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The ultimate source on becoming a knight to remember – in a handsome compendium filled with novelty features.
What if your father were held captive and it were up to you to strap on your armor and ride valiantly to his rescue? With just such occasions in mind, one noble knight pours his years of experience into this instructive volume. How to train and joust, ride off on adventure into battle, use and care for a knight’s weapons, and live by the code of chivalry–here is everything a knight-to-be could want to know. Girded with pops, flaps, booklets, and even a squire’s board game, this magnificently illustrated book, dressed in a shining foiled cover, gives courageous young squires a chance to fulfill their destiny.
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really good book.......2007-09-06
I ordered it for my 7 year old son and he loved it. it is very informative and colorfull.
Nice book for the knight wannabees.......2007-08-20
This book is great for 6 and 7 year olds. I gave it to my son with a small playmobil knight set and they entertained him for a long, long time.
Nice childrens book for $[...].......2007-07-06
I purchased this for my nephew (11) for summer reading. It's a very nice hardcover book with a glossy and colorful cover. The inside pages are similar to all of the "ology" books with the pull out messages, envelopes to open, little things to find and a pop up castle. Even though it's suggested for grades 2-6, It's not something most 6th grade kids will spend time reading. I would suggest this for a younger child...maybe around age 7 or 8 (depending on their reading level) It's well worth the $[...] sale price.
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David Copperfield (Barnes & Noble Classics)
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The Kite Runner
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Dickens’s favorite of all his novels, David Copperfield is the story of a boy who loses both parents at an early age, and who escapes the torture of working for his pitiless stepfather to make something of himself and, with any luck, find true happiness.
David Copperfield features an unforgettable gallery of characters, including David’s cruel stepfather Mr. Murdstone, the unctuous Uriah Heep, the amiable Mr. Micawber, whom Dickens based on his father, and Dora Spenglow, whom David marries and calls his “child-wife.” Written in the first person, David Copperfield is perhaps the most autobiographical of Dickens’s fictions. This new edition includes commentaries, discussion questions, and Phiz’s original illustrations.
Features the original illustrations by Phiz.
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Getting it Right for Boys and Girls
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This book offers clear and practical strategies to headteachers, classroom teachers and other professionals for ways to address the issue of boys' underachievement.
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This book offers clear and practical strategies to headteachers, classroom teachers and other professionals for ways to address the issue of boys' underachievement.
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Getting It Right for Boys...and Girls.......2001-07-24
This book gives practical ideas for helping to improve the achievement of all children. While geared toward boys, its approach is that if the boys can be motivated, both the achievement of boys and girls will improve. The authors examine learning style differences among the genders and boys' tendency to have greater difficulty with communication and organization skills. They give practical, research-based ideas to back up their theories. They stress the potential of underachievement to result in widespread social problems that can be prevented if underachievement is not remedied soon.
As a substititue teacher and the mom of 3 sons, I have been observing behavior of boys for over 15 years. I have believed that boys need to be handled differently in academics than girls. Too often I have seen boys put in detention or suspended repeatedly, which indicates that the "remedy" must not be working. This book gives practical suggestions so that I can help boys. In helping boys, I will also be able to enable girls to learn better, concentrate better, and to help all achieve.
Since this book is written by British educational experts, some of the vocabulary used can be just a little puzzling. The term I had the most trouble with was "anti-swot culture," but I think the context clues helped me define it as the attitude that it is not cool to be a boy and be intellectual and do well in school.
I will use many of the ideas I learned from Noble's book as I work with students this year. I have already shared some of the ideas with a librarian, and intend to discuss them with the guidance counselor and principal.
Patricia Rowbotham
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Noble Boy is a biographical "board book" about animation design pioneer and legend Maurice Noble, who trained Scott Morse with a small group of hand-picked artists at various animation studios. This is the long-overdue first step in introducing Maurice to the masses as a person.
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Kids or grownups?.......2007-01-20
The students of the late Warner Brothers Cartoon Studio art director Maurice Noble (who art directed WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? and all the ROADRUNNER cartoons, among other classics) were called "Noble Boys" and "Noble Girls". Here is one Noble Boy who wrote a book about his mentor.
