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A complete guide to HAPPY, healthy mealtimesHere it is-the cookbook parents have been waiting for, filled with carefully chosen, great tasting, good-for-you, kitchen-tested recipes that appeal to the whole family, especially the kids! Encourage healthy attitudes toward food and lifelong, wholesome eating habits with 365 Foods Kids Love to Eat!Perfect for busy parents and child-care providers"A book with all the goodies." -Daily News"As a mother and pediatritian, I have found this book to be full of healthful recipes that kids really like! A must for anyone who has the happy and sometimes perilous job of feeding children." •Joan Slackman, MD"Parents with children who hate all food (except Lucky Charms) will grasp this book to their breasts with gratitude." —Fresno Bee
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Great recipes.......2006-12-24
My kids and I made some of these recipes and they love them. Great help.
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some fun recipes and ideas... BUT..........2004-07-13
My two toddlers won't eat 95% of the stuff in this book. If you have a picky eater, this book may or may not be helpful. For the parent who wants fun recipe ideas for kids who are not very picky, this book is worth a try.
A step beyond the PBJ.......2003-01-26
This is a good cookbook. There is a lot of variety, all recipes are simple to follow. No special tools or ingrediants are required. Most are easy enough for the kids to do. There is even a section about foriegn foods with a few international recipes. I recommend this book for anyone who is looking to add a little variety in what their kids eat.
great cookbook (for kids AND parents) with tons of variety!.......2002-08-08
frankly, i was a bit surprised to read the negative reviews for this book! out of 365 recipes, of course you're not going to like every single one of them. my kids DO love fish and vegetables, and sheila ellison gives me plenty of different, fun ways to prepare healthy meals for them in this book (as well as many other kinds of food, of course). many of the recipes are ideal for the kids to participate in cooking them, as well. get your kids to try something new! i love the fact that the book contains recipes i'll actually eat with my kids, and i can feel good about serving a family meal that is enjoyable and healthy. not to mention the book contains the best chocolate chip cookie recipe on the planet (and my kids will attest to that!)...
Not what I had hoped for.......2001-02-01
There are some good recipes in this book. Unfortunately, you have to hunt them up, because there are also a number that caused my husband to go "YUK" louder than my kids. Some of the recipes are just plain weird. Pancake Soup? Carrot Mushroom Loaf? It's also not terribly well organized and too tightly bound, so the recipes I do like are frequently hard to find, and when I do find them, I can't get the book to stay open to read them. I would recommend First Meals by Annabel Karmel as a good alternative, particularly for people with younger kids.
Recommended for a family cookbook collection.......1999-08-06
Practical recipes that are delicious for kids and parents alike. Ingredients are common and easy-to-find. Wide variety of recipes, from down-to-earth standby's to fanciful concoctions! I found this book at the library, and have used it several times a week since! My husband loves it too.
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365 Foods Kids Love to Eat
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Release Date: 2001-11-20 |
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Fun, nutritious, kid-tested, and kid-approved, these recipes encourage healthy attitudes towards food, show how kids can participate in the preparation, and include recipes for everything from snacks and desserts, to ideas for lunch boxes, holidays, and parties.
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Detailed information on the Mexican Army which fought the Texans in the 1830s, and the US Army in its first important foreign war ten years later, is notoriously elusive. In this ground-breaking book an internationally respected military historian presents a mass of new information from Mexican archives and a variety of other contemporary sources. For the first time the armies of the notorious General Santa Anna are explained coherently for the English-speaking reader, and their frequently changing and unevenly issued uniforms are illustrated with early prints, portraits, photos of rare surviving items, and meticulous colour reconstructions.
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Adequate, but that's all.......2004-12-18
Like so many of Chartrande's books in the Opsrey/Elite series, this tome is adequate, but that's all. The topic of what the troops of Santa Anna wore from the 1830's to the 1840's is difficult to research at best, and most of what is presented here is a re-hash of old hash. The author does offer a few illustrations that have seldom seen the light of day, but they tell us very little. (The sentry in Yucatan from 1827 wearing cotton civilian shirt and trousers with black belts for example) Chartrande ignores the special campaign uniforms worn by some of the dragoons for the Texas campaign. Also ignored are the rifle companies of the 1840 period which DID exist. Younghusband's plates are quite good, but his soldados look a little too well fed. You didn't get fat in the army to say the least! Lacking are plates showing the fatigue wear, the overcoat, the packs and accounterments. Maybe another author will tackle the subject, and I'll patiently wait until then.
