Shoes Books

This has to be my favorite of the Tennis Shoes series. It takes place years after "Gadiantons" and shoves us into the world of the very much adult Jim and his family. Jim has recently lost his wife, and the kids aren't holding together well. His sister and brother-in-law have disappeared. To top it all off, Jim is accused of murder.

Exciting time for the Hawkins clan.

As for the history, it takes us back to the days in America right before the coming of Christ. Setting: the wicked city of Jacobah.

It's a passionate and wild jungle setting. The pace is fast, and Heimerdinger actually let a different character help narrating (he continues to do this the rest of the series, and it's fun!) There is danger, heartache, and romance, everything we need for a great adventure.

This is a wonderful book. It is a must have. If you haven't read it, READ IT! I couldn't put it down. Every night I stayed up late and read it. It was wonderful. I am going to try to read Chris' whole collection of Tennis Shoes books. I have already listened to all of the tapes, but they are abridged and not as good. This book is great. It reflects very much on my religion. It is a great book. You NEED to read it if you already haven't!

i have read all the books chris heimerdinger and this one toatally blows. It was so so boring there was a couple of good parts but no good enough parts to waste your time on. Iam olny 13 and yes a mormon. All his other books are so great.If you are looking for the best book ever read tennis shoes and the seven churches.It is very good because it has some action in it unlike the feathered surpent. seven churches is cool because it talks about scrolls and there is this one guy and his name is simon and he wants the scroll of power but the kids dont have it.And as simon is talking to the kids his flesh is rotting off. it is a very scary book in some parts and good in all parts.If you want one book to read read TENNIS SHOES AND THE SEVEN CHURCHES! ITS GREAT! thanks for reading this AND FOLLOW MY ADVICE. ;o) cya GO 49ERS!

This book, along with Chris's other books, really make the Book of Mormon come alive. While it's not as great and The Feathered Serpent II, it's still a book that I think everyone should read.

This Book is yet another adventure of Jim hawkins but this time he has 3 kids. Melody gets kidnapped by Boaz, an old foe from many years ago, and is taken back into time to where Nephite and laminites walked the earth. Jim needs to go back into time, but this time, needs to nt only rescue his own daughter, but also find out what has happened to his sister and her husband and find out if they were still alive today. Join the adventure once more on an admazing journey to the time when Christ visits the earth. "The time of the Feathered Serpent."

Cathy Yardley, Will Write for Shoes: How to Write a Chick Lit Novel (St. Martin's, 2006)

I suppose it was a lost cause to consider that a how-to-write book that focused on chick lit novels would have substantially different information on the actual how-to-write bit than your average how-to-write book. The bulk of it, in that regard, is the same, if lighter and shallower (Yardley does refer aspiring writers to some deeper and more involved tomes, to her credit). Where the chick lit leaning of the book comes in is in providing a pretty good list of chick lit friendly contacts-- agents, editors, presses, that sort of thing. Paradoxically, of course, all of that material will come in handy after you've written your novel and are ready to sell it; perhaps a more comprehensive subtitle would have been appropriate for the book? Certainly not the worst how-to-write tome I've ever read, but I was expecting more nuts-and-bolts type stuff. ***

A lot of really great tips for structuring and outlining your novel. Even though chick lit is unfortunately on its deathbed, I will be referencing this book for years to come on my mainstream fiction and even on a fantasy book that I now realize can be revitalized with some basic structural elements.

All this, and yet it's still written in such a pleasant lighthearted style that you don't feel like you're reading a boring instructional manual, or, on the other end of the spectrum, an over the top book that treats writing as some sublime spiritual act. "Will Write for Shoes" actually makes you want to write!

I am a writer who has been reviewed only by my friends and professors... not published yet. I was surprised by the quality of the insights and guidance included in this quick-to-read book (-no offense to the author, and I apologize for my preconceived assumptions.) Her advice seems right on. My opinion is this book is worth reading for those who want to improve their own material.

