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Network is a six-session dynamic program to help Christians understand who God has uniquely made them to be and mobilize them to a place of meaningful service in the local church. Each participant in Network will work through a series of assessments which leads them to discover their unique blend of spiritual gifts, personal style, and ministry passion.
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Developing Leadership is Crucial for Your Church.......2007-01-04
How are you going to find the manpower necessary to lead your church in outreach, evangelism, fellowship and worship? Rather than the traditional approach of a Nominating Committee who "strong arms" people into volunteering, a better approach is to help people identify their spiritual gifts, review their spiritual profile and seek a group of peers guidance on how to implement their ministry. This book and the leadership guide is an excellent resource to use. We have had two cycles in our church and are well on the way to a new era of church growth and better impact on our community.
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School Library Journal called Stacey Schuett's stunning authorial debut "a book that is perfect for sparking an interest in geography, emphasizing the amazing concept that at the same moment we are getting ready to sleep, other people are starting a new day." And in a starred review, Publishers Weekly added, "Schuett proves as nimble with words as with a paintbrush." It's a good-night wish that circles the globe.
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A World Tour.......2007-03-21
My son enjoyed this book a great deal when he was in Kindergarden and First Grade. It managed to teach and link at least three distinct subject areas; science, geography and culture.
There are definately more female than male children presented in the narative and drawings, but my very pragmatic little boy told me "that is just a phase our civilization is going through and not to worry about it."
This book also has a practical benefit that makes it good evening reading; both your blood pressure and your child's blood pressure will likely return to normal levels because of the way the book is structured to end with the child going to sleep. I think this is one of the best bedtime "reads" out there for young children.
an excellent look at time and space.......2005-11-02
I knew this book was about time zones from reading the reviews. But I wasn't prepared for how rich and well-thought out the text was. Schuett is a long time illustrator writing her first book and she has done a really remarkable job. I feel as if she composed the text and pictures simultaneously (which, no doubt, she did). They blend perfectly. The book contains a map of the world with its timezones, as well as some background for parents briefly describing the history of time. But the most incredible thing about this book is the maps. Each illustration, which shows people in the world moving about their day, is painted on top of a background which is an actual map of where they are. Including names of countries, cities, rivers, and so on. This special touch takes this book to a whole new level. For one thing, how many children look at a globe, with its colors and grid, and strange markings and really realize what it means? That the map represents another town, like your own in some ways, with people who do what you do (read bedtime stories, head out for a day of work, write a note for a friend and hide it in a secret spot).
Use this book to introduce time zones, move on to a discussion of maps and globes, and finish with linear measurement. Use the city names on each page to locate exactly where these map exerpts were taken from and pin a piece of string onto your globe from your house to that spot. See how far away these families are from your house. And if they're on the other side of the globe -- literally -- that will make it all the easier to understand how, when the sun is shining here, it must be dark there! This is a MUST OWN for homeschooling or any family who has elementary school children.
Have you ever wondered what people in Alaska are doing NOW?.......1998-08-26
Have you ever wondered what it is like, right now, on the other side of the World? What people in different countries are doing, right now? With this book you can get a glimps of Kenya in velvety darkness, day break in India, Australia in late afternoon shade........and on around the globe. Also learn about how and why daylight savings time came about, and the reason for the Internation Date line........and why it's crooked!
This book is wonderful!.......1998-08-04
This book is a wonderful, colorful book that is very well written and is a great plot line. It follows the activities of various people around the world at the same moment in time - explaining about time zones. It starts with a baker in London and ends with a child going to sleep in Boston. Each page/location has lovely illustrations, including an overlay of a map of that city. It makes a lovely gift, especially for children who have contact with other countries (or parents who want to expose their kids to other cultures and countries). I've bought several copies for friends and family!
a lovely and important book.......1998-08-01
Schuett is able to gently explain the concept of time zones using beautiful, soft language and lovely illustrations that mix paintings with maps of the world. Her reader's note is for a more advanced reader, but the book itself reads like a lullaby. A perfect bedtime read that will, no doubt, provoke a multitude of questions about our world and other cultures. Highly recommended.
