Nonfiction Books

i thought this book was going to be good, but i didn't know it would be this good. each well-known childrens' book writer/illustrator writes about their lives, influences and inspirations.

included are ealry photos, first drawings and a full page self-portrait.

so thoughtfully put together. a beautiful book to browse through and inspire you and your children to pick up a tool and draw, paint and create.

I think this is a wonderful book for children to understand that art is really an emotional, personal thing. I think it's a book EVERY teacher in the elementary should have.

I love this book. I had gotten it with my children in mind but being an artist myself, found great joy in reading it.

This is a charming book to be enjoyed by all;young children, who will enjoy having this read to them, to aspiring artists, to older fans. Early work of these illustrators and pictures of some of them as children along with their stories give a picture of their development.This may also offer an introduction to new books and illustrators. Great for teachers and librarians when presenting a story.

This a wonderful book for inspiring budding young artists. Wonderfully illustrated with examples from all the artists (including fold-outs). A great way to learn about their lives and work.

This book has some excellent designs. It would not be good for most children as the designs are too complicated. It is also provides some great ideas for Papel Picado. It does not limit designs to Day of the Dead.

"Get out your crayons and your pencils" This is mommy's coloring book-something every mom should have. The intricate line drawings offer hours of coloring that produce very framable finished works. This is great for plane trips, hospital visits, or just plain procrastination. Next time your boss calls say your are coloring and mean it. I recommend fine tip markers or quality colored pencils.

This is a fun way to be introduced to mexican folk art culture.
I also use it for ideas when I paint decorations on furniture,wooden boxes,etc.And since the pages are'nt colored,I am not restricted or influenced,I can choose my own interpretation.

I am an embroidery arts digitizer. This coloring book is a great source for my designs.
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Cover was great but the inside was sketchy, at best. However, it will provide the guidelines I need for a project I'm working on. That's all I was really looking for.

I love this product. It gives my fine hair the stand and volume I need. Would not want to miss it. I tried other brands, but the Nioxin works best for me.

I bought this for help with my 6.5-year-old since he finally has homework and has been giving us a hard time. Its written for an older child to use as a guide, so wasn't all that helpful at this stage. Maybe in a few years it will be, dunno.

Very good book. Helps with getting kids to do their homework. It is a very good reference book. We have used it alot.

My 11 year old son rolled his eyes when I handed him this book. I came back a half an hour later and he had finished it! He was so excited and told me so many things on how he can do his homework better. He said it was very funny also. He learned a lot and really enjoyed the book!

You know the phrase, "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." Well, this book gives a spoonful of laughter to help the homework "go down" without "throwing up." The clever use of artwork and text really gets kids involved in getting the job done instead of spending so much time complaining. There are many practical ideas and they are presented in a highly motivational way. I suggest reading it with children and discussing it rather than just handing them the book.

Good book for young children. It has become part of our night time reading collection.

It is always refreshing to be in the company of a child with polite verbal manners. This is, of course, true for adults, as well. How to Speak Politely and Why, is very helpful to those a bit confused with proper speech etiquette. Perhaps this book is a beginning in keeping it from becoming a lost art. While reading it with fun, it could become a valuable tool for your childs entire life.

This book is needed as much now as it ever was. Entertaining, but crammed with the polite manners we all need and want others (especially our children) to have. I remembered this book from my childhood, and as an adult, it did not disappoint. All of the "manner" books by Munro Leaf are wonderful. Fun to read and easy for children to understand.

I really wanted to like this book, but I don't. He is writing to teach children not to say words like "ain't" which I would like to think most people don't say. He has a point with the word "gimmee" but it's pretty much the only one-- I made the mistake of reading it and my daughter never said that and now she knows the word.

The rest of the book has simple conjugations-- I ran, he ran, we ran, I run, etc. that are not such an issue.

The book we need is a book modeling interactions between people saying please and thank you, not a book instructing kids not to say "ain't".

His other book, How to Behave and Why, is better, but still has that instructional feel which may not be the best way to get a message across.

I bought this, because I liked the educational value. My son is only two and a half, so I figured this would be relegated to a shelf for a few years. I red it the night I bought it and figured that was it. Imagine my surprise when he began to ask for it every few nights! The pictures are simple and not very colorful. There is no excitement or set plot. In other words, I figured it would be very dull to children. Yet somehow he really likes this book. I like that he will eventually learn from this book and will now buy the rest of the set.

I bought this book for each of the kindergarten class students at my childrens' school and they all loved it. The teacher was very grateful and I've never seen so many children in awe over the wonderful pictures that this book has. I would recommend this book for any age child that wants to learn about God and Jesus Christ. Great Book!!!!!!