Will Write for Shoes is a no-nonsense guide to writing, revising, and selling a chick lit novel. Many of the approaches listed in this book aren't specific to chick lit and can be helpful for any genre. Yardley gives a good description of the chick lit genre as it stands (or stood, since the book was published in 2006), the plot devices that are used and overused, what is generally expected of a novel that plans to call itself "chick lit," and a number of hints and suggestions to make your writing better, more fluid, and more publishable. In general, I liked it. But as someone about 35,000 words into my first novel, I have to say that Will Write for Shoes isn't really the book you want to buy when you've already started writing. This book is an excellent work for the planning stages. Yardley's description and suggestions for plotting, outlining, and writing synopses, agent letters, etc, is all excellent advice, but can only really be implemented at the very early stages or once you've finished your book. For someone who's already 1/3 of the way in, it's sort of "store this information for next time." And in fact, a lot of the comments she has on plotting, characterization, etc, come from other books that I did use as a resource before picking this one up, first and foremost the Weekend Novelist by Robert Ray. I enjoyed this book. I think it's a great resource for writers who want to know where to begin (in terms of outlining and structure) and those who are finished and want suggestions on where to sell their book, how to find an agent, and which publishers to approach. If you're between those two stages, I think you'd find more help elsewhere.

If you're even wondering if you should spend some of your hard-earned cash on this book, rest assured that the answer is yes, yes, yes!!

Will Write For Shoes is a valuable addition to your library, and thoroughly covers the details of the chick lit genre. Cathy Yardley defines it, gives a history of it and fills readers in on the new trends. Just when you are ready to get to working on your own manuscript, she fills you in on premise (what is "high concept," anyway?), characters, structure, outline and much more.

Of course, there are many books out there that give the basics of how to create fiction, but Will Write For Shoes is the perfect tool if you long to create the chick lit that you adore. It's not a simple concept, but if you follow this author's advice you'll be well on your way to creating a finished manuscript that avoids the cliches, yet gives publishers the idea that they have a solid winner that will strike a chord with readers.

Don't pass up the opportunity to read and own this book. I promise you will refer to Will Write for Shoes over and over again during your writing career!

Thank you, Cathy Yardley for an entertaining, educational keeper of a book!

Shoe.It's really good to see a childhood favorite recur on the market to delight a neW generation of PeoplE.FUnny and fresh,Shoe was filled with laughter.TiTwillow titwillow..

I work as a reporter and part of the humor in Shoe is that when a friend or family member calls me and tells me about that day's installment, I tell them that things like that happen every day in the office. Jeff MacNelly is right up there with Charles Schultz, Bill Keane and all the other comic artists who can make you laugh just by holding up a mirror to your life. His "Shoe" is to our profession what "Beetle Bailey" is to soldiers and "Zits" is to parents.

As for the book, I can't put it down. I have read it straight through about six times and I always find something new to laugh at. If you buy this book, you will too.

this is a great compilation of shoe comics spanning 25 years and accurately represents the work of a fine author. the only thing that kept it from being 5 stars was the fact that it left out some of my personal favorites but all in all a great purchase for any shoe fan or any comic strip fan in general!

We liked the 27 Years of Shoe very much. It is very humorous. The author has a great sense of humor. The book is a very good read.

This is a nice collection of Shoe over the years, and really for fans of the comic strip rather than a more general audience. Of course, several of my favorites are not present, but the quirky characters are well represented. A surprise was a page of repetitions which was unexpected. The size of the book is a bit awkward for a bookcase. The book is divided by decades, and there are thumbnail pictures of MacNelly and friends, family, and pets.

I read this book when it first was published and it has helped me to frame my thinking ever since. I have yet to find the author wrong in his conclusions. Rather, as time goes by, he proves to be more and more on target. It is too bad more people are not aware of this work.

From telling us what culture is and the various levels of it to what it means to be "in the world but not of it," Myers delivers the best to date analysis of culture and Christianity. Of the numerous insights he gives, one of the favorites is: schools do not just give knowledge, they do cultural assimilation. And we wonder why our schools are letting us down! This is a must read for Christians and those into popular culture!

