Now in its second printing with a playful new cover design, The Three Little Puppies And The Big Bad Flea by Ted Lish is a picturebook parable with a moral about how important it is for children to listen to their parents. A wry spoof on the more commonly known tale of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf, The Three Little Puppies and the Big Bad Flea features a terrible flea capable of blowing down houses - or sneaking into keyholes! The Three Little Puppies are ultimately forced to flee all the homes they have built, while the Big Bad Flea moves in and takes over. The Three Little Puppies, having learned a valuable lesson about listening to their mamma, move far away, and the Bid Bad Flea's children pester puppies everywhere to this very day. Delightfully illustrated by Charles Jordan, The Three Little Puppies And The Big Bad Flea is a lighthearted, whimsical, entertaining story, but with a more sobering message buried underneath - namely, that the "good guys" don't always win.

Remember "The Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf" story, and how quickly it became one of your favorites? Well, Ted Lish's book THE THREE LITTLE PUPPIES AND THE BIG BAD FLEA is sure to become another one of your favorites, but this one has a surprise ending and hidden things to look out for.

Deciding that they are grown enough to live on their own, three little puppies leave their mama's house to seek their own futures, and soon find themselves in a heap of blown feathers and leaves caused by the big bad flea.

THE THREE LITTLE PUPPIES AND THE BIG BAD FLEA is wonderfully written and the charming illustrations by a talented illustrator, Charles Jordan, kept my children pointing and giggling throughout till the books end. It's a quality book all around, and I know children everywhere will love it. Included throughout the shiny pages are hidden Munchweiler elves. My children, including my ten-year-old-son, and me enjoyed searching for them. Reading it one time wasn't satisfactory for my little ones--we had to read it about five times in a row!
If you are looking for a children's book hidden with learning lessons, then you've found it. Children will learn to deal with adversity; they will learn that it pays to listen to their mentors/parents/guardians; and they will learn that sometimes you just can't win everything that life has to give you.
"Ted Lish teaches second grade in the Victor Elementary School District in Victorville, CA. He has long loved children's book and has written several. This is his first one to be published. Ted resides in Victorville with his wife, Vicki. Two of his four children are now school teachers as well.
"Charles Jordan is a self-taught illustrator who has illustrated numerous picture, chapter, and activity books. To his credit are The Whale Comedian, A Pile of Pigs, The Twiddle Twins' Music Box Mystery, and others. This is his first book for Munchweiler Press. Charles was born in Washington DC, raised in Maryland, and currently lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two children...As an author of children's books, a children's book reviewer, and a mother to three children, I highly recommend THE THREE LITTLE PUPPIES AND THE BIG BAD FLEA by Ted Lish.

--Reviewed by Jennifer LB Leese, ASTORYWEAVER'S Book Reviews...

This book was an easy read for my third grader, who read the book for his younger siblings. They all three enjoyed the pictures and had fun finding the hidden drawings.

This is a book that every African-American woman should add to her book collection. I have referred to this book throughout my life. It has helped inform me about many issues that black women face everyday. This book has personally helped me, and others, in so many ways!

This book is great for Black women. It's not just a book on the health of the Black woman, but one which encourages each of us to take care of the most important person in our lives -- OURSELVES.

This book goes beyond the typical reminders about mammograms, pap smears, smoking, and HIV. Parts 4 through 6 really hit home. And the live voices of real women (Julia McMillon's story on page 567 really touched me!) made this book poignant. The photography and handy references at the end of each chapter makes this book worth every penny. As a result of reading this book, I joined the CA chapter of the Black Women's Health Project. My thanks go out to the author, Linda Villarosa! Keep up the good work.

This is a book that every African-American woman should add to her book collection. I have referred to this book throughout my life. It has helped inform me about many issues that black women face everyday. This book has personally helped me, and others, in so many ways!

While it's true that Jordan's technique seems a bit thick with "borrowings" from Charles Wright, her actual material (and her treatment of it) is wildly original. This book is shocking, heart-wrenching and, at times, almost unbearably beautiful. An urgent and necessary voice.

