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The Story of Irish Dance 3 reviews
Helen Brennan
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2001
Wonderful Readable Story of Irish Dance
My mother bought me this book last spring when my parents visited Ireland. The author was kind enough to autograph it for me. That alone was enough to make me want to read this book, but once I started, I couldn't put the book down. Ms. Brennan tells the story of Irish Dance with an obvious love of the subject and a gift for storytelling. She introduces us to famous dancers of the recent past ...
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The Fossil Factory: A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils3 reviews
Niles Eldredge
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2002
Entertaining and Comprehensive
I'm rarely so impressed by a book that I write a review. This one, however, is special. The authors are able to convey a great deal of difficult to understand information in a way that is not only straightforward and easy to understand, but also fun and humorous! It explains evolutionary concepts as it guides you through fossil-finding techniques. It is sprinkled with simple experiments to ...
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The Course of Irish History, 4th Edition 20 reviews
T. W. Moody
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2002
The Course of Irish History
This is a very thorough history of Ireland. Well compiled with an interesting layout (each chapter is written by a different author). This would be great for someone looking for an easy-to-read, concise introductory Irish history resource.
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National Park Ranger: An American Icon4 reviews
Charles R. Butch Farabee
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2003
An Absolute Must for Fans of Our National Parks
The mission of the National Park Service to preserve and protect our natural and cultural resources for future generations. Charles Farabee's knowledge and experience is portrayed superbly in National Park Ranger: An American Icon. Farabee is able to make the reader feel like they've been transported back to the late 1800's where our earliest parks were protect by members of the U.S. Army. ...
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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park 55 reviews
Lee Whittlesey
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1995
My Favorite Book!
This book is excellent! I've read it many times! Lee Whittlesey is one of my most favorite authors.
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A Kids' Guide to Building Forts 3 reviews
Tom Birdseye
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1993
A book your kids will go back to time and time again.
As a mother of three and a a daycare provider I highly recommend this "get up and build" book. The ideas for fort building will spark your childs imagination and they'll go back time and again to look for ideas for indoor and outdoor forts. This book can save a mom on a snow day- as long as you don't mind what will be created!
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Willy Whitefeather's Outdoor Survival Handbook for Kids4 reviews
Willy Whitefeather
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1997
Techniques and life teachings of wilderness survival
Great book for children and adults that Love their
kids enough, to give them simple learning skills that could come in handy, when we least expect it.
I know of kid's that have already truly been saved by the lessons taught in such a way that, children remember them forever. Everyone should have a copy of this fine work in their home, because we all like the outdoors, but we never know when we ...
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Irish-English/English-Irish Easy Reference Dictionary, New Edition3 reviews
The Educational Company of Ireland
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998
It is very good although it does not have a pronunciation key...
It is very easy to use and it can be a life saver when you are not sure about a certain word as you are learning irish.It contains about 24,500 entries. This is the main irish dictionary that I use. :) Although, it is best to buy this with an Irish course or at least have some knowledge about the pronunciation of irish words because the pronunciation is not listed with the word. But has proved to ...
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The Virginian, 100th Anniversary Edition2 reviews
Owen Wister
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2002
Wister used "Virginian" to elaborate fundamental human truths
VIRGINIAN -by Owen Wister ( first reviewed 30 April 2006)
Though "The Virginian" has a standing as a Western novel, it is philosophically rich, and Owen Wister used this novel to articulate certain fundamental truths. (I always find great clarification from older books, books written before TV, before Computers, and even before Radio. In these, one can still find clarification of values, that ...
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Whose Tracks Are These? A Clue Book of Familiar Forest Animals3 reviews
James Nail
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1994
Tracks, tracks everywhere but who are the animals who make?
This was an excellent book! The illustrations are bright and beautiful coupled with a magnificant story. Each set of footprints are shown in their natural environment and they are accompanied by a full page of clues that start hard and get easier before you are shown the animal that the clues are about. Here is an example. "I need to run fast because many animals hunt my kind. I will zig-zag to ...