Although it appears to be a children's book, it's actually aimed at animators who knew Mr. Noble or worked with him. There are references to his favorite restaurant and some biographical details, etc. written in slightly forced rhyming couplets.
The color and production values of the book are excellent. I'd give five stars if the text was written in prose. Noble had a fascinating life and certainly deserves a tribute. This is a start.
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Youngsters will love dressing this blue-eyed tot in shirts, summertime shorts, star-studded p.j.'s, and much more. 1 doll, 28 stickers.
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DEAR AND NOBLE BOY: The Life and Letters of Louis Stokes, 1897-1916
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How to Raise Boys' Achievement (Resource Materials for Teachers)
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This book gives practical help to anybody who wishes to learn anything about the practical and accessible ways to raise boys' achievement in primary and secondary schools. Its down-to-earth language, easy style and rational sequencing of actions will appeal to all readers. This is essentially a handbook that can be used for reference, background reading, planning, preparing arguments, essays or as a general introduction to one of the most pressing issues in education today. The authoritative case studies and clear explanations of what to do and how to do it will be a boon to all readers.
It discusses why some boys underachieve, what can be done to raise achievement, and how current national strategies aim to address the problem. It is aimed at headteachers, heads of department, ITT students, governors and parents in all phases of education.
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Does the sensation of
Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone
Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a
Naugatuck(3) without causing a
Toronto(4)? Will you suffer from
Kettering(5) this summer?
Probably. You are almost certainly familiar with all these experiences but just didn’t know that there are words for them. Well, in fact, there aren’t—or rather there weren’t, until Douglas Adams and John Lloyd decided to plug these egregious linguistic
lacunae(6). They quickly realized that just as there are an awful lot of experiences that no one has a name for, so there are an awful lot of names for places you will never need to go to. What a waste. As responsible citizens of a small and crowded world, we must all learn the virtues of recycling(7) and put old, worn-out but still serviceable names to exciting, vibrant, new uses. This is the book that does that for you: The Deeper Meaning of Liff—a whole new solution to the problem of
Great Wakering(8)
1—The feeling of aluminum foil against your fillings.
2—The way people stand when examining other people’s bookshelves.
3—A plastic packet containing shampoo, mustard, etc., which is impossible to open except by biting off
the corners.
4—Generic term for anything that comes out in a gush, despite all your efforts to let it out carefully, e.g., flour into a white sauce, ketchup onto fish, a dog into the yard, and another naughty meaning that we can’t put on the cover.
5—The marks left on your bottom and thighs after you’ve been sitting sunbathing in a wicker chair.
6—God knows what this means
7—For instance, some of this book was first published in Britain twenty-six years ago.
8—Look it up yourself.
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Big fan of Adams, but this book ..........2007-07-08
I am a big fan of Dougles Adams books, at least in general.
But this book is, at best, only marginally funny. Others have explored this topic, and with better results.
The problem here is that Adams tries to make funny sounding words for things that don't have a name (like that little twist between link sausages), but constrains himself to using the names of small cities and towns from around the world. Occasionally, he hits a home run, but most of the words are strike outs.
Disapointed.
PS the 'name' for hte link between sausages is kerry. Why, I don't know, and I have no idea why some think this is humorous.
glorious.......2007-01-16
This book was superb, anyone who is a fan of Adams will appreciate it's wit, it's ingenuity, and it's intense sarcasm. Absolutely necessary to complete you Douglas Adams collection.
Short Quck Laughs.......2006-08-26
In a hurry stressed out... just read a couple quick definitions it will lighten your mood it does mine
Not what I was expecting........2005-08-24
This book is set up as a dictionary. If you enjoy reading dictionaries, then please purchase this book. The humor was lost on me because of the format.
Hilarious fun for an Anglophile.......2002-05-17
As said previously, this book (and the sibling) are hilarious fun for anglophiles and wordsmiths alike...
