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Julie, who is eight or nine, talks about privacy and about saying "no" to touching that makes her uncomfortable. ... Read more

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great book
we need to educate our children...and this book helps do so in a way that children enjoy!

A Good One
My daughter is a very curious 6.5 yo. This book has answered many questions we had found difficult to answer. Provides the right direction while describing pertinent points simply yet specifically so that it's easily understood.

My four-year-old loves this
I bought this for my daughter and she loves it.She has been learning about the concept of "privacy" (in the bathroom, etc.) for some time now so she is very interested in it.She has asked to have this book read to her for a number of nights in a row.She is four-years-old and it is an appropriate level for her, and also for older kids.It engages her interest.There is nothing in the book that is scary to her, because nothing is explicit, but it clarifies a lot of concepts and covers a lot of possible scenarios in non-threatening ways.As the mother in the book says to her daughter, it's like learning what to do if there is a fire -- it's not something you have to worry about, and probably not something that will ever happen, but you need to know what to do if it does (that is, if someone touches the private parts of your body, or any part of your body in a way you don't like, you say no and tell your mother).Reading this to my daughter also gave me a good opportunity to ask her, while we were reading, if anyone has ever touched her body in a way that made her uncomfortable, to which she fortunately said no. I am very comfortable reading this book to her, and it covers the subject of privacy and bodies very well.I highly recommend it for every girl.

Kids Don't Need to Know Those Words
I saw this book in the library where I am student teaching pre-schoolers.They use all the "politically correct" words for private parts and it's disgusting to think that kids need to know those words.Why won't "private parts" suffice?There shouldn't be books like this.Parents can easily tell their kids, "Don't let anyone touch your private parts" and be done with it.There especially shouldn't be books like this in a school.All we need is for 3 and 4 year olds going around the classroom saying those words.

bored th life out of kids
This book is boring to children, th cover got them all excited but the dull text inside made them uninterested...I was better off explaining it myself. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Describes the life of a tiny baby in his safe, warm, floating place during the nine months before he is born. ... Read more

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My son loves this book
I paired this book with pictures of me when I was pregnant, and my three year old LOVES it. He knows that he was in Mommy's belly, and he laughs at the parts where the unborn baby is jumping around, keeping the mother from getting to sleep because my little guy did the same.
A sweet book to explain pregnancy to very young children.

Just enough details for my kids...
I was looking for something to help explain to my 5 and 7 year old kids how babies grow inside mommy.It has just enough illustrations and clear words to explain what is going on.I think it is appropriate for my purpose. It does not talk about conception, I think that should be a different topic all together anyway.

Returned it!
I ordered this book to read to our 2 year old now that I am pregnant with #2. This is not a story at all, it's more a collection of random thoughts. I am big into breastfeeding, co-sleeping, babywearing and all that, but this book was way to hippie trippy for me. I wouldn't have minded the picture of the naked lady, it was tasteful enough, but when I got to the part where you're supposed to believe that contractions and delivery feel like "giant hugs" to the baby I was done. I don't know about my son's perspective, but none of that felt like giant hugs to me. This book is what they would give you at touchy-feely childbirth preparation class. I don't think it's really a story for children at all.

A birth-focused description - good for new siblings.
A very pretty and sensitive book about pregnancy and birth (does not deal with conception). It is told from a second person point of view, as though the child being read to was the infant. The author focuses on the feelingsof the mother while she was carrying her baby: what it felt like when theinfant kicked, how the infant was fed, etc. Includes good in uterodescriptions and drawings. Lacks multicultural drawings.

My children were as enthralled as I was!
This adorable book on how we all came about, is one of my favorites when it comes to children's books.My kids never get tired of hearing the story, I think partly because they love to be talked about, and because theauthor and artist really convey those special moments of pregnancy andbirth that "speak" to children-(as well as the adults!)Thefirst time I read it to my boys, ages 2 & 5, I had to make a realeffort not to cry!It's a beautiful-TRUE story, and makes a wonderful giftfor an older sibling-when there's a new addition to the family!It bringsback wonderful emotions for Mom and Dad, and helps the older child realizethat the love Mommy and Daddy have for the new baby is exactly the same asit is for them.Great book!!! ... Read more

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good to get the topic started
I am glad books like these are out there to break the ice for such an important conversation

A Bit Too Advanced
I feel it's important to begin teaching our kids at an early age about "stranger danger".This book was recommended for children as young as four, and so I bought it yesterday to begin teaching my four year old son about strangers.We tried to read it last night, and the language and even message were way over his head.I'm sure this would be a good book for slightly older kids, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone under six.

great stranger danger book
I bought this for my young sons and it gave helpful and useful tips for dealing with all types of strangers.Not scary for young children.Very appropriate.