For several years I have enjoyed Ken Meyers Mars Hill Audio Journal periodically as he brings together people from all fields and disciplines to teach people the importance of thinking religiously from an interdisciplinary place of depth and meaning.

This book is a serious and stern critique of popular culture and it's main medium: television. Although some reviewers of this book have considered it a little highbrow, if not extreme, to be useful, I would wholeheartedly disagree. If you feel that way by the end of chapter two simply read it like you would Kierkegaard- "don't be put off by the hyperbole or generalizations, he's making an important point so don't miss it."

Meyers main thrust in the book is that post 60's there is a firmly established thing called popular culture mediated to us in images and that this cultural medium is making us dumber. He argues popular culture, in distinction to folk culture and high culture, does not do what the great artists of the past did, and that this is often true because it is the product of jaded marketers instead of real artists. The artists of high and folk culture tended to draw us into human universals. They stretched us, and experiencing their art was a human exercise of the mind and affections. We had to work at it to understand and we experienced either a clarification, a deepening appreciation, or a revelation of something we somehow didn't know but knew we should have known. The artist helped us become more human by drawing us into a more developed experience with a human universal.

Contrary to this, popular art does not do this with nearly the same frequency or depth. It is immediate, easy (not an exercise of growth), it markets to us what we already know, and deals mostly with trivialities- or treats serious subjects trivially, and communicats a form of knowledge that is immediate rather than reflective, physical rather than mental, and emotional rather than volitional. Meyers argues this is true in the degeneration of high cultural art forms, but even more so in the transition form what Neil Postman called "print-based epistemology" and "television-based epistemology", or what Jacques Ellul has called "the humiliation of the word". Because television holds to the main medium of images, it does not communicate linearly or logically. As Meyers says, "images cannot make an argument", they are at the mercy of the response of the viewer, and whatever the viewer transfers onto the images.

Throughout the volume Meyers brings us to the right discussions. How the medium effects the message, the nature of post-industrialism boredom, the contrast of Montaigne's and Pascal's theories of leisure and diversion and their effects on culture, the concrete differences between high, folk and popular culture, the effects of the 60's on the transition to image based cultural discourse, the liberating and isolating effects of "Liberalism", tension of Romanticism celebration of the primitive and Rationalism's triumphalist machine of secular scientific progress effected the development of rock music, and on and on and on.

Negatively, There are many places I wish Meyers had argued as if we were not agreeing with him as he asserts things. Truly, his authoritative sources are very good ones who say what they say compellingly, but there were a bunch of places I wanted more explanation of why something is the case. I wanted more reasons and more development.

Concerning recommendation, this book is no doubt written with an evangelical Christian readership in mind. Yet, Meyers is no homeowner in the Evangelical intellectual ghetto. This book could be read much more widely with profit, and I would recommend it to a non-Christian reader without hesitation, not because it is evangelistic; but because Meyers is a Christian who can think and clearly has. And I think one of the greatest weaknesses of the libertarian and liberal intellectual projects today is a misunderstanding of the teleology of culture and the inability of the free market or the secular liberal to make a culture good. Meyers offers a meditation that is inclusive and should not be alienating to the non-Christian reader, though it is distinctively Christian. Most can take away something important from this book.

In short I recommend this book highly because Ken Meyers has actually though more than ten minutes about orthodox Christianity and how scriptural religion affects our understanding of culture. So many American Christians are in his words "of the world but not in the world" (the tongue in cheek opposite of the biblical injunction to be "in the world but not of the world"). Meyers simultaneously calls Christians out of the evangelical ghetto where we copy everything we liked in the "secular world" and make it, to use Derek Webb's category, "explicit" (meaning we dumped explicitly Christian lyrics into rock riffs we like, etc) and yet he also does not call us to drink deeply from whatever popular culture offers us (For example one might see that a Christian might want to avoid most of the summer block busters that feature mostly flesh and fighting, but yet see universal human art in films like Fight Club or Unbreakable or The Village).