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Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milkshake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young readers see what it was like to live through those days and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices. Each book in the series tells the story behind a different `scrap of time;' together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.
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excellent introduction to civil rights.......2006-01-10
"Abby Takes A Stand" provides a wonderful way to bring the civil rights movement to life for intermediate grade elementary school children. The novel begins in the present day with Abby in the attic with her grandchildren. One of children discovers an old menu from The Monkey Bar, which sets up the main story.
Abby is ten years old and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. On a trip to a local department store with her mother, Abby explores the store on her own for a few minutes and is given a flyer advertising a new restaurant, The Monkey Bar, by a man dressed in a monkey costume (who has just arrived from NJ and is unaware of the segregation that plagues the area at this time). Abby decides to visit the Monkey Bar, only to be confronted with cruelty from the patrons and customers when she tries to enter.
This event sparks Abby's interest making a difference by joining the Flyer Brigade to support the local nonviolent protest of the injustice she has surfaced first hand. Her college-aged cousin, his girlfriend, and his friends are involved the protest in a more active way which is illustrated toward the end of the novel.
The novel ends with Abby's grandchildren understanding the deep significance of the Monkey Bar menu and the importance of the fight her grandmother took for equal rights for all Americans.
This book has vocabulary and concepts appropriate for grades 4-6, and is printed with larger font size to allow easier reading for emergent novel readers. It is "fleshed out" with short historical sections: "Remembering How It Was" and "The Rules For Nashville Sit-ins". I plan to read it to my fourth grade class in preparation for the upcoming MLK holiday. Highly recommended.
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Grade 3-4-Grandmother's attic is full of family mementoes that, as Gee tells young cousins Mattie Rae, Aggie, and Trey, are all "scraps of time." A menu from the Monkey Bar restaurant is the basis for this story, which begins with 10-year-old Abby (Gee) in Nashville, TN, in 1960. One day, she wanders around a downtown store as her mother makes an exchange. Someone hands her a flyer advertising a new restaurant with a merry-go-round ride in it, and she decides to go see it. Unfortunately, Abby causes quite a stir when she arrives there. "And you know we don't serve Negroes in here. Have you forgotten your place?" snaps the manager. Abby becomes a civil rights activist as a member of the Flyer Brigade, handing out flyers about nonviolent protest. The story ends with the return to present time and the cousins and Gee looking at other keepsakes, which is the perfect set-up for the next book in the series. Sections entitled "Remembering How It Was" and "The Rules for the Nashville Sit-ins" round off the book. This easy chapter book, with simple sentences, plenty of white space, and a liberal sprinkling of Gordon's expressive black-and-white drawings, is an appealing and welcome title.-Mary N. Oluonye, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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Gr. 2-4. The Scraps of Time series uses family keepsakes as an entre to one black family's past. In this book, Grandma Gee (Abby) has saved a menu from the Monkey Bar Grill in Nashville, and her granddaughters settle in for the story. The action moves back to 1960, when Abby was 10. Although some strides had been made in civil rights, Abby still can't eat at the new circus-themed restaurant in Harvey's Department Store. McKissack does a particularly good job portraying Abby's humiliation and anger when she is ordered to leave the restaurant--after being handed a flyer inviting her in by an unknowing northern white teenager who was working at the store. Those turbulent emotions find a positive channel as she helps an older cousin who is involved with lunch counter sit-ins and demonstrations. Although short and simply told, the book gives readers a kid's-eye view of important happenings and reminds them that history is something that is always in the making. Fine black-and-white art adds to the ambience of the time. Ilene Cooper
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Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in a city bus but still could not get a milkshake at a downtown restaurant. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Abby, young readers see what it was like to live through those days and they'll come to understand that, like a menu, freedom is about having choices. Each book in the series tells the story behind a different `scrap of time;' together they form a patchwork quilt of one black family's past that stretches back for generations.
