Birthdays Books

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.

The stories here average 3.21. Leading off with the interesting baby is three, and even ending with the Travis McGee guy, John D. MacDonald, as the best two.

Here's what the editor says in 'Annual Report to Readers' at the start, or at least part of it :
"The twelvemonth between our first annual report and this, which marks the beginning of our third year, was rammed full of activity for GALAXY. It all boils down to this one astonishing fact, however:

GALAXY has acquired the second largest circulation in science fiction and is pushing hard toward first place.

For a magazine to achieve this record in so short a time is a tribute to its unyielding policy of presenting the highest quality obtainable; to its readers for their loyalty and appreciation; to its authors for helping it maintain those standards and even advance then.

During the turbulent first year of GALAXY's existence, other publishers thought the idea of offering mature science fiction in attractive, adult format was downright funny. They knew what soldshapely female endomorphs with bronze bras, embattled male mesomorphs clad in muscle, and frightful alien monsters in search of a human meal.

Even our former publisher became infected with that attitude, and the resulting internal conflicts were no joke at all. "

They also claim one W. Ley as science writer, who was in the Astounding Science Fiction 1938 issue just mentioned recently.

A letter is actually answered for a reader who asks about Moebius strips, Tesseracts and Klein bottles, which is maybe more intersting than his time capsule type article itself.

Some book reviews by Groff Conklin including a 1952 best science fiction novels, to get some of the stories in of lengths that anthologists struggle with due to publisher pressure for more stories he says. It seems that hasn't changed much 55 years later.

Galaxy 1952 10 : BABY IS THREE - Theodore Sturgeon
Galaxy 1952 10 : HALO - Hal Clement
Galaxy 1952 10 : A LITTLE OIL - Eric Frank Russell
Galaxy 1952 10 : ZEN - Jerome Bixby
Galaxy 1952 10 : WAIT FOR WEIGHT - Jack McKenty
Galaxy 1952 10 : TREE SPARE THAT WOODMAN - Dave Dryfoos
Galaxy 1952 10 : GAME FOR BLONDES - John D. MacDonald


Gestalt growth.

3.5 out of 5


Master farming, space.

3 out of 5


Psychological ship stress solution.

3 out of 5


Large result of long loneliness.

3.5 out of 5


Tesseract fuel.

2.5 out of 5


Woodwalker game.

3 out of 5


Mini-man collection scavengers.

4 out of 5

Excellent and funny book with a lot of illustrations. I purchased it about 10 years ago in USA with Jim Kepner's "Becoming a people..." and Terry Boughner's "Out of All Time". They are very nice and intersting volumes. In these books, however, we can find only the occidental people with few exceptions ; e.g. Mishima Yukio, Suleiman . Though English has become nowadays as if a kind of LINGUA FRANCA , I don't understand why the English speaking people still have such a narrow-minded thinking. I'd like to read more international, global and comprehensive books.

PS : Noel I. Garde's "Jonathan to Gide : The Homosexual in History" also is a very intersting book of "The Gay-people's List" , although it is on the westerners including some Oriental men like Abu Nuwas and Saladin.

This is not a story only for children. It is an introduction to the painting details too. As the complete works for children Anthony Browne has developed, this book also contains the easy vocabulary to be understood by children and the baroque drawing of every element in each picture, so you can introduce even some famous paint masterpieces to the visual memory of every reader. In this case is Velazquez. Don't think the short number of pages is for a speedy reading, you can pass slowly every page looking the multiple details subjetively put on each square.

For the second time, noted Mexican-American novelist and poet Saenz turns his hand to the picture book. Grandma Fina likes to walk through her neighborhood carrying her old umbrella [or parasol, if you prefer] to keep her cool during the hot days. As she greets her friends and relatives on her walk, they all notice how tattered the umbrella is, and each decides-- individually-- to give her a new one for her birthday. And so she receives 9 new umbrellas, which she cheerfully shares with her friends at the retirement center. The repetitive nature of her greetings and the thoughts of her neighbors about her umbrella will please young readers or listeners, who will be able to predict what will happen next or even to join in with the conversation. The illustrations are bright and cheery. Spanish phrases are worked seamlessly into the English text [just as Spanish and English flow together in the American Southwest], and a complete Spanish version of the story is provided as well-- the English is printed in black, the Spanish in green. Charming and sweet, "Grandma Fina" is sure to please.

I've never seen a story about a "visit to the grocery store" like this one. It puts together a fun story about helping with a creative introduction to geography and map-reading and map-drawing plus grocery shopping skills and a bit of math. It gives children a close up look at functions of reading and writing that work in the real world. With lists, legends and maps, young readers get a chance to learn about these tools. See if you can figure out where the strawberries are! I would recommend it for a higher level reader than is indicated in the overview (6-9 years).

It is a funny, entertaining story. Our entire family enjoyed all of Bill Harley's tapes. This story is to capture a moment of our childhood. Bill Harley really can tell a story.

This book is very short. It probably won't take you more than two minutes to read it, even if you stop at every page and have your young child point things out.

It's written like a fantasy, involving heroes and dragons, dungeons and treasure; but the illustrations show that it's just a young boy trying to sneak his birthday treats early.

Happily, even though he *did* get a time-out for stealing his cake, he was allowed to enjoy his party anyway.

Very neatly drawn, and very simple, sweet story.