The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

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When Billy joins the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company, he gets a lot more than a new job. First he makes three new friends, then it's time to get to work cleaning all 677 windows of the Duke of Hampshire's house. The Duke is not only the most wealthy man in the country, he's also the most generous. Can he make Billy's lifelong dream come true? "A captivating story and a wonderful read-aloud."-- The Horn Book

Customer Reviews:

Amazing Dahl.......2007-01-09

All of Mr. Dahl's books are great! Wished we could meet him in person. Write more Mr. Dahl.

The Marvelous Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company catches a robber!.......2006-11-30

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is both funny and serious at the same time. The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company consists of a giraffe as the ladder, a pellican as the water bucket, a monkey doing the washing, and a kid named Billy as their manager. While they cleaning the Duke of Hampshire, they help catch a robber. This is Roald Dahl's 3rd best book!

VERY CUTE BOOK.......2006-03-15

This is a great book. My students and my children loved this book. Highly recommend it!

Full of imagination - a wonderful tale!.......2006-01-24

This is a beautifully written book to read to your young child. It is so full of imagination that you are taken into Dahl's magical world believing that a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey could do your next window cleaning. We read "James and the Giant Peach" last year, and like that book this one is great read aloud. The action of the book keeps your child on the tips of their toes. It is such fun!

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.......2005-12-06

If you read the book, Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, you would be amazed. If you love Roald Dahl's sense of humor, then you'll love this book! This book will hold your attention with all the funny events while making you laugh.

The story is about three animals that live in a house and clean for money. Pelly is a pelican that has a pretend beak, the giraffe has a long neck that can go higher than the clouds, and the monkey is a cleaner. A kid named Billy is the boss of the cleaners. When they are cleaning, the giraffe is the ladder, Pelly is the bucket, and the monkey uses his climbing ability to clean. What a team they make! In the book there is a rich man who wants his 677 windows cleaned which haven't been cleaned in 4,000 years! When they were cleaning the windows, they caught a burglar called the Cobra, who was the most dangerous burglar.

The funniest part was when Pelly caught the burglar in his beak because there was a lot of action. I also like the part when Billy was in Pelly's beak and started to pick cherries from a cherry tree, and then the gardener fell down from a ladder and Pelly flew down next to Duke. If you want to hear more funny events you will have to read this book. I recommend this book to young children.

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I Want Candy!!
Makes you feel less alone
Light, entertaining and refreshing!
The Truth Never Tasted So Sweet
This book is a yummy delight!

Candy and Me (A Love Story)
Hilary Liftin
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0743245733

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Hilary Liftin's Candy and Me (A Love Story) is not only a love story, but also the story of an otherwise normal, slender, strong-toothed woman's lifetime obsession with candy and all things sweet. With brutal honesty, Liftin exposes herself as insatiable. As a child she indulged in cups full of powdered sugar mixed with just enough water to make a paste which she ate in front of the TV, and multiple packs of hot chocolate mix, licked from her finger on her way home from school. She is a connoisseur of every candy you've ever tasted or even heard of, and of many candies you've never (and might never) come across. The friendships, love stories, and heartbreaks that make up her life story evolve through tales of candy consumption. Her memories of all major and minor life events are tightly woven with Necco Wafers, Snickers, Bottle Caps, Conversation Hearts, Circus Peanuts, Twizzler, Tootsie Rolls, Fireballs, Nonpareils, and countless others. Either you'll relate a little, or you'll relate a lot. You might be shocked by the volume of sugar she's ingested, but her story is familiar. She's made friends and lost them, she's fallen in love and had her heart broken. And then she's fallen in love again. Liftin's story is as sweet as her candy cache. --Leora Y. Bloom

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As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all things sweet. In Candy and Me: A Love Story, Liftin chronicles her life through candy memories and milestones. As a high school student, Hilary used candy to get through track meets, bad hair days, after-school jobs, and her first not-so-great love. Her sweet tooth followed her to college, where she tried to suppress the crackle of Smarties wrappers in morning classes. Through life's highs and lows, her devotion has never crashed -- candy has been a constant companion and a refuge that sustained her.

As Liftin recounts her record-setting candy consumption, loves and friendships unfold in a funny and heartbreaking series of bittersweet revelations and restorative meditations. Hilary survives a profound obsession with jelly beans and a camp counselor, a forgettable fling with Skittles at a dot-com, and a messy breakup healed by a friendship forged over Circus Peanuts. Through thick and thin, sweet and sour, Hilary confronts the challenges of conversation hearts and the vagaries of boyfriends, searching for that perfect balance of love and sugar.

Written with a fresh dry humor that will immediately absorb you into Liftin's sweet obsessions and remind you of your own, Candy and Me unwraps the meaning found in the universal desire for connection and confection. Treat yourself to Candy and Me -- being bad never read so good.

