Birthdays Books

I Just got this book, and I love it!!! If you like Fun, a good time and spooky fun this books for you. AngelaM

Wow!. It is Hilda's birthday and she is sad because she wants to meet her other friends. So they made a Monster Express so that her friends can arrive to her Birthday party. That is not all Boris and Kilmer bought THE COMPLETE HAUNTED HOUSE GUIDE. When Hilda saw her friends she cried. When they went inside Hilda's friends danced around. When Carey's dad entered he said to Boris that" Carey did not know it was a surprise party". He also said[Carey's dad] "He was sorry if they disturbed you". Boris and Hilda said "That it was okay". Then Hilda blew her birthday cake. Then Boris said" That Ben, Annie and Jane proved that this was their best neighborhood"

This is a good book for kids. I'm always telling my son to hurry up. Franklin is trying to get to a birthday party, but on the way he meets his friends which delays him. He found some nice things on the way though. He does make it on time to wish Bear a happy birthday.

Besides having wonderful illustrations, Hurry Up Franklin, wonderfully illustrates a great lesson for children and adults. I am a special education teacher and I use this book to teach children not to procrastinate. Hurry Up Franklin, teaches them to do what they are supposed to do and not stop and play along the way and it comes from one of the most trusted characters in books today...Franklin.

This non-fiction picture book is a continuation of a successful series for the Jewish pre-school audience. In it, real youngsters are shown celebrating Israel's birthday at their school. The photos and one-line descriptions depict actual ways children at American Jewish day schools get involved with the celebration of Israel's Independence Day, Yom Ha atz'maut. Because each page shows real children doing real activities that are so often a part of a school celebration of this holiday, the reader is "hooked" by the cuteness of the children and the familiarity of the scenes. Some Hebrew words and typical tourist sites of Israel are depicted and the children look like they are enjoying the celebration. For example, children choose different ingredients at the falafel stand, visit the shuk (market) in Jerusalem, pick fruit on a kibbutz, and even place a prayer into the "cracks" at the Kotel. The simplicity and charm of this book is that it makes younger children feel comfortable with the photos because these photographed children are doing the same kinds of activities that the reader might do at his/her own school. Because children like familiarity, the young reader will be able to relate well as the teacher reads the basic text and shows the photos while stopping for discussion on each page. The teacher can use this book to elaborate more fully on the different aspects of Israel life and culture in terms of special regional foods, important cities, shopping, and most importantly, the feeling of "Am Yisrael Chai.". This simple book will become a first choice for pre-school educators and even for young non-Jewish children as an introduction to the culture of Israel and the celebration by Jewish children of this important day for the Jewish people. Reviewed by Elaine Harris

This delightful hardcover book tells the story of "Yom Ha'atzmaut", the celebration of Israel's independence. Author Ellen Dietrick takes us to Congregation Beth Israel's preschool class in Charlottesville, Virginia, where professional photographer Tod Cohen photographs the class as they take an imaginary plane ride to Israel to celebrate this very important Jewish historical event. The children have their passports stamped at Ben Gurion Airport. They stop at a kibbutz for an orange or two. They stop at the shuk (market) in Jerusalem. One of the children purchases a Kiddush cup as a Bar Mitzvah gift for his big brother. They buy lunch at a falafel stand. They visit the Kotel, (wall) and tuck a written prayer into the Western Wall. They walk through the hot desert sand and cool off in the Dead Sea, which has so much salt in it, you float very easily, just like you would if you tried to swim in America's Great Salt Lake. The children learn to count in Hebrew. They march in a big parade in Tel Aviv to celebrate Israel's birthday. All within the confines of their preschool classroom!

This is a sparkling fun book that's appropriate for children of all faiths. They will learn a little bit of the faith and the culture of their Jewish friends in an easy-to-understand way. Ellen's well-written text and imaginative ways for her class to "experience" Israel, combined with the fantastic photographs of Tod Cohen, makes this an outstanding book for children. The last page of the book is a "how to" craft page for children to make their own birthday hats to march in Israel's birthday parade. If you are looking for something different with a positive learning experience for your child, this is the book to read! This is the latest book in Kar-Ben's popular It's Time series.

this is ok book. I like it because there was a birthday. I don't like it because June b. nailed her door.

The story is about a boy named Jim. He is having a Birthday party. Jim is not inviting June B. Jones because he dose not like her at all. His mom said he has to invite everybody in room 9 to his birthday party. June B. does not go to the birthday party. She goes over to her grandpa's house and helps him fix the toilet instead.
My favorite part of the story is when June B. Jones nails her door shut. The people who would like this story are people that like funny stories. The people who would not like this story are people who do not like short stories.

LINGUISTICS ACROSS HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES is a 1986 festschrift compiled in honour of Jacek Fisiak on the occasion of his 50th birthday. This is a massive two-volume work, the papers within which cover many different facets of linguistics. As my discipline is comparative Indo-European linguistics, it was the papers in this part of the field that I was most interested in.

I think the most striking paper is Roger Lass' "Words without etyma: Germanic 'tooth'", which shows a major limitation of the comparative method and deflates any enthusiasm that secure etyma can be had for any given word in a daughter language. Witold Manczak's "Germanic and other Indo-European languages" presents a curious method for deciding which daughter languages Germanic is most closely related too by comparing the amount of cognates in a given text, the OCS Slavonic gospels and Wulfila's Gothic translation of the Bible, for instance.