Judy Jordan's first book, "Carolina Ghost Woods," is a clear-eyed, gut-wrenching, soul-renewing tour de force. This book won the 1999 Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American Poets, AND the National Book Critics Book of the Year award, AND the Utah book of the year award. These awards are all richly deserved, by this fabulously rich collection of poetry.

The influence of Charles Wright is in evidence here, particularly in very long lines, a few of which have "low rider" parts of lines in effect "underlapping" part of the same line, in order to extend the line, and draw it out as a line of poetry, and in the emphasis on landscape, teeming with natural beauty. Jordan also has developed her own version of the "low rider," in which the underlapping part of the line does not underlap any part of the first part of the line, but simply drops a line below the first part of the line, and continues horizontally, where the first part of the line leaves off. But, the effect is all Judy Jordan's. These poems do something that no other book of poetry does, and no astute reader could read this poetry and fail to be deeply moved by it.

These are poems that grieve the constant occurence and effects of violence, and of loss itself. My favorite poem in this book is "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow," which opens

"In the moon-fade and the sun's puppy breath, / in the crow's plummeting cry, / in my broken foot and arthritic joints, memory calls me..."

Calls us, and calls us, and calls us... to horrendous, unspeakable loss ... the loss of the speaker's mother, and others close to her, the loss of a safe, civilized society for a poet to grow up in, and the loss of anything so profound as faith, to be grieved and consoled by landscape, and nature's astonishing beauty, and prayer. The attention to landscape and nature, the desire for healing, and the poet's brilliant use of language all combine to create a ghostly and powerful (though partial) redemption through grief and natural consolation ...

The ONLY bone of contention I have with this book comes with the very last poem in the book, which IS the entire fourth (and last) section of the book, which is about a dream of ... nuclear radioactive devastation ... to me, this poem is not as strong as any of the other poems in this book, and it is a false note to end on ... this book could not have simply ended after the third section, it would have been too open-ended, but Jordan's end of the world ending of this book creates a disjointed effect, as in "Huh? What does this have to do with the rest of the book?" Maybe to Jordan the answer to that question is clear, but the inclusion of the last poem, and placing it at the end, in my opinion, does not answer the question. ALL of the other poems in this book are astonishing ... they just need a fitting end section of the book to complete the book.

The title alone, "Carolina Ghost Woods," is enough to draw me in, and make me want to open this book. The poems are a tour de force, and the cover art of Carolina Ghost Woods on the front cover is just beautiful ...

This book was my first exposure to this astonishing poet, and I eagerly look forward to seeing more of her startling work ...

Having said everything I need to say, I HIGHLY recommend this book of gorgeous, marvelous poetry to EVERYBODY!

By happenstance we were introduced to this wonderful volume on an airplane, sitting next to author, Judy Jordan. She allowed me to leaf through her worn copy. While reading I asked her questions that were possibly painful, so moved was I by such honest and harsh and beautiful reflection and observation. Her words wrestled me into my own honesty/my own memoirs of observing violence/ of the solace of winter and of the woods and geese. The writing does justice to itself. This book is a gift of insight. No superlatives can I use other than to say, this is one of my all time keepers.

D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is a very good book--mostly for boys or girls aged nine to twelve because there are a few tough words to understand if you are under nine. Although this book was written in 1992 and later turned into a Walt Disney movie, it's truly a fabulous book.

D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is about a group of twenty teenagers who play ice hockey at the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles. Coach Gordan Bombay is in a world of sponsors and business. Bombay only cares about Team USA's sponsor, hendrix, and trying to impress the board members of Hendrix.
I enjoy Julie "The Cat" Gaffney, the goalie from Bangor, Maine, because she's a great goalie and she has a nice personality. Jordan Horowitz, the author, wants you to get into hockey. I was surprised how much hockey is mental and not physical.

Los Angeles is a perfect setting for this book although California has a mild temperature. Downtown walls are covered with graffiti and skilled teenagers playing schoolyard hockey. Team USA decides to play these juveniles and actually learn from playing them. They learned how to play like Team USA.