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The Mellops Go Diving for Treasure1 review
Tomi Ungerer
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1999
Re-enacting childhood
These pigs were a favorite growing up, so I was please to discover them in print for awhile in paperback. The book, as most of their adventures, is a little imaginative, a little retro (mom always ends with a cream cake or pie for her boys), and usually a nice social lesson. Too bad the author moved on from this style of work.
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Navajo Long Walk (The Council for Indian Education)1 review
Nancy M Armstrong
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2001
This is a good book, and I never wanted to put it down.
I think this book is a good book to read because it gives a lot of information about the Navajo way of life. I also liked it because it makes you want to know what is going to happen to Kee and his family. They are captured by the U.S. government and made to walk out of their sacred land to a fort controlled by the government. They have to do many things differently. They have to build ...
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Bloody Sunday: Massacre in Northern Ireland : The Eyewitness Accounts5 reviews
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1997
The heartbreaking story the British didn't want told
The eyewitness accounts of Sunday, 30 January 1972, illustrate in stark detail the reality of what happened to civil rights demonstrators that fateful day in Derry. These accounts dispute the hurried conclusions of the British government's Widgery Report which attempted to cover up the British Army's gross misconduct. The evidence in this book is compelling, with independent eyewitnesses ...
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The Undying Past of Shenandoah National Park2 reviews
Darwin Lambert
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2001
Most comprehensive account of the history of Shenandoah National Park
This is the most comprehensive account of the history of Shenandoah National Park, from the prehistoric Native American hunters and gatherers to the mountaineers to the superintendents and rangers of the National Park. The author apparently had done thorough research, as evidenced by the several appendices of historical records. It is also well illustrated, with many drawings and pictures.
If ...
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Walker of Time7 reviews
Helen Hughes Vick
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1993
A reader's choice
I have just read a book called walker of time and it was amazing. I would recommend it for people aged from 10 to 50. It is about a Hopi indian boy called Walker who travels back in time 600 years. While he is travelling back in time a young white boy manages to get zapped back as well. Walker knows he's been sent back for a reason, but what?? It is half an adventure and half a sad story.
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Patterns from the Golden Age of Rustic Design: Park and Recreation Structures from the 1930s4 reviews
Albert H. Good
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2003
Fantastic reprint of actual 1930s plans & techniques!
This guide, originally printed in the 1930s, is an incredibly complete overview of the many structures created in state and national parks from across America. Every kind of structure, and I mean EVERY kind, is represented here with an amazing number of photographs and plans so that you can reproduce them on your own property.
Whether you want to make a simple stone fire pit or a two-story ...
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No Kiss for Mother9 reviews
Tomi Ungerer
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998
No Kiss For Mother
Brilliant book for those who are able to see the humor in relationships. We had this book as children and it got lost over time. My brother mentioned he was looking for a copy so I found it for his birthday. Upon opening the present and seeing the book, my brother and I, laughed like we were kids again but not everyone sees the humor in Piper Paw. Those who are still pining over sour ...
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Stories of the Flood
Uma Krishnaswami
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1994
An illustrated collection of easy-to-read folktales from around the world shows how widely separated cultures have myths of a universal flood with many similar elements, including angry gods punishing humans and a person who is allowed to survive. IP.
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Irish Hunger: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of the Famine2 reviews
Tom Hayden
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998
Excellent!!!
Being Irish, I have long been interested in the Great Famine which destroyed a third of Ireland's population. This book is unlike anything I have ever come across: these essays insist that the famine cannot be studied as an isolated historical event, such as the Great Depression, or a war. Rather, the famine is seen as the end of a civilization, of an entire culture. A better anaology would be to ...
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Guerilla Days in Ireland6 reviews
Tom Barry
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1995
The standard work on guerrilla warfare for the last century.
The incredible career of Tom Barry and that of the West Cork Flying Column is an inspirational example of what virtually untrained volunteers fighting for their families and their country can achieve, even in the face of overwhelming odds. The British had over 12,500 men in West Cork chasing after about 310 IRA Volunteers...and never defeated them. Barry discusses many military topics and ...
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