Birthdays Books

My 3 year old daughter LOVES this book. She always wants to read this. There are a lot of neat things about it,...lots of pull ups, pull outs, and spooky stuff. DEFINITELY worth buying!

I work in a bookstore and I have been keeping my eye on this book because it looked so fun just from the cover. Finally I opened it and read the book. I thought it was great! The story was fun. I think my favorite part were all the pop-ups especially the one where they dance. It is a great book for people of all ages! I highly recommend it.

This is really the story of Raspberry Tart and how she thought everyone had forgotten her birthday. She's not exactly perfect. When she has asked only 1 friend to play with her and is rebuffed, she uses a sharp tone of voice with the 2nd friend who says no. This is a topic for discussion. My kids said she should have been nicer. Later on in the day, of course, there is a surprise party, so Raspberry Tart is happy. My boy/girl twins love this book. There are about 4-5 paragraphs on each page, so they have to use their imagination for most of the narration.

This is really the story of Raspberry Tart and how she thought everyone had forgotten her birthday. She's not exactly perfect. When she has asked only 1 friend to play with her and is rebuffed, she uses a sharp tone of voice with the 2nd friend who says no. This is a topic for discussion. My kids said she should have been nicer. Later on in the day, of course, there is a surprise party, so Raspberry Tart is happy. My boy/girl twins love this book. There are about 4-5 paragraphs on each page, so they have to use their imagination for most of the narration.

I love how the anticipation builds up in this book, as Dora and friends prepare for Isa's surprise party. My 16 month old daughter has had this book for about 4 months, and she continues to like it more and more. She gets excited when Isa comes through the door and then again when the pinata breaks. Like other Dora books, a little bit of spanish is incorporated, and Dora asks questions. There are so many objects for children to point out in all the Dora books.

My daughter had The Surprise Party and A Day at the Beach since she was 6 months old. She's now 13 months old. We lost "A Day at the Beach" because we were carrying the two books everywhere with us. The Surprise Party is in shreds from reading it over and over again. She loves the story, point out the characters and different items in the book, like hats and baloons. Most of all she loves to yell "Surprise, Happy Birthday Isa!" and clap when it's time. Even though this book is always out and available she never lost interest in it. We always carry it with us in the car and at restaurants.

Taylor's Birthday Party is a charming children's picturebook about the treasure that is true friendship. Baker and Taylor are two anthropomorphic cats and best friends. Taylor's birthday is coming, so Baker decides to throw a special surprise party. But there are so many tasks to perform; one disaster strikes after another. Ultimately Baker learns that no matter what went wrong in the execution of the party, it's the effort, love, and hard work that matter most. As a special bonus, young people can hunt through the colorful pictures to discover eight mice hiding in the pages. An upbeat story, good for parents to share with children or for young people to discover on their own.

Good Story line for kids and lots to learn in a fun way.

This book is a pleasure to read. First off the author bases the book in the U.P. of Michigan. If you've never been up there it is God's country. As the plot of the story states there are no malls around the corner. I love the fact that the kids have to think and be creative on what to give/make mom for her birthday. It is a refreshing concept! The illustrations are very sweet and relay the innocence of the children. What a great book to read aloud to your kids and have a project to make! The back of the book shows how to make the birdhouse shown in the book. My kids already are making plans to make one!

This story is very heart warming. It's the kind of book that you want to curl up together with your kids and read it out loud! As an added bonus, there is a challenge word on every page to expand your child's vocabulary. This book will become a family favorite for sure!
I also liked the fact that you can get an audio version from the publisher using the information in the back of the book!
You won't be disappointed if you buy this book!

My kindergartner loves this book. We read it every night. She is learning basic addition without even realizing it. I also love that the animals are mostly from Australia including dingos, kangaroos and platypuses.

A great book to pass down or share with friends.

Charming story with wonderful illustrations. My son loves to count the "too many things to do" items on each page. We also learn about the fun animals of Australia and how they surprise their friend Kangaroo on his birthday.

From an Illinois Parent -- The author's poetic style and the illustrator's pink-toned pictures portray a wonderful affection between parent and child. I highly recommend this lovely adoption story.

This whimsical book leads the reader from a discussion of how an adopted child has two birthdays to the more serious topic of what it means to be adopted. Beth waits and waits for her "real" birthday, the day she was adopted, but her mother explains that everyone has only one birthday, and that birthdays aren't really that important. What matters is how people feel about one another. Beth's mother says, "I don't love you because you're adopted. I love you because you're Beth." Beth responds by creating a heart-shaped card for her mother. Her picture is on one half, her mother's on the other. Beth says, "Together we make a heart. Together we make a family. Every day. That's what being adopted means." The light verse and simple vocabulary will engage young pre-readers and older readers will enjoy and identify with the story. The open exchanges between Beth and her mother can be a starting point to encourage dialogue between children, parents and members of the extended family.

