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This one is fun due to the rhymes and the interactivity--lifting flaps to reveal the bugs underneath. Our toddler loves to identify the bugs.

Feathered Dinosaurs written by Christopher Sloan is a well-written and highly illustrated book about dinosaurs having feathers, either as young or as adult for display during mating.

This book is an easy read and could be read in the age group of 9 to 12 years old. With that said, adult readers will get information from the book as well. The theory that dinosaurs had feathers has been around since the 1970's, but the fossil record is now being tapped and as paleontologists probe further into the fossil they are uncovering more and more evidence that, indeed, certain dinosaurs did have feathers.

Dinosaurs, being endothermic, that is warm-blooded, needed protection from hot and cold and feathers work well for this purpose. Like birds of today, the use of feathers make for a good display during mating and also, for recognizing like-kind, but more importantly to help regulate body temperature.

After 65 millions years since the extinction of the dinosaurs took place, we find that the flying dinosaurs made it and advanced through time to the present. One of the amazing stories of nature and her will to survive, the reason should be obvious... they could fly great distances and avoid climatic changes.

Searching for clues for the connectionbetween dinosaurs and birds of today, one has to have a keen sense of observation and compare the two. Using your sense like a detective, you must check the bones, eggs, and, of course, the feathers. More and more evidence is being unearthed every day and making the connection between early birds and dinosaurs is becoming clearer.

This book is part of the National Geographic Society collection of books on dinosaurs and is well worth the money. If you have a child who likes dinosaurs this is a book to check out and consider to purchase for them. So, after 65 million years we are finding out that the birds we see out and about our front and backyards are indeed descendants of a time long since gone.

Gleaned from more than 450 hours of live radio interviews, Fly Fishing Is Spoken Here is a handsome volume that belongs on the bookshelf of every literate fly fisher. Interviews with the likes of James Prosek, Ernest Schwiebert, Valerie Haig-Brown, Joseph Humphreys, Robert Linsenman, Fen Montaigne, and ten others provide a unique perspective not only on these individuals but on the sport they clearly love.

Credit editor Stephen Sloan, perhaps best thought of as the Larry King of the fishing world, for recognizing the unique vitality of the spoken word and capturing its essence in these interviews collected from his weekly nationally syndicated radio show, "The Fishing Zone." That this collection originated as dialogue, with all the spontaneity and flow of conversation intact and preserved, ensures that each of the interviews captured bears an immediacy and honesty seldom retained in conventional narrative about the sport. It's surely no accident that the effect of reading this book bears no small resemblance to the sport it explores: it's somewhat like immersing oneself in a trout stream, fly rod in hand, and enjoying the unpredictable process of discovering the treasures that lie within.

And credit publisher William Trego with creating yet another beautiful limited-edition volume from his Meadow Run Press. The heir apparent to the Derrydale Press of an earlier generation, no other publisher of sporting titles today produces books of such consistently high quality and beauty, and this volume certainly adds to that well-deserved reputation. Slipcased and with original paintings and drawings by the subject of the book's opening interview, James Prosek-a young artist hailed by The New York Times as "a fair bid to become the Audubon of the fishing world"-this is a book with, believe it or not, heft and beauty significant enough to outweigh and obscure its hundred-dollar price tag. Each of the 750 copies is signed by Sloan and Prosek, ensuring that this book is certain to remain in high demand.

Until reading this book, I was wholly unaware of efforts by General Motors' lawyers to prevent the publication of Sloan's memoir My Years with General Motors which is generally considered one of the most important business books ever written. McDonald was Sloan's ghost writer (hence the dual meaning of the book's title) and provides a compelling account of how and why the book was finally published in 1963. McDonald suggests that a study in 1921 (discussed in Sloan's memoir) recommended "covering" all prospective buyers of automobiles by designing, manufacturing, and marketing a complete line for various "price steps." In that event, GM lawyers feared, federal regulatory agencies would become involved and seek to dismantle what could be perceived as a monopoly. In 1962, McDonald initiated a lawsuit against GM. He was at that time still employed by Fortune magazine. Almost immediately, Time Inc. "entered the game", fearing loss of GM advertising. It would be a disservice to both McDonald and to those who read this review to reveal what happened next. To my surprise, the book became a "page turner" and remained so to its conclusion. McDonald tells a lively story with colorful characters, a complicated plot, all manner of crises and conflicts, subtle (and not-so-subtle) manipulations, and conflicts of interests while -- along the way -- examining a legal system exploited but which ultimately prevailed. A great read.

For those readers who enjoy a well-written story with a wry humour and an intricate plot, they cannot go wrong with Catherine Aird. Her Sloan/Crosby series is truly delightful. She uses wry humour, tongue-in-cheek and puns like an expert, but the plot and story do not suffer from this. Her plots are complex and she enters into all kinds of fields. In this book an elderly lady passes away from what seem to be natural causes, but the preparations she has made in the event of her death are so complex, that it alerts Sloan and his team that there is something more to this. Before he's done figuring out the mystery, he's had to probe into history from the Second World War. The story is told with elegance and style, and is as sharp as tacks. Catherine Aird knows how to write a mystery.

As a boy, I loved the How and Why Wonder Book series. They brought science, technology, and history alive in a way that school certainly never did. This volume on robots and electronic brains was one of my favorites- and one of the harder titles to find.

