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Review Date: 7/30/2008
This is an unusual alphabet book with a playful gimmick: each letter is represented by a word that contains, within it, the word "ant." Hence, the title, Antics. Many of the words will be unfamiliar to children, but the funny pictures will certainly intrigue them and the resulting questions will lead to great coversations between adult and child - the kind of conversations that make new words memorable and useful to them. There is a leather-jacket-clad, green-mohawked ant for the letter "D," deviAnt. "I" is for ImmigrAnts, accompanied by a family of ants who look as if they are preparing to disembark from an Ellis-Island-era ship. HesitAnt is represented by an ant clinging to the railing of a high dive -- what kid won't immediately understand what that word means! And there's JubilAnt, ObservAnt, NonchalAnt, XAnthophile, QuarAntine, FlamboyAnt, even KAnt and RembrAnt. It's fun, smart and a great vocabulary builder.
Review Date: 7/29/2008
As a kid I ate, slept and drank horses. And almost every book I read was about horses. I don't remember the exact details of this story, but of the many horse books I read, Jean Slaughter Doty's were among my favorites. If you have a girl with a horse obsession this would be one of my first recommendations. I think I identified with her characters more deeply than I did with Walter Farley's and others'-- great as many of those books are. Young girls have this intensity of passion for their horses- a powerful emotional connection- and she mirrors that for them in her characters.
WARNING: A significant character dies in the book. Just an FYI in case that might be too disturbing.
WARNING: A significant character dies in the book. Just an FYI in case that might be too disturbing.
Review Date: 7/29/2008
As a kid I ate, slept and drank horses. And almost every book I read was about horses. I don't remember the exact details of this story, but of the many horse books I read, Jean Slaughter Doty's were among my favorites. If you have a girl with a horse obsession this would be one of my first recommendations. I think I identified with her characters more deeply than I did with Walter Farley's and others'-- great as many of those books are. Young girls have this intensity of passion for their horses- a powerful emotional connection- and she mirrors that for them in her characters.
Review Date: 7/29/2008
As a kid I ate, slept and drank horses. And almost every book I read was about horses. I don't remember the exact details of this story, but of the many horse books I read, Jean Slaughter Doty's were among my favorites. If you have a girl with a horse obsession this would be one of my first recommendations. I think I identified with her characters more deeply than I did with Walter Farley's and others'-- great as many of those books are. Young girls have this intensity of passion for their horses- a powerful emotional connection- and she mirrors that for them in her characters.
Review Date: 1/5/2009
The language is simple, yet creative, and together with the pictures it portrays play that a toddler will recognize from his own life. Pickle books were definite favorites with my kids.
Review Date: 7/31/2008
Helpful Score: 2
As a kid I ate, slept and drank horses. And almost every book I read was about horses. Of the many horse books I read, Jean Slaughter Doty's were among my favorites. If you have a girl with a horse obsession this would be one of my first recommendations. I think I identified with her characters more deeply than I did with Walter Farley's and others'-- great as many of those books are. Young girls have this intensity of passion for their horses- a powerful emotional connection- and she mirrors that for them in her characters.
Review Date: 1/14/2009
Helpful Score: 2
I read this without having read the first two in the series, and it stood on its own just fine. While the story was well-crafted and engaging, it's really the subtle precision of his language that I most enjoyed. There were also plenty of words I had to look up, which is a plus in my mind. The book is very 70's, very American, and funny enough that I even snickered out loud a few times.
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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Book Type: Paperback
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Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 7/30/2008
Helpful Score: 1
While I respect and enjoy Michael Shermer's work, particularly his "Skeptic" column in Scientific American, I was a bit disappointed with this book. After hearing a radio interview he did to promote the book when it first came out, I was chomping at the bit to read it. It was definitely interesting, but the title should have been "Weird Things People Believe," because the book never answered its own question. It's more of a catalog and history of various irrational convictions. Had I known this going in, I probably would have enjoyed it more, but I couldn't help missing the inquiry I'd been anticipating.
Review Date: 7/29/2008
As a kid I ate, slept and drank horses. And almost every book I read was about horses. I don't remember the exact details of this story, but of the many horse books I read, Jean Slaughter Doty's were among my favorites. If you have a girl with a horse obsession this would be one of my first recommendations. I think I identified with her characters more deeply than I did with Walter Farley's and others'-- great as many of those books are. Young girls have this intensity of passion for their horses- a powerful emotional connection- and she mirrors that for them in her characters.
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