Wild About Books (Irma S and James H Black Honor for Excellence in Children's Literature (Awards))24 reviews Judy Sierra Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2004 Wild About THIS Book + One of the most clever books for kids. + This Book is why I will never buy a Kindle + Great book for ages 4-7 + A Really Good Story That Encourages Reading and Checking Out Your Local Library             Night Visions: The Secret Designs of Moths8 reviews Joseph Scheer Prestel Publishing, 2003 WOW! + Reality Check + The beauty I overlooked + Astonishing state of the art color scanning             River: The Joni Letters (with Bonus Tracks) - Amazon.com Exclusive118 reviews Herbie Hancock Verve, 2007 Grammy's Album of the Year + Best interpretation of Joni Mitchell songs Herbie Hancock is one jazz pianist/composer who needs no introduction for when it comes to jazz music, his name always pops up and never goes unnoticed. He has recorded quite a number of jazz albums as a leader most notably his wonderful tribute to the timeless standards of George and Ira Gershwin ...             Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met8 reviews Hao Jiang Tian Wiley, 2008 Wonderful Book - + Recovering the natural + A rare look at how the cultural revolution really affected people + great book + Along the roaring river is a riveting read             The Uncommon Reader: A Novella82 reviews Alan Bennett Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 Charming, and very funny. + A perfect gift for someone who is a compulsive reader! + One Has An Interest + Uncommonly Good Book! + Even HRH can love books             Three Little Ghosties2 reviews Pippa Goodhart Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2007 Three Little Ghosties I purchased Three Little Ghosties for my 2 and a half year old granddaughter. She gets to have three books read to her before bedtime each night. She chose to have this book read all three times night after night. I'd say that she would give Three Little Ghosties a five-star review!!             Owl Babies56 reviews Martin Waddell Candlewick, 2002 A Teacher's Perspective + all moms love this book :-) + An enchanting tale + best for babies             Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers1 review Patricia C. Crews--Crews is first author Bison Books, 2003 Featuring full-color photographs of 103 original quilts Featuring full-color photographs of 103 original quilts, all drawn from the Nebraska Quilt Project survey, Nebraska Quilts & Quiltmakers by Patricia Cox Crews (Professor of Textiles, Clothing, And Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ronald C. Naugle (Professor of History, Nebraska Wesleyan ...             Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder81 reviews Richard Louv Algonquin Books, 2006 Parents NEED this, take it from a forest kid + please don't let it happen! + The Importance of Nature + Important Work + Important Book             Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar1 review Candlewick, 2008 Lovely story, beautiful illustrations and a science lesson This book is beautiful and it has a wonderful story. The illustrations are cheerful and bright. The back pages offer all the facts on the life cycle of caterpillars, which is a bonus. That way a child gets both a story with a main character to identify with and a subtle science lesson in ...             Wallpaper From Space1 review Daniel Pinkwater Atheneum, 1996 Space travel, black holes, river rapids, singing, sledding.. This author reminds me of two authors: Richard Brautigan (for adults) and Daniel Pinkwater (for kids). Just like Brautigan and Pinkwater, Pinkwater gives us a comic tale mixing realistic dialogue and surreal situations. This kid Steve is miffed because his mom is redecorating the house, and he ...             THE CHEROKEE STRIP: A Tale of Oklahoma Boyhood1 review Marquis James University of Oklahoma Press, 1945 Memoir of growing up in early Oklahoma Marquis James was a popular historian best known for two biographies he penned: one on Sam Houston and the other on Andrew Jackson. These books, enormously popular with the reading public in their day and still a pleasure to read today, were criticized by historians as being too one-sidedly ...             Fairy Houses ... Everywhere! (The Fairy Houses Series) (The Fairy Houses Series)24 reviews Barry Kane, Tracy Kane Light-Beams Publishing, 2006 Beautiful Photography + Pretty good + Enchanting! + Delightful! Inspiring book + Fairy Houses             Into the Wild (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)232 reviews Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn Paramount, 2008 One of the best of 2007 + Free at Last + Moving and Inspiring + Theories and conjecture             The James Boys: A Novel Account of Four Desperate Brothers4 reviews Richard Liebmann-Smith Random House, 2008 History the way it should have been + BOTH ERUDITE AND ENTERTAINING + Michi The James Boys is not only a very funny book -- and it is that -- but also a book that tickles your brain in unexpected ways. It plays with history and what was and what could have been so that I started wondering what I really knew and what I just imagined. The sometimes deadpan approach and ...             Steller's Island: Adventures of a Pioneer Naturalist in Alaska5 reviews Dean Littlepage Mountaineers Books, 2006 Science History at its Best + A wide audience will find this absorbing + Voyages of Discovery + Steller's Island + Great book; too bad we don't have more of Steller's research             The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir62 reviews Bill Bryson Broadway, 2007 a book to savor, but... + The always funny Bill Bryson + Excellent Book + Very...well, Bryson             River: The Joni Letters (with Bonus Tracks) - Amazon.com Exclusive118 reviews Herbie Hancock Verve, 2007 Grammy's Album of the Year + Best interpretation of Joni Mitchell songs Herbie Hancock is one jazz pianist/composer who needs no introduction for when it comes to jazz music, his name always pops up and never goes unnoticed. He has recorded quite a number of jazz albums as a leader most notably his wonderful tribute to the timeless standards of George and Ira Gershwin ...             Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers1 review Patricia C. Crews--Crews is first author Bison Books, 2003 Featuring full-color photographs of 103 original quilts Featuring full-color photographs of 103 original quilts, all drawn from the Nebraska Quilt Project survey, Nebraska Quilts & Quiltmakers by Patricia Cox Crews (Professor of Textiles, Clothing, And Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ronald C. Naugle (Professor of History, Nebraska Wesleyan ...             Into the Wild (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)232 reviews Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn Paramount, 2008 One of the best of 2007 + Free at Last + Moving and Inspiring + Theories and conjecture