I truly recommend this book although it hasn't won a single award. Jordan Horowitz' style of writing is adventurous but exciting.

Team USA is led by Adam Banks and Charlie Conway, longtime hockey stars. USA fans are shocked when Banks gets checked by Olaf Sanderson from the Vikings of Iceland. Banks tries and proves to Coach Bombay that he can play. He says to Coach Bombay that scouts are watching and he just has to play.

Jordan Horowitz was inspired by the 1980 Team USA Olympic win over Russia and so he wrote this book. This book is like most hockey books by Matt Christopher. I've read all of Matt Christopher's hockey books and D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is much better. D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is more suspenseful and exciting. I am comparing Christopher and Horowitz because they are both very good sports, although Christopher has written many more books.

Horowitz writes with an athletic edge, because he must know a lot about sports. H eknows what he's writing about. he knows kids will enjoy his books. That's what I love about him.
I was surpised how much hockey is mental and not physical. Even though I have not played much hockey myself. I learned this from the book and hopefully you will, too.

I bought this a few weeks ago from market place. The book wasn't in the best of condition but the book was great! Tons of non movie scenes. I recommend this book if you liked the movie.

I loved this book!!! If you liked the movie, you'd love this book. There's parts that aren't even in the movie!!! It also throughly explains the "Things that make you go hmm..." in the movie.

I loved it! The Divorce of Gulls was introduced to me by a coworker for the info on the Medfly that she found interesting! And I read that small portion to pacify her and I had to read the rest! Such wonderful insights on human behavior! Mr. Jordan has a wonderful sense of humor! I love the way he reflects on life. It's not a subject that I normally read about: bats, rats, roaches, science experimentation - oh my!

It was a great book and I am going to recommend it to anyone (and already have =>) who will listen!

Well written. An authority on the topic: BA in vertebrate zoology and Ph.D. in entomology. Wrote for Los Angeles Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Science 80, and Wigwag. "Gulls" make up only one chapter of the book, which is not strictly about "animals" but about finding origins in human behavior:

"The idea that there is some common cause in the workings of the human and animal mind is often ridiculed and dismissed as anthropomorphism. But, asks William Jordan, what if the intellectual establishment has it backwards? What if, instead of attributing human motives to animals, we paid more attention to the animal motives in humans?" (excerpt from back cover)

There is a fine line between the anthropomorphic and the significance of studying our common inheritance with the rest of the animal kingdom. Jordan succeeds.

He balances the book well, with apt comparisons between the Homo Sapiens and the rest of the animal kingdom, providing insight into my existence and not attempting to foist human attributes back onto the animal world. He has fun with his topic and is playful with the reader, all however without sacrificing the discipline and the clarity which the reader expects from an animal behaviorist. This is one of those rare books which both informs and entertains ... and this mostly because his prose has a velocity which most authors of science cannot seem to maintain.

William Jordan's book is a gentle reminder that we share this earth with other creatures that may not be so far from the tree of our own personal roots. He nudges and cajols us into considering our own animal behaviour by his extraordinary observations of other species and their all too familiar human manifestations. From ants and seagulls to cockroaches and coyotes, Mr. Jordan takes you on a journey that insures you never see other species the same way again.

"Golf Nuts" is a book about people who share a common passion. Head Nut #0001 - Ronald Garland goes into grave detail about how he established the "Golf Nuts Society" and some of the unique characters that belong to this growing organization. This is a great book if you know someone who is obssessed with the game of golf. Its very easy to read. The sample test in the back of the book to see if you should be committed is hysterical, the glossary and world records will leave the reader in stitches because only those searching for the "secret" will understand. I loved the book so much that I joined the "Golf Nuts Society" -- #3177.

This is an excellent book. Very enjoyable. I am so glad this book came out in time to give as Christmas presents. Ron Garland and Brian Hewitt are terrific!! I recommend this book to anyone who loves golf!

the glossary is worth the price of the book. absolutely pure golf slang.

