That's What Kids Are For: Phoebe Flower's Adventures

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This is the first in a series of books for kids with ADHD, grades 2-4. Designed to boost your child's self-esteem and to help your child develop a love of reading.

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Not Only an Author.......2002-06-28

Mrs. Roberts is not only known as an author to me. My brother Josh and I both had her as our Kindergarten teacher! We've both read the books as they come out and love to read them remembering our times we had when we in her class room! This book truly brings out the kid in you!

That's Me All Right!.......2001-09-29

Even though I'm not a second grade girl, as I read this charming little book I found myself remembering my own childhood and saying, "That's me all right!" This book is a valuable resource for any parent with an ADHD child. In plain language, using an interesting story, Barabara Roberts portrays the dilemmas that haunt every child with attention deficit disorder. "But, Mom, let me tell you what really happened" is their theme song. This is a MUST have and MUST read for every parent of an ADHD child.

I would urge Ms. Roberts to consider a similar series with a male character.

Fun, affirming picture book for the active girl.......2001-05-28

Phoebe is an enthusiastic, creative girl. Because of her high activity level, she has has to struggle to pay attention in class, and has only one good friend. Girls with hyperactive AD/HD as well as other active kids may see something of themselves in Phoebe.

Phoebe's principal and her mother are sympathetic but also help Phoebe see that she has some responsibilities for her actions. In the end, Phoebe's energy and daring make her the class heroine. She takes quick action to rescue the class pet.

This book is uses superb, sensitive illustrations to follow the text. I especially liked how the pictures conveyed the strong bond of affection between Phoebe and her mother.

In the story, Phoebe is never formally identified as having AD/HD. I like having such a book because it can be used to explore behaviors without limiting ourselves to a specific diagnosis.

Carol E. Watkins, M.D.

Fun, affirming picture book for the active girl.......2001-05-28

This book is uses superb, sensitive ilustrations to follow the text. I especially liked how the pictures conveyed the strong bond of affection betwen Phoebe and her mother.

In the story, Phoebe is never formally identified as having AD/HD. I like having such a book because it can be used to explore behaviors without limiting ourselves to a specific diagnosis.

Carol E. Watkins, M.D.

Know Your Garden: What Flower Is That?
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great pictures and descriptions

WHAT FLOWER IS THAT?

The book I grab first when trying to name a flower!

Know Your Garden: What Flower Is That?
Sterling Macoboy
Manufacturer: Gramercy
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517669986
Release Date: 1988-08-27

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This definitive encyclopedia has long been considered the "bible" of temperate climate gardeners and in one of the world's most popular flower books. Newly-revised for this edition, with over 100 new entries to total over 1800 color plates, it includes ever-popular favorites as well as exotic flowers from around the world. The vast ides contains 6000 entries. This accessible and easy-to-use guide is a must for the beginning or expert gardener. Achieve your garden's full potential. Author Stirling Macoboy's great, great grandfather migrated from Scotland as a professional nurseryman in the 1850's and the family has been experts in the field ever since. Until recently, he has been the garden consultant to Better Homes and Gardens.

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great pictures and descriptions.......2002-11-12

Wonderful book for novice gardeners.
Sellers NSB Books / MWood90 did a great job of providing a new book at a used book price.

WHAT FLOWER IS THAT?.......2002-06-16

THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK IS GREAT. BUT IT WAS NOT THE BOOK I ORDERED. THIS BOOK I GOT FROM SUPERBSTUFF WAS DIRTY, SMELLY, AND HAD THE PAGES STUCK TOGETHER BY FOOD OR SOMETHING. THE FRONT AND BACK COVERS ARE DIRTY. IT MUST HAVE BEEN PACKED AWAY FOR MANY YEARS IN A DAMP AND DIRTY PLACE. I AM VERY UNHAPPY WITH IT AND I WILL BE SENDING IT BACK.

The book I grab first when trying to name a flower!.......1999-02-01

A large inventory of the flowers that you will see most often in the garden. The pictures are excellent for locating that particular flower when all you have to go on, is a flower you plucked by hand. (So often NO ONE knows the name.) That is when I reach for my very worn copy of Stirling MacOboy's, What Flower is That? I have over 40 flower search books, and still this book seems to be my favorite. It is easy to use and has Botanical names and pronunciation. All-in-all, a must have in the home library. Sorry to see it is no longer in print. Will make it a very valuable book.

