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The Earth is good - Remember Earth Day and get the book.......2004-11-05
This begins with a boy and a dog running along the woods, so it seems. The sun is breaking behind them as they trot with eagerness enjoying the air. It first looks like the boy has red skinned knees, but the way the illustrations of the boy blend in with nature it is hard to really tell.
This happens to be a journey exploring nature with this boy and dog as the pages reflect the scenery changing, as well as the weather with the boy removing his socks and shoes at one point along with his shirt. The second set of pages has the boy leaping for joy with his arms outstretched among the mountains to the left.
This illustration looks like leaves are on his shirt, as he becomes one in nature in what started as a white shirt. My son says it was a pretty good book but he wanted to know the name of the boy and his dog. This is a Scholastic book authored by Michael DeMunn, who is a prominent conservationist, with the illustrations by Jim McMullan, a celebrated artist. This would make a wonderful addition to a classroom that has a study on nature or earth to have kids take turns reading the pages and discuss the surroundings on these pages. The theme is that all is good with nature setting positive settings to appreciate the earth and all its gifts, as they are seen through the eyes of the boy with the illustrations. The boy and his dog enjoy a carefree day that is worth reading for budding nature lovers. The age range could easily fit from three to eight and handy for when Earth Day rolls around next year.
The Earth is Good.......2000-04-15
As a music specialist in early childhood, this book is great. Add hand clapping and foot stamping to get a rhythm going. The children have the words memorized in no time. Thanks to the rhythmic nature of this book. Great for pre reading activites and children with speech problems.
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In the spring of 1983, award-winning field biologist, R.D. Lawrence, traveled to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to live among and observe a captive pack of untamed wolves. The result is an extraordinary look inside the society of a much-maligned, much-persecuted animal. HC: Henry Holt.
From the Paperback edition.
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I want more books at this level.......2000-01-12
I read this book from the library, but soon I will try to buy one for myself, because it is very special. I refer to it and forward what I remember from it onto various email lists all the time. The author includes substantial detail of the sort there is usually not enough of in wolf books, without overwhelming with boring or inaccurate statistics, or losing a good writing style. The author respects and loves the wolf FOR WHAT IT IS INHERENTLY. If you are studying dog or wolf behavior as a "serious layperson" this is a must have. The kind of detailed insight this book has is hard to find, one of the rare similar books is CALMING SIGNALS ... by Turid Rugaas(sp?), which is about dog body language (and therefore based on wolf pack language).
what you always wanted to know about wolves.......1999-09-28
Mr. Lawrence tells us all about wolves in laymans terms he does not get to deep in this book for the normal person interested in wildlife to become overwelmed with the subject. Always the perfect nature writter this time Mr. Lawrence spends time on a captive wolf area studing the wolves and relating the details. Good reading for the people out there who have bad ideas about this animal you might change your mind on these wise creatures.
The increadable life of the Wolves.......1998-10-14
This book is increadable it really gives a person a true understanding of such a beautiful animal as it tells about their traits characteristics and personalities. It also explains the hiarchy of the pack and the mating of the wolves and interaction between the pack members and with humans. For me it was especially enjoyable as I was able to really relate to the discription of the wolves in Jim Wuepper's pack in upper Michagan after seeing a film on this pack narrated by R.D. Lawrence shown at the Wolf Centre in Haliburton, Ontario as so much of his focus in this book is on that particular pack. It was also very enjoyable to me knowing that Jim Wueppler's pack came to the the Wolf Centre in the early 1990's where some of it's decendents still reside. I recommend this book to anyone who would like a better understanding of such a beautiful animal it was truly very interesting and enjoyable.
Insight into human social interaction.......1998-10-04
Great book for both adults and teenagers. Surprisingly, it reveals data suggesting that the wolves have a hierarchical/social structure most close to us humans (when we act on our animal level.) It was an insight into office life around me and into human jealousy situations around.