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"As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all things sweet. In Candy and Me: A Love Story, Liftin chronicles her life through candy memories and milestones. As a high school student, Hilary used candy to get through track meets, bad hair days, after-school jobs, and her first not-so-great love. Her sweet tooth followed her to college, where she tried to suppress the crackle of Smarties wrappers in morning classes. Through life's highs and lows, her devotion has never crashed -- candy has been a constant companion and a refuge that sustained her. As Liftin recounts her record-setting candy consumption, loves and friendships unfold in a funny and heartbreaking series of bittersweet revelations and restorative meditations. Hilary survives a profound obsession with jelly beans and a camp counselor, a forgettable fling with Skittles at a dot-com, and a messy breakup healed by a friendship forged over Circus Peanuts. Through thick and thin, sweet and sour, Hilary confronts the challenges of conversation hearts and the vagaries of boyfriends, searching for that perfect balance of love and sugar. Written with a fresh dry humor that will immediately absorb you into Liftin's sweet obsessions and remind you of your own, Candy and Me unwraps the meaning found in the universal desire for connection and confection. Treat yourself to Candy and Me -- being bad never read so good. "

Customer Reviews:

I Want Candy!!.......2007-08-03

I just finished this book & I loved it! I'd give it 4.5 stars out of 5.

If you like candy, have ever liked candy, have a favorite candy - then you gotta read this book.

* Warning: Reading this book will give you urgent cravings for candy...I made myself sick from eating too many orange Circus Peanuts while reading it. :-D

Makes you feel less alone.......2006-05-02

I feel so much better after having read this book. I am not alone in my obsession over candy. It's not often that a book makes me laugh out loud and call my friend to read her what I'm reading. If you end up liking this book, Candyfreak is a must read. Same story, but his obsession is for chocolate. Anybody who loves candy in an obsessive way will love and enjoy these books.

Light, entertaining and refreshing!.......2004-09-09

Hilary Liftin's Candy and Me : A Love Story was such a refreshing read! I read this book fairly quickly and I found her stories relating to candy to be very entertaining. In life we often have things such as songs, smells, and places to which we relate certain memories. I'm very glad to have had the opportunity to read the memories Ms. Liftin relates to her love of candy. Bonus: For something fun and different, you can go to www.hilaryliftin.com to share your own sweet memories!

The Truth Never Tasted So Sweet.......2004-07-12

Funny, sometimes wistful, and surprisingly thought-provoking. For Hilary and me it's candy; for others it's various substances that fortify and amuse. This well-written self-examination packs a much bigger message than you might expect.

I enjoyed reading it while killing a couple of half-pound bars of Cadbury Milk Chocolate.

This book is a yummy delight!.......2004-03-17

A humorous yet at times poignant account of one woman's life, loves, and confectionary favorites, from her childhood addiction to a homemade sugar paste, to junior mints, to Petite Fruits, Jelly Fruit Wedges, and frosting eaten straight from the can (I thought I was the only one who did that!) A factual account that is as entertaining as any fiction story i have come across. I recommend it highly. A real sweetie of a book!

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Fantastic
Candy Sure Can...
Candy does it again
A total Surprise for me!
A fun lighthearted romantic romp

Dinner First, Me Later?
Candy Halliday
Manufacturer: Forever
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0446617520

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Every Saturday night, best friends and neighbors Zada, Jen, Tish, and Alicia heat up their quaint little cul-de-sac with the infamous Housewives Fantasy Club.Everyone has a secret fantasy to share.Some have better ones to hide.Imagine!Retired baseball star Jake "The Rake" Sims living here--in the flesh!Well, he won't find Alicia Greene an easy conquest (she does not do bad boys).So what if his chiseled pecs and grand slam physique--displayed nightly in sexy underwear commercials--once made him her "most valuable" fantasy lover.His wild lifestyle squelched that dream.Now Jake swears he's reformed, Alicia's not buying it, and their matchmaking neighbors are doing their best to foil the couple's "good" intentions.They may be on to something.After one fabulous dinner, Jake takes Alicia in his arms and discovers how forbidden passion--more tempting and sweeter than dessert--can fulfill all her secret fantasies.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic.......2007-10-10

This was one of the funniest books I've read in a while. It kept me entertained. I read it in a day I liked it so much. I never read the first book, Your bed or Mine? or whatever it's called, but I'm planning on buying it immediately.

seriously, Wonderful. Buy It!! Read it!! Love it!!!

Now I can't wait for another one of her books in the series, I hope she keeps going!

Candy Sure Can..........2007-09-04

...tell an amazing story!

