog! I definitely recommend it!

One Saturday a very nice family of four go to the park for a picnic and find a straggly stray pup. They name him Willy and spend the day playing with him. When it's time to pack up and go, the children want to take Willy home with them, but their parents tell them no, Willy probably belongs to someone else and they sadly leave him behind. The next week is excruciatingly long and whole family spends it thinking about Willy. When Saturday comes, they go back to the park on the pretense of another picnic, but are really hoping to find Willy. Just when they think they'll never see him again, he appears, in the dog catcher's net. Happily, the family claims him...Willy's found a new home and they've found a new pet..... Award winner, Marc Simont has written a lovely, gentle, true to life story that will capture your family's heart. His simple and straighforward text is only outdone by his very detailed and expressive artwork. While looking at these illustrations, youngsters will actually feel the joy of finding this little furry friend, sense the sadness of leaving him behind and worry, right along with the family, about his welfare. This is a terrific picture book, perfect for kids aged 3-7, your entire family can share and a wonderful addition to all home libraries.

My children(ages 6,4,2) and I love this book. It has a lovely little story with a very nice message. Any parent or child who loves animals, especially dogs, will love this story. The illustrations are lovely too. Highly recommended for children aged 2-8.

I bought this book a couple of months before my son was born. I began to read it everyday and gained a great amount of wonderful knowledge. This book has helped me with knowing what to expect from my son and what his "special needs" are. I highly recommend this book to any new parent or parent to be of a child with Down Syndrome.

When my husband and I found out our beautiful daughter (first child) had been born with Down Syndrome, we were devastated. We immediately began thinking the worst. Fortunately for us, my mother had taken the time to go to the library and find books on Down Syndrome, as noone in our family had ever experienced it. She gave this book to me when she was finished reading it, and it changed our lives. It was so imformative and helpful, and did much to put our minds at ease about our new daughter's potential. She is now 3 years old, and living up to all of our expectations! This book is a great relief!

We were told, in the delivery room, that our son had down syndrome. That was not what upset us, it was the pediatric specialist telling us all the bad things that "would happen" to our son. We were desperately looking for information on D.S., but nothing was really clear that we saw on line. Our doctor at Child Development had this book so we went to Borders and got it. It is written in a way that makes it easier for someone to understand all the possibilities. Basically, a D.S. child can do anything as long as he/she has the opportunity and support. Our first hurdle was the V.S.D., he had heart surgery at 4 months as he was unable to put on weight or even keep the weight he had gained. He has gained 7 pounds and is 7 months. We play with him all the time in ways to develope his muscle tone and his P.T. says, in one month, he has done a major improvement. We cross each bridge as it comes but we make it fun. We constantly us the book for reference when we have a question or need a clarification, it is always on our kitchen table.

I've seen several books and articles on Japanese photography that seem to feature bad cameras, low resolution, muddy printing/reproduction. This is one of them. However, the pictures are disturbing, affecting. Some don't work for me.

Does it help to say, I lost a copy of this in a fire, and am buying it back?

Or that I recommend it highly to anybody who thinks they need better equipment to take good photographs.

As someone who saw Moriyama's fantastic show at the SF MOMA I had to buy this book. Great gritty black and white photos examining post WWII Japanese Culture. Includes a fairly extensive intro detailing his influences and his career.

Loved this book; it's pure brain candy! The characters are vivid and surreal, which adds to the book's appeal.
Fetch a glass of iced tea, settle into your recliner, and escape the workaday world with 'Stray Not Beyond.'
Within minutes, you will forget your worries as Carslile enounters a kaliedoscope of hilarious characters.

I highly recommend this reading to anyone who dares to stray beyond the threshold of what is familiar and comfortable into a world of twists and turns with a variety of flavorful and unexpected encounters, delightfully descriptive scenes, events, emotions, characters and the overall mystery of what happened to who and whatand when. The adventure will perk your imagination up and perhaps make you appreciate the return to your home and comfortable surroundings. I could not put the book down and now write with blurry eyes to tell my friends NOT to miss "STRAY NOT BEYOND"

This book has given me an entirely new outlook on life and myself. It is amazing how this book was able to erase years of shame pressed upon me by society.

Helen Fisher tackles an extraordinarily important but seldom scientifically scrutinized aspect of human existence; love.

In this book she delves into the physiological and behavioral contributors to the state of being in love. Referencing both nature and nurture, the animal kingdom, and (still relatively) modern science she makes a darn interesting case to support "objectively quantifiable" factors as being responsible for an oft classified "ethereal" love.

Fun, informative, intensly interesting, I recommend this book highly.

Enjoy...

As I biologist, I am constantly frustrated by the unscientific (and often ultra-philisophical) interpretation that goes on when considering humanity, and particularly love. This book took the extreme interest that exists about human sexuality and love, and places them in a scientific light, without necissarily demonizing or undermining the amazing feelings that go along with love; Fisher simply explains the science behind these amazingly rich and powerful feelings in an attempt to better know ourselves.

I like this book 'Stays Like Us' because it's about two kis, a boy and a girl, that have the same problem and become friends over that problem. I also like the book because the girl was tough, which you don't really see, and thought she knew everything but found out you can't know everything. One thing I didn't like about the book is the girl was a little too tough, like she fell out of a tree and didn't get hurt.

My favorite part of the book was when Emma, the girl, was in the bathroom and a short boy, who was in her grade, was in there too. Emma beat him up and a teacher came in and took them to the office.

The most vivid story elements would have to be setting and conflict. The setting was vivid because the girl kept talking about what she hated about the town where she was. the conflict was vivid because Emma kept wondering when her mom would come back an get her, which never happened.

