Baby's Box of Fun: A Karen Katz Lift-the-Flap Gift Set: Where Is Baby's Belly Button; Where Is Baby's Mommy?; Toes, Ears, & Nose

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GREAT babyshower gift........2007-06-27

Newborns and 4 year olds all love these books. I give them to all of my friends as a baby shower gift.

We <3 Karen Katz.......2007-05-16

These are, hands down, our daughter's favorite books. She enjoys them over and over. The illustrations are bright and cute -- highly recommend these books -- especially the lift the flap -- she LOVES them.

Baby's Box of Fun.......2007-05-13

I purchased this book set for my grandson when he was 12 months old. Listening to books is the only time he actually sits still. His favorite book was Toes, Ears, & Nose although he likes all the books because they are interactive. The only problem with the books is if he is left unsupervised or even when holding him, he rips off the flaps in the books. We have had to glue them back on numerous times. I would highly recommend these books but you must be careful with babies that are aggressively interactive with the books.

LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!.......2007-03-28

This item was received as a gift and my 2 yr old loves her lift the flaps books. Her favorite out of this collection is "Where is Mommy". I have also purchased them for my friends children and they love them.

Never received mine, bought from 'oktrbks'.......2007-01-05

I bought this from 'oktrbks' and never received.
Contacted the seller and was asked if I want another copy so I said 'yes'
I have not received this yet. I was waiting for this because I believed the seller will send me an another copy. But now It's been more than 90 days so I can not even get my money back.
Not a big money but doesn't feel good at all about the seller's feedback.
Will see if the seller will contact me about this item or not.
I sent an memo to seller today again.

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The Button Box (English)
Excellent picture book to teach writing
Real-World Pleasure
The Button Box
If you have a button collection & kids this book is for you!

The Button Box (English)
Margarette S. Reid
Manufacturer: Puffin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Button Box (English).......2007-02-20

A good story for young readers. An great bood to use to introduction classification and characteristics used to classify.

Excellent picture book to teach writing.......2005-06-23

I use this book for grades 3-5, reading the story first, then showing them my button collection. Each child chooses a button and writes a story. It is amazing to me how a small button can "spark" a story but it works! And I give this book a lot of credit for creating enthusiasm for doing so.

Real-World Pleasure.......2005-04-12

I use this book for Kindergarten story time and, as always, try to find a way to help them see a relationship between the story and their lives. Sorting by colors and sizes is something they enjoy, and they are thrilled when I bring out a REAL button box for them to poke through. The artwork in this book is well done and shows the wide variety of buttons students might see; I thought having Girl Scout uniform buttons was a nice touch. "Cute as a button" (which I print on bookmarks for them) is a phrase we hear often over then next few months, and everytime someone finds a button they bring it straight to me. This book is an excellent reminder to students about finding joy in everyday things.
P.S. I also set out Taback's "Joseph Had A Little Overcoat" which has buttons on the back cover.

The Button Box.......2004-01-26

I am a First grade teacher and this book compliments my Math series at school beautifully! I am currently using the "Investigations" program in Math, and this book really allows for the children to see the different kinds of buttons and how the little boy sorts them. This book is a good introduction to any lesson about sorting!

If you have a button collection & kids this book is for you!.......1998-12-09

This simple little book will provide hours of entertainment to any child who has a mom or grandmother with a botton collection. As children, my sister and I would spend countless hours sorting my mothers botton collection. Believe it or not - buttons are fun! This book is the perfect compliment to any botton collection.

Bags, Boxes, Buttons, and Beyond with the Bag Ladies: A Resource Book of Science and Social Studies Projects for K-6 Teachers, Parents, and Students

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Bags, Boxes, Buttons, and Beyond with the Bag Ladies: A Resource Book of Science and Social Studies Projects for K-6 Teachers, Parents, and Students
Karen Simmons
Manufacturer: Maupin House Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Join the magical Bag Ladies as they return with Another creative "bag" full of ideas that transform your K-6 classroom into a fun-tastic learning zone!

Created for teachers, by teachers, this resource is fun and easy to use. Everyday items like grocery bags, cereal boxes, and buttons become raw materials for teaching tools that enhance your standards-based curriculum. As usual, The Bag Ladies include step-by-step instructions, blackline masters, and photographs for over 60 kid-tested projects.

Especially targeted to social studies and science units, these stimulating, hands-on projects work equally well as study guides or grade-appropriate assessment tools

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Outstanding and Funny Read

Incredible Tribute to an Incredible Woman

The Button Box: A Daughter's Loving Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton

The Button Box: A Daughter's Loving Memoir Of Mrs. George S. Patton
Ruth Ellen Patton Totten , and James Patton Totten
Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0826215769

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Outstanding and Funny Read.......2007-01-25

Great Read for any Patton fan. Reads quick and is insightful.

