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The small son of a pastry cook finds a way to keep a hungry beast from terrorizing the land. ... Read more

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It's simply delightful!
Michael Foreman's whispy watercolours are the perfect accent to these lovely little stories written by Terry Jones (Former member of Monty Python) They are also perfect for reading aloud to a child, and there is even a nice little moral for each tale. The Fishy story teaches you not to be full of yourself, and the Beastie story teaches children not to eat too much sugar (among other things) You may be surprised to find that Terry Jones is in fact an excellent writer of Childrend's stories, and Of course Foreman's illustrations are always beautiful. I would recommend this book to anyone who has young children, or someone that simply loves Fairy Tales or whimsical art. (Like myself) ... Read more

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A conceited little fish swims his way around the oceans of the world and thinks he's seen and done it all. Returning to his home waters, the other fish get the snub. What fate awaits our fishy hero? Discover the hard lessons he learns in this witty, aquatic tale filled with beautifully illustrated creatures of the deep. Full color. ... Read more

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An adventure story set in the time of the Crusades. The central character, Tom, is a boy who runs away from home to discover what the noble life of a knight is really like, and to experience the excitement of war and battles. The title is the first in a trilogy. ... Read more

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A cracking good yarn, but watch for language & violence
I just finished reading this book to my 7-year-old son and we both loved it.I'm a fan of Terry Jones from his Monty Pythondays, and was delighted to find his irreverent, offbeat humor intact throughout this fast-paced adventure.Having said that, I must caution parents on the appropriateness of some of this material for the pre-10 age group. If you read it to your child, be prepared to occasionally edit for language and subject matter.Also, as the action occurs in locales throughout France, you may wish to brush up on your French pronunciations!

Hilarious, Suspenseful, Exciting - YOU'VE GOT TO READ THIS!!
Okay, first of all, this book is superb.It has wonderful descriptions, the characters are unique, and it has an eventful plot.Could it get any better?You bet.It is funny, and a good book to get kids interested in reading.I would reccomend it those who love medieval stories, adventure stories, humourous stories, fantasy,...Pretty much anyone!Probably best for ages 7 - 14.
I read this book before I read the prequel, and it wasn't so confusing.I've been looking for the first one, The Knight and the Squire, but so far I haven't found it in any bookstores. (sigh!) Now here's what it's about:
Setting: medieval France
Characters: Tom - an adventurous young squire
Ann - a mischievious young girl who masquerades as a knight for most of the book
and Emily - a young Lady who Tom runs into and immediately falls in love with during his adventures
Plot: Tom is kidnapped, thrown in a dungeon with a cannibal, condemned to death, he escapes, runs into Emily (who decides to come with him), and as he is escaping he discovers that the whole English army is drunk.Oh, and later he falls into a well, jumps off a palace wall to avoid being captured by the Pope's guards, and Emily, who thinks Ann is a knight, falls in love with 'him' until she learns the truth (that Ann is a girl).
Now the plot isn't the only thing that will make you laugh until you cry - for here are some examples of chapter titles:
"The Town Where Everyone is Drunk" and "How Tom Nearly Invented the Flushing Lavatory Five Hundred Years Before Thomas Crapper" and "What Happened Under the Pope's Floorboards"
Okay, so if you don't think that's funny, you probably shouldn't read it.
But, anyway, it's a funny, suspenseful, exciting book.I congratulate Terry Jones and say to anyone thinking about buying it "If you don't read it, you're really missing something!"

READ IT!!
Read the Knight and the Squirefirst, then read this installment. They are wonderful -- exciting storytelling, humor and excellent medieval research behind them. Terry Jones is a gifted story teller. We found the Knight and His Squire on a trip to London several years ago and loved it so much that we ordered this book as soon as it came out in England thry Amazon UK. It was well worth the extra shipping expense. We cannot wait for the next book in the series. By the way, the novels have excellent male AND female leading characters, and are witty enough to interest adults as well. Go for it! ... Read more

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Painter, printmaker and teacher Sir Terry Frost RA (1915-2003) was a key figure in the development of British twentieth-century abstract art. He was also a prolific printmaker, and this important publication brings together, for the first time, a complete catalogue of the artist's prints. The result is a colourful visual history of Frost's remarkable printmaking career. Discovering a natural ability to capture likenesses, Frost began to explore his artistic talents as a prisoner of war. During the late 1940s, he honed and developed his artistic skills as a student at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. Dividing his time between the thriving art scenes of London and St Ives during the 1950s, Frost embraced abstraction and soon established himself as a leading British artist - a reputation which is still felt today. Prints were an essential element of Frost's oeuvre - he believed that painting and printmaking were inseparable and that each medium informed the other. The importance of printmaking within his evolution as an abstract artist is borne out by the sumptuous colour images reproduced here.Combining sound scholarship with arresting imagery, "Terry Frost Prints" offers both reference value and visual delight and as such is an essential purchase for all those interested in this key British artist. ... Read more

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Don't Buy This For Your Children
Don't you DARE buy this book for your children unless they are interested in child pornography. I bought this for my daughter for Christmas since she has a fairy obsession. I received the book and looked through it to make sure it was in good shape. I ripped the bad pages out and wrapped it. There were still TONS of bad pages though. It talks about the author getting kissed on the lips by their uncle and sex! I decided to unwrap it and blot out the bad parts but there was almost nothing left except a few pages so I threw it away. What a waste of my time and money!

