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19 reviews
Colin Turnbull

Touchstone, 1987

Excellent
This beautiful anthropoligical work told in a srory is extrenmle fascinating.THE FOREST PEOPLE echoes such works as USURPER AND OTHER STORIE, and SAN PEOPLE. I was completely captivated by this book, which is why I read it four times this winter. It is taking me a step forward in coming to terms with life's different perspectives.

The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers

62 reviews
Betsy Lerner

Riverhead Trade, 2001

One of My Favorite Writing Books
Betsy Lerner is the legendary editor who published Elizabeth Wurtzel's "Prozac Nation" and held her hand through the writing of her second book (detailed in More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction, incidentally). Lerner understands authors and reading this book is like writers' therapy. I've re-read this book every year or two since its publication, and will continue to do so for many years. ...

The Light in the Forest (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)

174 reviews
Conrad Richter

Everyman's Library, 2005

No Heroes Here
I just completed reading this to my pre-teen kids, who enjoyed the story and who became particularly engaged as the complexity of the moral drama intensified in the final two chapters. There are many reviews on this page that summarize the plot, and I won't repeat everything except as is needed to make a few points in review. It's a good book, although I got a little whiff of "PC" early in the ...

Forest of Secrets (Warriors, Book 3)

57 reviews
Erin Hunter

HarperTrophy, 2004

Warrior's rule!
All of the Erin Hunter books are great! I just love them and have read them many times over. I am not a reader, I hate to read!!! But give me a Warrior series book and leave me alone for a few days. They are the best. Thanks Erin for opening up a new world for me.

Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)

5 reviews
Dave Jacke, Eric Toensmeier

Chelsea Green, 2005

Permaculture Tour-de-force!
If you are a home gardener who has ever stopped to wonder whether permaculture was useful to you, you need to read these books. If you are an intermediate to advanced permaculturist, you will revel in these books. If you want to understand how a single individual with a garden can make the world a better place, you need to read these books. Jacke and Toensmeier lay out an incredible vision in ...

The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking)

21 reviews
Mollie Katzen

Ten Speed Press, 2000

Beautiful and inspiring
Although not as practical as other cookbooks in some regards, this is definitely among my favorites. As other reviewers stated, some of the recipes are lengthy and best suited to weekends when you have a lot of time to do a major cooking session. What I love about this book is the whimsical nature of it, and the way Katzen conveys such love and joy at preparing the dishes. The hand-lettering ...

Daughter of the Forest (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Book 1)

257 reviews
Juliet Marillier

Tor Books, 2002

Gorgeous fairy tale retelling
First book in the Sevenwaters trilogy. Marillier has crafted a gorgeous retelling of a Celtic fairytale. Lord Colum, an Irish widower, with six sons and a daughter, buries his grief at his beloved wife's death by throwing himself into fortifying his stronghold in order to withstand the endless attacks of the Britons. Finbar believes that his father is too harsh and decides to help a ...

Into the Forest

126 reviews
Jean Hegland

Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1998

The best book I've read this year!
Follow the lives of Nell and Eva, two sisters forced to face life in an eerie and horrific apocalyptic world. The authors descriptive first person narrative brings all of the emotions to the surface which grips the reader through this entire book. She also creates a warm and seductive landscape painted with memories of what was and with the horrors of what is. Sure to please the palate with an ...

A Field Guide to Eastern Forests: North America (Peterson Field Guides (R))

5 reviews

Houghton Mifflin, 1998

A Great Buy, Very Interesting
This is a great field guide that covers many aspects of forests East of the Great Plains. Although it covers many common species of both animal and plant, it is not overly helpful for positively identifying individual species; and if one wants that, you are better off with a more specific field guide (i.e., Eastern Birds). It does, however, detail the workings of a forest and accompanies this ...

Children of the Forest (Mini Edition)

15 reviews
Elsa Beskow

Floris Books, 2005

A favorite from my childhood
All the Elsa Beskow books, but particularly this one, are very, very special, as you will see from the very first page. I read many of them as a child, and they have stayed with me into adulthood. The children of the forest are tiny creatures that people usually don't see, since their hats look like mushroom caps. This short and wonderfully-illustrated book chronicles the adventures of a family ...