Incredible Tribute to an Incredible Woman.......2006-06-08

Ruth Ellen Patton Totten has left us with an extraordinary insight into the lives of the Patton family & most especially a wonderful tribute to her mother, Beatrice Ayer Patton. This book does more than present facts as a biographer would. Ruth Ellen tells the story from an insider's perspective. She not only tells the story but more importantly gives her mother's reaction to some of the most trying events in her lifetime & how she handled those events. The underlying theme of the book is the way Beatrice faced life; positively. She summoned courage, dignity & perseverance in the face of trials.

Ruth Ellen makes a great point by saying that soldiers are not the only casualties of war & it is evidenced by the sufferings which Beatrice, Ruth Ellen & Little Bea (Beatrice's daughter) endured, each of them being married to husbands in the Army.

This is an inspiring book that makes you wish you had met Beatrice Patton. Ruth Ellen herself is an incredible story teller & must have been one amazing woman in her own right. The Patton family has much of which to be proud because of the courage & strong character of Beatrice Patton. You don't have to be a fan of General George S. Patton Jr. to read the book. If you simply want to read a great book about a great woman, read this book.

The Button Box: A Daughter's Loving Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton.......2005-07-28

What an amazing window into the true lives of the "Cold Roast Boston" aristocracy, and what a tribute to a strong, multi-talented and insatiably curious woman. Hilarious, insightful, poignant, historical, and best of all...completely uncensored.

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Button Box
Barbara McBride-Smith
Manufacturer: August House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 0874837626

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Mama believed the woman who dies with the most fabric scraps wins. She saved scraps from odd sewing job for neighbors. She saved buttons from old winter coats and birthday dresses. Mama had a button from Daddy's first uniform and another from Grandma's cloth coat and every button in the box came with a story. In her trademark Texas twang, award-winning storyteller Barbara McBride-Smith recounts stories from her family that speak to all of us.

Bead and Button, Ribbon & Felt Jewelry: 35 Sewing-box Treasures to Make & Give

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Great intro to spark the newbie's interest

Bead and Button, Ribbon & Felt Jewelry: 35 Sewing-box Treasures to Make & Give
Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell
Manufacturer: Cico
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 190499167X

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Jewelry made from absolutely everything--beads to buttons, felt and wire, strung on ribbon, leather, or twine--has never been more popular. Stores are full of strikingly beautiful but costly examples, but here you can learn quick and easy ways to create your own, utterly unique pieces--using materials you will already have in your sewing box! Over 35 projects plus variations are featured here, from sophisticated pearl and ribbon necklaces to fun felt and bead designs, from stylish chiffon chokers and drop-bead woven ribbon bracelets to crocheted flower garlands and wired ribbon rosebud corsages. Whether you are looking to make some fun, everyday jewelry, or a stylish design for a special occasion, you will find something here to suit your tastes. Each project is explained in easy-to-follow, illustrated steps, and the variations show how you can develop the techniques to create your own designs. *Beading is America's fastest-growing hobby, attracting women from ages 8 to 65-plus, according to the Craft and Hobby association. *Deborah's prvious book "Vintage-style Beaded Jewelry" has sold over 42,000 copies worldwide. *No special equipment is required, and all the projects are suitable for a beginner.

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Great intro to spark the newbie's interest.......2007-07-02

I admit it, I bought this mostly based on the title: beads, buttons, ribbons, and felt - these are all embellishments I adore and have in abundance! If you are relatively new to making jewelry and are not quite up to soldering, here is the book for you. And if you sew, you most likely have ample materials already in your possession. This book illustrates that making one-of-a-kind items does not require great skill nor the purchase of scads of materials or tools.

Included in the 35 projects: incorporating yo-yos in necklaces and corsages (and from here you can imagine very neat vintage pins); stuffed fabric beads (my favorite idea for which I am going to use fabulous shibori and chirimen/chiromen fabrics); tassels used as pendants (make your own or buy end bits from your favorite decorator fabric store); creating discs out of lace; refashioning cuffs from old sweaters (I have a bunch of worn-out wool socks just screaming to be used!!); making beads from wired ribbons and artificial flower bits; and much more that I will leave for you to be surprised by.

The instructions are very well done and you will find it easy to extend the ideas to make your own inventions. If you can thread a needle, then you can make any of these projects. They are not very intricate really, but then they are not super-simple and as such are not suitable for children. However, there are some ideas here that, with supervision, a child could make on a rainy day.

This is a good, straight-forward text with lots of basic ideas to utilize elements you already have - and if you don't, you can find scraps anywhere easily and will enjoy shopping for this craft that won't cost too much.