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Network Kit: The Right People, in the Right Places, for the Right Reasons, at the Right Time
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Network is a six-session dynamic program to help Christians understand who God has uniquely made them to be and mobilize them to a place of meaningful service in the local church. Each participant in Network will work through a series of assessments which leads them to discover their unique blend of spiritual gifts, personal style, and ministry passion.
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For the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic illumination in The New York Times Magazine's column "On Language" -- one of the most popular features of the magazine and a Sunday-morning staple for innumerable fans. He is the most widely read writer on the English language today.
Safire is the guru of contemporary vocabulary, speech, language, usage and writing. Dedicated and disputatious readers itch to pick up each column and respond to the week's linguistic wisdom with a gotcha letter to the Times. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time marks the publication of Safire's sixteenth book on language. This collection is a classic to be read, re-read, enjoyed and fought over. Fans, critics and fellow linguists wait with bated (from the French abattre "to beat down") breath for each new anthology -- and, like its predecessors, this one is bound to satisfy and delight.
Safire finds fodder for his columns in politics and current events, as well as in science, technology, entertainment and daily life. The self-proclaimed card-carrying language maven and pop grammarian is not above tackling his own linguistic blunders as he detects language trends and tracks words, phrases and clichés to their source. Scholarly, entertaining and thoughtful, Safire's critical observations about language and slanguage are at once provocative and enlightening.
Safire is America's go-to guy when it comes to language, and he has included sharp and passionately opinionated letters from readers across the English-speaking world who have been unable to resist picking up a pen to put the maven himself in his place or to offer alternate interpretations, additional examples, amusing anecdotes or just props.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time is a fascinating, learned and piquant look at the oddities and foibles that find their way into the English language. Exposing linguistic hooey and rigamarole and filled with Safire's trademark wisdom, this book has a place on the desk or bedside table of all who share his profound love of the English language -- as well as his penchant for asking "What does that mean?" Or, "Wassat?"
This new collection is sure to delight readers, writers and word lovers everywhere and spark the interest of anyone who has ever wondered, "Where did the phrase 'brazen hussy' come from?"
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Gratuitous Serendipity is an intriguing compilation of actual accounts of events in one man's life that both changed his life and changed the world (just a little). Gratuitous Serendipity will leave you wondering, just how much each of us play in the role of creating and influencing history. Some stories just take a different look at the world around us, and how information can be put together in a slightly way. Often, just by looking at something different, the same data can produce significantly results. Gratuitous Serendipity is about being in the right place at the right time, and taking action. By the end of this book, you will have a different appreciation of how influential you can be on the events of today that will become tomorrow's history.
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John Roberts: The Right Place at the Right Time (Profiles, Pathways, and Dreams)
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Dr. John D. Roberts, a highly acclaimed physical organic chemist, tells of his academic life, his research and contributions to the use of NMR for the study of organic structures and reaction mechanisms, his participation in the nonclassical carbonation controversy, and other accomplishments in the field. He highlights his experiences as a textbook author, and as an important member of the board of organic synthesis. Throughout the volume are over 60 photographs and discussions of scientific experiments.
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Alan Davis directs readers to the most exciting parties on the planet. The Fun Also Rises calendar starts the year at Nassau's Junkanoo and ends at Edinburgh's Hogmany.. In between, it directs readers to the Opera Ball in Vienna, the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney, Rio's Carnaval, and dozens of other holiday celebrations, sports events, and music and arts festivals around the world.With detailed three-day itineraries for each event, this guide also directs travelers to restaurants, nightlife accommodations, and attractions at each location.
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Definitely fun!.......2000-06-22
This book was exactly that..fun! I am buying another copy to give as a graduation gift to my friend who wants nothing more than to travel. It is very informative and not boring like many too-many-details-at-once travel books. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for some different, fun ideas.
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Danger Marches to the Palace: Queen LiliªUokalani (Cover-to-Cover Novels: Biographical Fiction)
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Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, is off to boarding school. Now his little brother, J. D., is free to follow in Tom's ingenious, conniving, and profitable footsteps. All of J. D.'s attempts at turning a profit fail miserably, and he soon realizes that he just doesn't have that crafty Great Brain knack. But when his younger brother is kidnapped, J. D. finds that his little brain may not be so ordinary after all....
