Shoes Books

This is a throughly sexy read :)
If you enjoy or are a fan of the TV series than you ought to read these books.

Very sexy and erotic way to spend your reading time.
It's very easy to part-take and become one of these characters while reading.

Definitely a fun and exciting read!

Why watch porn to get turned on when reading these books is much more of a turn on!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The intricate and intertwining plots and subplots kept my attention for whole minutes at a time. This is a great family book for people of all ages to enjoy - its my grandsons favourite bedtime book!

My children loved reading this story about twin 4-year olds over and over again. Beverly Cleary is always great and the illustrations are cute.

Brief Synopsis: Jimmy and Janet are anxious to grow up. They tell their mother that they think that their feet are growing, so she takes them for new shoes. At the shoe store, Mr. Markle says that they haven't outgrown their shoes. This makes Mr. Markle very sad, because he's afraid that he won't be able to sell Jimmy and Janet's mother any shoes for the children. He ends up talking her into buying boots to go over their old shoes. They get bright red boots that will stretch. These boots are just right for their growing feet.

Note to Teachers: This book would be good to read when studying a unit that involves measuring growth in inches or pounds. It is also good to read when talking about going shopping. The book contains beautiful pictures. Grades K-3 would enjoy this book by Beverly Cleary.

I love the saddle club series, but this book was definitly not the best IT is goodcompared to some other author's books, thogh. Read the rest of the series they rock

The Saddle Club's Pony Club is doing a drill on Founder's Day. Then, Lisa meets Sal, an abused horse at CARL. Doc Toc, the vet, says that CARL thinks Sal won't live much longer. It breaks Lisa' heart. Then, Lisa comes up with an idea. The Saddle Club can tell fortunes! Stevie's dream has been fulfilled! They tell that stuck up Veronica DeAngelo's fortunes. Veronica actully belives them!!! But what will The Saddle Club do when a junior rider wants her fortune told?

This is a cute book and a good way to discuss empathy with children. As an elementary school counselor I used this book with Kindergarteners and found that it was a little too complex for them to understand. I think it's more appropriate for 1st or 2nd grade.

This book is a great add-on for every character education program in elementary school.

This is a good read!
Entertaining.
Fast paced.
Lifelike and likeable characters.
Makes you want to skip whatever else is going on to get back to it!
And, keeps you guessing to the end!
I'd certainly read whatever Ms. DeFreitas writes.
Kudos.
Recommend this book.

What an excellent book! "If the Shoe Fits" is tightly plotted, well written mystery that keeps you guessing to the end. The author deftly bring Shagoni River to life and peoples it with dozens of likeable people. Protagonist Tracy Quinn is a smart sassy lady with a good heart and an open mind.
I like the way the author quietly plants the key clue to the mystery early in the book. In fact, she did a great job of scattering plot points throughout the book and then following through with them. I suspect that the author has a series coming out of this, because this novel leaves me wanting to know more.

For those who genuinely wish to know what the other person goes through. Even though it was written some time ago, the issues still apply.

The author has lived a long life. She is very well rounded. I wanted to know more about her experience being a black woman and the other cultures. I guess I will have to get my hands on a copy of Soul Sister.

To start, I give any one great credit if they have the will power to actually finish this book. "Low Intensity Operations" was written in such a tedious manner that I could only manage to read a single chapter a day and looked to the next day's reading with dread. Kitson managed to reduce a potentially fascinating subject to something about as appealing as a piece of dry toast. The best use of this book would be to make captured insurgents read it - a truly horrible punishment.

This book is essentially a laundry list of lessons Frank Kitson learned while fighting various insurgencies for the British Crown from the 1950's thru the early 1970's. There is nothing new here. He mentions that unconventional wars may be more common in the future, he describes some common insurgent tactics, and he offers ways that the Army can contribute to a counter-insurgency campaign. While he offers some useful tidbits, hidden in between mountains of painful prose, modern counter-insurgency warfighters will find little here that is either innovative or unique.

I only purchased the book because Kitson is often described as the originator of the operational model the British used to fight the war in Northern Ireland. However, in the book, he predicts that the war in Northern Ireland will be over by 1975! Also, it is clear, Kitson did not even follow his own suggestions from his own book. He alienated the Catholic population in Northern Ireland, arrested people on very imprecise intelligence, and failed to determine the real cause of Catholic discontent.

I have seen this book for sale for over $450...are you kidding me?...it's worth maybe $10.

I find it rather amazing that I, in early 2006, am the first to review this classic in asymmetric warfare. As current events in Iraq and elsewhere show, the Americans are not as adept as their former colonial masters in using stealth and deception to achieve military victory. Kitson, as a serving officer of the Crown, witnessed Britain's largely successful counter insurgency moves in places as diverse as Kenya, Cyprus and the North of Ireland and he formalized much of the approach militarily dominant powers like Britain and Israel should take to their militarily weaker opponents. He stresses the dirty tricks department: psychological warfare, fifth columns, double agents and anything that weakens or demoralizes the enemy or cuts off their logistics. Kitson was an officer in Britain;s shadowy Special Air Services (SAS) who have been credited, rightly or wrongly, with all kinds of undercover military actions, some brave, other nefarious. This book is definitely worth a read and worth buying for anyone interested in the historical evolution of asymmetrical warfare, where Britain has an impressive record.