"Happiness Is Not My Companion" The Life of Gouverneur K Warren by David M. Jordan (Insiana University Press, 2001) is a welcome addition to Civil War literature, filling a void in the biographies of key players in the North's bid for victory.

G. K. Warren, a graduate of West point, served in the Corps of Topographical Engineers and then taught mathematics at the Point until he was named lieutenant colonel of volunteers of the Fifth New York regiment. The high point of his career occurred on July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, when he recognized that the unoccupied Little Round Top was the key to the Federal's defense and quickly positiond troops on its summit and backside to prevent the Confederates from taking that hill and possibly destroying the entire Federal line.

As Jordan tells the rest of the story, Warren's subsequent service was characterized by arrogance, depression, a quick, sulphurous temper, and a bad habit of second-guessing his superior's orders. Just days before Lee's surrender, Warren's superior, General Phil Sheridan, relieved him of duty, casting a shadow of disgrace upon Warren's career and courage.

Unable to persuade General U S Gant to give him a court of hearing, Warren had to wait 15 years before the commanding general William T Sherman approved his application. By the time the inquiry was completed and the findings released (findings which at least partially exonerated him)Warren was dead.

The only other significant biography of Warren was published by his family in 1932, an apology vindicating the General and arguing his place in Civil War history.

Jordan's research includes the vast collection of papers which the General himself had arranged for his defense, but it is not for that reason one-sided or uncritical in its presentation of the General's personality, career, or place in history.

Everyone who today climbs to the crest of Little Round Top sees the larger than life statue of G. K. Warren, erected by the survivors of his first command. Few visitors, however, know that he was wounded there on that hot July afternoon, that he later was responsible for a meticulously exact map of the battlefield, that in spite of his sccess in Pennsylvania he was relieved of duty at Five Forks, Virginia, less than two years later and spent the remainder of his life trying to salvage his good name.

Jordan's book is an honest and revealing look at one of the lesser known but nonetheless significant military leaders of the war. The author's background as an attorney does influence his presentation,providing some analysis that readers may or may not accept. But this book does sit well along side his other Civil war biography on General Winfield Scott Hancock.

Having just finished David M. Jordan's "Happiness in Not My Companion", a well researched biography of General G. K. Warren, I wish to congratulate the author for his thorough and readable account of the general's life, and to recommend this book to anyone interested in civil war history, american military history, or biography of an individual who should be remembered in human as well as historical terms. The first half of Warren's story, describing his civil and military achievements, including his significant role at Gettysburg, through the Army of the Potamac's campaign of 1864, describes a man of ability and leadership, although Mr. Jordan plants the seeds of his future tangles with those in military authority. His relief from command by Sheridan near the end of the war and subsequent history is described with honesty and compassion, ending with Warren's death while attempting to clear his name via a military Court of Inquiry some 18 years after the fact. Mr. Jordan's research is exhaustive and heretofore unplumbed. His extensive use of quotations advances the narrative in an organized and readable style that had this reader unable to put the book down, especially after the battle at Five Forks. The author is to be commended for his research, his objectivity, and his highly readable style.

This biography has the ring of truth and the happy tone of justice done at last. G.K.Warren, born upstate New York 1830, West Point class of '50, brevet Major General in the Union Army, brilliant strategist at Gettysburg, later commander of the Fifth Corps, died in 1883 awaiting the results of hearings he had instigated to clear his reputation. Following one of the last Civil War battles, a Union victory at Five Forks, VA to which he had contributed, Warren was fired by General Sheridan with U. S. Grant's prior approval. With little else of interest to do for the next 18 years, Warren focussed ever more intently on restoring his good name , marching in place while his personal demon, Grant, occupied the White House. Shaara (Killer Angels) did most of the heavy lifting to unearth Warren and Joshua L. Chamberlain, letting Chamberlain stand as The Hero of Little Roundtop. Jordan, more subtle, leaves him as A Hero of Little Roundtop. (Moreover, Jordan's narrative recital of this and other battles is exceptionally coherent.) Warren is a puzzle: was he a depressive personality? an adult-onset diabetic? a Democrat-for-McClellan sore loser? just one more brilliant, touchy, odd-ball Civil War general? Jordan wisely declines any one conclusive answer and gives detailed evidence for several. The hearing commission's report published after Warren's death "cut both ways", as a lawyer (such as the author) might say. To his credit, Jordan lets the report pretty much speak for itself. If you have no stomach for ambiguity, stop with Killer Angels. Otherwise, read "Happiness is Not My Companion...."

