Birthdays Books

Older sister of twins (2 year olds) discovers it's no fun to have a brother AND sister with the T-T's. It is her birthday and she is feeling forgotten and sad. She decides to run away. She is visited by the care bears who try and cheer her and emphathise. She considers all the things she could do (circus,...) As she is thinking it over in her clubhouse... her friends begin arriving for what she discovers is her surprise birthday party. She realizes the Terrible two's won't last forever because they'll have a b-day of their own soon.

It starts out when new girl Caz moves to greenside. She the meets her next door neighbour lauren and her friends Sunny, Jess ,Michelle And Nikki. They invite her to go bowling, but she is shy and says no. The next day at school , Caz meets a mean girl, Melissa and she makes friends with her. Melissa makes it clear that she has to be friens with her and not lauren. The next day Lauren, Michelle and Jess and Caz and Melissa all go shopping. Melissa tries to frame lauren for swhoplifting, but Caz stoppes her and Melissa breakes friends with her. Then Caz is friends with Lauren and friends. Caz does not know what to do for her birthday and Lauren and crew throw her a moon and stars party.
It was a great book,and really good pictures.
You can also throw your own moon and stars party by reading the bonus instructions.

This is a dark comedy, written in the late 1950s and set somewhere in the middle of the author's home-state, Nebraska. It's also very much a mid-century view by an American author, somewhat still under the literary shadow of Faulkner, as well as the shadow of the Bomb. The characters are Nebraska-born and only vaguely aware that the world they grew up in no longer exists. Frontier violence long a thing of the past for them, they are troubled by the reemergence of violence in their midst -- particularly the killing spree of a young man (based loosely on Charles Starkweather), who murders 10 people before he is captured, and a high school student who runs down two others because he's "tired of being pushed around."

The book is told from the point of view of 10 characters, most of whom are members of an extended family who gather to observe the 90th birthday of the family patriarch. Born when the West was first settled, he has lived his whole life in a hotel along the railroad tracks of a prairie town, Lone Tree, which like the tree it's named after has been dead for many years. The old man is the only resident. His three grown daughters, their husbands, and offspring are joined by a boyhood friend of theirs and a young woman he has met along the road. They bicker, bring up old grievances, and carry on in their idiosyncracies like a cast of characters in a farcical 1950s sitcom.

Almost plotless, the novel interweaves the characters' various obsessions, revealed in their almost aimless conversations, quirky behavior, and the time-worn grooves of thought in their respective streams of consciousness. Morris, meanwhile, touches on many themes, a central one being the struggle to maintain hope in a world where so many events, large and small, discourage it. After converging for a day and moonlit night in this ghost town once full of frontier promise of growth and prosperity, the characters climb aboard a moth-eaten covered wagon and strike off westward to who knows what promised land.

Readers of contemporary authors like William Styron and Richard Yates will find a familiar resonance in this densely written, closely observed, slow-paced novel. I recommend it to anyone interested in America's postwar generation of writers who, like Jack Kerouac, saw through the sunny surface of those often complacent years to the shadows underneath.

i found this book very easy to follow. all of the cakes i have made from this book have been a great hit. i also purchased the other book ms ford has written. keep it up.

Yes, this book is about a birthday party and best friends. This book also tells the truth as it deals with the topic of prejudice among neighbors. It is an excellent, simple story about a little girl whose mother will not let her invite her best friend to her party because she is black. It is a simple story that helps to introduce the concept of prejudice and how it hurts the children who do not understand the differences, unless their parents teach it to them.

This is a nice little version of Disney's Sleeping Beauty, but be aware - it is a coloring book. I thought I was buying a regular paperback Golden Book. Was I surprised! As far as coloring books go, it is a nice one. The story of Sleeping Beauty is told from beginning to end. There is a wide variety of things to color - animals, fairies, people. It's also fun because of the "shape" feature; it's not your usual rectangular book. Unfortunately for me, I wanted a pre-colored book to read to my daughter, but if you are looking for a coloring book, this is a nice one.

Edward Teller was the founder of the American hydrogen bomb and a longtime controversial figure in the intersection of science and politics. One of the seminal figures in the American physics community. So this book celebrates his 80th birthday with a compendium of research papers.

Those of you interested in Teller's achievements may want to peruse these articles. While not written by Teller, they indicate how he provided inspiration to the many authors, and undoubtedly to others.

Also, ironically, the occasion was almost at the end of the Cold War. In retrospect, very apropos for Teller. For his career spanned this War, and he was one of the keynote participants.

This is a book filled with pictures of flower fairies. Place the dates of you loved ones birthdays in it.

It is so nice to see beginning reader books for boys. This book would fall into the catagory of a first chapter book. The chapters are only a couple of pages long, with large type and a picture every page or two. Girls will like it too, but my girl would be concerned about the flies (they get glued to a popsicle stick!). A nice book modeling doing something nice for someone else, in a funny, non-preachy way. This was the first of this series that we have read. I'll sure buy more! Thank you, Mr. Brouwer, for encouraging my son to read!

From Day to Day is a great resource for people who are interested in events and occurrences both in the recent past and in time long gone. Because of its month-by-month layout and the day-by-day breakdown, the information is easy to locate.

I found this book very helpful while I was working on a project with inner city children ( in the USA ) who did not have a very high self esteem. Being able to read of the birth of important historical figures and noticing hold those births coincide with their own helped as students sought to lift themselves out of negativity and into a more optimistic view of life. I have recommended this book to school librarians and history teachers everywhere I have had to opportunity to do so. It is worth every penny of the cost.