Alicia, a member of the Housewives Fantasy Club, has sworn off men. When her friends try to set her up with Jake Sims she wants nothing to do with it. Will she change her mind?

Candy Halliday can sure pen a story that keeps you laughing, all the while it deals with real life issues like betrayal and child custody. Candy sure can tell an amazing story!!

Candy does it again.......2007-07-24

What would you do if your celebrity crush suddenly moved into the neighborhood and was still as enticing as ever? Alicia is a divorcee who's sworn off men since discovering her wealthy husband with the pool boy. At first treated like a pariah by her suburban Chicago neighbors, she's now their friend and a fixture in their Housewives Fantasy Club. When retired Cubs star Jake Sims moves in across the street, the ladies are trying to set them up, but Alicia wants nothing to do with a bad boy. Jake just wants to prove he can raise his estranged daughter now that he has been granted temporary custody, despite his evil former mother-in-law's machinations. A romance wouldn't be prudent. Of course, one glance at Alicia, and the two decide that a one night stand before his daughter arrives will get each other out of their systems. Funny how things don't turn out like you plan...

Daughter Dani just wants to get her trip to Chicago over with so she can return to LA. As she attempts to annoy Jake at every turn, she keeps getting surprised when he isn't flustered. He also doesn't seem like the ogre granny Natta made him out to be, but fears that once he gets a girlfriend, she'll be a distant second in his life. When she befriends Alicia, she treats her as a confidante, happy to have a friend of her own. No one is more surprised than Alicia since kids and pets don't like her, but Dani and her goofy dog Kiwi certainly do. Alicia and Jake are secretly having their own fantasy club which quickly becomes reality. Will Dani be able to share her new friend with her father?

Halliday's romantic comedy streak continues with "Dinner First, Me Later?" revisiting the not so desperate housewives of Owl's Roost Road. Witty bantering, sizzling chemistry, and characters that remain consistent from novel to novel make Halliday a stand out.

A total Surprise for me!.......2007-06-11

I admit I had passed by the book's predecessor, Your Bed or Mine, over and over again due to the title. I thought it would have too much sex in it and the title of this one turned me off as well, but due to the reviews- I decided to give it a try. It was WONDERFUL! It was all about relationships between friends, and a father reconnecting with his daughter. It was just perfect- not too mushy, not too sexy, just funny and perfect. I am online right now to order Your Bed or Mine and the other two older books by Candy Halliday. These sort of surprises makes me wonder what other excellent reads I have passed up. I know better than to judge a book by its cover, yet I almost did it again! Enjoy!!

A fun lighthearted romantic romp .......2007-06-11

In Woodbury Park, the four friends (Zada Clark, Jen Marshall, Tish Jones, and Alicia Greene) make up the Housewives Fantasy Club though realtor Alicia is not married. Recently she sold a house in their cul-de-sac to retired Chicago Cub superstar Jake "The Rake" Sims; known for his underwear commercial. Zada thinks Alicia and Jake are a perfect pairing so she pushes them together over the objection of Alicia, who wants nothing to do with men having divorced her neurosurgeon husband Edward Carlton after learning he was gay.

Jake wants Alicia, but plans to avoid her as he knows he must behave if he is to gain permanent custody of his fourteen year old daughter Dani, whose mother died six months ago. He fears his martinet former mother-in-law will turn his offspring into a replacement for her daughter. As Jake watches his suburban steps, he and Alicia fall in love, but Dani comes first.

The latest Housewives Fantasy Club tale (See YOUR BED OR MINE?) is a fun lighthearted romantic romp with a serious undertone involving custody of a child. The lead couple is a wonderful duo dueling with their feelings as neither wants love at this time. The other club members play matchmakers while his too precocious discerning daughter is yanked in two directions by her father who just entered her life and her grandmother who has modeling plans for her. Readers will enjoy the latest secret fantasy culminating at Wrigley Field.

Harriet Klausner

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Reading: Surprise Me
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Manufacturer: Scott Foresman & Co
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Gummy Candy Counting Book (Read With Me)

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yummy

The Gummy Candy Counting Book (Read With Me)
Amy Hutchings
Manufacturer: Cartwheel
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0590341278

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yummy.......2000-10-24

The bright, uncluttered photos and straightforward, rhyming text make this a good selection for children of all ages, especially 3-9 years old. The information on sets is a great bonus. Some may quibble with the 'candy' motif, but the generic gummies are colorful and inviting.