Hilarious dark humor
I'm a bit perplexed by those who thought this was too ghoulish--what part of PRESSED Fairy Book did you not understand?Like PRESSED flowers, only with fairies.Why would anyone come here for a "pretty story about fairies"??

Some of us like our dark humor.

Magnificent magic!
This is a wondrous book, filled with smiles and laughter. I received it as a gift several years ago and have enjoyed it ever since.I purchased a copy from Amazon.com to send as a gift to a friend in the U.K.She adores it.Most entertaining reading and the illustrations are the best!

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book

You will love this book; rather far out fantasy art, thinking.I cannot wait to read the other Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy books.

Flights of Fancy with Lady Cottington's Fairies
Like collectors of pressed flowers, this book presents itself as a collection of "pressed fairies". Very creative, completed in watercolours, this book is wonderful to view and certainly worth owning. The art is fantastic, a must of lovers of art and lovers of fairies, not to mention those prone to flights of fancy.
The book is wonderfully presented, with a large soft padded cover it is both beautiful inside and out. Makes a great gift too! ... Read more

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All Rookie Readers actively engage young readers, encouraging language development, building fluency, and promoting independent reading. By targeting a skill, like learning about rhymes, young readers are building fundamental reading skills with the help of fun, lively, colorfully illustrated stories. ... Read more

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Beginning readers
Great little book for the beginning reader who is also a beginning skier! ... Read more

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Essays in this volume explore the last three and one half millennia of the long history of the California Coast, focusing on the archaeological signatures of emergent cultural complexity.Organized geographically, they provide a mosaic of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic findings that illuminate cultural changes over time. To explain these Late Holocene cultural developments, the authors address issues ranging from culture history, paleoenvironments, settlement, subsistence, exchange, ritual, power, to division of labor, and employ both ecological and post-modern perspectives. Complex cultural expressions, most highly developed in the Santa Barbara Channel and the North Coast, are viewed alternatively as fairly recent and abrupt responses to environmental flux or the end-product of gradual progressions that began earlier in the Holocene. ... Read more

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This book moves the controversy over multiculturalism in higher education from primarily an ideological debate to practical and concrete considerations. The first part outlines the demographic and historic realities that will make some form of multicultural education necessary in the coming century. The second part provides examples of how selective aspects of North American co-cultures (e.g., Native American and Puerto Rican) could be central to reforming curriculum and instruction. The final part provides practical and concrete suggestions and proposals for how to improve teaching, administration, and student outcomes in higher education by making them domestically and internationally multicultural. It becomes apparent that the need for greater multiculturalism is part of a long history of higher education in the United States as it has responded to cultural and social change, and that there is no inherent reason why the university community cannot include in its core organization and mission the wisdom of multiple cultures--European, African, Native American, and Asian. ... Read more

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Essays in this volume explore the last three and one half millennia of the long history of the California Coast, focusing on the archaeological signatures of emergent cultural complexity.Organized geographically, they provide a mosaic of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic findings that illuminate cultural changes over time. To explain these Late Holocene cultural developments, the authors address issues ranging from culture history, paleoenvironments, settlement, subsistence, exchange, ritual, power, to division of labor, and employ both ecological and post-modern perspectives. Complex cultural expressions, most highly developed in the Santa Barbara Channel and the North Coast, are viewed alternatively as fairly recent and abrupt responses to environmental flux or the end-product of gradual progressions that began earlier in the Holocene. ... Read more

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This book moves the controversy over multiculturalism in higher education from primarily an ideological debate to practical and concrete considerations. The first part outlines the demographic and historic realities that will make some form of multicultural education necessary in the coming century. The second part provides examples of how selective aspects of North American co-cultures (e.g., Native American and Puerto Rican) could be central to reforming curriculum and instruction. The final part provides practical and concrete suggestions and proposals for how to improve teaching, administration, and student outcomes in higher education by making them domestically and internationally multicultural. It becomes apparent that the need for greater multiculturalism is part of a long history of higher education in the United States as it has responded to cultural and social change, and that there is no inherent reason why the university community cannot include in its core organization and mission the wisdom of multiple cultures--European, African, Native American, and Asian. ... Read more

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horribly unfunny and boring
This has to be the most horrible collection of stupid jokes. Not funny and boring. ... Read more

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Shrunken Faries
This book is a beautiful shrunken version of the "Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book". It is an exact replica only about 1/8th the size of the original, which is something to be aware of if purchasing for yourself. This book makes a great gift book for almost anybody, the story is comical and the art work breathtaking.

