Black Cat, White Cat

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Popular children's author David Pelham, creator of the best-selling Sam's Sandwich series, returns with a brand new character everyone will love! Applebee Cat and his silly mouse friends will make children laugh out loud as they tumble along from page to page, teaching basic concepts as they go. Pelham's innovative pop-up technology is sure to wow with its intricate-yet-durable moving parts, and basic concepts have never been easier to grasp in such a kid-friendly, hands-on format.

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great book.......2006-12-27

My 12 month old never gets tired of this book. We have taped it back together over and over as he gets too excited and grabs for the characters on the page.

Dr.Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" (Dr Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat")

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Dr.Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" (Dr Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat")
Dr Seuss
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Where's My Easter Egg? (Lift-the-Flap)
Harriet Ziefert
Manufacturer: Puffin
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Binding: Paperback

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Black Cat, White Cat: A Pop-Up Book of Opposites

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How to entertain a 3 year old: Give them Black Cat White Cat
Beautifuly crafted pop ups
A captivating book for a 1-yr-old cat lover
FOUND at last!!
a charming introduction to opposites

Black Cat, White Cat: A Pop-Up Book of Opposites
Chuck Murphy
Manufacturer: Little Simon
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Binding: Hardcover

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Pop-up books have come a long way, baby, and Chuck Murphy, creator of our all-time favorite, Color Surprises: A Pop-Up Book, and the astounding One to Ten: Pop-Up Surprises!, surely deserves some of the credit. In Black Cat, White Cat: A Pop-Up Book of Opposites, youngsters will love interacting with the myriad meowers, all displaying a state of opposites. On the first page sits a dignified, green-eyed black cat, simply labeled "Black cat." Lift the cat, fold it left, and out springs a white cat chasing after a big red ball! On another page, "High cat" perches atop a pop-up ladder, as "Low cat" slinks by below. With the simple downward tug of a tab, "Young cat" magically forms jowls and a bigger head to become "Old cat." No run-of-the-mill, two-dimensional illustrations could communicate the concept of opposites as effectively as this artful book. But even those who have already fully grasped "near and far," "day and night" won't be able to resist these nodding, leaping, prowling cats. (All ages) --Karin Snelson

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How to entertain a 3 year old: Give them Black Cat White Cat.......2005-06-18

Do you want a book that will captivate your youngster or one you know? This book will do it. The pop up demonstrating "High Cat Low Cat" are some of the best I have seen in the last 12 years. Not only do they open & fold with ease, you can turn the page quickly and not worry about the pop-ups getting caught or torn. The fold out sections of the book are equally as wonderful; "Black Cat White Cat" goes from a serene black cat looking at you to a surprised expression on the black cat as the white cat jumps out to chase a red ball. The pull tabs are easy to operate (a minor miracle in it's self), and yield a round of giggles as the "Young Cat" becomes "Old Cat" with the widening of the face, and the jowls of the cat poof out. Delightful way to approach opposites!.

Beautifuly crafted pop ups.......2004-02-26

I bought this book for my nephew, and I almost kept it for myself.

The illustrations are very clear, and well thought out. The pop up dynamics are just precious. This should not be a book that would get rough-housed around. Some of the pop ups are quite delicate.

My nephew is 4 and enjoyed it immensely.

A captivating book for a 1-yr-old cat lover.......2002-06-10

This is a great "opposites" book. The young-cat, old-cat transition is facinating to me, but my son loves the cat that leaps out at you (out-cat, in-cat). He laughed really hard as I had that cat pop out about 10 times in a row.

Now, if I want to get him to go into his room, I say "Black cat, white cat", and he heads straight for this book. He can barely say anything yet, but he loves this book!

FOUND at last!!.......2001-09-20

I saw this book in an educational toy store several years ago. I had no children at the time and put it back on the shelf; a few weeks later I returned to buy it just for me, but it was gone. Since then I've actually had a child who is now 18 months old, and I have seached many a book store shelf and even looked here on amazon before with no sucess. One bookstore recently told me it was out of print and could take several months to get. Now that I've found it here I'm ordering it immerdiately! And I urge anyone else reading this review to the same. It is an amazing little book!! You won't be sorry!

a charming introduction to opposites.......2001-09-13

"Black cat, white cat. Day cat, night cat .... "

Chuck Murphy has done it again, giving children and parents a little work of art disguised as a pop-up book.

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Fantastic Kid's Book.......2000-04-04

I bought this a year ago for my son, then 2 1/2. He still loves this book, and often chooses it at bedtime. He used to love it for the pictures and pop-up gimmicks, and now he's getting into the humor. He even read his first word, 'Bad', off of the cover. We love this book!

Applebee's Shapes: A Cat And Mouse Pop-up Book (Applebee Cat)

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Applebee's Shapes: A Cat And Mouse Pop-up Book (Applebee Cat)
David Pelham
Manufacturer: Running Press Kids
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0762426489

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Applebee Cat and his mischievous mouse friends are back in two new pop-up adventures showcasing shapes and colors. Best-selling paper engineer David Pelham's innovative pop-up technology is sure to wow with its intricate-yet-durable moving parts and pop-up surprises, while the kid-friendly, hands-on format makes basic concepts a treat for children of all ages. With detailed illustrations, these funny stories pop into life each time you pop open an Applebee Cat adventure. Full-color illustrations

Who Will Play With Kitty?: I'M A Pop-Up Book! (Fisher Price Pop-Ups)

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big animals jump out, the stories ryhme.