Girls' names and name-day and birthday book: What girls' names mean, their flower emblem, sentiment, famous people that bore the name, the name in religion, ... names, and abbreviations in all languages

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Girls' names and name-day and birthday book: What girls' names mean, their flower emblem, sentiment, famous people that bore the name, the name in religion, ... names, and abbreviations in all languages
Henry W Fischer
Manufacturer: Fischer's Foreign Letters Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00086CUA4

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The South African what flower is that?
Kristo Pienaar
Manufacturer: C. Struik
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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What Flower Is That

Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HW9HFU

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What Flower Is That

Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HWDA7Q

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What Flower is That
Stirling Macoboy
Manufacturer: Lansdowne
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000ODMIUS

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What Flower is That
Stirling Macoboy
Manufacturer: Lansdowne
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SF72VM

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What Flower Is That?

Manufacturer: Crown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GTN71Y

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What Flower Is That?
Macoboy Stirling
Manufacturer: Crown Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UEUJOS

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She was called "The Florence Nightingale of America." From the fighting at Gettysburg to the capture of Richmond, this young Quaker nurse worked tirelessly to relieve the suffering of soldiers. She was one of the great heroines of the Union. Cornelia Hancock served in field and evacuating hospitals, in a contraband camp, and (defying authority) on the battlefield. Her letters to family members are witty, unsentimental, and full of indignation about the neglect of wounded soldiers and black refugees. Hancock was fiercely devoted to the welfare of the privates who had "nothing before them but hard marching, poor fare, and terrible fighting." Originally published in 1937 as South after Gettysburg, Hancock's letters were edited by Henrietta Stratton Jaquette, the granddaughter of a cousin. This Bison Books edition is introduced by Jean V. Berlin, the editor of A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863.

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Okay. Longer edition is better........2001-06-13

I wish the press had released the other version of this book. The introduction isn't very helpful.

A very determined lady!.......2001-05-23

As an English civil war re-enactor, and a nurse by profession, Cornelia Hancock brings alive the horror, and difficulties faced by the wounded and the woman who choose to nurse them. The book is useful in its detail, and describes medical care at the battlefield, in hospitals, and the improvements made as the war developed. A book worth owning.

Our First Ambassador to China: an Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney: With Extracts from His Letters, and the Narrative of His Experiences in China, as Told by Himself. 1737-1806

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Our First Ambassador to China: an Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney: With Extracts from His Letters, and the Narrative of His Experiences in China, as Told by Himself. 1737-1806
Helen Henrietta Robbins
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1402149069
Release Date: 2004-03-31

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1908 edition by John Murray, London.

My Dearest Minette: The Letters Between Charles II and His Sister Henrietta, Duchesse D'Orleans

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A fascinating read, but a frustrating history

My Dearest Minette: The Letters Between Charles II and His Sister Henrietta, Duchesse D'Orleans
King of England Charles II , and Henriette-Anne, duchesse d' Orleans
Manufacturer: Peter Owen Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0720609917

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A fascinating read, but a frustrating history.......2005-05-21

This is a good book for anyone interested in finding out more about some of the more interesting figures of Restoration-era England. Despite the fact that Norrington is prone to gush at times about the fascination and charm of letters that are, in some cases, little more than quickly dashed-off notes, as a body the collection is quite interesting.

Norrington's strength (and weakness) lies in her ability to string together the letters, filling in the context with incidents in the life of Charles II and his sister, Minette, the two main correspondents. Unfortunately, Norrington uses about a fifth of the footnotes I'd like to have seen. For every anecdote whose provenance she footnotes, there are four she doesn't. There is a bibliography, but some of the unfootnoted incidents are so so vaguely attributed in the text that I'd be hard-pressed to know where to begin searching them out in her sources. She includes no index, either, which is quite frustrating as well.

Still, it's a good read, and those interested in the Restoration would already be in Norrington's debt had she only assembled the letters and nothing more. The book is worth buying just on the strength of the letters, if you can find it for a reasonable price.

It should be emphasized that these letters are most interesting from a historical perspective, however, and not as masterpieces of the art of letter writing. For that, try Charles' and Minette's contemporary, Rochester, in Rochester's letters, edited by Jeremy Treglown.