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Grandma's Button Box (Math Matters)
Linda Williams Aber
Manufacturer: Kane Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The Buttons at the soap box derby
Edith S McCall
Manufacturer: Benefic Press
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All Buttoned Up: 12 Quilts from the Button Box (That Patchwork Place)

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Plenty of tips
BUY THIS BOOK!!!

All Buttoned Up: 12 Quilts from the Button Box (That Patchwork Place)
Loraine Manwaring , and Susan Nelsen
Manufacturer: That Patchwork Place
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1564777065

Book Description

Quilters collect fabrics, books, patterns—and buttons, of course! But how can quilters use their button stashes to jazz up their quilts? This team of sisters, inspired by their grandmother's button collection, offers ideas for adding flair, whimsy, and fun to quilts with a bounty of buttons.

• Twelve bursting-with-buttons projects feature wall, lap, and bed quilts, all inspired by childhood memories

• Find ways to use most any button in a quilt, from vintage Bakelite buttons to fabric, metal, glass, pearl, and ceramic buttons

• Learn more about buttons from "The Button Box," a tip-box feature that shares how to collect, apply, and craft your own buttons

Customer Reviews:

Plenty of tips.......2007-04-12

Loraine Manwaring and Susan Nelsen's ALL BUTTONED UP: 12 QUILTS FROM THE BUTTON BOX tells how to use buttons to add interest and dimensions to quilts. Two sisters used their grandmother's button collection for ideas and here provide plenty of tips to adding buttons to everything from wall hangings to lap quilts. Buttons may even be decorated for added attraction.

BUY THIS BOOK!!!.......2007-02-27

Before I read this book, I was unable to quilt a stitch. The instructions are clear and well-written, from a technical and literary standpoint. The illustrations are beautiful! I was also impressed with the creativity of the authors. I can't keep my mouth "All Buttoned Up" when it comes to how I feel about this book! It's great!

Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, And the Blues

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Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, And the Blues
Andrea D. Barnwell , Gloria Wade Gayles , and Leslie King-Hammond
Manufacturer: National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Binding: Hardcover

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Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment

ASIN: 0295985410

Book Description

For more than three decades, Amalia Amaki has garnered critical acclaim for works that examine the beauty, music, experience, and contributions of African Americans. This volume brings together her photographs, quilts, souvenir fans, and mixed-media works. Incorporating fabric, beads, pearls, buttons, paint, glitter, and photographs with cultural symbols and visual puns, Amaki challenges and reconfigures American history in original and meaningful ways. Her artwork examines the breadth and overarching significance of heritage and American culture. This book focuses on the legacies of race and gender in the United States, contests one-dimensional ideas about black life, and debunks mainstream beliefs about African Americans.

"My Funny Valentine" focuses on Amaki's candy boxes - a group of seemingly edible mixed media works made of buttons - that serve as metaphors for African Americans and love, and how it has historically been overlooked, misunderstood, and undervalued. "Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues," focuses on Amaki's signature series of quilts and fans that emphasize her ongoing fascination with African American women who sing the blues. "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine" features Amaki's most reflective works to date, recent mixed-media works that call attention to the ways that black life has traditionally been commodified and transported.

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When Anna Marshall is transported from her boring and frustrating life in Ames, Iowa, to the very different world of Erde, she's angry and confused, but soon finds out that for the first time in her life she's uniquely powerful. In Iowa Anna was a music instructor and small-time opera singer, but on Erde her musical ability makes her a big-time sorceress--potentially.First she must figure out how to use her ability before the big-time rulers who've notices her arrival kill her just because she's an unpredictable new power......Those rulers may wish they hadn't waited as long as they did.

Customer Reviews:

Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

A bog standard university music faculty member gets transported to a fantasy world. While no-one takes a second look at here there, in this world music drives magic, so she is potentially quite powerful.

That is, if she can survive in a male dominated ruthless feudal world, after her protector goes out of the picture, and a spell goes awry.

This is not a good book..........2005-07-01

Interesting concept (thus, the two stars), too bad the writing was so poor. Most of this book seemed to be "filler", not solid, interesting content. Phrases and actions were repeated over and over, as if they were there only to make the book longer. I've been struggling to get through this book and have gotten halfway, thinking that something interesting was sure to happen soon, but I haven't succeeded yet; after reading these reviews and realizing that the book will not be changing and will remain boring and annoying for another half, I probably will not finish it. What a disappointment. It reminds me of another book that I tried to read, by an author that I usually love..."Charmed Sphere" by Catherine Asaro. I usually love her books, but that one had many things in common with "The Soprano Sorceress"...unfortunately. UGH. I don't understand how such talented authors can tolerate publishing material that is so clearly substandard to their usual work.