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A Lot Of Fun..........2004-07-30
...that's what this book is. It is there when you've got a dentist appointment and have to sit around for ages to give you a chuckle. It's there for that God awful plane journey. It's there to keep you occupied. If you don't like reading 30 page chapters before you go to sleep at night then this is for you. Just read a page and guaranteed you'll find some thing you can relate to, and/or find amusing. This is a book that takes town names and gives them everyday meaning for things there are no words to explain. For example: you're walking down a corridor and see someone you recognise. But wait, have they seen you, should you wave or, perhaps ignore them until there're close enough for you to say hi, or nod. This is in fact covered by many different names in the book, all intertwind, making it all hugely funny.
On many occasions the names are very funny and appropriate.
I'm fairly sure that you will love this book. And, when I'm writting this, Amazon are doing a 'buy Meaning Of Liff and Deeper Meaning Of Liff together' offer which I advise you take advatage of- I did.
Anyway, buy this book if you like the sound of it, and feel free to chuckle.
I hope I've been of service... Toodle Pipskie (is that how you spell it?)
Now my liff has a real meaning!!!.......2001-03-12
(Attention, if not warning: this comment contains two or so profanities. When confronted with them, just block your eyes then, eh??! OK, great!!:)
I've tried 'em all, Webster's, Oxford's, Cambridge's, but none of those dictionaries ever really made sense to me. I mean, I could not possibly care less how many people live in a town named Aalst (nothing personal, Aalst, but that's where I always gave up)??! It wasn't until I found a small, black, paperback with some graved letters on the cover, that I was able to enjoy anything else more than the phonebook!!!
I didn't, for example, know that I ski with Zeal Monachorum before I read THE MEANING OF LIFF. Nor did I know that Aird of Sleat was placed upon Heathrow Airport!! Thanks for warning me, Doug and John!! Also, this little black book can help all of us, when, for example, confronted with a glossop, or what we did, when someone says we've just commited a wigan. Now I can play golf AND enjoy it as well!!! Instead of the frustrating how-many-bogies-have-I-got count, I just count Whaplode droves. Then this once-useless game finally has an amusing purpose.
No, really. This book, alongside being pantwettingly funny, is, in my opinion, an honest and respectable attempt to save the English language from a violent and tragic destruction. For English, as it exists today, is becoming a language of three words: .... This book, and indeed the Deeper Meaning Of Liff as well, is a guide to help us all to save this beautiful language (as all languages are).
At least my Liff has a Deeper Meaning now.
Sniglets, British style.......2001-02-25
Monty-python-esque approach to language...this is the British version of what in America are called "sniglets", little neo-logisms invented for things and situations which don't have proper words to designate them but ought to. The difference is that these creations ala Douglas Adams & John Lloyd use already existing town names in the UK and re-define them to make them useful (and funny)...this is altogether different from American sniglets like "bevemirage" (the black plastic bottom of a liter bottle of dark cola that fools you temporarily into thinking there is more cola left in the bottle than there actually is), which tend to be creative word-fusions of already existing words. The only U.S. linguistic construction I can think of that comes close to what Lloyd and Adams are doing here is the phrase "in a New York Minute", aka "really fast". Though there is no collorary such as "in a Topeka minute" (or whatever) to mean slow, drawn out (but maybe there ought to be). I bought this book in the UK for £4.99 GPB, but it seems it's out of print here in the USA, alas. Probably out of print in Britain also. Well worth it, if you stumble across a copy!
Possibly the best Joke Book ever.......2000-05-12
Although a number of your friends may think you a bit weird if you tried to retell them. This rates as one of the few books that makes me laugh out loud (very loudly). A collection of explanations of strange & bizarre place names from around the world, Mr Adams and Mr Lloyd truly show off their incredibly imaginations and pure wit. While the reader may need a "Monty Pythonish" (or even a Hitch-Hikers Guide!) sense of humour, this is a genuinely very funny book
The meaning of Liff, explained........2000-02-12
If you like words, you'll love this book. It's crammed with absolute gems that will have you laughing out loud from page to page. Adams and Lloyd take previously useless place-names and assign them appropriate meanings, taking care of all the things in life (liff) that lack their own defining words, with hilarious results. You'll love this book!
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Douglas Adams was the bestselling author of many works including The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, recently released as a major motion picture. He died in 2001.
John Lloyd is (he says) Britain’s most successful television comedy producer since Chaucer and is responsible for Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder, among others.
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