All About Me: Find Out All About You - Create A Living History Of Your Family! By Robin Moore, Illustrated By Candy Kugel, HarperCollins Interactive Creativity Tool, Four 3.5" Floppy Disks For Windows For Ages Six Plus

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All About Me: Find Out All About You - Create A Living History Of Your Family! By Robin Moore, Illustrated By Candy Kugel, HarperCollins Interactive Creativity Tool, Four 3.5" Floppy Disks For Windows For Ages Six Plus
Robin Moore
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Interactive
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM

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"Create a living history of your family! All families grow and change, and here is a way to record the living history of your family. Let Kaysee the Owl show you how to build a personal family tree. Even your favorite aunt or the family pet can have a place on your unique tree. Record their birthdays and then make a card with the automatic card-making facility. And a calendar will help you to remember important family days and remind you of how long it is until your birthday! Families just get bigger and bigger! Kaysee the Owl and the whole Owl family will help you to construct your family tree, which can grow whenever your family changes-for instance, when a new baby is born or someone gets married. you can store information about every member of your family, where they were born, where they went to school, and much more. Create a storybook about your family from a range of suggested "story starters." Print your storybook for the whole family to enjoy..." [from box]

Big Rock Candy Mountain: Favorite Activity Songs & Games (Watch Me Grow Series)

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Big Rock Candy Mountain: Favorite Activity Songs & Games (Watch Me Grow Series)
Ruth White
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Christmas Buttons (Necco Candy Button Series)

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Christmas Buttons (Necco Candy Button Series)
Nibble Me Books
Manufacturer: Playhouse Publishing
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ASIN: 157151600X

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Readers decorate the charming Christmas-time illustrations with Necco Candy Buttons as Nibbles the mouse teaches them to count to ten. This delicious book is the perfect stocking-stuffer for children who are learning their numbers. Each book is packaged with Necco Candy Buttons.

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Come with me on my cloudboat
Sherry Candy Lane
Manufacturer: s.n.]
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Cotton Candy Caper (Read-to-Me)
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ASIN: 089796988X

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Meet Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers' young basketball prodigy and the heir apparent to the great Michael Jordan himself. Here, for the first time, is the whole story of this incredible athlete--how he became the great person and incredible gifted, driven player he is today. Follow Kobe's life from growing up as the son of an NBA player through his decision to turn pro at 17, his rookie season, the All-Star Game, and his amazing second year in the pros.

A must for every fan, Kobe includes eight pages of color photos, personal stats, and the rising star's career records.

Customer Reviews:

kobe is a baby.......2005-03-22

i don't care if you like this review or not, but kobe should realize now what he had w/ shaq: the best player in the game, and now that it's his team they are not even going to make the playoffs- and kobe cares too much what the media says about him- blaming everyone else and telling on shaq and his "hush money" and karl malone "harassing" his wife- shut up kobe and just play your selfish game

Kobe the story of NBA's young..........2004-05-25

The book Kobe is one of my all time favorites. It talks about the life of Kobe Bryant. Kobe is my all time favorite basketball player along with Michael Jordan. I see a lot in Kobe like in mj. This book talks about the life of the young rising star Kobe Bryant and how he got to where he is now. It is a great book.

Love Basketball.......2002-05-17

"The Story of the NBA's Rising Young Star Kobe Bryant" great for Lakers' fans. If you like basketball you will like this nonfiction book. Joseph Layden .I thought that the book was very easy to read and young children could read it by themselves. In my mind he is the best player ever. It the best book I ever read. I like the book, because I like to play basketball too.
In the beginning of the book it talks about his father and mother how they met each other. The book talked a bit about his family and also where he attend at school. I like the book, because you can image in your mind what it is talking about, and you can learn a little bit of vocabulary.
The setting of the book is in Philadelphia and also in Los Angeles. The author wrote the book very well, because it gives a lot of important information, it the best book I ever read. I like the book, because I like to play basketball too. I want to read more byJoseph Laden.
I want to recommend to book to people that like the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant and who like to play basketball. The book makes you think that you could be a great basketball player like Kobe, if you keep on practicing. I would recommend this book to grade school and also high school students.

Kobe's Incredible Life.......2001-12-18

I chose the book, Kobe, because I love basketball, and I was interested in knowing more about the life of Kobe Bryant. I was surprised to learn about Kobe's upbringing and background because it was totally different than what I had expected.

I liked this book because it tells all about Kobe Bryant's love for basketball, and his determination and drive to improve his skills. Kobe's basketball career begins when his family moves back to his hometown in America. The book also contains a lot of really cool pictures.

Learn about how this young star athlete developed into an all star basketball player. Joe Layden does a terrific job in revealing what makes Kobe a superstar. I recommend this book to anyone interested in basketball. It is very inspirational!

Kobe's Incredible Life.......2001-12-18

I chose the book, Kobe, because I was interested in knowing more about the life of Kobe Bryant. I was surprised to learn about Kobe's upbringing and background because it was totally different than what I had expected.

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