This is a book that I had as a child, but I have only kept it because of the neat illustrations that Jean Zallinger did. However, Roy Andrews' teaching on evolution runs contrary to Biblical creation and overwhelming evidence of the world-wide flood ... the fossil record. The only thing wrong with Zallinger's artwork was a lack of humans in the dinosaur portrayals.

The Button Book (Running Press Miniature Edition), by Epstein, which I purchased early in 2008, encouraged me to buy the larger book, "Buttons", as well. It contains a delightful array of buttons. My fascination with buttons began with a red tin full of buttons that I played with as a youngster. I think that the Christmas-theme tin had been used for fruitcake previously, but thereafter it housed a wonderful treasure of buttons.

It is fun to see the similarities and the differences in the various kinds of birds between China and North America. The only downside to the book, in my estimation, is the heavy evolutionary bias. I think it detracts from the true wonder of an awe inspiring creation.

It means so much to me to have a bilingual book, with both the Chinese and the English. What would be truly wonderful would be to have the ancient text and the two modern language translations.

There are not a lot of books out there on this subject, so this is an excellent introductory book on the subject. There is a nice balance between pictures and text. The seal photos correspond directly to the informative words.

An abridged but delightful read with neat illustrations.

This is just a cool book about the sun, that brilliant orb in the sky that the Lord God placed in the second heaven on the fourth day of creation, to give us light, warmth, and an indicator of time and seasons. It is a fascinating look at the closest star to earth.

This is a stunning book about an awesome God who has left us with plenty of evidence of His mighty deeds. As He worked in the past, so He works in the present for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

This book is easy to pick up and read for a few moments or a few hours. Each astronomical object has a one page summary. The photos are stunning and "Out of this world!"

Ms. Epstein starts her "fastenating" book with some reminiscing about tins full of buttons, a delightful memory that I share with my sister. This taste of quotes, trivia, history, etc. about buttons has me wanting to buy one of Ms. Epstein's larger books on buttons.

The Jetsons is a fairly decent look ahead at the future. Things still break down. Books and paper still exist. Dads still like to take naps. Teenage music is still too loud.

This is an excellent guide to Mont Saint Michel, with photographs, floor plans, cross-sections and a map of the island.

This is a beautiful little book filled with amazingly detailed drawings and paintilgs of living creatures. The only reason that I give a rating of four stars is that it would have been much more interesting to have a brief descriptive text on each opposing page, rather than the enlargement, or together with the enlarged detail.

The book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is a book of "beginnings". Jesus Christ spoke of Noah's world-wide flood as a historical fact. John Woodmorappe has done a beautiful job of researching and documenting the feasibility of what God says is true. This is no "blind leap", but God once again asking us to take Him at His word. "God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man that He should repent ..."

I particularly enjoy this book for all the examples of the cross in Ethiopian Orthodox Church history and art.

This is a fascinating book and I would have given it five stars except for an indecent illustration.

Grandma Petrie, the mother of one of my aunts, was always sending a book to me for Christmas or birthday. One was "Pictorial Pilgrim's Progress" that Abba Father used to draw me to Jesus Christ, and this was another one that was very dear to me. In its pages, I learned that life was a spiritual battle and obedience to the King, regardless of how a situation appeared, was paramount.

I'm going to differ with some of the critics, and even Azimov himself, who considered this one of his worst novels. While it is arguably not his best, I think it still has a lot going for it. Maybe I'm just a romanticist, or it doesn't take much to please me, but I still have a lot of fun visualizing this simple, but satisfying adventure.

It is an absolute delight to read Jack's correspondence with a woman in America. They knew each other before his marriage to Joy, and continued writing after their wedding. Even Joy writes to Mary when Jack is taking exams at Cambridge.

Originally printed in its revised edition of 1881, this small book is a beautiful aid in understanding how to read old German script. It was reprinted more than a century after its revised publication to assist modern day geneaologists and historians in reading old documents and books. The illustrations with the lessons are a treat as well.

The poem "Patience", or "Jonah and the Whale", is a real treat to read, as other works in this collection.

This book, given to me by my oldest daughter, contains accounts of eight significant engineering projects, the Hoover Dam being one of my favorites.

In October 2004, I went to visit our oldest daughter at Nanjing University, but we met in Shanghai, so this book is a pleasant reflection back on the several days that we spent sightseeing there. The beautiful photos are all in black and white.

This is a pleasant medley of exterior and interior photos, hand-drawn and colored elevations, details, and floor plans of the Carl Larsson homestead in Sweden.

This hymnal, though printed in 1940 and 1943, still retains translations of some very early Christian hymns.

Two artists in the court of Rudolph II, who never met, arranged these beautiful compositions.

When I lived in Oregon, we would use binoculars to watch a Blue Heron that had made its nest in a snag on the mountainside across the nearest corner of the lake. Every once in a while, I will see another one of these majestic birds, along a Mid-west river bank, in a neighbor's tree, flying overhead ... it is one of the many wonders of God's creation.

This is the epic journey of a man named Treet to a distant and dark world. Lawhead weaves a fantastic tale of treachery and redemption. In my estimation, the book could have been shortened to one book, but it stil makes for a great read.

Steven Lawhead writes a well-spun, fast-paced, adventure. I enjoyed it very much. I'm not one for aliens, but maybe there is a touch of C.S. Lewis in this piece of artwork.

This book holds special interest for our family, since we are descendants of Nancy Ward.