This is a great bible for older kids. My girls are enjoying reading it on their own.

I, too, am a child of the seventies. This Bible was my first book, the one I took to my bed for the stories and the beautiful pictures. It was a happy accident that my parents settled on this version, and the appeal it has for children cannot be overstated.
I homeschool my three children, who are as attached to their own copies as I was as a child. I've accumulated many Bibles, and have come across none as accessible as this version.
It is true that the pictorial representations are often inaccurate, as noted in other reviews. They are beautifully done, though, and present an opportunity to teach our kids other important lessons.

The Golden Children's Bible The service was excellent and the child receiving this book is well satisfied with it.

I've had this one since I was a child, 35 years ago. My 3 and 5 year old daughters love it. When I purchased other children's Bibles, they always asked me to read from the old one. Unfortunately it was falling apart, which prompted me to search it out. I was very pleased to discover it was back in print. The cover is different, but everything else is exactly the same.
The artwork in the book is the best of all the children's Bibles. It's very life like and I believe that is why my daughters love it so much.
I do however skip over some of the more gruesome parts when reading it. They don't need to know David cut off Goliaths head and carried it around with him.

I have only flipped through this book because I purchased it for my son. He's reading it and keeps referring to it, so as far as I'm concerned, two thumbs up!

This has been a great reference book for my 7 1/2 year old. After reading selected chapters, he has become empowered to take care of himself. He read the chapters on Hair and Mouth and is now WILLING to wash and comb his hair, and brush and FLOSS his teeth EVERY DAY. I can't wait for him to read the chapter on Eating Right.The Boy's Body Guide: A Health and Hygiene Book for Boys 8 and Older

This text was very poor quality and the text was far too simplistic for a 10 year old! Much of the information is common sense and hardly worth purchasing the book for! Very disappointing.

While the information in the book is good, the dated looking, grayscale illustrations left me cold and the layout of text and graphics is boring as well. This may seem picky, but the reality is we live in a very visual world. If a text can't hold a child's attention they won't read it.

Those criticisms aside, this has the potential to be a good book in addition to the book "What's Happening to Me?" as it does cover a few topics not covered in "What's Happening to Me?"What's Happening to Me?: Boys Edition (What's Happening to Me?). If you're only going to spring for one book, however, I wouldn't make it this one. If the publisher fixed some of the graphics and layout issues to better appeal to the target audience, I would have moved my rating up to 4 stars. The information it contains is sound and needs to be covered with our boys.

One of the reviewers mentioned removing the page on masturbation. By doing that one also removes the section called "How Things Change!" that discussed the physical changes a boy's genital area experiences during puberty, what an erection is and about wet dreams, and, that those are all normal. I would not recommend removing page 37/38, two of the more important pages in the book when discussing the physical changes during puberty.

I hope this book is reprinted in a more accessible format. It has the potential to be an important book in your child's life.

This book was great! Of course, I read it all the way through before I gave it to my 9 year old son. It covers everything related to hygiene, good nutrition, braces, glasses, cleanliness, etc... The only thing I did not like about the book was that it covered masturbation. My son was not prepared for that so I cut the page out of the book easily. I do not think that most 8 year olds are ready for that. Otherwise I loved it.

This book is good for elementary aged kids. It explains how writers get their ideas and how they go about writing and publishing a book.

This is an excellent book for teaching children how books are created by an author and then published. It is a humorous account of the ways authors find their ideas and the rewriting necessary to create their stories. I plan to use it as an inspiration for my third graders as they write their own stories.

this book teaches you how to paint faces very good .befor having this book i did not know it is so easy to paint a face .i paint my children face and body few times a week by this wich is fast and cheap.

I bought this product for my son's 5th birthday party. I've never painted faces before, but by the end of the day I felt like a pro! The directions are easy to follow and the paints are excellent quality. I was worried that there wouldn't be enough paint for everyone, but I painted at least 20 full faces easily with plenty of paint left over. This is truly a great product and I would recommend it to anyone.

I first saw this product at a local kids fair and assumed the person doing the face painting was a decent artist because the designs were so intricate. I wrote down the name of the book since my kids were so thrilled with their faces at the fair. The art fairy didn't come to my birth when my talents were being assigned (think stick people), so I assumed I wouldn't be able to get quite the same kind of results. My daughter opted to use some of her birthday money to get this book and it's really fantastic. I was easily able to follow the directions to make very impressive face art on my daughters. My only suggestion is to buy additional face paint. The book provides a reasonable amount, but my kids did so much face and body art that we'll need more soon.