CHILD AWARENESS OF STRANGERS
HELPS KIDS TO BE ON AWARES OF A SITUATION THAT IS DANGEROUS WITH PEOPLE AND HOW TO REACT FOR SAFETY.

who is a stranger & what should I do
the book went over well. It was imformative to the children. It help reinforced what the family has been saying. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : François Viète, Algèbre Nouvelle, Chronologie de La Vie de François Viète, Albert Girard, Denis Henrion, Nicolas de Nancel, Jean D'espagnet, François Raguel, Giovanni Camillo Glorioso, Clément Cyriaque de Mangin, Pietro Cataldi, Johannes Geysius, Audouyn de Montherbu. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : François Viète, ou François Viette, en latin , est un mathématicien français, né à Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée) en 1540 et mort à Paris le 23 février 1603. De famille bourgeoise et de formation juridique, il a été l'avocat de grandes familles protestantes, dont les Parthenay-l'Archevêque et les Rohan, avant de devenir conseiller au parlement de Rennes, sous Charles IX, puis maître des requêtes ordinaires de l'hôtel du roi sous Henri III. Maître des requêtes et déchiffreur d'Henri IV, membre du conseil du roi, il mène, parallèlement à ces charges au service de l'État, une carrière de mathématicien « amateur » qui lui vaut l'estime des grands professionnels de son temps. Inspiré par Ramus, Gosselin et Jacques Pelletier du Mans, il restaure la géométrie des anciens (Apollonius, Theon et Diophante) et prolonge les travaux d'Albategni, de Rheticus et de Regiomontanus sur les sinus et les triangles sphériques. La publication de son livre phare Isagoge Artem Analycitem ou Isagoge marque en 1591 le début de la révolution algébrique qui, poursuivie par Thomas Harriot, William Oughtred, Albert Girard et René Descartes, fondera les notations de l'algèbre contemporaine. Viète est le premier mathématicien à noter les paramètres d'une équation par des symboles. Il fonde ainsi l'algèbre nouvelle ou « logistique spécieuse », une version « homogène » de notre façon actuelle de mener les calculs symboliques. Écrivant e...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 323 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Albert Girard (* 1595 in St. Mihiel, Frankreich; † 8. Dezember 1632 in Leiden, Niederlande) war ein französischer Mathematiker. Girard wurde in Lothringen geboren und floh als Protestant (Mitglied der Reformierten Kirche) in die Niederlande, wo er ab 1617 in Leiden studierte. Davor war er professioneller Lautenspieler. Später war er Ingenieur in der Armee des Prinz von Oranien, wie beispielsweise aus einem Brief Gassendis hervorgeht. Girard übersetzte auch Werke über Festungsbaukunst vom Französischen ins Flämische und umgekehrt. ... Read more

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Adoption is for Always
Very well written.Book gives children the chance to experiece another similar situation to their own and it answers many questions young children may have about their adoption story.A well aged, but knowledgeable book.

Too strong for young children
This book I felt was too strong for a younger child.The emotions of how the child felt when she knew she wasn't "wanted" and how she rebelled.Yes it may be true that adoptive children will do such things, but if the child is not doing so and then reads this and does it what does that tell you.The end mellows out when everyone is happy and the child shows happiness w/the special party for adoption day signing.In my personal opinion, this is not a book I would promote.

Real Parents are the ones REALLY there! A+!
Great book! Kids need to understand who birthparents are and understand their value...however, it is also critical for children to understand who the parents are...those that raised them...My biological dad is not the man that raised me...the man that raised me is the only person I will ever call dad. Glad to see a book that can separate and value both!

Good when you adopt from birth
My husband and I are considering adopting an older child, but several books were recommended for reading, this one included.I can't say it's helpful when it comes to adopting a child over 4, but I can see it being very helpful for adoptive parentswith young ones discovering what adoption means.