That the collection comes from the 1980s is clear in its obligatory inclusion of a paper on glottalic theory, Winfred Lehmann's "Reflexes of PIE d < t'". Fans of syntax will be interested in Dorothy Disterheft's "Consecutives and serials in Indo-European", which collects data from the rather non-obvious pairing of Old Irish and Hittite. An interesting call for sanity comes with Lyle Campbell's "Cautions about loan words and sound correspondences", where we are urged to remember that languages need neither be very different (many Mayan languages are not) nor very similar (Latin "duo" and Armenian "erk" are non-obvious cognates, but cognates they are) to be related. If any of these papers sound interesting, this collection is worth checking out.

Dear Mr. Kastovsky, Sorry to bother you on the Net, but I've found your name accidentally. I write you from Budapest, Hungary, where the Hungarian Kasztovszky family lives. We are interested in the story of the family all over the world and finding new relationship. Would you please write me a few lines about your family's story. My home adress is: Zsolt Kasztovszky 1105 Budapest, Iha'sz koz 2. HUNGARY

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I bought this book for my grandaughter's 5th birthday as this book is about Laura's 5th birthday. The illustrations are really wonderful. We went to Walnut Grove, MN last summer and I had bought one of the other books from this series. Easy reading and not long (fewer words) for younger children.

I gave this book to my 3 yr old for her birthday and she really liked it. She has virtually all the First books. She loves the drawings and I like the no playing on Sunday part, my daughter and I have a discussion everytime we read. I highly recommend this and other First Little House Books for little ones.

7 Lil Monsters is a good cartoon series that here in U.K. can be watched on POP like any cartoon its repetative and predictable.
Its about a family life and you have got 1 who loves her sports 2 a normal "boy" monster who has a difficult life with his long nose,3 who likes to be someone else for different occasions(Cowboy,US president,A Aausie croco hunter,Sherlock Jones,Austranaut,pirate ect.),4 the stubborn trouble maker who likes to bully his siblings with his brother 5,5 who is always at the side of 4 bullying but is happy and bright,6 who loves her ballet dancing but is up herself because she thinks she is so so beutiful,and 7 whose head can comes of and has a facination with cheese and puppets you have also got the mom who looks like a fairy tale woman very smart and the one who sorts their problems out or manages their base ball games the dad-i dunno who he is he is mentioned by the mom once but never seen maby he is divorced or work 24/7. i HATE the singin bits and like every thing else.
I reccomend this to kids 7-15 as it has morals and long words and bullying is in i would say the books are for babies but not the show i myslf is 12 yrs old and like it and i play violent video games like grand theft auto,wwe,splinter cell,metal gear solid,mission impossible,James Bond 007 ect. so i am not im-MATURE I AM mature

Maurice Sendak never seems to let us down. Seven little monster We love you Mama, is such a wonderful children's book. The illustrations are fun to look at and the characters are so charming. I recommend it to all those Seven little monster TV show fans. It's such a cute book!

Cary Fagan's MY NEW SHIRT tells of an unwanted yearly birthday gift which somehow winds out in the street thanks to an overactive imagination. Now David is in trouble - and finds himself chasing down the unwanted shirt. Dusan Petricic's illustrations are on the dark side but still intriguing additions to a zany, fun story.

Young David, like many other little boys, loves to go and visit his grandmother, his bubbie. While her apartment is small it always smells of cinnamon, is above an excellent bagel shop, and is spotless. As his mother says, "Bubbie makes cleaning an art," and his father says, "...germs are even afraid to try and come in."

Now, the one day that David does not like to visit Bubbie is his birthday because on every birthday since the day he was born Bubbie has given him a white shirt. It is a stiff white shirt that his parents say makes him look like a gentleman, but it's the sort of shirt that makes him "squirm and pull and shift and twist."

On this birthday David tries very hard to be polite and obeys when he is asked to try it on. However, his good intentions go awry when he closes his eyes and suddenly the shirt is out the window.

What follows is a smile provoking chase throughout the neighborhood as his little dog Pupik runs with the shirt firmly between his teeth.

Youngsters will enjoy the family's antics as they try to catch Pupik and retrieve the shirt. They'll also be pleased with Bubbie's final declaration.

- Gail Cooke

This book is cute but I'm not sure it illustrates the kids giving up the pacies as well as it could have. I think the pictures are a little too busy and the colors are all a little too pastel to showcase what exactly is going on without having to intently study each illustration.

Each page shows one less child sucking on a pacifier and is pictured doing something they wouldn't otherwise be able to do if they still had a paci in their mouth (i.e. eat a piece of birthday cake, sing a song, ask for a drink, etc.)

With that said, it's a fun book to read and the pictures are cute. I even sing it to my daughter sometimes instead of reading it. I think she likes it but so far it's had no effect on her paci habit, lol!

My son loves this book and watching the Pacifiers disappear. Not much to it, but really good - tells you that these babies "don't need" a paci in order to be happy and smiling!

This book is a must have in my house. I plan on filling it in every year - I have 2 , one for each of my kids. Since I don't have time to scrapbook this is a great way to keep birthday memories special.

One 2 Grow On Birthday Memory Book is nice. The inside is simple with a place to insert a photo and a single line to write the name and date and another line to write a short note. This book is about 5"x8" in size. There are 16 pages so that makes it good for 32 years. Way more than is necessary. Unless your child doesn't leave the house by that time. :)Nonetheless it is a nice book in which to keep your child's birthday memories.