I purchased this item for my 5y/o daughter, we have lots of fun recreating the ideas on this book. The face paints included are great, the colors are bright, dry fast and wash very easily with water.

Excellent, easy ideas for face painting at a party. The book includes great tips and step by step instructions. It even includes 12 punch out cards, each with its own instruction, that you can allow kids to choose a design from - and the book has an envelope to store the cards! The paint is by Wolfe Brothers - a professional quality face paint manufacturer. Probably not the right book for a professional face painter, but it is full of kid pleasing manageable designs for us non-artist parents or even school aged kids! As usual with Klutz books, I couldn't be happier!! (This review is for the 2007 edition)

Was very informative and easy to read. Arrived in suggested time frame.

How to Spell Like a Champ is an excellent book and really helps students with spelling. My son read this book, and became very motivated. He decided to participate in the school spelling bee. He learned excellent study habits and how words with different language origins have different rules. This book includes word lists, stories of past spelling bee contestants at the national level, and includes a CD that puts you in the life of a student competing at the spelling bee from the class bee to the final round of the National Spelling Bee.

Three authors were involved in writing this book: Carolyn Andrew, Barrie Trinkle, and Paige Kimble. Carolyn Andrew's son won the national spelling bee in 1994, Barrie Trinkle won it in 1973, and Paige Kimble won it in 1981. My son was so motivated, and learned so much, he worked hard, and in result, won his school spelling bee, and got to compete in the regional spelling bee. In the regionals, he placed third. THIRD!!! I WAS SO HAPPY FOR HIM! I know he is excited about next year's spelling bee. You HAVE to buy this book. I would also highly recommend watching the movie Spellbound.

This book is an excellent, entertaining resource for children who may aspire to go to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It contains many helpful suggestions and is written in an interesting way. It's very readable and I'd recommend it to anyone with a child with that goal.

If you want to help your child win a spelling bee it is worth the investment. You cannot get by with out a Webster's third edition dictionary becuase you will have to provide pronunciation and definition to your child. Go more high tech and get the software version of the dictionary. It will save you hours of time looking words up.

This Champ book has a nice layout. You'll get to see previous national spellers, see what some spellers chose as careers, spelling rules, most common misspelled words and spelling games. I probably read the book more then my 5th grader did. However he did win his school bee, his district bee, and placed 5th at his regional bee.

The CD in nice too. Warning: The printer put a small slip of paper inside the book for words in the book that are misspelled accidently. Make sure you take an inkpen and change the spellings in the book before you hand it to your child. Chances are the little slip of paper will become lost.

This book was actually very helpful to me. Not knowing what would it lead me to, i joined our school spelling bee club in December, last year. I had no idea that i would actually be in our school spelling bee. Then, we had our winter break; and over the winter break, i actually saw a re-run of the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee. And i was so amazed, yet motivated at the same time. That's when I decided, I want to go to the National Spelling Bee.

Yes, it was the last week of December, and I hardly had any time. I mean, people who go all the way to D.C. study starting from the summer right? So just to get a start, I bought this book, How to Spell like a Champ. This book taught me a lot! The CD also did too. But the book was great...not only did it give you tips, but it let you live through the National Spelling Bee, and it included a bunch of words throughout the whole book! And there were so many interesting facts on every other page. It wasn't like those boring non-fiction books. And so, even though I started this whole spelling interest this year, in January, I'm glad I did.

And the best part is, I'm really going to the Nationals this year. =) And it only took two months of studying. Did I mention that this book was a big help?

I have given this book to a dozen teens over the years. I wish I had access to this information while going through such a confusing time. Besides, would you rather them gather answers to all those questions through TV and friends??

I purchased several books for my teen, and this one was one that didn't interest her as much - but I have learned a lot from it! It has a lot of insight into the teen mind, and as much as we think we remember what it was like to be a teen, it's easy to forget about all the fears and insecurities they have. I highly recommend this book as a refresher course for parents of teens. My teen preferred the perspectives offered in the books Cycle Savvy and S.E.X. for information that pertained to her.

A great resource for teens, but the pictures are a bit dated. An updated edition is in need. However, the information is still relevant and necessary for all teens.

This is a primer for younger teenagers. It is well written, although it needs to be updated in 2006. It is a textbook more than a think piece. It is a good starter book for parents and younger teenagers.

I was very disapointed with the book. Expanded third edition was deceiving because I thought it was new - my oversight. The book is out of date - I oversee a Center that teaches sex education and this was not helpful.