Mr. Curry, Mr. Gable, and Mr. Marshall have drawn on their life interests, as well as a wide circle of musicologists to assemble this far-ranging series of essays that probe deeply into the form and thought behind the works of important composers, from Bach to Boulez. An example of the "out-of-the-box" nature of these esssays is Essay 14, "Words for the Surface: Boulez, Stockhausen and `Allover' Painting," this essay is very intriguing in its synthesis of painting and music.
These essays are amply illustrated with pertinent fragments of scores and manuscripts, and are directed at the serious musician. Any musician, or person who is interested in the form and structure of what he hears, or is especially interested in the thought behind several of the more important works of modernist composers, such as Boulez, and the relationship of these modernist ideas to the ideas of the classical and romantic period composers will be well rewarded by sampling the essays in this book.

Variations on the Canon: Essays on Music from Bach to Boulez in Honor of Charles Rosen on his Eightieth Birthday

I. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Joseph Kerman. "Fugue and its Discontents."

David Schulenberg. "Fugues, Form, and Fingering: Sonata Style in Bach's
Preludes and Fugues."

II. HAYDN & MOZART

László Somfai. "Notational Irregularities Signalizing New Style. The Case of Haydn's F-minor `Sun' Quartet."

Richard Kramer. "The Fugal Moment: On a few bars in Mozart's Quintet in C Major."

III. BEETHOVEN

William Kinderman. "A Tale of Two Quintets: Mozart's K. 452 and
Beethoven's Op. 16."

Lewis Lockwood. "Vestas Feuer: Beethoven on the Path to Leonore."

Robert L. Marshall. "Sonority and Structure: Observations on Beethoven's Early
and Middle-Period Piano Compositions."

Robert Winter. "Recomposing the Grosse Fuge: Beethoven and Op. 134."

IV. THE ROMANTIC GENERATION

Julian Rushton. "Schubert, the Tarantella, and the Quartettsatz D. 703."

Jeffrey Kallberg. "On the scherzando Nocturne."

Robert P. Morgan. "Chopin's Modular Forms."

V. ITALIAN OPERA

Philip Gossett. "The Hot and the Cold: Verdi Writes to Antonio Somma about Re Lear."

VI. THE MODERNIST TRADITION

Walter Frisch. "The Ironic German: Schoenberg and the Serenade, Op. 24."

David Gable. "Words for the Surface: Boulez, Stockhausen, and `Allover' Painting."

VII. CRITICISM & THE CRITIC [Rosen]

James Webster. "Rosen's Modernist Haydn."

Leo Treitler. "Facile Metaphors, Hidden Gaps, Short Circuits:
Should We Adore Adorno?"

Scott Burnham. "The Music of a Classical Style."

Charles Rosen. "Montaigne hors de son propos."

TRIBUTES

Pierre Boulez: "Une culture vraiment intimidante."
Elliott Carter: "Charles Rosen for his 80th Birthday."
Charles Mackerras. "Charles Rosen: A Personal Appreciation by a Contemporary."

Charles Rosen: Discography & Bibliography.

Know anyone born in 1949?..This book makes a great book and a wonderful stroll down memory lane.

I went to a 50th birthday party and the guest of honor received the book as a gift and everyone really liked it. It was so well done and I would certainly buy one for someone if the year was available it made a wonderful birthday gift.

wow! i have been searching for this book for ages! i can't wait to read it again. i have vivid memories of the super-brill illustrations that while sometimes horrifying, always intrigued me for hours. if my memory serves me correctly, there was a particularly fascinating picture of rats choking on bubblegum pancakes...but don't let this scare you away! i was a very sensitive child, and still adored this book. its story is easy to relate to at any age...we all have experienced that moment when our imagination runs ridiculously wild...and of course, despite the panic, it all works out in the end. i must have read this book a zillion times, and though that was about 20 years ago, i'm positive it would be a favorite today. this book is worthy of modern classic status!

I read this book as a child, and it is still as wonderful! Just as always Kellogg keeps you hooked. It's about a little girl that can't find anyone to play with. She goes from door to door, but no one will play with her. She can here them inside, but no one will come out. She thinks about all the fun she will have with out them. Her imagination runs away with her and Kellogg does a great job illustrating it. At the end it all turns out well. A must have for anybody that has children-or an imagination!