For those who adore pasta, this book is a bonus. For those new to the pleasure, this book will hasten the love affair. Straight forward text presentation, plus informative images, insure a number of memorable dining experiences.

I was so pleased when I received this cookbook. For the price it's just a great book. I have a cookbook collection and this is one of my all-time favorites. It is full of delicious , easy recepies and the photos are just beautiful. I would highly reccomend this to anyone looking for a pasta book. You wont be dissapointed.

I tend to associate Williams-Sonoma with snobbery, and was tentative about this book. However, the recipes are darn good and easy, nothing fru-fru. Making homemade is truly a snap, and now our family loves to make and eat it all the time. This book shows how to make all pasta shapes as well as pasta sauces, with every day ingredients.

Highly recommend to anyone who loves pasta!

Once again, I loved this book. Probably because I love to do my hair. Other girls that have a passion for hair would feel this way, too. I reccoment try another book if you have short or curly hair because most of these work on strait and long hair. This book's sooooo cool because it has like, every hairstyle you could imagine including the popular-unpopular 'on and off' "Messy Buns" which are two buns on top of your head. They even have a rope braid!! They even have hair ideas that are made-up stuff!! They show you stuff like how to get a hair cut properly and how to curl and part your hair which is helpful if you are just learning how to do your hair. If you are in that case, you should probably get this book to get you started and give you some ideas. If you are an individial, like myself, and none of your friends have this. . .buy it!! If you are one of those people, don't copy other's people's hair and get your own ideas from this book!! It's sooo cool! All the hairstyles even have classical names like 'The Brady Bunch'. It also has quizzes!!! This book is one of American Girl's Best. I would also reccomend that if you are buying this book as a gift, have the person open it last so they can go home once everything's done and do their hair so they don't have to wait as long. Another suggestion and my final one:

If you love hair, then you should ABSOLUTLY buy this great book!!

If you love American girl books and like to do your hair, this is the book for you! I love my hair so much, but I don't like my hair to be too simple. So, I bought this book. This books have a lot of hair styles you can do. Also, it has test for you, so you can see what hair type you have. The book features some healthy hair tips. It also have stylist secrets and tips to make your hair styles just perfect. It helps you to find your natural part in your hair and how to make zig-zag part. Also, it tells you way to make your dazzling like putting barrettes, colorful headbands, and other hair thingies. It has hair styles for any occasions. Hair styles for sports, swimming, slumber parties, and special occasions. The book have advice about getting a hairdos and haircuts at hair salons. clear steps-by-steps and hair styles to make you dazzle. BUY IT!

Me and my friends needed hair styles quick and easy so I turned to the hair styles and tips in this book and now me and my friends always look good and with good and easy hair styles thatnk you

I really enjoyed this book because the author ( my uncle) made me feel like I was in Jordan during his childhood. My father was very happy whenever talking about or visiting Jordan. This book helps me understand how he felt.

I recommend this book of poems to everyone, especially the folks that grew up in the rural ares of this country. I guarentee that any one who has spent time in a small town in the thirties and forties in rural America will find many things in these poems that will bring back fond memories. These poems are so descriptive, I am sure the writer must have lived them.

Mr. Leuschen's poetry seems to capture the essence of growing up in Montana, which is certainly different than growing up anywhere else in our great country. Certainly a top rate collection from an (apparently) new poet. Highly recommended for poetry fans, or people (like me) that have always been a little in awe of the whole "Montana experience."