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I am a student of West Virginia State College, currently taking a class on Children's Literature. Mr. Samples (A Wonderful Teacher) has instructed us to review a Caldecott Honor book and write our thoughts on it. I read this book and was very pleased to see that it was not only well illustrated and would be enjoyed by children of all ages, but was also a great ABC book. The rhyming of the beginning and ending would make this a good memorizing/practice book for younger children learning the ABC's and the illustrations are funny (using each item as the person's outfit) so that the child reading this would stay interested and learn with fun!! I definitely recommend this book to all parents and teachers who are teaching a child the ABC's!

Most alphabet books serve the purpose they were made for, to help children learn the ABC's, but are full of mediocrity. Some are just plain awful. However, ever now and again an alphabet book is discovered that is pure genius. ON MARKET STREET is such a book. Not only is the book a delight to read and look at, but it includes a slight lesson in giving as well. A young girl goes to market street and buys items that start with each letter of the alphabet. The vendors that sell these items are illustrated in the wares they sell. So the apple man is made of apples and the book lady is made of books, etc. The illustrations are full of imagination and help children associate letters with certain pictures. A delightful book that kids love having read to them.

Alphabet books are a dime a dozen, but very few succeed as well as this one. The plot is simple enough: a child goes to Market Street and buys one item for each letter of the alphabet. What makes this book so special are the ingenious illustrations. Each "merchant" on Market Street is beautifully constructed from the items that he/she is selling. So, for the letter A the first merchant is made out of apples, and for B the merchant is made out of books, and so forth. This makes the pictures not only interesting to look at (and they really are gorgeous), but helps develop sight vocabulary. This book is also a very quick read--you can zip right through it. In the crowded and mostly undistinguished field of alphabet books, On Market Street truly stands out!

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Stephen Guirgis is the most important new playright to emerge in a very long time. A truly unique humane voice that speaks across all cultural and socio-economic barriers.

For those of you familiar with his work, the brilliance of Stephen Guirgis will not be news to you. For those who aren't , he is the most important new playright to emerge in a very long time. A truly unique voice.

I don't know, how good is the English translation, but the story and characters are so good I hope more English readers discover it! It reminds me of C.S. Lewis' writing in this respect, that it speaks deeply to both young and old. You can read and re-read it and it grows as you grow. The story is timeless and its turn-of-the century Budapest setting doesn't make the book dated or hard to relate to. The real setting is in the hearts and minds of children on the brink of adulthood.

For those who are learning the Hungarian language at an intermediate level the original text of this book makes for great reading -- fantastic story and the vocabulary and style are not at all complicated.

This tale of two groups of boys who fight over a vacant lot where they can play in Budapest gripped me from the first page. I couldn't put it down. The boys exemplify old-fashioned bravery and honor and values that have been out of style for a long, long time. The character Boka learns a profound lesson about life - that it encompasses death. I loved this book and I am a middle-aged woman, not the intended young boy audience.

It helps that I read this in Budapest in the neighborhood of Paul utca and the Botanical Garden. When I mentioned the book, my hosts smiled and said I would love it, then took me on a tour of the main sites where the story takes place.

By the way, I don't think it's out of print in Hungary. I saw copies of the English translation in every bookstore in Budapest. It's published by Corvina Books.

The Paul Street Boys is a wonderful tale of bravery, heroism, patriotism, honour, truth, love, war and passion. It contains all these in the microcosm of two groups of teenage boys living in Budapest who are about to fight for a small open space amidst the busy streets of the big city where they can play ball. But that's just the basic plot. The characters, Boka, Feri Acz and Nemeczek especially, are incredible children. They, when I read the book as a child, were a symbol to me of what boys were supposed to be like. Not because they fought. Not because they had fun on their playground. Not because they had secret societies. Because they knew the important things in life: love, honour, home. The story is funny and sad, light and tragic all in one, and more importantly, it teaches a lesson without beating you over the head with it. I learned the lesson when I first read it when I was just a boy, but when I read it now that I am all grown up, it still makes me weep. Why? Because it is about growing up and learning to live and learning that life is about winning and losing and sometimes both at the same time. And at the end of the novel in our souls, just like in Boka's, "for the first time there begins to dawn an understanding of the great mystery of life in which sorrow is so strangely intertwined with joy."

In the hectic public relations business you do not get the opportunity to settle down and relax. I started reading this book and could not put it down. The history and human touches made each recipe uniquely special. I have cooked them and believe me my family is raving about each meal. I was never known for my cooking, but now I am the cook with the book that is making everyone pay me a compliment. When Hollywood stars come to town on a Public Relations tour, I hand them this book so they too can enjoy the local flavors of the Italian Market. They love it. Now everyone can be a Hollywood star with this book. It really is tops!