I'm conflicted, but I'm also happy.......2005-05-11

I'm the type of reader who never picks up a book with a female protagonist - I just can't relate, and yes I know how shallow that sounds, but I'm learning to live with myself, day by day... Nevertheless, I've read a few, very selectively, and I have enjoyed them. This book was no exception - but it was touch and go there for a while. Here's a quick breakdown by page number of my feelings while reading:
1-50: I tried hard, but I could have cared less.
70-100: I was getting interested.
100-195: Still interested, but often trudging along on faith in one of my favorite authors. I think the author may have been trudging along similarly, while he wrote the story.
200-300: I think I started caring for the character somewhere in here.
300 - 664 (last page): Absolutely fascinated, totally happy, loved the main character and am dying to read the next book.

I won't give a synopsis of the story, but as with all my reviews, I shall layout the Good and Bad of the book as I saw it.

Good:
1) The idea of a world where magic comes from song and music is fascinating. I'm sure I read another story by someone where poetry was the source of magic in that world, and there have been plenty of books about bards, but nobody has ever created a system of magic - to my knowledge - so accurately and believably. Nor quite so fun and full of promise.
2) The intermingling and interaction of stereotypes - age, sex and class - was absolutely spot on. Modesitt loves to experiment with these themes in all of his books - with mixed success - but I think he nailed it squarely here. I was incensed, I felt the genuine emotion of a character whose life had been scripted by the bullying, dominating people in her life across two worlds. This book wasn't so much about magic as it was about the painful, desperate need to forge your own destiny. A must-read for any young girl, let alone adult males like me.
3) I felt the love the character had for her family. It was believable, and I enjoyed those parts.
4) Where the author employed it, I enjoyed the lyrics written out for the reader, and the clever adaptations of our own Earthly music.
5) I'm a sucker for any "Earth person sucked into a fantasy world and forced to survive" story. It could be written backwards, misspelled and in Sanscritt and I'd want to read it.
6) I love the way Modesitt's characters awe and affect the people around them.

Bad:
1) What really bothered me in the beginning was Anna's stunning lack of surprise at being sucked into a fantasy world. She was almost like, "Wow, this is weird, I must be dreaming...oh, I guess not...hey, what's there to eat around here?" Come on man - are you insane? She'd faint, throw up, run screaming into the night. I'm still surprised that this ever made it past the editors - how could you break my heart this way? If it wasn't for the fact that you wrote so many awesome Recluce and Corean books I probably would have abandoned it almost immediately.
2) Dood - you have the most incredible opportunity since Tolkien to fill a book with songs and you missed every opportunity to take it. You could have had verses and verses of amusing or interesting Beatles songs turned into weapons. But all we get, usually, is the first stanza. Unforgivable - you had to have known better. But you know, this book is long - all your books are long. It makes me wonder if there's a pile of edited-out prose - and the missing panic attack scenes (see 1 above). This faint hope is all that allows me to sleep at night...
3) Orderspelling water. Again. Totally different world. Totally different magic system. I keep expecting Creslin the Storm Wizard to show up with a banjo riding a horse that goes "Whuff." What gives?
4) I sort of wish we could have a hero who didn't weep for the enemies that want to kill her. To everyone: you get this emotional toughness in the Corean books (look up Legacies) - great read. But from Recluce to Erde, everyone weeps for their enemies and blames themselves too much. Hooey.
5) Modesitt seemed to have done some research into music - I'd heard that his wife was a singer or something, though I can't validate this at all. You see it here and there, and mostly in the beginning. I would have loved to learn as much about music in this first book as I learned about woodworking in the Magic of Recluce. Perhaps we'll see it in book 2? I hope so.

Tomorrow morning, I'm going out to purchase the next book. I can't wait - neither should you.

These books are an absolute insult to women..........2004-09-29

As a man in his early 40's, I have read a great deal of this type of "literature" whether a dense and challenging novel or a quick trashy beach read. I'm a huge fan of good fantasy and sci-fi, and this series seriously reeks. It is almost worth reading to see how badly this writer portrays women ( and I am not at all sure that the author is male).

The magic of music.......2004-08-05

As a fan of Modessitt's "Recluse" series, the "Spellsong" series has been tempting me for quite a while, and I wasn't disappointed. Modessitt's writing has matured since he started the "Recluse" series, and this first book of the "Spellsong" series is more coherent than "The Magic of Recluse" was. It was also nice that Modesitt has finally moved beyond the young-hero-coming-of-age mold that forms the "Recluse" series. Here, our heroine starts out as a more mature woman, thrust against her wishes into a war in a strange world. We follow as she learns to adapt to her new surroundings and finds that she has skills that she can use to help shape her own destiny, as well as the course of history on this world. The use of music for magic is intriguing and fairly well-developed, and provides a unique twist to the story. I'm looking forward to reading more about this world.

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