Informative but not overwhelming for pleasure reading!.......1998-06-25
Being the first book on wolves that I read, 'In Praise of Wolves' is very enlightening and informative. The relationship that the author had with the wolves and all the personal encounters, both with the people involved and the wolves, are very touching. I think the author has done a marvelous job in explaining to us about this much-misunderstood species. The book is written in a 'story' form, thus making it, i think, an informative but yet 'light' book to read during pleasure time. And for those who are not much familiar with the wolves like myself, this book does not contain too much scientific writings that are too overwhelming and hard to digest. And in cases where there are, the author dealt it with much comprehension thus making it very easy to understand especially to those who are ignorant to that certain aspect. Personally, I had a wonderful time reading this book and it got me into reading many other wolves books.
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Release Date: 2004-06-01 |
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A timeless hymn brought to life.
This beautifully illustrated picture book interprets a beloved ode to nature, complete with the music notation in the back for readers to play or sing themselves.
Ages 2+
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A Great Childrens' Book.......2002-08-19
This is an easy review - the book is simply great! If parents are willing to sit down with their children and read, especially starting before they are two years old, this book will help to spark the imagination of practically any child. The song couldn't make a better subject for a book. The story should help form the foundation for a strong moral and religious background. The illustrations are beautifully done and our twenty-two month old picks out things that we hadn't even noticed. I recommend the book to all parents and encourage them to read it nightly, taking the time to discuss what they see in the pictures. I sincerely hope the author has more projects in the works!
All things bright and beautiful..........2001-12-17
All creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all... This is a great hymn, one of my favorites (especially the arrangement by John Rutter). Reading (singing!) this book to my children has given them an appreciation for the beauty in God's world. The illustrations are the kind that a child is drawn into - the kind they can gaze at and imagine themselves in the scene.
A carefree country girl goes on a ramble as the hymn unfolds. My children (me too!) want to kick off their shoes and share in the child's absorption of the beauty around her.
Great way to children-ize a hymn.
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You know what they say about a picture..........2006-04-19
Beautiful, striking, and at times even sad and funny, this book details these amazing animals in wonderfully sharp and colourful professional photography. No review can honestly do it justice... you just have to see it for yourself.
Stunning Photography.......2000-01-10
This is a book filled with stunning primate photos, particularly of the mountain and low land gorillas. I purchased it after reading a review, and it was well worth buying. One of the best photographic books on primates I have ever seen - excellent value and excellent photos
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What do we know about plants, really? Through a rich array of examples, many illustrated in the author's elegant and distinctive style, this book offers a new look at botany. This scholarly yet fun book examines the qualities that make plants unique, so different from animals. Experienced in both the academic and in-the-field sides of science, the opinionated Hallé delightfully makes the case that plants differ so profoundly from animals that questions are raised about the meaning of individuality and the nature of life and death.
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Technical but wondrously informative.......2003-11-23
It's always a good sign to see that someone has bothered to translate a science book from another language into English. Publishers can usually get some English-language scientist to write a tome on the latest discoveries in a more commercially agreeable manner than putting together a translation. So when the translation appears you know the book is good and/or original in a distinctive way.
In Praise of Plants by botany Professor Emeritus Francis Hallé of the University of Montpellier, France is such a book. However it is by no means a popular treatise; indeed, if you want to get the look and feel of a botany article in a professional journal, this book provides an entire book's worth! The material is technical, detailed, and uncompromisingly professional.
So why has the Timber Press chosen this volume to bring to the English speaking world? Partly because of the international prestige of Hallé, who is an expert on tropical plants; partly because they were able to get a translation by David Lee who is Professor of Biological Sciences at Florida International University; and partly because of the striking nature of Hallé's presentation.
Hallé emphasizes the form of plants and how that form has developed evolutionarily from their need to secure the services of both sun and earth while remaining nearly immobile. There are dozens of line drawings in the book, most by Hallé himself, illustrating the differences between plants and animals with the text explaining why these differences occur. For example, because plants are sessile (attached to the ground) they are symmetrical on the horizontal plane, a tree looking pretty much the same from whatever spot on the ground you view it. However in a vertical sense a plant is very different since its crown is in the air looking at the sun while its roots are in the ground looking for water and minerals. In contrast, animals (I'll just quote Hallé so you'll get a feel for the technical language): "have dorsiventral polarity and anteroposterior and bilateral symmetry." (p. 70)
Fortunately the attractive and sometimes funny drawings help to penetrate the language for this amateur!