Just like the original bigger version!
This is a great book.I got is as a gift, although I already had the bigger, original version.It's cute, the cover and all the pages are exactly the same, just shrunk down. A great gift for a fairy lover ... Read more

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Mikaela's Book
My granddaughter has read this and enjoyed it, It was in excellant condition when we received it

Best read aloud by adult to keep the pace...
Our Grandchildren enjoy the exploits of two rather non-typical children, as long as I read it to them... even got them away from their electronic games!Good to excellent readers over age 10 might be able to keep the pace, but others would get lost in the words and asides.Now that we have had Harry Potter, the British idioms are not as foreign as when our now 26-yr-old tried to read it.

Imaginative, fantastic, and extremely funny adventure
This book is one of my favorite books I have ever read.It is one of those gems you find that no one else seems to know about.The illustrations are fun, the story is comical, not in a silly, stupid way that some "funny" stories can be, but in a way that will actually make you laugh out loud.And the story is actually a very nice story, ending without giving you the sense that other books can of, "Well, it had some nice parts, but what was the point?"I enjoyed it as a child, and I still enjoy it as an adult (well, semi-adult).I only hope that my copy will survive for my own children.

A GREAT BOOK!
I chose this book because it is by my fourth favorite comedien, Terry Jones. It is about a boy named Nicobobinus and his friend Rosie, who go to find the land of the Dragons, because Nicobobinus can do anything. Myfavorite character is the Golden man, because it is funny that a goldstatue walks, talks, and has servents.

This book was great!!!
This book is a great one for any young, or old person who is looking for a wonderful, and adventurous story. I read this book a long time ago and couldn't help but look it up to see if there were more readers who felt thesame way about it.It is about a young boy and girl who go on a long journeyto find dragons blood.They have a very close call many times, but theyfinaly find it and continue on their journey safely.I can't wait to read itagain. ... Read more

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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again!Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Out ... Read more

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Over thirty years ago, a group of six Englishmen - well, one was Welsh and another an interloping American - rewrote the rules of comedy.Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities and animations, first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact has been felt the world over ever since. From its humble beginnings, it blossomed into the most influential movement in modern comedy. THE PYTHONS' AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE PYTHONS is a unique look at arguably the most important comic team of the modern age, with 64 pages of photographs, many culled from the team's own personal collections, and many more seen for the first time. This is the definitive word on all things Pythonesque. ... Read more

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And now for something completely not funny, yet indispensible.
...but that's not a bad thing (explanation below).

I got this book for Christmas and was concerned that because of it's size I would probably end up just thumbing through and reading select parts.Not the case.I started reading it and couldn't stop.

It covers the group and individuals from their pre-Python lives through discussions of working together again after The Live at Aspen event - though I won't tell you what conclusion they came to.In between is chock full of every detail about their influences, TV show, the movies, the stage shows and more.And because each member contributes (hence...autobiography) you get a great insider's perspective on the dynamics of the group.You learn first hand who doesn't like who, what they enjoyed and how, at times, they really struggled, and a bunch more behind the scenes insights into their personalities.

I found the book to be fascinating.It is formatted such that each event is discussed by multiple members of the troop.So you get a 360 degree view of their writing sessions, their fights, their good times, their movie productions, their business and artistic relationships.

The only downside (and here is why I titled this as such) is that it was rarely funny.That is by no means a fault, but could come as a surprise (as it did me) to the reader who expects it to be silly and funny like their performances.As a result this book is probably only going to be of interest to a true Python fan.And a true Python fan will find it indispensible.

Wonderful book
The Pythons were like the British Marx Brothers, Anti-authority,
subversive, surreal, and very very funny.Particularly interesting are the Python's accounts of their childhood and pre-fame days.

It seems "A Careful Reader" wasn't so careful after all.The picture of Dudley Moore (and it is most assuredly him) is on page 68 NOT 88.Here's a clue for ACR...he's about 30 years younger than he was when he appeared in the movie "10."Thank you and good night!

A few points about this Monty Python book
On page 88 it says that one of the four men in the photo is Dudley Moore. The fellow in the picture doesn't look at all like Dudley Moore. Furthermore, it says, on another page,that Ian MacNaughton is beseeching Terry Jones. But the man MacNaughton is begging seems to actually be Michael Palin. On a different note, in his autobiography part of the book Eric Idle seems too proud of his anti-authority stances. The 60's are very long gone now. Idle should grow up and not be so flaunting of his anti-societial ways. Being part of society is back in fashion. ... Read more