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With a rich variety of stunning avifauna, Mexico provides the first taste of the Neotropics for many birders. At last here is a guide to Mexico's best birdwatching sites, from Baja California to the Yucatan Peninsula. Steve N. G. Howell, coauthor of the widely acclaimed A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America, has selected over 100 sites where birders may see more than 950 species, including virtually all of the endemics and regional specialties. Useful for both the business traveler in Mexico City with only a morning to spare and the serious birder planning a three-month trip across the country, this indispensable book tells where to go and what to look for.
covers all of Mexico and includes all of the top birding spots. presents key information on over 100 sites, where more than 950 bird species can be seen. provides lists of the birds at the most popular sites. gives general information about each region of the country, along with a map showing the location of its sites; additional maps show greater detail at selected sites. supplies listings of all endemics and sought-after species with key sites where they can be seen. includes advice on how best to find and view birds. suggests itineraries for birding holidays. offers valuable tips on travel and birdwatching in Mexico.
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Dissappointed.......2006-09-14
Not satisfied because there are no pictures of the birds....was in Puerto Escondido Mexico last season and saw so many birds, so bought this book for the next trip, but no pictures ! My local bird book in New York has all the pictures, which I think is key identifiying the birds....words just are not the same ....the book is so dry without colored pictures compared to other birding books.....
Viva Howell!.......2002-09-06
Do not go birding in Mexico without first procuring a copy of this invaluable book! Last summer a friend and I undertook a succesful three week birding road trip throughout western Mexico, and most of our route was planned directly from this book! There is a relative scarcity of information on finding birds in Mexico. Visit southern Texas or Arizona, and you can easily obtain a dozen helpful volumes. Cross the border, and you are hard pressed to track down any useful information - but this book is certainly the best of what is currently available. Written by the same man who authored the superb and definitive field guide to the birds of Mexico, it covers most of the important regions of Mexico(a "mega" bio-diversity country), and points you in the right direction to search for every single one of Mexico's 115 endemic and 25 near-endemic species. On our trip we visited nearly every site described in chapters 5, 6, and 7. We enjoyed the luxury, thanks to this book, of showing up at remote places in a foreign country and immediately getting down to business of birding the best spots, without wasting time exploring or scouting - as if we were at a local wildlife refuge back home!
I eagerly anticipate future editions. There is room for improvement here, as well as expansion. I can envision this book doubling in scope, without andy redundancy. More and more birders are venturing into Mexico, and this book is helping pave the way. The number one improvement I hope to see is a dramatic enlargement of appendix B, which deals with sites for finding species of particular interest. I would like to see that expand to offer a few paragraphs of information per species, rather that a vauge line or two. Also, a few of the directions will need revision and updating (although most were right on!). Finally, I hope to see a lot more sites described within a day's drive of the border.
In short, unless you are accompanying an organized tour group, your birdwatching experience in Mexico will be far, far richer for having this book - and if you are anything like me, you will read and re-read it prior to your birding trip until you have almost memorized parts of it.
Please correct typo in previous customer review.......1999-11-01
Should be "Birder's Delight: Potent Conservation Tool." As it is the "n" was left out of the word Conservation. Many thanks.
Birders' Delight: Potent Covservation Tool.......1999-02-13
Steve N.G. Howell is to be commended, perhaps more appropriately thanked, for the tremendous job he has done in writing this revolutionary book. Howell, who together with illustrator Sophie Webb several years ago authored the definitive guide to Mexican birds, has now given the world something far more important than a field guide. In "A Bird Finding Guide To Mexico," Mr. Howell provides a complete and up-to-date guide for where to find the diverse species of Mexican birds. The guide is unprecedented in its coverage.
Howell divides the country into 14 regions, and lists the top several birding locations for each region, called "sites." Not only are there specific directions to the sites he covers ("turn right onto cobblestone road at Kilometer 14, past Pemex station," for example), he supplies a list of species found at each site. The result is two-fold: (1) anyone can now easily find the "hot spots" for Mexico's fabulous avifauna; and (2) field identification is facilitated, because a species list for the site has been provided by the man who authored the authoritative field guide. You will know where to stay; where to go; and what you are seeing once you get there. Quite simply, birding in Mexico has been forever changed, and just in the nick of time.
This reviewer recently took the book on a "family vacation" to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Assuming I was to be confined to seeing a few species at the resort where I was staying with my 3 year-old, my 6-year old, my in-laws, and my wife, I nevertheless eagerly anticipated the trip -- hoping to make forays into the wild -- but not knowing where on earth to go. Receiving a tip 10 days in advance that Howell's book had just a few weeks earlier been published, but assured that undoubtedly I would not be able to procure a copy in time, I nevertheless got one quickly from Amazon.com in three days. Whew!
After consultation of the book, I learned there was a splendid lagoon 5 miles from my luxury hotel (which I visited twice) and that a world famous bird area was only two hours to the north -- San Blas, Nayarit -- Spain's headquarters for its Pacific empire of the 1700s. I quickly reaaranged my itinerary; rented a car; made reservations in a lovely hotel recommended by Howell; and took in a three day adventure that netted me 135 species of birds. This would have been impossible without the book, as Howell's guide directed me to 7 specific locations that were simply gushing with birds, birds, and more birds.