Forest Plants Of The Southeast And Their Wildlife Uses

6 reviews
James H. Miller, Karl V. Miller

University of Georgia Press, 2005

Plant Field Guide
This is an excellent plant guide with great photo illustrations. The use of as many as four images to illustrate a plant makes this book one of my favorite plant guides.

Forest Ecology

2 reviews
Burton V. Barnes, Donald R. Zak, ...

Wiley, 1998

Excellent Forest Ecology Text
This book was required text for a 400+ level undergrad (Junior/Senior) and graduate course at the University of Maine. I thought the text was very engaging, and adequately and thoroughly covered the major themes in Forest Ecology. This text continues to serve as a reference for me as I used this text for comprehensive examination review and in writing my dissertation. I have not reviewed other ...

The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

3 reviews
Allan G. Johnson

Temple University Press, 2008

Perfect for an Intro Course
Johnson explains the sociological imagination and its importance in simple, easy to understand language. He references the major thinkers in sociology such as Mills, Marx, Mead, etc. while describing their ideas in more contemporary language. My students love reading this book prior to everything else in the course. It sets the framework for dealing with issues like gender inequality, ...

Rain Forests (Magic Tree House Research Guide)

2 reviews
Will And Ma Osborne

Random House Books for Young Readers, 2001

Good info, v. readable
Our girls read this after a trip to the Amazon, and found lots that they recognized & enjoyed. The standard of information is rather higher than that in the Magic Tree house books, which is reasonable, given that they don't have to worry about plot & characters as well! If your child enjoys Magic Tree house, and would like to know more about the Amazon this is fine, but I would also recommend ...

The Trees in My Forest

14 reviews
Bernd Heinrich

Harper Perennial, 1998

Wonderful Demonstration of the Naturalist Mind
I am always on the lookout for books that demonstrate a naturalist's mind to my students. I have often used May Watt's Reading the Landscape of America, which is still a classic in the genre. This semester I will be using The Trees in My Forest. It is nothing short of a pleasure to follow Heinrich as he muses on the trees, their guests, their prey and their admirers in his forest. ...

Forest Stand Dynamics

1 review
Chadwick D. Oliver, Bruce C. Larson

Wiley, 1996

It's a good book for forest studies
This is a good book for forest studies. They reviewed so many papers (more than 2000 papers) in forest dynamics. It's a good tool if you want to find out more references quickly and easily for your researches.

The Forest Lover

45 reviews
Susan Vreeland

Viking, 2004

Walking in the life of an artist
Vreeland's account of Emily Carr's life paints a visual conception of her life that feels like a personal experience. Her writing reminds me of Barbara Kingsolver, another favorite of mine. She is very descriptive in both scenery and characters. There are times when I wonder if I read the experience of Carr's life or if I dreamt it. This is a wonderful read when you are hungry for good ...

Tropical Rain Forest

2 reviews
Donald M. Silver

McGraw-Hill, 1998

Great, whether you get to the rain forest or not
The One Small Square series is wonderful: the concept is that you take a hypothetical square foot of an environment- woods, seashore, arctic tundra, rainforest, etc.- and explore it at all levels, from underground to the sky. Each book is extensively illustrated with all of the inter-connected layers of life- from fungus to megafauna- in the Square. On the margin of most of the 2-page spreads are ...

Deep in the Forest (Picture Puffins)

4 reviews
Brinton Turkle

Puffin, 1992

a great "read" for little ones
This retelling of the Goldilocks story is a big hit with my three-year-old. Without words, the illustrations show a little bear's adventures in a little girl's cabin. While she and her parents are out the bear investigates the porridge, the chairs and the beds. The family returns and the drawings of the little girl's indignant reaction to her spilled porridge and broken chair are priceless. ...

How to Make a Forest Garden

8 reviews
Patrick Whitefield

Permanent Publications, 2002

Finally, a 'forest garden blueprint' for us all.
If you are looking for a book that will inspire you to make a forest / woodland garden then this book has everything and more. When the realisation of low-maintenance gardening can produce such an incredible variety of produce, in such a sustainable way, it defies belief that this way of gardening is not implemented all over the world. Absolute value for money, and, as the principals of ...

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