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Sky High Wonderful Story
I purchase this book to read to my children. I also bought 6 more to give to friends to read to their children. I appreciate a book for children that has an endearing story complimented by beautiful artwork.Nancy Willard wrote a nostalgic tale about a mother and a daughter and a perplexed father.It's Mom's birthday.She doesn't want a fuss "no presents please" but wait, maybe there is something.She remembers something from her childhood, but no, that was too long ago to be able to reproduce.Her daughter goes on a hunt to find that special present from her mother's childhood memory while Dad goes off to the mall.It's a happy story with a delightful ending, sure to please.

"Thoughtful and gentle..."
I am an elementary school teacher and one of my students - an extremely thoughtful and insightful 7 year-old - gave me an angelfood cake (with this book) for an end-of-the-year gift. She told me to be careful when I eat thecake and to look for the surprise. I was finishing up my room cleaning andhad a piece of the cake, but unfortunately, the rest of the cake went badin the heat. I looked through the rest of the cake to find a thimble.Puzzled, I read the book and cried through the last part of it. For anyonewho is wanting to show good wishes, love, luck, modern angels watching overyou or just a TERRIBLY wonderful and sentimental gesture towardssomeone...Read this book, bake an angelfood cake with a thimble in it andgive book and cake as a gift. My thimble is in my china cabinet next to myfine crystal and Hummell figurines - it has that much heartfelt value. Ifyou are "angel phobic" or concerned about religious undertones -it really has none. No preaching involved, just simply a FEEL GOODstory.There's no rhyme or reason to the illustrations which are detailed,subtle, yet bright and the storyline is quite cleaver and unpredictable.But it is the meaning woven into the words and storyline that is honest,loving and genuine. One to treasure for generations!

Special Birthday Surprise
When I was nine, my favorite teacher gave me this book to read.It was incredibly imaginative and it put a smile to my face on even the worst of days.For my mother's birthday, i used the exact recipe and directions forthe The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake tobake her the very best birthday surprise ever!Read it today!

High rise children's literature that transcends age
What a perfect marriage of words and pictures!This is the story of a girl who wants to give her mother a birthday gift more precious than gold: something that blends love, nostalgia and magic with good cake.She isaided (and abetted) in this venture by her goofy, unwitting uncle, and atrio of the most endearing angels ever illustrated.(Check out how theoldest angel's socks don't match!)The finely drawn pictures aredelightfully evocative and reward close inspection.The whole book soarswith whimsy, glory, and love. A keepsake.

Beautiful Words, Beautiful Pictures
I was given The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake for my seventh birthday (which was about eight years ago) and it still has a special place on my bookshelf.Every few months, I take itdown, read, and find something new in it.The story is sweet, innocent andcapivating all at the same time.The intricate pictures are beautifulbeyond words; they represent a merging of the real and imaginary.Everyone, child or adult, should own this book.It is happiness in paperback. ... Read more

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Using a blend of fun poetry, clearly written helping text, and riddles, this book takes the mystery out of math and makes solving word problems fun. After all, what is a word problem but a cleverly concealed riddle?

The book focuses on fractions, starting with basic fractions and then moving on to more advanced concepts such as equivalent fractions, reduced fractions, and addition with fractions. Readers learn to interpret pie-graph representations of fractions and also learn about negative numbers, number sentences, quantity comparisons, and the concept of infinity. A glossary of math terms and a brief review appear at the end of the book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Australian Journal of Politics and History, published by University of Queensland Press on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 7765 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This paper begins by examining the cultural practices of the large workers' leisure organisations associated with German Social Democracy and asks whether these merely reproduced `high' or `bourgeois' culture or whether they contributed to a distinct cultural identity for their members. It concludes that, although much of the culture of these organisations was borrowed, it was not necessarily understood in the same way by workers as by middle-class Germans. Moreover these organisations remained separate from those of the German bourgeoisie and possessed distinctive core values, in particular that of solidarity. This difference was reinforced by the housing conditions of German workers, which obviated the possibility of a privatised and domestic leisure. However, this `labour movement culture' had to compete both with other organised working-class cultures (of Catholics, Poles and workers in company clubs), with a `culture of poverty' on the part of those in irregular employment and on low incomes, and with an increasingly commercial leisure industry. This `labour movement' culture was also predominantly male.

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Title: Beer and Skittles? Workers and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Germany.
Author: Dick Geary
Publication: The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 46Issue: 3Page: 388

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This digital document is an article from Guns Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1153 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: 'Bout this "gunwriting" thang: so you think it's all beer and skittles, eh?(ODD ANGRY SHOT)
Author: John Connor
Publication: Guns Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 53Issue: 11Page: 118(2)

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Birthday presents for mothers are never right - they're always too big, too small, or the wrong color. So when a young girl's mother simply asks for a homemade birthday cake, the girl thinks her troubles are over. Her happiness quickly disappears, though, when she hears the name of the cake her mother wants. The girl knows she won't find a High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake in the Joy of Cooking. It will take a secret ingredient, a clumsy uncle, a grand piano, and some angelic visitors to help the girl make this wonderful gift for her mother. But baking it is only half the adventure; the biggest surprise is yet to come. ... Read more