Here are some examples of the sort of things you can learn from this book:
At the microscopic level, where gravity is relatively "negligible compared to other forces" like "surface tension, viscosity, friction and Brownian motion," (p. 64) life forms tend toward the round and take on the symmetries we associate with astronomical objects like the sun and Saturn. Hallé gives examples of bacteria, amoebas, diatoms, etc. where "vertical polarity simply does not exist." (p. 64) Science fiction writers take note: creatures living in interstellar dust clouds will be more or less round.
One of the clear homologies (same form) assumed by plants and animals is in "the external (assimilating) surface of a plant and the internal (digestive) surface of an animal." (p. 51) The plant maximizes its surface area to expose as much of it as possible to the sun and the air, while the animal creates folds and such within its alimentary canal so as to provide a large surface area for effective digestion. Hallé notes that plants resemble fractals externally. (p. 52)
The waste products of animals bring forth (to our sensitivities) malodorous compounds as do their decomposing bodies. Hallé explains why this is so on pages 148-151, and why the waste products of plants and their decomposing bodies do not usually offend us; indeed the smell of new mown hay and forest humus or even a compost pile, can be very agreeable. On page 149 he favors us with a drawing of a tree which grows in part upon the waste products of its metabolism stored in its trunk. Next to the tree Hallé has a dog on top of a pile of its excrement, noting that "An animal that stored its excrement would also be capable of becoming very tall."
Hallé's love of plants and his deep respect for them, and his life-long experience in studying them comes through most wonderfully in this fine book. Although technical, it is accessible to amateur botanists and just plain old gardeners and lovers of plants with just a little effort.
In Praise of Hallé.......2003-10-27
[copy of my review for Amazon.co.uk]
Reviewer: Mr P J Stewart from Oxford United Kingdom
The best book on plants I've ever read (and I've been reading about them for more than 40 years). Here at last is a biologist who sees plants for the amazing things they are and not just as something like stationary green animals.
Of the living things that we can see, plants make up the overwhelmingly greater part. They create the grasslands and forests and wetlands and the surface ocean conditions in which most animals live, they stabilize the atmosphere of the whole planet, and they are the ultimate source of almost everything that animals feed on. Yet biology, until its recent lurch into molecular studies, has mostly derived from animal models. Hallé cites many examples, such as the fruitless search for plant hormones and the extension to plants of the doctrine that the lineage of reproductive cells is strictly separate from that of the cells that make up the body of the organism.
Hallé writes with clarity and gives plenty of concrete examples. He is someone who can decidedly 'see the wood for the trees' - not surprising perhaps in the man who pioneered the exploration of the rainforest canopy using 'rafts' suspended from balloons. He is also often very funny, and the translator has served him well. Hallé has illustrated the book with a large number of his own wonderful drawings. The work is beautifully produced - a gem from every point of view!
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Written in 1848, this beloved hymn celebrating the wonders of Creation is given new life in Anna Vojtech's glowing interpretation. Lushly detailed paintings follow two children and their frisky pup through a bucolic landscape of meadows, hills, rivers, streams, and woods. Throughout the seasons, the youngsters explore and enjoy the wealth of treasures to be found -- things bright and beautiful, great and small, wise and wonderful, the glory of it all.
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A Bright and Beautiful Journey.......2007-05-02
Imagine visiting a world of bright and vibrant colors, where the sky isn't only blue, but hues of green and purple too. A world of flittering dragonflies, fluttering butterflies, and buzzing bees over landscapes of green rolling hills and fields of fragrant flowers. All of this and more is brought to life in All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander, through the awe-inspiring illustrations of Anna Vojtech.