My kid likes it
Our daughter came to us at age seven after a long time in fostercare. It is hard to find a book that describes this type of adoption to children and although this book is also about a child adopted as a baby, our little girl loves it. She brings it out and asks us to read it to her often and it usually gets her talking about her birth parents, which is a good thing. It is important for children to know and accept that adoption is not weird or embarrassing and it is okay to talk about, love and think about birth parents whether they know and remember them or not. Birth parents are an important part of who our adopted children are and this book has been valuable to us for starting that dialogue with our child. ... Read more

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When Michael gets Alex, the kid who has AIDS, for a partner in the poetry writing contest, he finds out that Alex has a great idea for a mean poem about Mrs. Zanes, the playground supervisor. Michael points out that they might get in trouble, but Alex doesn't think so. "I can write any poem I want because I'm sick," says Alex. With compassion and humor, this story shows how Alex comes to see that the way others treat him is mostly up to him. Full color. ... Read more

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AIDS and real children, by Linda Walvoord Girard (de Velder)
AIDS comes to real children.That was my thought or "leading idea" in writing this book.I felt when it was published that we had seen a considerable number of responsible books appear for children that taught "the basics," either in straightforward style of a didactic text, or in the framework of a teaching story.

I wanted this title to become part of the emotional side of AIDS education because the hardest problem for elementary age children (and older as well) is not that a classmate has a disease that is "yukky" or mysterious, but, that a classmate is slowly dying.Since the late 80s when I began working on this text, and created a character who at that time was ten, contracting AIDS from a transfusion is less common than it was prior to 1981 (the presumable birth year of a child age 10 in 1991), but even today it is not impossible, and term "blood transfusion" can, of course, mean that a mother, in her twenties, might have become HIV positive from a transfusion up to a decade prior to that, and then, transmit the HIV positive condition to her baby; aside from the simplification I chose in deciding how ALEX got AIDs, I felt the book might have a future because the US population of school age children with AIDS has grown during the 1990s and during the first decade of the 2000s.The last decade has seen so many improvements in our treatments for AIDS in very young children that children born HIV positive who once would have died within months or a couple of years are living longer -- into the upper elementary age group, where ALEX THE KID WITH AIDS is set.And, they can have years of relatively healthy living, while HIV positive and even with AIDS in active status.Some critics have said Alex should be "sicker," but that is not medically correct for the age group this is showing.This book will soon be twenty years old; I'm proud of the fact that, in showing that people can live in relative good health for a very long time while HIV positive, made it a book with a future relevance overall.A child with AIDS is not necessarily "on his death bed."That is an unnecessary stigma.
The book can be used with any situation where a child is still in school, and is dying of an incurable disease.AIDS kills off the immune system; the usual cause of death is not AIDS itself but the opportunistic diseases and infections that take hold -- so an "AIDS death" in a child often has a different immediate cause and a death certificate will not always indicate the presence of underlying HIV status.As Alex receives blood transfusions and drugs to keep him going, the book's backdrop is a long battle of doctors against immune deficiency.My goal in using the transfusion as the source of Alex's problem is that nothing he or his parents did or failed to do "caused" his condition.This clarifies and simplifies the plotting of the book so that the emotional base can be where I wanted it to be -- on dealing with impending but not immediate, "any day now" death in a classmate, and not letting the opportunity for friendship disappear.

Real children feel stigmatized by any condition that is not curable.They make friends differently; Michael at first knows Alex is not contagious, but he still feels aversion; both the friend and the child who is dying must come to terms with both friendship and fear or loneliness.I wanted to write a book that would touch upon these "softer" yet perhaps deeper themes, at a time when AIDS education per se (info that AIDS does not spread by ordinary contact, yet the warnings about blood contact, etc.) is the "easy part" and is probably taking place in many schools and families as it should -- calmly and without emotional overlays.Handling the children's feelings beneath that was one of my goals.

To the critic who disliked the book because she felt a teacher "should not" dismiss a poem from a contest merely because it makes fun of a teacher, I say, check it out in a real school:many will disagree!Alex makes fun of a teacher, but the book never makes fun ofAlex, ever.The poem Alex writes is "out of bounds" as many people would see it.In fact, a more realistic "objection" to my plot might be that Alex's parents, if they saw the poem, would probably discourage him from submitting such an unkind poem to a school contest, since that's a form of "publication" and Mrs. Zanes is a real person with feelings.That's why Alex writes it in class and submits it without mentioning his parents.Moral reasoning comes though when the narrator Michael asks Alex that night, "Are you sure we can put a poem about a teacher in the contest?" and Alex replies, "I told you, I can.I'm sick."The narrator knows that a poem like this might be dismissed from the contest in many places as "inappropriate" by teachers.I'll defend the reality of this point.Editors at Whitman felt so, too. Of course Alex's poem is "nasty," but so are real children at times, and Alex HAS developed the idea that he can get away with stuff.Thsi is not "making fun" of Alex.It moves the plot forward.It could spark thought and discussion among readers.I disagree with authors for children who feel everything in a book must always be "nice" and kids can never make mistakes, and I disagree that a child with a serious illness must always be shown as a sweet angel, passively accepting help and friendship from others, etc.

