A tightly-wound cowboy tries to sing his cows to sleep with a lullaby, but keeps seeing visions of things that go bump in the night. His loud 'EEK!' at each sighting isn't really making the cows sleepy, and they try to reassure him. It is a silly, nonsensical tale that young children will laugh at.
A story of a young boy walking through a forest who thinks everything he sees is a tiger - but of course, it turns out to be something else entirely. A wonderfully imaginative, colorfully illustrated book for preschoolers.
Pete the Cat is wearing his favorite shirt - the one with four groovy buttons. He walks along, singing his song, 'My four groovy buttons'. One falls off, but is Pete upset? Not at all - he just sings, 'My three groovy buttons'! Peter loses his buttons one by one, but is he upset? No, he adjusts and keeps singing his song.
George is a good dog - well, he has good intentions, anyway. His owner leaves him alone with the admonition to 'behave, George', and George does - at least till he sees a cake on the table. George loves cake. Oh no, George! George can't resist chasing the cat, digging up the flowers, and...well, you can guess the rest! But George is a very good dog!
In 1950, Paul Milliron, Montana State Superintendent of Public Instruction, returns to his hometown of Marias Coulee to close its one-room schoolhouse. He is heartbroken, knowing that this is the end of an era. As he spends time here, he relives the year he turned 13. His mother has died, and his father is overwhelmed with trying to be both father and mother as he homesteads the land. He sees an ad in a newspaper for a housekeeper that reads 'Can't Cook, but Doesn't Bite'. Thus whistling,beautiful Rose Llewellyn comes into their life.
This third book in the 'Hangman's Daughter' series finds Hangman Jacob Kuisl being framed for the murder of his sister and her husband. On a ruse, he is lured to Regensburg, where he finds his sister murdered and is immediately arrested. The Hangman of Regensburg uses the same tortures on him that Jacob inflicts on those arrested in his town of Schongau, in order to get him to confess. 
Elizabeth Connelly works at a vanity press in Manhattan. She
has a fancy title as editor but as she quickly discovers her job is really to
get would-be authors to sign a publishing contract. That’s the name of the game at Vista Books
and that’s OK with Elizabeth who finds casual lying like casual drinking and
sex are her life in Manhattan. Into this
game and her world comes Tupper Daniels an author who doesn’t have an ending
for his book about a bigamist.
Surprise/not surprising finale.
Hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I began
my marathon reading of the Three Pines crime mysteries featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. I
was delighted to easily identify the idiosyncratic residents of Three Pines,
and, once again, the author hooks the reader into the story with her opening
paragraph. This story brings to a climax
the longstanding conflict that marks all the previous stories and that’s all
I’m going to say.
Novel opens at Billy Lynch’s wake in a small Bronx bar in
the late 1980’s. The narrator, a young
woman accompanying her father, holds the story together as sentimental myth
making and the brutal truth of Billy’s alcoholism are told by Billy’s family
and friends.