Reviewing this book (originally written in 1963) I am amazed at how non-dated some of the material is. Sure, there is no mention of integrated circuits and chips, but the basics of computers and data processing are the same. The discussion of binary notation and flow diagrams could have come from any modern introductory text. I will admit that the mention of "key punch" machines is dated (though I certainly remember using them.)

It is the great, often colorful illustrations of experimental industrial and research robots that really capture your imagination ( Electro, Sparco, Mobot, Moby-Dic, Prospector, Etc.) The shear optimism about a better future is quite refreshing.

I wonder how many other working-class kids who went on to take degrees in science and engineering started out by first reading these books....

In this collection of 16 short stories, 3 feature Henry Tyler of the Foreign Office, 2 don't feature series characters, and the rest feature Inspector C.D. Sloan. His colleague, Inspector Harpe ('Happy' Harry, who's never seen anything to smile about in Traffic Division) gets his fair share of the stage.

"Blue Upright", "Cause and Effects", "Slight of Hand" - These 3 Henry Tyler mysteries can be found on the unabridged audio _Cause and Effects_, read by Edward Raleigh (see my review for details).

"Bare Essentials" - See my review of the audio collection of the same name.

"Devilled Dip" - Anthony (known as 'Ant'), as a professional pickpocket, doesn't take much stock in his wife's announcement that his horoscope says he'll be the life and soul of the day's events.

"Double Jeopardy" - While Sloan and Crosby are waiting for a report in the mortuary, Dr. Dabbe the pathologist tells one of his doctor father's stories, about an experimental high-fever treatment for VD (infecting the subject with malaria to sort of cancel things out) that very nearly went into the doctor instead of the patient...

"A Fair Cop" - This is really Happy Harry's case rather than Sloan's. A young nurse, coming off duty late one night, found herself being pursued by another driver for miles. (That story doesn't turn out quite the way you'll expect; very clever.) Now Harpe has 'chummie' locked inside a car, and wants Sloan (as CID) to tell him what the creep can be charged with, since the girl mercifully hasn't been hurt.

"The Hard Sell" - Harpe, meeting Sloan over tea and sandwiches in the police canteen, had to deal with a death by motorcar at the Calleshire Classic Car Club. A Jaguar being put through an engine test for a prospective buyer, with no one at the wheel, managed to kill a man. Sloan has to cross-examine Harry to get all the details.

"Her Indoors" - Leeyes is relaying a request to Sloan from the Assistant Chief Constable: he'd like Sloan's opinion, as a working detective, on an unnamed woman whose husband was murdered by her daughter's boyfriend. See if you can work out exactly who the ACC is asking about before Leeyes spells it out.

"Home is the Hunter" - Sloan and Crosby are sent to carry out an extradition order on Laura Vercollas, whose much older husband died in suspicious circumstances in a small-town hotel in France. If she didn't kill him, what happened?

"Lord Peter's Touch" - This was originally written for a book dedicated to *the* Lord Peter. As it happens, the 8 ringers at Almstone church in Calleshire are always called after the ringers in Sayers' _The Nine Tailors_, and one of the ringers was killed when his bell's stay broke, toppling the bell over its balance point and slamming the ringer on the other end of the rope into the ceiling. This story consists of Sloan's final report to Superintendent Leeyes; a friend of the Almstone rector's, substituting for (who else?) the ringer called William Thoday, seems to have worked out most of the case before Sloan even arrived.

"The Man Who Rowed for the Shore" - In an unusual twist, the viewpoint character is Norman Pace, who has just cleverly arranged the murder of his wife. He seems to have thought of everything, even timing matters so that her death and funeral arrangements happened while he was out of the country. The question is how Sloan will ever find out about it, let alone be able to prosecute, as Pace had his wife cremated and is about to scatter the ashes at sea.

"Memory Corner" - Crosby has just taken a call from Almstone University, asking the CID to please come around, because the caller just killed a man. (Sloan's first reaction is to call people in white coats instead). We're treated to the weirdest confession of a supposed murderer I've seen in a long time - is the guy crazy, or crazy like a fox?

"The Misjudgement of Paris" - Henry Molland has the most experience in among the candidates, but isn't likely to win in the final interviews for general manager (UK), being held in Paris to see how the candidates get along without support staff - the higher-ups think he's too old. Instead of having a stag night with the other candidates, he opts for breakfast with his daughter in the hotel on the morning of the final interview, which has unexpected consequences. Not a mystery, but entertaining.

"One Under the Eight" - Sir Paul Markham of Almstone is a distinguished scientist, working for a clandestine agency. (Sloan has some private, uncomplimentary comparisons with a nutter under the railway arches who also has problems with unnamed outside agencies.) Sir Paul's research was stolen the night before, and now the chief constable has been called in to help contain the problem - because only 3 members of the security agency could have tipped off whoever bypassed Sir Paul's security system. The question is, when did any of them have a chance to pass on the information, and how did they do it? They were at a wine-tasting exhibition all evening...

"Steady as She Goes" - After the sudden death of Anna Macmillan, Dr. Dabbe found she died of antimony poisoning. Her sister says the husband did it - but he shared the cocktails that were the last thing his wife had to drink, and both the husband and the sister have financial motives. How did the poison get into the victim, and when?

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