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Letters to Henrietta
Isabella Bird
Manufacturer: Northeastern
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Six Months in the Sandwich Islands
Among the Tibetans
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library, 14)
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
The Englishwoman In America

ASIN: 1555535542

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Until the middle-aged, unmarried Isabella Bird (1831-1904) left her native Scotland for an independent life of travel, she was debilitated by illness, suffering from "neuralgia, pain in my bones, pricking like pins and needles in my limbs, excruciating nervousness, exhaustion, inflamed eyes, sore throat, swelling of the glands behind each ear, stupidity." Bird was so weak that she required a steel support to hold her head up and spent most of her time confined to bed. Desperate to find a cure, her doctors finally packed her off to the Pacific and Switzerland. Once there, the forty-year-old invalid miraculously recovered, and became determined to seek any adventure that allowed her to see the singular beauty of nature.

In Hawaii, she was the first woman to climb the world's highest volcano; in Perak, she rode elephants through the jungles; in Colorado, she scaled 14,000 foot mountains, spent six months traveling mostly alone on horseback, and fell in love with a one-eyed desperado named Rocky Mountain Jim. But whenever she came home to Scotland, her symptoms returned, making another trip essential. Bird's remarkable journeys took her to the remotest parts of the world and brought her considerable fame. She became the first female Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, advised Prime Minister William Gladstone on the issue of Armenian Christians, and was presented to Queen Victoria in 1893. Her numerous travel writings, including 'The Hawaiian Archipelago,' 'A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains,' 'Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,' and 'The Golden Chersonese,' remain popular today.

In this fascinating collection of Bird's previously unpublished letters to her homebound younger sister Henrietta, one experiences her journeys firsthand and gains insight into the ambiguous private life of a woman who often invented her public face. Containing correspondence from her first two grand tours to Australia, Hawaii, and Colorado in 1872-1873, and to Japan, China, Malaya, and the Holy Land in 1878-1879, 'Letters to Henrietta' provides a fresh view of the legendary Victorian traveler.

The Court and Times of Charles the First: Illustrated by Authentic and Confidential Letters, from Various Public and Private Collections. Including Memoirs ... by Father Cyprien de Gamache. Volume 1

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The Court and Times of Charles the First: Illustrated by Authentic and Confidential Letters, from Various Public and Private Collections. Including Memoirs ... by Father Cyprien de Gamache. Volume 1
Thomas Birch
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1402161751
Release Date: 2001-12-28

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1848 edition by Henry Colburn, London.

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The Court and Times of Charles the First: Illustrated by Authentic and Confidential Letters, from Various Public and Private Collections. Including Memoirs ... by Father Cyprien de Gamache. Volume 2
Thomas Birch
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1402161743
Release Date: 2001-12-28

Book Description

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1848 edition by Henry Colburn, London.

Lost Love: The Untold Story of Henrietta Szold : Unpublished Diary and Letters

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A sorrowful triumph.
This book is wonderful. Anyone even slightly romantic will l

Lost Love: The Untold Story of Henrietta Szold : Unpublished Diary and Letters
Henrietta Szold , Baila Round Shargel , and Louis Ginzberg
Manufacturer: Jewish Publication Society of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 082760629X

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A sorrowful triumph........2006-07-18

Anyone suffering from unrequited love will find comfort and encouragement through this reading. Had she not suffered heartbreak, thousands may have lost the benefit of her significant power to love.

This book is wonderful. Anyone even slightly romantic will l.......1997-10-29

The primary significance of this work and we are deeply in debtto the fine editing of Baila Shargel, is that it presents to thepublic for the first time, Henrietta Szold the great writer. We come back to a time when letters were still carefully crafted; we bask in the warmth and honesty of her prose. We are continually stunned by her brilliance and begin to mourn not her loss or Ginzberg's but ours. It is we the Jewish people who have lost a great writer to the service of others, to the drudgery of editing which is so often women's work. This work is bound to become a classic. It shows yet another side of this very heroic woman who serves as a model for us all. More available at JCN!! END

Charles I In 1646: Letters Of King Charles I To Queen Henrietta Maria

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Charles I In 1646: Letters Of King Charles I To Queen Henrietta Maria

Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0548214123

Charles I in 1646: Letters of King Charles the First to Queen Henrietta Maria

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Charles I in 1646: Letters of King Charles the First to Queen Henrietta Maria
John Bruce
Manufacturer: AMS PRESS INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VPIO3O

Emma Darwin - A Century Of Family Letters 1792-1896 Vol II

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Emma Darwin - A Century Of Family Letters 1792-1896 Vol II
Henrietta Litchfield
Manufacturer: Cook Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1406701130