This book has it all. Good Taste and a hearty insight into the history of a place and it's people. It is both real and wonderful. It captures that eating is a passion and how it makes life more flavorful. The Italian Market comes alive with an aroma of excitement and the recipes recall a time when I was young and Grandmom made foods that filled my tummy and warmed my heart. I am a native to the area and enjoyed reading the book and trying out some of the unique family Italian comfort foods. The bood took me on a tour that is a recipe for success. Celeste Marello gives us so much here. VIVA AMORE!

If you're Italian-American (or, like me, just wish you were) and love your local Little Italy, you'll enjoy this romp through the taste buds of my favorite neighborhood in my favorite city. Ms. Morello proves that Italian-American cooking is more than just a race through red sauce. The recipes are easy to follow (they have to be, considering they're made for the busy families of the local merchants) and tasty. When you're finished reading this book, you'll have a better appreciation of how food can bind a community together AND you'll want to dash to the kitchen to start cooking.

It is all about a girl named Veronica, who plays the violin. People cry because she plays so nice. She takes a trip to the jungle. She travels with some fearless hunters. When the animals appeared the hunters ran away. Veronica played beautiful music and the animals partied. But then a deaf lion came and he did not know about the music and he ate Veronica. This is why the world is not full of happy dancing people!! I love this book!

I bought this book because it made me laugh out loud in the shop when I got to the ending. "Mothers are always right!"... Veronica plays violin beautifully, but terribly sadly... in every picture there are tears tears tears. One day Veronica who is now a star decides to get away from it all and go for a trip to the jungle... incredibly enough she plays music for vicious beasts but it is HAPPY music!! Yes, she will go back and play differently and the streets will be full of happy dancing people, rather than rivers of tears... but then.... Well, you will have to read it yourself for the explanation of why the streets are not full of happy dancing people. So sad you'll laugh!

The watercolor illustrations are great, with even the birds crying. The layouts are charming, and you can spend an enjoyable half hour searching out the tiny lion motifs hidden on the pages.

A highly recommended book with a great sense of humour, foreshadowing, suspense, character development and a climax ending... what more can you ask of a picture book?!

I teach Grade One and my class love this book. It is a fun story with lots of Mr. Mckee's colourful, and rather surrealist, illustrations. This story has a good balance of comedy, tragedy and a sense of the ridiculous. Anyone who has read and enjoyed Not Now, Bernard will love this one.

This book was written by Elizabeth McDavid Jones. I would give this book five stars. Secrets on 26th Street was a historical mystery. A historical mystery is a book about real things that happened in the past, but have included a mystery. It takes place in 1914 when the suffrage problem was going on. There is a secret that Bea is hiding from Susan O' Neal and her two sisters. Bea is a boarder, which is someone who pays someone to live with them and help pay the rent. Susan's mother disappears and Susan decides that the disappearance of her mother has something to do with Bea's secret. To find out more read Secrets on 26th Street. I think you will like it!

This is another very good entry in the "history mystery" series. I've seen it called the best one, although my daughter didn't like it quite as much as "The Smuggler's Treasure" or "Shadows In The Glasshouse". She connected emotionally with Susan, the 11-year-old girl who is the main character, and with the other people in the story. Much of the plot, however, is connected with the women's suffrage movement, which is perhaps a bit difficult for a 21st century ten-year-old to relate to.

"Secrets On 26th Street" takes place in New York in 1914. Susan's widowed mother takes a boarder into their small apartment to help pay the rent. It soon becomes apparent to Susan that there is more to Bea than meets the eye. When Susan's mother mysteriously disappears, Susan is convinced that Bea knows more than she is telling.

This is another good story for young girls. It has an good plot and engaging characters. Informative historical background information is woven in, as well. The historical information is dwelt on a bit too much in this particular book, but overall it is another solid entry in an excellent series. Recommended highly to kids and their parents.

This story combines historical information and the suspense of a mystery, to keep students' interests. This is a good book to use as a book report, as it can be tied into the curriculum.

My daughter loves this book...especially the page where Bert is at the Doctor's office. It helps her know exactly what is what at the Doctor's office and loves to impress the Doctor with her medical vocabulary. All the pages are great and the illustrations are absolutely WONDERFUL!

We bought this book when my son was 1 1/2. We all fall in love with this book. The colorful pictures really draw his attention. He especially loves the pages with planes, boats and construction equipment. My son is now 2 1/2 and still enjoys the book. However I would hope the publisher would have the board book verion. The thin pages would be torn easily because we read it everyday. I highly recommend this book to all parents.

I purchased this book for my 20 month old daughter. She is captivated by it and picks it up 10 times a day. The book is recommended for ages 4-8; however, it is excellent for younger children as well, who learn words and concepts from the elaborate illustrations. This is a MUST have item.