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Great book for kids!.......2007-01-09
This is an amazing series! I first read it in the early 70's as a fifth grader and as teacher I read it every year to my third, fourth and fifth graders. They love it.
Nice change of pace.......2006-06-08
This book presents a very nice change of pace in the Great Brain series. The Great Brain has gone off to boarding school, and J. D. thinks that he will fill the Great Brain's shoes and try to swindle the kids in town. All of J. D.'s plans backfire, and he learns that swindling people is not something that is to be admired or done. The main focus of the book is on J.D.'s family's adoption of Frankie, a little boy whose parents were killed in an accident. It's a very heartwarming portrayal of a family's acceptance of a new member, and it is not at all lacking in comic relief. Mr. Fitzgerald's humor is not at all lacking in this book, and perhaps is even better than in the rest of the series. I definitely enjoyed this book.
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Great pick for a "reluctant reader".......2006-03-18
I remembered reading these books in the 70's and got this book for my son. My "reluctant reader" fifth grader loved the entire series. A great pick for kids who are more interested in straight fiction "real" characters and plots, as opposed to fantasy/science fiction (which can confound less strong readers). I wish the entire series was in print.
If I Only Had a Brain.......2004-01-06
I read these books as child by checking them out of a library. Now almost 20 years later, I have decided to reread them all starting from the beginning. In this book, J.D. decides that he can fill the Great Brain (T.D.)'s shoes, while T.D. is away at the Academy in Salt Lake City. It turns out to be a humbling experience, thus the title, Me and My Little Brain. While some people may tell you that this book isn't as good without the presence of the Great Brain, I found this book just as entertaining as the rest. The storytelling is as superb as the rest. You don't want to miss this book because it introduces the character, Frankie, who allows this book to still be about brothers. Towards the end of this book, we find out that J.D. can still do some amazing stuff even though he has a little brain. This book and The Great Brain at the Academy are parallel books, which describe events happening at the same time, however, you should read this book first to have things make sense.
Great & not so great brain.......2003-09-20
The third book in the series has mighty big shoes to fill but it lives up to expectations very well.
Other reviewers have expressed concern over the lack of stories with the main character (Tom), but this book is true to it's title and deals with the younger Fitzgerald in very well.\
I applaud the author for taking time to focus on the troubles of a younger sibling when his older (and more conniving) brother is absent.
I enjoyed this book very much when I was younger, and still enjoy it now that I am an adult and father.
This series is one that I hope to share with my children as they grow up, and I hope they will get as much pleasure from the stories as I did.
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A summary of an incredible life.......2006-06-19
Wilfred Thesiger was the scion of a very influential English family; his uncle was the Viceroy of India, that is the highest British official governing what it is now India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh.
Thesiger was born in Addis Abeba where his father was with the British legation; some of his earliest memories were of the German-inspired revolt during the first world war being put down. After boarding school and Oxford, he decided to spend his life exploring the most remote parts of the world, rather than a comparatively mundane career in the army or foreign service bureaucracy. He traveled through remote parts of Sudan (the Danakil territories), Iraq (among the Marsh Arabs), Afghanistan, and Arabia (Liwa, Yemen and elsewhere), where white men had never been before. He also fought with the SAS in Northern Africa - where Rommel probably came within 30 feet of him while he was hiding in the sand after being surprised on a commando mission - and then retired to Kenya.
To get a sense of what Thesiger was like - and of how our world has changed since his time - allow me to mention the deep disappointment with which he relates that at the outset of an expedition of his he knew that he would not be the first European to go to a particular corner of Ethiopia, because Portuguese Jesuits were known to have preached there in the 1600s, in a time when the Catholic church was trying to convert Coptic Ethiopia to Catholicism. In short, an extremely interesting life.
This is an incredible book and a most worthwhile antidote to our MTV - MacDonald's - couch potato society. I most heartily recommend this book.
