Birthdays Books

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT 2TWIN SISTERSWHO ARE NOTHING ALIKE.AN AIR MAIL FROM OUTER SPACE ACCEDENTLY DROPS SOME LETTERS SAILING DOWN TO EARTH.CONNIE&BONNIE CATCH A BIRTHDAY CARD FROM PLUTO.SO THEN THEY HAVE TO BUILD A ROCKET SHIP.

This is the second book I bought for my daughter as she sees Corduroy on tivo and she asked me for the books. It's a nice story about a night time escape of Cordoroy in order to find a gift for Lisa's birthday.
It's perfect before going to sleep as it's short but has a good plot. It's one of the books I read and reread to my daughter as she always asks me. She likes very much the idea of the bear going alone and then the happy end. The illustration are also nice.

I was very pleased with these cards. For the price of these cute cards I feel they deserve 5 stars. I would purchase them again.

FANS OF CRANBERRYPORT WILL BE GLAD TO SEE THEIR FRIENDS AGAIN.

THIS TIME, IT'S MR. WHISKER'S BIRTHDAY, AND HE'S COOKING.

MY KIDS LOVE THIS BOOK

James Howe did it again. I'm a teacher and my students love all of the James Howe "Bunnicula" books! Perfect to read aloud. The children were happy to see their favorite characters involved in another adventure.

I am normally into the techno way of keeping track of things in my life. I wanted a book that had the right blend of art, warmth and no year displayed so it would last a lifetime. I am filling out 6 of them for my children, two for Grandparents and two for aunts and giving them as Christmas gifts. The notes inside are quite wonderful as well. Enjoy!

This book is a staple for any mother or babysitter. Simple yet interesting and colorful, it holds a young one's attention while still teaching them basic language skills. I liked it very much, and my children like it even more.

I originally obtained a copy of Geoffrey Powell's "Devil's Birthday" on a visit to London 20 years ago. Unlike most works on the Arnhem battle, Powell, who was a company commander in the British "Red Beret" paratroopers who fought there, gives the reader the full scope of the campaign - not just the battle for Arnhem bridge.

He chronciles the bitter strife between the Allied commanders involved - not only Montgomery versus Eisenhower but within First Allied Airborne Army, between the American Air Force General, Lewis Brereton, an "odd choice" to command this Airborne Army, capable but with the shadow of the destruction of his command in the Phillipines at the beginning of the war hanging over him, and with his deputy, the brilliant but irascible British General Frederick "Boy" Browning, who as a genius in Airborne warfare had never actually fought in an Airborne engagement! Pressured by the quick Allied advance into France and the Low Countries after D-Day, Brereton and Browning kept planning airborne operations that were stopped at the last minute by Allied successes on the ground, Brereton and Browning clashed bitterly, and at one point the high-strung Browning (husband of "Rebecca" novelist Daphne DuMaurier)submitted his resignation - but chose to stay on.

Then Montgomery came up with his plan to secure the Rhine Bridges in Holland and open the gates into Germany's Ruhr - Operation Market-Garden. Browning became an enthusiastic proponent of this, in no small part for finally unleashing his trained and beloved 1st British Airborne Division into battle. (its sister division, 6th Airborne, had already seen combat on D-Day as chronicled in Stephen Ambrose's "Pegasus Bridge") The normally cautious Browning failed to heed or take seriously all warnings including one from his chief intelligence officer, Major Brian Urquhart (later Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations) that the Germans, far from beaten, had brought tanks into the Arnhem area, Thus, as thousands of brave, enthusiastic British and American paratroopers prepared for battle, a tragedy was already in the works.

Powell surprisingly is not as critical of Browning as are other British participants, including the Arnhem field commander, the late John Frost are. Colonel Frost (later a Major General in the British Army) was wounded and captured along with the majority of his command trapped alongside the Arnhem bridge by German tanks and infantry. His only criticisms of Browning is for taking his battalion-sized headquarters into Holland at the Groesebeek Heights outside the town of Nijmegen, where the American 82nd Airborne had landed and were more successful than the British were, however suffering extremely heavy casualties. Powell felt that Browning, desirious to see combat, should have stayed in Britain and directed the battle from there, including further drops by Polish paratroopers and the subsequent relief effort. Being "on the ground" in the midst of it all could not and did not give Browning an overall sense of the fight. Otherwise Powell's criticisms of Browning are mild compared to other Airborne personnel - including Frost who bitterly writes how Browning told airborne commanders - Arnhem Bridge - take that, and then went on to say to the Americans - and seize Groesebeek Heights.

General John "Shan" Hackett, a great British Military Historian who was also one of the 1st Airborne Battalion commanders, was wounded and narrowly evaded capture in the confusing, swirling battles that marked the aftermath of the failure to take Arnhem Bridge has rightfully credited Powell with writing a full book about the full campaign, including the splendid contributions of the American paratroopers of Jim Gavin's 82nd Airborne and Max Taylor's 101st, who did achieve their objectives albeit with heavy casualties; and of the efforts of the Polish Airborne, who tried to relieve their British comrades - wishing though that they had been deployed over Warsaw instead of the Dutch countryside. The Polish commander, a very experienced officer who had fought the Nazis in the battle of Warsaw and had escaped via the underground to France, had constantly warned Browning about "the Germans, General, the Germans" and had been rewarded with being dismissed from command following the debacle.

If not the best book written on the scope of the Arnhem campaign, Powell's book is indeed the best one written by an active "Red Beret" participant of "The Bridge Too Far".

This book is the second in a series, the first also being named, "Dog and Bear." Both books contain small and simple episodes (I don't think they
are complex enough to be called stories) in the lives of Dog and Bear.
My granddaughter is 2 and a half and had essentially memorized the first book. The second book gave her more dimension with the same characters
she loved and I think these two books are her personal favorites as she
can completely understand the relationship between the two friends, Dog and Bear.