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EMMA A . FAMILY LETTERS 1792-1896 EDITED BY HER DAUGHTER HENRIETTA LITCHFIELD IN TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED VOL. II NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY MCMXV. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II CHAPTER I. 18381839. The engagement of diaries Darwin and Emma Wedgwood Dr Darwins delight Suburbs versus London-A letter from Sismondi IIouse-htuiting ...... 125 CHAPTER IL 1830. Tho wedding at Maer-Caroline's baby dies Life At Gower Street Ilonrioigh becomes Registrar of Cab Elizabeth gives tip the Sunday-school CharloB and Emmaa first visit to Maer Their child born Docs, 27, 1830 My mothers character 2640 CHAPTER ILL 1840--1842. Oharle Darwin in bad hoalthThe SiRmondie at Gower Street and Tonby-Miss Edgoworth and Emma Darwin Anna Klijsaboth Darwin, bom Eraflmus and MIBS Martineau Charie and ocl ly at ShtewMbuty-Simoadi tt fatal illnettH The birth of Edmund ffl CHAPTEK IV, A Itovolttitoti, nt Sonov Tftkuig ohildrou to the pantomim v OharUm Darwin meets Humboldt lie visits Elizabeth with Rmma at Oower StWMUfc Emma at June 25, 1842 Jesate to live al Tenby M,- 74 CHAPTER V, DOWN. Tha of JoHiah WedgwoodThe birth and ctaftth of Knwttai third cUMr-A visit from Wd-ddldm Tkoy get lout in tie Big Woodft 78 HI T vi Contents CHAPTEE VI. 18431845. The death of Jolm Allen Emma and Fanny Allen leave Crossolly Josiali Wedgwoods death Our nurse Brodie-Henrietta Darwin born Sept. 25, 1843 Charles at Shrewsbury Madame Sfsmondi at Chtae A visit to Combe Florey Emma at Maor Mazzini and Carlyle George Darwin born July Oth, 1845 Improve ments at Down 8297 CHAPTER VII, 1846. The death of Bessy on March 31st, 1846 Elizabeth leaver Maw Emma Darwin and two of her children at Tonby 98104 CHAPTEE VIIL 18471848. Elizabeth Darwin born Sarah Wedgwood aottloB at Down - Eliza beth Wedgwood and the Langtons loavo Staflordftluro Hart field Fanny Allen on a round of visits-The French . Revolution of 48 - Charles Darwin at Shrewsbury---Prauma Darwin bora August 16th, 1848 Dr Darwins death November 13th, 1848 108120 CHAPTER IX. 18491851. Life at Down Malvorn water-cure-A tour in Walcw--Jwwb Sismondi on F. W. Newman The Aliens youlhy ttgcv Hay wood Lane Misa Martinaau and Mr AtkinMon- A party at tint Bunsens 121 - IS I CHAPTER X, 180L Illness and death of Annie at Malvorn 13-I in CHAPTEE XI. 1851-4863, Tho Greai Exhibition o 1851, Jennlo Stamtmdi on llmmil t ml tho Coup d ltat George Darwin EraHmuH l arwht- Furiwy Alton goes to ALi-lcB-Baias wifch Kliabtii--JoHto Mfcmcmdi on March 3r4, 1803Tlio doatruotion of StamondiH iil journals , . , , . , t , in , , ifir Contents vii CHAPTEE XII. 18531859. Eastbourne and Cliobliam Camp Miss Langdon at I-Iartfield Sydney Smiths Xtife A month. In London Florence Nightin gale A High-church wedding Sarah Wedgwoods death Letters to William DarwinHis speech at Cambridge Moor Park - The Origin of Species Two letters from my mother to iny father on religion 154 175 CHAPTEE XIII, 18601869. A long illness The death of Charlotte Langton in 1862 The illness of my mother and Leonard A humane trap for animals Catherine Darwins marriage to Charles Langton My fathers continual illness The deaths of Catherine Langton and Susan Darwin in 1866-The Huxley children at Down George a second Wrangler A month in London Elizabeth Wedgwood comes to live at Down Freshwater My fathers accident oti riding-Shrewsbury and Caerdoon . . . 170195 CHAPTEB XIV. 18701871. ZVn DtMiMt of . Man-Polly the Ur-hund- Tho Franco-German War - On keeping SundayErasmus Darwin The marriage of Henrietta Darwin A wedding-gift from the Working Mens College 196207 CHAPTEE XV, 18721876...

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