Do such men walk among us today?.......2005-07-10
Wilfred Thesiger, I'm ashamed to admit, is a new discovery to me. After reading "Arabian Sands" a few days ago, I felt I had to learn more of his life. "The Life of My Choice" has many parallels to "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and was so captivating that I had to read it in one sitting. T.E. Lawrence noted that "self-knowledge unfitted me for leadership." Thesiger puts that same sharp sword of introspection to his life. His observations on Lieutenant Colonel Orde Wingate and his thoughts on T.E. Lawrence are among the highlights of this book, as are his thoughts on Islam and Christianity.
A son of privilege, son of the Minister of the British Legation in Addis Ababa, the author fell in love with the people of the wilderness, and always found his heroes and soul mates among the harshest tribes in the most forbidding territories. He acknowledges that some of his big game hunting exploits don't go over well 50 years afterwards, but takes care to explain the realities of the situation. He obviously has a strong feeling for the underdog in any fight, not something to be taken for granted in a highly decorated battlefield veteran.
Thesiger's detailed account of the League of Nations standing by and watching the Italians brazenly use mustard gas on tens of thousands of Ethiopian soldiers and civilians reminds us of our own cowardice during more recent crimes against humanity.
In this age when we are in such great need of heroic figures, I have no knowledge of a single leader of Wilfred Thesiger's caliber alive among us. Then again, Thesiger insisted on not living inside his own society, not seeking to be known by anyone other than himself. No doubt he must serve as the model for more than a few yet to be discovered British and American heroes now posted in remote and dangerous places.
Surely one lesson to be taken from Mr. Thesiger's life is that we should live the lives our souls demand of us, consequences be damned. Mr. Thesiger realized as a young man that his path was a lonely one.
I highly recommend "Fire and the Sword in the Sudan" by Colonels Rudolph Slatin and F.R. Wingate to any reader of Wilfred Thesiger. Slatin was held prisoner for 12 years in the Sudan during the 1880s and early 1890s.
A great choice.......2004-04-08
It was his choice. No marriage. Just adventure. It couldn't be mine. Yet one can be envious. Grant him his choice, and it's a great story. Grant him also that he's added something valuable to our better understanding of some important parts of the world that aren't so often understood. This is not the first book he wrote. He's a unique and remarkable man and author, a writer who grabs your interest and whisks you through several hundred pages. Books don't get much better than this.
An old man's memoir of a young man's freedom.......2001-10-25
Thesiger's "Life" has the primary benefit of any well-written story by a not-quite-native person who was privileged to be accepted in a strange land -- it takes you someplace new and mysterious. On that basis, I found the book to be very good, an insider view of a place, culture, and terrain I'll never experience myself. As with so many wandering sons of the British Empire, such as T. E. Lawrence and Sir Richard Burton, you get a good feel for the place and time, albeit inevitably filtered through the author's personal prejudices and social values.
Thesiger is less a scholar than either Lawrence or Burton, and less able to stand back and place his experiences of Africa in historical, religious, and artistic contexts. Still, he was present at a time when colonialism was fading and new nations were being formed, living out the old Chinese curse/blessing, "may you live in interesting times." Anyone with an interest in Africa as it is in modern times can't help but be curious as to how things got the way they are, at least in the areas he was familiar with.
My only real quibble may be unfair. I'm no scholar of exploration writings, but none I've read that were written by men give particular insight into the lives of African women, certainly not to nearly the degree they do of African men. I realize Thesiger, like any male, would not have much access to the lives of women in cultures where women's existences were so restricted to hearth and home. Still, it's sad to only get half the story of this vanished past, especially since a handful of female explorers did manage to penetrate the life of the veil. Sadly, their books are much less read, although often better written. It must be said, though, that Thesiger in particular shows an astounding lack of interest in women in general, reserving all his descriptive powers and personal observations for the pageantry and color of warrior displays.
However, I did finish the book with a better understanding of fundamental differences between Arab north Africa and the rest of the continent. I recommend this book as worthwhile, but best read in context with others written both before Thesiger's time and since. Thesiger's views alone strike me as a little crotchety, a bit too much of an old man resenting how much the world has changed. It never seems to occur to him that the land he so enjoyed, and in which he was privileged to come and go as he pleased as a white sahib, had a cost to it's less fortunate inhabitants. The life he regrets losing is, in some ways, a better life for larger numbers of people than it was in his time.
