Lots of information about benefits of baby signing and best ways to go about it. The pastel-colored illustrations of the signs themselves, though, were not always clear. Photographs might have been better.

Love that this book is NOT about organizing. It's about envisioning the life & home you want for you and your family RIGHT NOW, and becoming motivated to get rid of the stuff that no longer fits in with or contributes to that vision. This was a re-read, and it's good enough that I'll probably read it every few years when I need a good decluttering pants-kick.

Am so tempted to buy this one, the explanations of complicated techniques are great!

Sigh . . . I was so excited about this book. I was even prepared to deal with the disjointed narrative, which reflected McClure's admittedly disorganized tackling of the project. But I eventually could NOT deal with the narrator anymore.

She describes so well the way that she and many other little girls (myself included) felt about these books and about Laura, but that child-like fascination seemed to give way to something a bit . . . smirkier. At times she has a really condescending attitude towards the other LHotP devotees she meets on her pilgrimage. If they didn't appreciate the Little House books for the "right" reasons, or they loved the TV show, or they were religious, or they home-schooled, or whatever, then they were deemed fair kooky game. It was a disappointment.

Very gripping book about a 6-yr-old named Matt who is abducted from school by the emotionally troubled father he has never met. His 13-yr-old sister Bonnie recognizes Matt & her former stepfather in the crowd at a baseball game and must quickly decide how to rescue him without putting either of them in danger. Matt and Bonnie try to get help on several occasions but everyone assumes the kids are playing a prank. I DO think the author got a bit heavy-handed at the end when all those people see the news later that night and realized their mistake. I think the point was made quite well already without revisiting each of them.

Good chick+baby-lit, not as much sexual content as you'd think!