Street Hungry is another book in the series with great characters, an obit writer and an eager (and we know beautiful) reporter, anmd daughter of Benny the Lunch (what a name!) who falls into stories and resolves them with spirit and wit. It's a terrific read. The prose is two cuts above what you get in the genre, you slip into the story and move through a well-developed atmosphere as you follow an intricate, absorbing and utterly believable plot. I'm eager for the next in the series!

With "Street Hungry," Bill Kent raises the bar. His writing style is getting more comfortable with each book, like a worn pair of jeans or a favorite lambswool sweater. His memorable characters border on the surreal, but in a homey, believable sort of way. Like an expert surgeon, Kent dissects the hearts and minds of his characters to let us view the inner workings that make them human. "Street Money," Kent's first Philadelphia based mystery was a joy to read, but with "Street Hungry," his prose reaches new levels of literary merit.
Bill Kent--keep the adventures of Andy Cosicki and Shep Ladderback coming.

On the streets of South Philly, "Weight" Wisnitz sells fruits and vegetables out of a truck at cut rate prices. He's been a fixture in the neighborhoods for years so when he suddenly keels over and dies, one of his regular customers thinks enough of him to call obituary writer Shep Ladderbook of the Philadelphia Press. Shep writes a nice obituary for the colorful man who made an impact so many lives.

A few days later, Ladderback's assistant, Andy Casicki is eating lunch with her mother at the upscale restaurant Loup-Garou when a famous restaurant critic keels over in the same manner as Wisnitz. Andy and Ladderback learn that there have been similar deaths in the city, which raises the obituary writer's curiosity. He investigates the deaths and learns that they lead back to a free clinic, an ambulance company that is always late delivering the bodies, and a generic drug company ready to go public.

STREET HUNGRY is a fascinating who-done-it with so many interrelated sub-plots that is takes the full length of the novel to finally understand how they are linked. The protagonist, a man who has been on top at the paper game for four decades, is a likable character whose contacts developed over forty years allow him to track a story back to its source. Bill Kent looks at the seamier side of life and turns it into a gritty and dark expose of the human condition.

Harriet Klausner

Street Magic is the first novel in a series of urban fantasies based on different magic traditions, but with a twist. Moreover, these stories are all hard-boiled mysteries. This novel invokes the tradition of Tir Nan Og, the land of the Irish Faery.

Scott Russell is an unemployed detective agency operative in San Francisco who has been hired by an old college chum, Ed Thayer, to find his runaway son, Danny. however, Danny has absolutely no desire to return to his father; he only wants who wants to go home to Fairyland. His wishes seem to be coming true when he meets a young woman, Robin, with pointed ears and the ability to use glamour to conceal or disguise herself and others.

Robin is a scatterling, a drifter from Tir Nan Og, who moves in and out of the human's world as the mood strikes her. However, she and her fellow scatterlings can no longer cross back to Tir Nan Og without the assistance of a Full Blooded Sidhe. When Danny sees through her glamour, she begins to think that he is a Full Blooded changling, a Keymaster, and her ticket home if only he can remember how to open the gallitrap.

Scott is assisted in the case by Liz Gallegher, a reporter on the Midnight Star, who is tired of making up crazy articles and wants to properly investigate a real story for a change. They are greatly helped in their efforts by a fantasy novel, The City Under the Hill, which tells of the restrictions placed on the gallitraps between Tir Nan Og and the world of humans.

Recommended for Reaves fans and anyone who enjoys a good fairy tale with a different ending.

This wonderful book, set in the city San Francisco, is of exciting adventure with a run-away teenage boy, and many other characters that you learn about through out the book, the whole thing is almost directed like from a movie point of view. Great book, wonderful for young-adults, though, yes there's profanity in it... but, it's only neccessary for details... READ IT!

I found this book a few years ago in the library. I read it. I LOVED it. And then, like a good library person I turned it in, thinking that I would be able to read it again some day. The brilliant colors of its imagery are still emblazoned on my mind many years later. Unforunately, the next person to check out the book did not feel obligated to return it at all, the library never purchased another copy, and now it has gone out of print. If I could get my hands on a copy of this book today I would snatch it up soooooooo fast..... Be warned, however, that it has extensive profanity. Wouldn't want anybody to be offended. = )

Every visitor going to New Orleans should take this book along. There is a quick, easy to read history of the city filled with many pictures of important people, flags flown over New Orleans and a map. There is a lot of information put into this small book. I found that it added a lot to read it just before we visited New Orleans.

Mardi Grais takes on new meaning when you know the history and importance of the places and people of old New Orleans. This pocket size handy guide helps one come away with a sense of the importance of this place in our American history.

This small book offers both the tourist and historian insights on little known facts about the origin of street names for the tour of historic New Orleans. It is written with humor and history. Excellent for one's first or tenth trip to this wonderful city. Map of the old city is helpful.