Who Will Play With Kitty?: I'M A Pop-Up Book! (Fisher Price Pop-Ups)
Margaret Johnson
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest
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Binding: Board book

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Kids will love turning the pages of these delightful books to see what pops up next. Simple, sturdy pop-ups stand up to tough toddlers as they explore the world of the Little People®.

In Who Will Play with Kitty? Kitty wants to play, but all her animal friends are busy. Isn't there anyone who has time to have fun?

Format: Pop-Ups

Dimensions (inches): 4 1/2 x 4 1/2

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big animals jump out, the stories ryhme........2000-05-09

nice big big animals pop out when you stretch the pages. the sentences are good to read, they are funny and with some emagination it is a good story to read along with the animals popping out. my kid touches the animals too. there are many characters on the pages so you can really put a good story to it, if yo want.

Applebee's Numbers: A Cat and Mouse Pop-Up Book (Applebee Cat)

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Clever Pop-ups

Applebee's Numbers: A Cat and Mouse Pop-Up Book (Applebee Cat)
David Pelham
Manufacturer: Running Press Kids
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Binding: Hardcover

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Clever Pop-ups.......2006-08-06

David Pelham has done it again! Clever and complex pop-ups, delightful presentation of numbers.

Where's Nicky's Easter Egg? (Lift-the-Flap Book)

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Where's Nicky's Easter Egg? (Lift-the-Flap Book)
Harriet Ziefert
Manufacturer: Blue Apple
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ASIN: 1929766807

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Nicky, the sweet young cat, is back in an adorable, small-size board book with large flaps perfectly designed for little hands.
At Easter, Nicky must answer the perennial question where is my Easter egg? Toddlers, who love to ponder large issues such as where is the best place to find an Easter egg, will find the answers under ingenious flaps that reveal new scenes with every flip.

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With more and more small-office and home computers being left connected to the Internet at all times, the owners of those machines are being faced with problems that used to confront only big operations. The authors of Firewalls for Dummies spread the message: everyone with a cable modem, data satellite dish, or DSL connection needs a firewall now. Thankfully, though, these guys go beyond merely showing how to set up turnkey personal firewall products--too many Dummies books explain the obvious and the generally intuitive--and reveal how to set up the sorts of firewalls that protect sizable networks. By understanding these techniques, small operators can plan for growth and improve their level of protection. What's more, this book provides a serious explanation of corporate firewall products and techniques that's appropriate for people who build and maintain big systems.

The authors generally steer away from showing how to configure specific firewall products, though a few of the biggies--Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, BlackICE, ZoneAlarm, and Check Point FireWall-1--get comparative overview coverage. Mostly, they favor more general firewall configuration strategies and techniques. These they explain with a lot of prose, a fair number of conceptual diagrams, and tables that sum up permission rules. This is a worthwhile read. --David Wall

Topics covered: Firewalls and the ways they can be deployed to prevent unauthorized access to computers and networks without interfering with the protected users' ability to get out to the Internet. A summary of networking fundamentals as they apply to firewalls is followed by coverage of network address translation (NAT), demilitarized zones (DMZs) as created by multiple or even single computers, and filtering policies.

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What an amazing world we live in! Almost anything you can imagine can be researched, compared, admired, studied, and in many cases, bought, with the click of a mouse. The Internet has changed our lives, putting a world of opportunity before us. Unfortunately, it has also put a world of opportunity into the hands of those whose motives are less than honorable. A firewall, a piece of software or hardware that erects a barrier between your computer and those who might like to invade it, is one solution.

If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you’ve probably received some unsavory and unsolicited e-mail. If you run a business, you may be worried about the security of your data and your customers’ privacy. At home, you want to protect your personal information from identity thieves and other shady characters. Firewalls For Dummies ^® will give you the lowdown on firewalls, then guide you through choosing, installing, and configuring one for your personal or bus iness network.

Firewalls For Dummies ^® helps you understand what firewalls are, how they operate on different types of networks, what they can and can’t do, and how to pick a good one (it’s easier than identifying that perfect melon in the supermarket.) You’ll find out about

Developing security policies
Establishing rules for simple protocols
Detecting and responding to system intrusions
Setting up firewalls for SOHO or personal use
Creating demilitarized zones
Using Windows or Linux as a firewall
Configuring ZoneAlarm, BlackICE, and Norton personal firewalls
Installing and using ISA server and FireWall-1

With the handy tips and hints this book provides, you’ll find that firewalls are nothing to fear – that is, unless you’re a cyber-crook! You’ll soon be able to keep your data safer, protect your family’s privacy, and probably sleep better, too.