In short, it may be true that we (contemporary Americans) are being controlled by those who seek to inflict pleasure on us, and that it is what we love that will ruin us. (in case that sounds like fundamentalist ramblings, that is almost a direct quote from Aldous Huxley as quoted by Neil Postman)

This is a refreshing book, with a great bibliography and a refreshing reach outside the common Evangelical sources.

This is one terrific book. Ken Myers delves deeply into popular culture. He does a great job of grounding his research and findings in a theological framework. He cites everyone from C.S. Lewis to Bob Dylan to G.K. Chesterton to Bo Diddley.

This book is so needed today. So much of pop evangelicalism and even the mainline churches have unwisely and unthinkingly schmaltzed the Church's glorious message into a dumbed-down, styrofoam, homogenized pop culture framework and are submerging the Church's heritage into it. (See Marva Dawn's book "Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down"). I refuse to listen to my local Christian radio station because they've pretty much pancaked their format to just watered-down pop Christian music, pretty much devoid of hymnody or anything with any history to it. What if the World War II generation had demanded that the Church's glorious history and hymnody be replaced by Lawrence Welk-style tunes? That's exactly what's happening today.

Read Myers' book to find out the values of popular culture and how they compare to high and folk cultures. This book will provide you with much great background, and, most importantly, helps you to think Christianly. It's creative, intelligent and a very enjoyable read.

Still a classic after all these years, Blue Suede Shoes provides lots of food for thought for Christians but also for those outside the faith who have concerns regarding the shallow thinking that many popular cultural trends encourage. "The aesthetic of immediate and constant entertainment does not prepare the human consciousness well for recognition of a holy, transcendent, omnipotent and eternal God, or to responding to His demands of repentance and obedience." (page 132)

As valuable as this text is, however, the huge cultural changes that have continued since the book was written in 1989, especially the impact of the Internet, iPods, etc., call out for a much-needed update. In addition, the book's arguments are sometimes weakened by Myers' tendency to equate "culture" (versus "pop culture" which he generally pans) with only "classical," European and American music, painting and sculpture. Nonetheless, this remains essential reading for anyone interested in popular culture and its influence on thought and behavior in today's society.

With the need for updating and the less than expected acceptance of culture from other backgrounds, this very good text only earns 3 stars.

I bought this book for my father. It is a fast and simple read. Three reasons why I bought the book: (1) it is compilation of short stories written by different celebrities that offer unique perspectives on fatherhood, (2) a number of stories are well-written (some are much better than others). I particularly liked the ones that focused on one event and/or used humor; (3) the proceeds go to charity (which is a must for me when it comes to books written by a celebrity.)

I really love this book. I bought it because I'm an avid watcher of the Today show and I love Al and wanted to see what he and many other celebrities thought about their relationships with their dads.
This is an interesting collection of different lenght essays from various people (Donald Trump could only manage to write one page), talking about the ups and downs of their upbringings and how they now think of their dads. I loved to see what Katie and Matt and Ann also had to say.
This is a great gift for Fathers Day or just a birthday for him or yourself. It's interesting and fun and you'll laugh and cry and overall, you'll enjoy it.

This is one of the best books about fathers I have ever read. It is a good variety of people not just stars but authors, etc. And the stories are not all happy but are honest and the fathers all taught or left the authors with lessons and or memories that they have carried with them and now shared with us. And Al so nicely compiled for us. It is a great read and a great gift for husbands, brothers or sons. It is a good re-read so a good keeper for the book shelf.

I purchased this book for my husband for his birthday and together, we love it and so do the kids. It's a keen picture of heartfelt feelings right down to the humor. Our birthdays are on the same day making the days a little more special to us. He bought me a family book too, Mommy CEO, and we both love it as well since it helps us both with our kids ages 2 to almost 10, and has heartfelt messages mixed in.