On the first morning of birding at Site 6.2 in the state of Nayarit (the Mexican state north of Jalisco), I hiked up a verdant canyon above the village of "La Bajada." The mouth of the canyon opened directly into a gentle bay of the Pacific, which I could see far below. The cliffs of the canyon rose 800 feet above me, and I gradually worked my way higher and higher as morning mists evaporated and sunlight hit the leaves. A canopy of trees surrounded a coffee plantation, and I was proud to be setting out before the coffee bean collectors merrily starting their early morning work, with sharpened machetes and little fires to keep warm and burn the forest.
In a few hours in the mysterious canyon above La Bajada, I spied both the Elegant Trogon and the Citreoline Trogon (a Mexican endemic); the Lineated Woodpecker and the Pale-billed Woodpecker; three species of parrots (two screamed as they rocketed away from a Grey Hawk, which seemed to swoop out of nowhere); the Squirrel Cuckoo; the Ivory-billed Woodcreeper; the Masked Tityra; the Rose-throated Becard; and the Black-throated Mapie-jay, the San Blas Jay and the Sinaloa Crow (all Mexican endemics).
But the sounds were marvelous as well. A Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl tooted from a grove of trees, unseen but easy to identify from the combination of the bird list in the "Finding Guide" and Howell and Webb's authoritative field guide. The Happy Wren, another Mexican endemic, blasted its pulsating song from the brush. The White-tipped Dove cooed ghostlike, unseen from the forest floor.
As I had hoped, above La Bajada I also heared the song of the bird many consider to be the finest singer in the New World -- the Brown-backed Solitaire -- a thrush in the genus Myadestes. George M. Sutton, in his ground breaking "Mexican Birds: First Impressions," described the fantastic song as an "electric sparkler," as "musical fireworks," and confessed that in his decades of professional ornithology, when he first heard the solitaire in 1938, he felt as if "his ears had never fully functioned" until that "high moment that filled him with wild, half-furious exultation."
At La Bajada you hear such things, and the trees were indeed literally dripping with birds.
In San Blas proper about 20 minutes away, there were thousands of shorebirds, Roseate Spoonbills, Wood Storks, and Black-necked stilts. On the beach was the majestic American Oystercatcher. A pair was observed catching tiny crabs, and performing an odd sort of bonding dance where the two stood parrallel to each other, but head to toe to bounce and sway in unison. There were warblers galore, parrots, anis, Crane Hawks, Black Hawks, Harris Hawks, and a Peregrine Falcon was easily approached on top of a hill where an old fort, church and canon commanded a view of the town at sunset. The raucous call of the Collared Forest-Falcon was heard from a cliff, bouncing through the forest. The bird list for the marvelous San Blas area tops 305 birds!
The directions in Howell's book are so good that the name and telephone number of a boatman specializing in mangrove swamp tours was given: Oscar Partida. I took the bait, and as a result approached a Northern Potoo, a Paraque, Boat billed Herons, Bare-throated tiger herons, and Rufous-bellied Chachalacas at close range. Obviously, this book has revolutionized birding in Mexico. Many of the magical areas seem to be within easy driving distance of resorts, and comfortable hotels. It is profusely illustrated with diagrams on how to get where you want to be.
In the larger scheme of conservation biology, the book should also serve as a landmark of sorts. On each jaunt I saw wetlands being drained for new resort hotels, forests being hacked down and burned, and the delicate web of life irreversibly disorganized by the growing human and economic activity. This is, of course, nothing different from what is also happening here in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Many tropical countries, most notably Costa Rica, have recognized that conservation of biological diversity, at least in the form of eco-tourism, has great economic value. Mexico is, at this moment, now coming to this realization, and towns such as San Blas are experiencing a revival precisely because of such eco-tourism.
Accordingly, Howell's book is also important because it will make much more widely accessible the viewing of the marvellous Mexican birds. Let us hope it sells in droves, and that its readers flock to Mexico to see the birds. The concomitant increase in awareness of birds there, both as economic factors and also as indicators of intact ecosystems, will do much to aid Mexico to preserve its invaluable biodiversity, which otherwise may disappear within the next generation.
Bravo, Steve N.G. Howell! Your book has tremendous potential at the turn of the Millennium, both for enjoyment, and for preserving our planet.
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New Mexico is divided into nine mapped birdwatching areas--Northwestern, Northcentral, Northeastern, Western, Central, Eastern, Southwestern, Southcentral, Southeastern.
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1985 Supplement to Finding Birds in Mexico: A Guide to Bird-Finding
Ernest D. Edwards
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New Mexico bird finding guide
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 545 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: A BIRD-FINDING GUIDE TO MEXICO.
Author: Peter Alden
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Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1999
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 111
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