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Good start for industry basics........2003-09-28

I would have titled this "And if you want to know about Space Exploration join the United Federation of Planets". The idea of any book is to impart information to the reader and this is what this book does. I certainly would not give this book first time out to Grandma and expect her to understand it but some reviewers really do believe that to read a Dummies Book you have to be a "Dummy" some people actually have an IQ above 100 and a jopb that does not involve serving food. For people with an interest, managers and technicals just starting out its a good cheap and informative read. 5 stars.

Firewalls for Dummies.......2002-07-13

This is one of the poorest "For Dummies" books I have ever read (and I have several). The information, while technically accurate, is often times obtuse and full of geek speek, meaning you don't know what the author is talking about. It is also what we call CIPO (clear if previously understood).

The best chapter in the book, if there is one, talks about configuring Black Ice (my "personal" firewall of choice) and Zone Alarm. But I already knew how to do that, as Black Ice is very easy to install and set up.

If you are a commercial fire wall specialist, most of this material will be redundant to you. And if you are just a home user, then you will not understand much of it, as it is geared towards commercial fire wall installations, and all the heavy jargon that goes with that.

Fire wall technology, like virus technolgy, can only be learned on the job with those company experts like Black Ice or Norton. They are just not going to make this stuff easy for anyone, and no book learning is going to give you much of a clue here, including this book.

Sorry, that's just the way it is. You want to learn all about fire walls? Then go to work for Zone Alarm or Black Ice.

Trully for Dummies.......2002-03-26

I like the 'for Dummies' editions since I was reading Internet for Dummies. It has a humble explanation to present things in very unique approach. Clear and easy to understand, just like telling you what a heaven look like in human language.

This book contains very basic information that might help to anyone who has no idea what a firewall is. Very good explanation!

Here are the Content that will show you about the prefect dummies explanation.

Part 1: Introducing Firewall Basics

Chapter 1: Why do you need a Firewall?
Chapter 2: IP Addressing and Other TCP/IP basics
Chapter 3: Understanding Firewall Basics
Chapter 4: Understanding Firewall Not-So-Basics
Chapter 5: "The Key Is Under the Mat" and Other Common Attacks

Part 2: Establishing Rules
Chapter 6: Developing Policies
Chapter 7: Establishing rules for Simple Protocols
Chapter 8: Designing Advanced Protocol Rules
Chapter 9: Configuring "Employees Only" and Other Specific Rules

Part 3: Designing Network Configuration
Chapter 10: Using Windows as a Firewall
Chapter 11: Configuring Personal Firewalls: Zone Alarm and BlackICE
Chapter 12: The Champ: check Point FireWall-1
Chapter 13: Choosing a Firewall That Meets Your Needs

Part 5: The Part of Tens
Chapter 14: Ten Tools You Can't Do Without
Chapter 15: Ten Web Sites to Visit

The reason I give 3 stars is just because this book does not a have a practical development on how a Firewall should be. There are many Firewalls types in the world and this one is just explain in Microsoft Windows based. Yes, This book is not for technical professionals, this book is made for IT managers without a necessity the whole nuts and bolts of a Firewalls.

I prefer this best as a starting reading and if you're done with this, try to look 'Building Internet Firewalls, SE', 'Linux Firewall', 'Linux Firewall, SE', Hacking Exposed series to tighten up your firewalls.

Great overview with lots of details.......2001-10-24

I don't really like the Dummies title, but I have found that Dummies books are very often written for people like me, who don't consider themselves Dummies at all. I was hoping that this one would be an easy-to-read introduction to firewalls that also provided some useful information. I was not disappointed.
Like other Dummies books, this one is very easy to approach, but it went far beyond that. I started reading this book because I wanted to get a good basic background in what firewalls are. The first few chapters did accomplish this. They also got me to think about quite a few computer security issues I had not even considered before. I especially liked that it helped me with setting up a personal firewall. At the same tiem I know that I can get back to the chapters on other, more powerful firewalls in the future. What surprised me about this book was the level of detail it went into in the chapters on how to configure a firewall for complex scenarios, such as VPN solutions. I actually also learned a lot about other, related computer security issues. Right now I don't need all of this information, but it is good to have a book that has information that I will fins useful in the months or even years to come. Many Dummies books are very approachable, and this one os no exception. However, I found that this one didn't stop at the basics. Rather, it went into topics should be useful even for someone who has to set up and configure a firewall in a medium-sized organization.

Clear, Economical, and Accesible Information on Firewalls.......2001-10-24

The authors and the technical editor of this book have done a superb job of making the complex subject of firewalls accessible to a wide audience. Regardless of your level of experience, you will be able to take something of value away from this book, whether it is a basic understanding of firewalls or some deeper insights into the complexities of NAT, IPSec, VPNs, and Kerberos. From setting up a personal firewall, such as Zone Alarm, to setting up multiple industrial-strength firewalls involvings DMZs, you will find a lot of good information and advice.

The authors show a concern for crafting clear, economical, and easy-to-understand explanations of otherwise difficult concepts. Their experience as consultants and educators is obvious. You could buy more expensive and abstruse books on firewalls, but you probably won't enjoy them as much and you probably won't get as much out of them. The authors have done a great job.

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