Letters from the Past

Fun and informative, this beautifully illustrated, strong narrative belongs in every collection.&#8212;School Library Journal (starred review)Otters love to play, and so do children. Perhaps that is why so many children love otters, "one of the most playful creatures of all wildlife," which London highlights in this engaging text featuring irresistible illustrations by So...Both playful and beguiling, just like its subjects.&#8212;Kirkus ReviewsLondon, the author of 100-plus picture books and best known for his ever-growing Froggy series, combines family adventure and facts to create a frolicsome, informative tale...So&#8217;s whimsical art&#8212;aptly conceived in flowing watercolors&#8212;adds mischievous charm to all that beckoning play.&#8212;BooklistA clutch of river otter pups grows and develops through the four seasons of their North American habitat...Lively illustrations capture the kinetic movements of otters, their slinky, flexible bodies, and the irresistible cuteness of their stocky paws and whiskered faces.&#8212;The Horn BookKids who enjoyed London&#8217;s introduction to those poop-flinging heavyweight hippos (Hippos Are Huge, BCCB 5/15) will be delighted with this return engagement on North American river otters...So&#8217;s watercolor illustrations are as supple and sinuous as their subject; dark hatching and dashes of delicate outlining give the otters a solidity that contrasts well with their translucently rendered surroundings.&#8212;Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksLondon's sprightly narrative teams with So's naturalistic watercolors to follow pups' progress from birth in the spring through the end of their first year.&#8212;San Francisco ChronicleThe beautiful watercolor illustrations are neatly done...This is a nonfiction adventure book filled with facts that children will love to read and to look at the pictures of the otters playing chase, tag, and racing with one another.&#8212;School Library Connection

Otters Love to Play

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The Theology of Consolation, or, An Account of Many old Writings and Writers on That Subject

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Of the hundreds of books I have reviewed in the last half century only two could be classified as definitive. Margaret Smith's three volumes of Charlotte Bronte's correspondence are a model of conventional scholarship, unassailably definitive. They will survive as long as the serious study of English literature survives the efforts of postmodernist critics to reduce it to a jargon-ridden wasteland.

Volume III: 1852 - 1855

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The Evolution of Sentential Complementation

Syntactic Change in Akkadian

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...provides a clearly written and well-argued case for a change of approach. Given the ever-increasing importance of European envoronmental law...the book has a potentially wide readership which will doubtless benefit from reflecting on the assumptions it challenges and the recommendations it makes.

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Diagnosis of bovine brucellosis in milk tanks in Mexico

Geographic Influences in American History

Oxford Handbook of Oncology

Intentions

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Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada

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Outsiders

A great strength of Blamires's book is that it shows how norms are realized and relativized in particular narratives...a fresh and vigorous perspective on the genealogy of ethics and gender in Chaucer.

Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender

Together With A Treatise On English Composition (1881)

The English Language, Its Grammar And History

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