"The Shoe Monster" was written and illustrated by first and second grade students at North Shuswap Elementary School in Celista, British Columbia, and was received the "Kids are Authors Award."
This story is about a monster that lurks in the basement of Shuswap Elementary, and befriended Mrs. Bruneau (Mrs. "B") and has a nasty habit of stealing shoes from the students at night, but if you are lucky and ask Mrs. B nicely, maybe she can get the Shoe Monster to put your shoe back into the Lost & Found.
I personally received this book from my elementary school teacher in Kindergarten, and I have loved it ever since. If your son or daughter loves to read, write, and draw, then surely you can add this delightful story into his or her book collection!

"The Shoe Monster" was written and illustrated by first and second grade students at North Shuswap Elementary School in Celista, British Columbia, and was received the "Kids are Authors Award."
This story is about a monster that lurks in the basement of Shuswap Elementary, and befriended Mrs. Bruneau (Mrs. "B") and has a nasty habit of stealing shoes from the students at night, but if you are lucky and ask Mrs. B nicely, maybe she can get the Shoe Monster to put your shoe back into the Lost & Found.
I personally received this book from my elementary school teacher in Kindergarten, and I have loved it ever since. If your son or daughter loves to read, write, and draw, then surely you can add this delightful story into his or her book collection! It gives an interesting twist to your basic bread-and-butter children stories, and gives kids the ability to learn about friendship, responsibilities, and even to be sure to put your shoes away neatly (I know for a fact that my shoes never strayed onto the floor after that)! Since this story is written and drawn by students, your son or daughter can relate to this story much better than reproduced of "The Tale Of Cinderella XVII."
In conclusion, I have absolutely no complaints about "The Shoe Monster," and many people should read this book to their friends and family alike-you won't regret it! ;)

I was a little skeptical about this at first but I have listened to it several times already in the last few weeks. I never do that with an audio book but found myself traveling through traffic and having a wonderfully suspenseful time. The actors are all amazing.

This set is actually pretty good.

"The Passersby" - starring Morgan Brittany (supermodel and she also appeared as Katherine Wentworth on "Dallas", as well as tons of staple shows from the sixties). Morgan does a credible job here. She gives it a good effort and it pays off. Her Southern accent is sweet and convincing. Where this one falls down is the use of a bland supporting cast. The role of The Seargent was masterfully played by James Gregory in the original but the person playing it here clearly doesn't have much.
Stacy Keach, for some reason, pops in to play Abraham Lincoln at the end before delivering the closing narration. The casting of Keach as host still remains a mystery to me...give me Rod Serling any day.

"The Rip Van Winkle Caper" - starring Tim Kazurinsky.
Kazurinsky gives the main character, Mr. Farwell, an English accent, which is a nice touch. Also laudable are some great sound effects and the addition of a train heist (which is only referred to in the original).

"Four O'Clock" - starring Stan Freberg. Freberg has a good time playing the part, much as Theodore Bikel did in the original.
However, the story itself was one of Serling's paler attempts.
In fact, it was adapted from a short story that itself is rather brief and unimaginative.

"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" - starring Frank John Hughes. You have to listen closely for Hughes' part...there are four other male neighbors who are equally vocal in the Maple Street skurmish. The supporting cast are very good...perhaps better than the actors in the original version. Just my opinion, but I always felt that the TV version was a little too pretentious, much like "The Shelter". Good sound effects here as well, especially at the end where the 'monsters' make their appearance.

I believe I've now read all of the Detective-Inspector Appleby mysteries, faithfully following Innes's best-known character as he worked his way up through the ranks of the Metropolitan Police (New Scotland Yard) and retired with a 'K.' Some of his best novels, I read more than once, but "Appleby Talking" (1954 - also known as "Dead Man's Shoes") is not one of them. Michael Innes never seemed to put his heart into his Appleby short stories, and his lead character strikes one as prissy rather than ironic, pompous rather than discriminatingly donnish. All of the color seems to have been leached from Innes's short-story characters, and the settings are hardly mentioned. Appleby even resorts to bombastic tall tales, whereas in the novels he is admirably reticent and never resorts to braggadocio.

The last story in "Appleby Talking" is forty-nine pages long--an embryonic novel perhaps that Innes didn't feel like completing. "Dead Man's Shoes" is a spy story involving a man who is supposedly seen on a train wearing one black shoe and one brown shoe. When a murder victim is discovered, also wearing one black shoe and one brown shoe, the chase is on.

"Appleby's First Case" is the lead-off story and takes place when Innes's serial detective was a solemn but preternaturally observant child of fourteen. It involves a false beard, as do at least a couple of his other stories (see "The Weight of the Evidence.")

The twenty-one stories in between are a mixed lot--mildly pleasurable reading, but for die-hard Appleby fans only. If you'd like to get started with this most literate of detectives (with perhaps the exception of Edmund Crispin's Professor Gervase Fen) don't begin with one of his short story collections. Try "Lament for a Maker" (1938) or "Hamlet, Revenge!" (1937)--in my opinion, two of the best crime novels from the British Golden Age of Mystery.