Strays Like Us by Richard Peck is a fictional story about a girl name Molly Moberly. Molly is a 12-year-girl sent to live with her Aunt Fay in a small Missouri town while her mtoher is in the hospital. Aunt Fay, a distant relative, is Molly's only family. Aunt Fay works hard all over town as a home nurse. Molly waits for her mom everyday to come back. Molly is a pretty good artist but she only draws pictures of Debbie, her absent mother. She meets a boy named Will McKinney, who lives with his grandparents next door. Will tells Molly that they are two strays living with relatives. The McKinney's have a secret that will change Will's family dramatically.

School starts, and Molly has to enroll because her mom has not came back for her yet. Not making any friends, Molly meets a home-schooled girl named Tracy at the public library. Everything is so perfect. Molly thinks that it would be cool to have a girl as a friend until Tracy invites her over and Molly realizes that she is not accepted in Tracy's world. Others, including her teachers, try to take Molly out of her shell but they fail in doing that. When Molly learns the terrible truth about her mother, the dramatic experience will change her forever. This book will keep you turning the pages at the edge of your seat. Molly and Will are Strays Like Us in this unraveling five star novel recommended for everyone!!
By: Ariel, Camille, Kristen, and Stefanie
Ms. Malone's 7th grade reading class!

I have read a lot of books; three or four a week for the last 20 years. Many many of them have been very good. Few, however, are written as well as this one. Richard Peck is a fine author. I believe this may be his best book.

It is not a long story, I read it in just a few hours. The depth of character development in this book is amazing, though. Also, Peck chooses his words so well. Many times I found myself thinking, "My this is good!" I wish I could write that way.

What I find most interesting, however, is Peck's use of punctuation marks - or lack of it. About halfway through the book, I realized that he never used exclamation points. Oh, he did one or two times for a minor character, but never, not once, for the main character, Molly. Not during the fight. Not at the McKinney's on Thanksgiving Day. Not when she found out about her mother. Never once. Read the book with that in mind and notice how well it fits the story.

Highly recommended. I am buying a personal copy of this book now.

You call tell Hall was a military intelligence general; this book reads like a PowerPoint briefing! He displays only a rudimentary understanding of computers and cyberspace, although the discussion clearly fleshed out by outside reading. However, we're unable to follow his research because Hall fails to include a bibliography, although he does provide a short list of references in the endnotes. Hall's expertise does show when he is discussing military and intelligence subjects, but he falters when trying to link these topics to computers. A better text would be James Adams' "The Next World War: Computers Are the Weapons and the Front Line Is Everywhere."

Stray Voltage provides rare insights into Information Age warfare and its practical prosecution in the physical, cyber, and cerebral domains . . . at a granularity I don't believe any author has achieved to date.

Hall presents Information Age warfare as a form of intellectual combat where the brightest, most cerebrally agile competitor moves to shape the environment, thinking, and practical outcome of his opponent--much like other futurists and military thinkers. But he goes much further. Hall's future battlefield is more than a geographically constrained force, state, or region; it's the here-and-now, day-to-day technical infrastructure delivering knowledge and knowledge advantage. Our opponents are not the seemingly predictable military forces of recent conflicts, but are thinking, adaptive threats maneuvering within the infrastructure, promising to become whatever our security posture is not. His view of the future soldier also defies convention. The future soldier is not simply the high tech-hybrid we see on posters, but a profoundly educated, well-trained cyber-warrior armed with knowledge engines, mining tools, protected infrastructures, and an unequalled capacity to sense, adapt, and act. . . as an individual, and in aggregate.

Exceptional. I gained something new in every chapter.

Stray Voltage deserves a careful read by any seeking to understand and apply Information Age principles in operations, security, and training. Advanced Warfighting and Homeland Defense practitioners probably should read it again within the first year, and annually thereafter. Too bad we can't encrypt the contents. I'm confident our opponents will read it as well.

Enemies of the U.S. who lack military might and money will use the strategies and tools of asymmetric warfare to win future conflicts: that's the contention of Wayne Michael Hall, a retired general with thirty years of intelligence experience. From potential conflicts prepared for with cyberspace to information superiority and deception, Stray Voltage advises a public and a governmental focus on merging brainpower with technology to meet and master this new threat.

Most of the reviews for this book are great, but I personally was terribly disappointed. I think this book should have been ABOUT HANK'S DEATH. It's not fair to kill off such an integral part of the Kat series and treat it as a secondary plot. I can only hope the next book will focus on that. I also missed Kat's family and friends. Even Charity seemed distant. I know, I know - a loss like that makes us act and feel differently, but the truth is, if Karen Kijewski and Kat Colorado's names had been changed, I would not have recognized the writing OR the character (except Charity, from the letters). I don't like that much. I like Kat and have been waiting a long time for the arrival of this book in Australia. Sorry, folks, but this was not a joyous reunion. Maybe I would have liked it better if she (KK) had just created a new character instead of using Kat in this story.

Let me say from the get go, I love the Kat series! Awesome character that does not take any junk from anyone! But...
Why in this world did Karen Kijewski kill off Hank? And why in the world didn't Kat go after the answers for why it happened? I was disappointed in that. But, I would still read any other books that Ms. Kijewski writes. Yeah, they're that good. Just don't kill off anyone else that just proposed marriage to the main character that the main character happens to love!!!

I had never heard of Karen Kijewski, although I am an avid Mystery reader, until I found the entire set at a used book store one day. I loved all 9 but was not happy with this last one for 2 reasons - she killed off Hank and this was apparently her last book. Does anyone know what happened to this author, why she's never written anymore in the series? I'm hungry for more!!! I liked Sue Grafton up to a point, but Kat Colorado has it all over the Grafton character. I've tried everything I can think of to find out more about Kijewski but have come up emtpy. If anyone knows anything, I would love an answer...