A bold life and true.......1999-11-25
This describes briefly his early years in Abyssinia (today Ethiopia and Eritria), followed even more briefly by his schooling in England, before it gets to the juicy stuff, in the form of his friendship with Haile Selassi, his explorations of the least well known corners of North Africa and Arabia, his service in the Sudan and in WW2 in the SAS. I think he's still alive, as I read an account of an interview of his a couple of years ago (1997 or so) and he was still going strong then. Until a few years ago was still living in Africa, where he had been living in a native village in Kenya for about 20 years. I would especially recommend this if you have read his 'Arabian Sands' or the 'Marsh Arabs', as it would give you a much more complete idea of who he actually was.
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My Ocean Liner relates the adventures of a young New York boy, Paul, who sails with his father and mother on the great French ocean liner Normandie in 1939 from New York to France. Unlike the tale of the ill-fated Titanic, this one is filled with the pleasures and novelties of life at sea in the fastest and most luxurious ocean liner of its era. Since Paul has a good eye for his surroundings and a nose for adventure, we soon know a great deal about the ship, from its luxurious cabins to its huge engine room. Not only does Paul meet and rescue another young lad on his first voyage, but he makes friends with the deck steward and stewardess assigned to his cabin, and forms an attachment that lasts their whole lives. In a lively and convincing manner, the author, Peter Mandel, conveys the pleasures of a bygone age, the look and feel and smell of a great ship, the warmth of becoming fast friends with people of another culture, and the excitement of being a passenger on a legendary ocean liner in its glory days. The book is beautifully illustrated by Betsey MacDonald in full color throughout, with paintings recreating the passengers and crew, the stateroom, dining room, decks and engine room of the Normandie, a welcome contribution since there are very few vintage photographs of the ship's interiors, and the MacDonald watercolors bring the ship vividly to life. The introduction is by John Maxtone-Graham, the well-known authority on the world's great ocean liners.
Customer Reviews:
Not What I Expected.......2007-05-09
This book is just an appetizer. Written mainly for pre-adolescents, it is a great way to stimulate more in-depth interest in this elegant ocean liner. The sorts of details I was looking for just weren't there.
Great book!!!.......2002-09-22
After taking my first Caribbean cruise this past year, my interest in ocean liners peaked. In my "web surfing" I came across this striking book cover with the title "My Ocean Liner". After discovering it was a tale of a child's adventure on the Normandie, I thought it would be a perfect book for my 2 children.
We were not disappointed. My younger child was enthralled when I read it to her the first time. My older child has read and re-read the story many times and will read it on request to his younger sister! Both can't wait to take their first cruise. It seemed to have much more impact than our photographs.
The story is fun and exciting. The illustrations are amazing. I love the one of the massive engine room and also the huge colorful dining room. You get a clear feel for how amazing this enormous ship must have been. Ms. MacDonald must be an accomplished artist.
All in all, my children, wife and I give it a unanimous 5 Stars!!!
Excellent Find!.......2001-03-16
Not only does this children's book allow the reader's imagination to delve into a realistic journey aboard the incredible Normandie, but what children's book is complete without magnificent illustrationns! MacDonald's depictions of times aboard the ship are filled with color and life. My children are not yet able to read it on their own, but they love to turn the pages and look at the many beautifully done illustrations that could tell the story on their own. Don't pass this one up!
MY OCEAN LINER is a "gem".......2001-01-19
The best children's books always seem to have adventure at their core, and this charming illustrated story brings to life the wonder and excitement of a small boy who sails the Atlantic on a classic ocean liner. Both kids and parents alike will find themselves happily at sea aboard the Normandie--probably the most magnificent ship ever built--and absorbed in a nautical mystery that deepens as the ship braves wind, waves and storms and nears safe harbor along the coast of France. An extra bonus is the book's introduction to easy French words and seafarin' facts of all sorts. A must for those who like boats, and a good story too!
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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