Both books make a great gift for year round giving and my dad, will get his own copy of both on his birthday, maybe even one for Father's Day. He keeps the kids for us and is like a dad to the two oldest anyway. I'm not sure if people would think of these two books as gifts for the people that they are really not marketed to, but I find it's good for husbands to read family books and grandparents too and the same with Big Shoes, moms should read it and granddads too. Just my opinion as our family adores both books. Great gifts!

This is a must read for dads, it will make you cry, make you laugh, and give new perspective.
Lots of different passages written by many different well known stars, but never too cute. Just right!

I think the book is very BEAUTIFUL, but I wish the book had more information about Manolo Blahnik himself. It also would have been really cool to see the final designs.

Beautiful book! Truly inspiring (and addictive!) for any shoe addict. Love, love, love it!!

I was so inspired by this book, I'm a shoe designer so I totally love this book. The sketches, the colors, it's just awsome! definitely worth buying!!!!!

Maybe I am biased because I personally love the designer, however I think this book was a great idea and very charitable of Mr. Blahnik. He gives us a look into the process which he has artfully perfected

The drawings in this book are amazing. I think the book would be better with photographs of the finished shoe next to each drawing. Also, the about Manolo section is too small, it could have given a longer biography.

This is a great book for teachers or pre-pointe or pointe dancers. Causes you to slow down and really think about what you are teaching and when a dance should go on pointe. My Moms always ask when their daughter will be "ready" Now I have some recommended reading when the simple answers I give are not quite enough for some dancers and parents.

Now in a new and expanded second edition, The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training, & Technique is a remarkable manual and examination of ballet dancing pointe shoes, and the methodologies used by professionals. Choreographic experts Barringer and Schlesinger apply their years of knowledge and personal experience in the world of fitting and training with pointe shoes to matter-of-factly present how dedicated and athletic individuals achieve remarkable feats of grace and balance. Packed with detail, The Pointe Book is as comprehensive as can be covering everything from different types of shoes to the hazards of learning to walk on one's toes to resources for help with pointe-related injuries and much more. Highly recommended for anyone with a professional or casual interest in the world of ballet.

The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training & Technique Second Edition

I purchased this book because I am getting back into ballet after several years out due to non-ballet related injuries. I found a lot of useful information, but there were a lot of things that I also wished that the book had included, or had talked more about.

If you have absolutely no experience in ballet, or are not taking any training or don't have an experienced ballerina handy to answer questions, this book is going to be a bit confusing. It is excellent for giving you contact information and company and product reviews for ballet gear providers. However, I did notice that the information contained in the book on some of the companies and their products, particularly regarding pointe shoe sizing, differed markedly from the information provided by the company/manufacturer on their on websites. I would not rely only on the information contained in this book if you are going to purchase pointe shoes using this information. If you are going to order via the internet or mail order, please take the time to either visit a store for a personal fitting, or else contact the manufacturer via telephone, e-mail, or look over their website. Just by chance, I had recently purchased a new pair of pointe shoes by one of the makers listed, and had I used the book's size guide, I would have purchased shoes that were no where near the correct size.

It is an excellent resource for those that are taking class and have instructors to turn to for further explanation, or those that have some degree of en pointe experience. I do wish that the dance sequence sections had been a little more detailed; that section was a big disappointment as I found it was not anywhere near as marvelous as it had been billed.

Overall, there's just no real substitute for an en pointe class with a real, live, knowledgeable instructor in front of you to answer questions. Yet, I wouldn't just write this book off, and I don't think it was a waste to purchase it. It does highlight some good points and information, but it could be a whole lot better--and more complete.

A really thorough guide to every pointe shoe there is out there, a great history of the technique, and lots of advice on pointe work. A great purchase for anyone interested in pointe work, but there's perhaps so much information on different shoes that it could be confusing for beginners.

I have found this book very interesting to read, and somewhat helpful. The book is American based which means that not all the information is relevant to an Australian reader such as myself. The second half of the book presents detailed pointe classes which are very helpful, but if you are not familiar with all the terminology you will need a ballet dictionary to use the information. Over all I have found this book interesting and helpful from a student point of view but also think it would be a good read for anyone who loves ballet.