I am mystified by the comment someone made that this book "makes fun of children with AIDS."The use of humor with a serious subject may be unusual in what we used to call "bibliotherapy" but, Alex is never ridiculed in any way!!! The teacher scolds him, but, it's justified, and has a good result.Alex, in his own way, and his friend Michael, the narrator, both are heroes in the book, not only for coming to terms with his probably-fatal illness, but for realizing that even a life-threatening illness does not entitle anyone to be "above the law" in the classroom or with his peers.While he lives, he decides he wants to be, and should be, part of the class.He's not the "untouchable."Alex has no control over AIDS or his fate.But he does decide who he is, while he's alive.I like to have children who are active in all my books, who think and react and create themselves as confident, social children.He can be asked for attitudes and actions in school like any other student, even though he and his classmates are all grieving over the inevitable loss.This is what I work toward.

While Alex is an active, alive character in the book, becoming who he wants to be, AIDS education should be multi-dimensional, in my view, not "just the facts." The undercurrent of modeling or teaching that can take place through a good plot should touch upon much more than mere medical facts, even though correct medical facts are also very important to convey, amidst all the misconceptions and stigmatizing misinformation that continues to appear out there.It has been very gratifying to see that, in the almost 20 years since 1991, this book not only went from hardcover to paperback, to reach a far wider audience, but, was well reviewed in leading journals as "first and best a good story," (BCCB)and also "both convincing and entertaining" (Booklist), but is still out there at huge discounts today, still making a contribution to an area of need.

I have never had to deal with AIDS at first hand. But for this book, I conducted a lot of research and worked with professionals in therapy and medical fields, to create the book, at a time when the average American thought there were no, or very, very few children in schools, who are HIV positive, and for those that there were, there was a civil right to secrecy.Even though an author is not the one giving "reviews" to a book, it has stayed out there, afloat, and selling to various users, for nineteen years.Not every book is for everyone.Nonetheless I think the survival of this unusual, narrow-purpose book is testimony to the richness of our American field of books that, if they can deliver "a good story," can approach sensitive subjects and find the right audience.Today most children dying of AIDS are on other continents, not North America.Until we find a cure, however, we do not know what the future of this dilemma may be.

I ABSOLUTELY LOATHE THIS BOOK!
I love Most of Linda Girard's books, but this is the worst children's book I ever touched.It deserves a TURKEY instead of a star.It makes fun of children with AIDS.It says in this book that Alex got AIDS from a transfusion.It is no longer possible to get AIDS from blood transfusions because all donated blood is tested for HIV and AIDS.Don't waste your money on this piece of junk.Insteas buy the CD "For Our Children."

A nice story
I really enjoyed the way the author handled this issue with regards to the boy Alex, a fourth grader with AIDS.The only part of the book I found disturbing was that of how the teacher reacted to the poem that was writtenabout her.I did not think it was right that she would not enter it intothe contest because she did not like it. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Albert Schweitzer, Martin of Tours, René Girard, Jacques Ellul, Jacques Gaillot, Jean-Claude Rodet, André and Magda Trocmé, Peter Maurin. Excerpt:Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer (14 January 1875 4 September 1965) was a Franco-German (Alsatian ) theologian , organist , philosopher , and physician . He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine , from 1871 to 1918 in the German Empire . Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus Christ who expected and predicted the imminent end of the world. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life ", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné , now in Gabon , west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement ( Orgelbewegung ). Schweitzer's passionate quest was to discover a universal ethical philosophy, anchored in a universal reality, and make it directly available to all of humanity. Education Albert Schweitzer's birthplace, Kaysersberg. Born in Kaysersberg, Schweitzer spent his childhood in the village of Gunsbach , Alsace (German : Günsbach ), where his father, the local Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, taught him how to play music. Long disputed, the region of Alsace or Elsass was part of Germany from 1871 and during Schweitzer's youth: in treaties following World War I it was re-integrated into France. The tiny village is home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer (AIAS). The medieval parish ... ... Read more

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