Any parent wanting to share God's daily gifts with their child can do so through the verse and illustrations of the book. From infant to toddler and even preschool through grade school, children will remain captivated with the wonderment this book inspires.
All Things Bright and Beautiful is a wonderful addition to any collection of books because of the little time it takes to read, but mostly because the effect on your child's senses will last a lifetime.
Beautiful Message - Beautifully Illustrated.......2006-03-12
My daughter is only 5 months, we read to her on a daily basis. This book is one of her favorites. She loves the beautifully illustrated pages and the message speaks God's truth and love to her heart and mind each time we read it. Simply and beautifully written. This book talks about how God created each and every thing and that he gaves us eyes and lips to tell about how great and mighty he is. Highly reccomend this one.
Sample text: All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small. All things wis and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings. He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings.....
Beautiful Pictures for a Beautiful Hymn.......2006-02-14
Anna Vojtech's illustrations enhance Cecil Frances Alexander's hymn. The hymn is about the beauty of the world created by God. Ms. Vojtech illustrates this beauty. There are bright, colorful watercolors of the varied animals and plants on earth. She uses bright, warm colors to capture a child's attention. A child will enjoy repeatedly the pictures as they listen to the words. Anna Vojtech's talent is another "bright and beautiful" gift from the Creator.
Beautiful sentiment and pictures.......2005-03-04
I love this book; it's a great bedtime story as it is so soothing. The warm, benevolent and sentimental words of the famous hymn and poem match with brightly colored, very engaging illustrations. It is guaranteed to be one of those warm and fuzzy moments when you read it to a child you adore and hope the world is indeed beautiful for.
And, by the way, you don't need to be Christian to appreciate this book, just appreciative of a greater purpose.
A highly recommended book for Christian parents to read.......2004-08-08
All Things Bright And Beautiful is a simple picturebook that vibrantly illustrates a widely beloved hymn to God, first written in 1848 by Cecil Frances Alexander. The heartwarming paintings by Anna Vojtech of two children at play in all four seasons brings a colorful interpretation to the verses that celebrate the goodness of God and all the wonderful things he has made. A highly recommended book for Christian parents to read aloud and share with their children, All Things Bright And Beautiful would grace any family, school, or community library collection.
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Written in 1848, this beloved hymn celebrating the wonders of Creation, is given new life in Anna Vojtech's glowing interpretation. Lushly detailed paintings follow two children and their frisky pup through a bucolic landscape of meadows, hills, rivers, streams and woods. Throughout the seasons, the youngsters explore and enjoy the wealth of treasures to be found—things bright and beautiful, great and small, wise and wonderful, the glory of it all.
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In this joyous celebration of God's creation based on Psalm 148 and Psalm 150, animals, nature and people praise God. Aimed at children ages 0-5, the clever rhyming text literally sings, and the art draws in readers both young and old.
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An inspirational story about this remarkable world for which we have God thank.......2006-07-14
Rhonda Gowler Greene's thoroughly "kid friendly" text combines perfectly with the joyous illustrations of Janet Broxon in Sing Praise, a creative and informative picturebook exploring the world which God has provided us. Carrying young readers through a triumphant collection of the wonderful creations of the Lord, Sing Praise offers an entertaining perspective into the love, unity, beauty, and flourishing truths of God's creations. Sing Praise is very highly recommended for all young readers and their parents searching for an inspirational story about this remarkable world for which we have God thank.
A wonderful book!.......2006-03-06
Author Rhonda Gowler Greene and illustrator Janet Broxon base their book, Sing Praise on Psalm 148 and Psalm 150.
The delightful and lyrical text is a perfect vehicle to entertain and teach children about creation. Gowler Greene's verses evoke strong word pictures, and are enhanced by Broxon's big, beautiful, and colorful illustrations. The result of their combined talent is a story that will capture a child's attention and invite them to listen, look, sing, dance and play out the story.
Armchair Interviews says: Sing Praise is a celebration of our God who loves us all so much he gave us the beauty of his love through the world's creation. This book is destined to become a favorite of children and adults alike.
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