This is one of the best books written by Mrs. Hill. It is a sweet romance without all the junk that is in the normal book today. I loved it!!

Tasha is rescued during a snowstorm by a preacher, who takes her home to his mother. The relationship between these three is lovely and would have made for a nice book. Unfortunately, the author brings an unappealing character into the mix whose presence grates on every page and keeps this from being an enjoyable read. Skip those parts and read the rest of the story, which tracks Tasha's journey to finding God.

I enjoyed this book very much. A socialite is rescued from a snow storm by a young minister and left with his mother. She is worldly but charming and sweet and both Mother and son are taken with her. The problem for the Mother is that she sees Tasha for the potential harm she could be to her son, but she genuinely likes her. Another young woman then appears on the homefront, one who MIGHT be perfect for her son but who in reality makes her(the Mother) absolutely crazy. The story is rich and original with lots of lessons painlessly woven. This story beautifully shows Ms Hill's skill as a writer.

I enjoy all of Grace Livingston Hill's books. They are good clean Christian romance stories. This one was one of my favorite, that showed how a worldly person can become right with God, and find true love in the process. They don't make heros like this one any more!!!

I loved this book, I just couldn't wait to turn the page to see what was next.

I have read many of Grace Livingston Hills books and i actually have not found a one i didn't like.

This is an excellent book for learning colors and object recognition. The colors are accurate and the objects are basic ones for young toddler to know - shoe, leaf, flower, etc. My 3-month old enjoys looking at the simple pictures, but it will still be useful in a year when he's learning words and colors.

I love Tana Hoban so when I found she did colored images I was very excited. The photos are nice, crisp and right on target with the colors. Simple color learning book.

We have six children, and this is/was the hands-down favorite of all our children as toddlers. We received it as a gift when our 13 yo was a baby, and now our toddler twins are enjoying it. I believe our children learned their color names from this book. They also like Hoban's "Black on White." I wouldn't hesitate to buy this for any under 2's you might have.

As my son grew older and more interested in colors, I looked for a book that would delight him as much as "Black on White" (also by Tana Hoban) had when he was an infant. I thought this book would fill that description, but it didn't quite fit the bill. It has great photographs, but no text.

Despite the catchy, rhyming title, each page shows only a picture of the item: No rhyming text is involved. Although my son likes the brightly colored pictures, he is more interested when I read books with rhythmic texts, such as "Blue Hat, Green Hat" by Sandra Boynton.

My daughter really enjoys this book. It is simple and gives toddlers a chance to learn their colors. We've read it so many times my daughter who is two can now read it herself!

This story was disappointment given the other reviews and not written as well as I had hoped. My nephews enjoyed Blueberry mouse so much more as did I.

This is a great little book. It's got a simple little plot line that is just perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. The art is beautiful, and the story is sweet. My 1.5 year old loves this book, and I look forward to many more readings of it.

My kindergarten class loves to hear this story about the shoe's adventures out blueberry picking since they are all blueberry pickers themselves. Great illustrations with vivid color and lots of action. The story is even more special to them because it includes the animals that they see every day out on the tundra. Thanks Ann and Evon from the Bristol Bay School Kindergarten Class!

Ann Dixon is a gifted children's book author. All young children should have the opportunity to read or hear this book. As a parent I never grew tired of reading the book to my child. I hope Ann writes more of this type of book for youngsters.

My 2 - 1/2 year old and I both love this book! The drawings are beautiful and the story is great! I especially love the way it reads out loud. It doesn't rhyme, but is very poetic in a way. An absolute joy to read to my child over and over again. We took it out of the library a week ago and have already read it a few dozen times. On a car ride tonight my daughter started reciting lines from the book about the mama fox and her kits, and the ptarmigan and then started telling us the story! So now we're going to buy a copy for ourselves because neither of us can bear to give it up!