i am a new reader.so the books i ever saw always made me feel good.

This book is about a man who raises all kinds of mice. He meets this lady and they end up getting married. Charlie has never raised a green mouse and Mary encorages and helps him do it. When they take the green mouse to a show something happens. Now you will have to read the book to find that out!

I loved this book. It has very cute collage pictures that will capture children's imaginations when they think of their homes from the perspectives of their pets. I wish it had more pages though :)

The Crystal Prison is a far more enhanced versoin of the Redwall Saga with it's talking maice and animals. Even though it lack's Redwall's stunning fantasies, the Debtford Mice Trilogy sets a pretty fine point for a new author.It's simply wonderful with its great details and great plotline. I'd give it five stars if it wasn't for its confusing characters.
I started reading The Crystal Prison just like any other person would start: I would handpick it from the library or buy it. Usually, I'd check the cover art, as the phrase " never judge a book by it's cover" felt like the words of a dull critic. Nevertheless, I read this book and found it was pretty interesting, given its bizarre lines of characters.
The beginning is fairly simple, it starts off with the ending of Robin Jarvis' (the author) first novel. The Debtford mice have escaped the chamber of Jupiter and the rat infested sewers of the city. Forced by an evil witch named Starwife, they must move to the countryside. But despite an owl who hunts in the night, the countrymice that live in the plains have nought to do but to point their fingers at a young, outspoken female mouse named Audrey. What's left is a wilder conclusion you'd never believe!

This work is the first major study of language and law in a non-Western society (Huli, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea). It falls within the burgeoning field of legal anthropology and makes a strong case for assigning a central position to law-and-language approach. In line with Goldman's previous studies of Huli disputes, we are presented with a welter of ethno-linguistic information that is continuously referenced to various approaches to explanations of accident and the ethnographic background, which renders the linquistic analysis meaningful and alive. In an appendix of ninety two pages we find a very readable transcript of a dispute over the death of a woman, Gegai, who burnt to death while in her house. Her friend, Ngaulime, managed to retrieve many of her personal belongings and livestock before the house was destroyed by the fire. The deceased woman's son accepts the event as an accident, something waiting to happen. For Gegai's two stepdaughters, however, Ngaulime had deliberately locked Gegai in the house, following some early quarrel, and set the house and Gegai on fire. The discussion between the disputants turns on possible motives that Ngualime might have had. The resulting conflict is that between murder and accident, each encompassing quite different views of responsibility and liability. The antithetical nature of these two angles allows 'accident' to stand out in bold relief and Goldman's subsequent painstaking analysis of linguistic form and practice results in a detailed account of Huli socio-legal epistemology. That the deceased's son is claiming 'accident', while his stepsisters cry 'murder' becomes less remarkable when Goldman successfully unravels the Huli socio-legal system, where liability takes account of mental states. This Huli case thus challenges some received anthropological wisdom that at least goes as far back as Evans-Pritchard. In many of these studies African and Melanesian societies appeared as systems where mishaps and misfortunes were implacably and mystically reductionistic in nature (where man seemed to act at his peril), disregarding the mental element. This leads Goldman to argue that the cultural definitions and the interactional rhetoric of 'accident' in Huli and Western legal systems 'appear similar in a way that draws relationships between demotic and forensic reasoning, and which may well be rooted in a universally understood, and linguistically realized, distinction between agentive and non-agentive happenings' (p.271-2). The lion's share of the book is devoted to formal analyses of the grammar of excuse and exoneration in Huli and the various linguistic routines of subjugation, sarcasm, sympathy evocation. Goldman furthermore examines the role played by cultural stereotypes of 'male' and 'female' and how the agendas of murder/accident as 'whole meanings' are linguistically developed through the course of the debate. At times this microscopic view into Huli philosophy of the accidental is hard to digest. The dedicated reader, however, is rewarded by the valuable insights and analysis provided. In the last chapter Goldman explores the implications of 'intention' in forensic language. It investigates Huli notions of person and mind, and looks to the place of 'accident' in the wider cosmological and eschatological philosophies of fate and fortuity. In unpacking the omnibus notion 'state-of-mind' in terms of Huli ideas about desire, will, purpose, intention, premeditation, etc., Goldman highlights the benefits to be gained from bringing together linguistically oriented disciplines and anthropology. The interesting findings challenge one of the most recurrent observations in Melanesian ethnography: a belief in the lack of direct access to events of the inner life of another, remaining occult to everyone else. In his attempt to understand the concept of accident in Huli Goldman finds that in Huli 'fortune's wheel is not spun by supernatural ordination' (p.317). On the contrary, 'accident' emerges as a culturally constituted understanding of an eventful world, as one option for imposing order on the relationship between humans and happenings. In sum, this ethnography is a challenging and valuable contribution to our understanding of accident and absolute liability and of method in anthropology and linguistics.

Anyone who has ever been `dared` can relate to this lively tale about a daring young mouse who seems to know no fear, until one day, when her friends come up with the scariest dare, yet: to take the bell off the cat`s collar. Is Daisy up to the challenge? Is she really as brave as she says? The large print text should help preschoolers recognize easier, more familiar words, although this is definitely a read aloud picture book: the overall vocabulary is likely to be beyond the early reader level. Colorful, energetic illustrations will engage and amuse: a fun story.

As a first-time purchaser of a dwarf rabbit, I found this book to be very helpful. The author explains the varying characteristics of the breeds and even reviews the history of each breeding line. The beautiful photographs realy helped me to better visualize the different breeds, assisting in my purchase decision. The author also reviews the medical, feeding and housing needs of dwarf rabbits. This book is of great value to all first-time dwarf rabbit owners.

Here, LiPuma does an increadible job of combining analyses of local and global forces in many registers. Through his lifelong study of the Maring (in Melanesia), LiPuma questions the conventional limits of ethnography which puts the Other on the stage for inquiry. Rather, his analysis of contemporary changes (he is concerned with a period of roughly 1950-1980) occurring within the Maring community incorporates a reflexive inquiry into the agents of Western modernity, such as missionaries, health care personnel, and ethnographers (including himself). In the context of late capitalist globalization, LiPuma charts out fragmented, and indeterminate courses which Western modernist projects inevitably take in any local settings. Furthermore, this contingency of local forces becomes complicated by the tensions and heterogenous motives of the agents of modernity themselves. This type of analysis cannot be achieved in those studies which overemphasize the power of global forces (i.e., capitalism, construction of nation-states in relation to int'l arena, commodities, etc) in imposing meta-narrative aspect of social changes. Against this background, LiPuma weaves out a story within which a modern and the Other are inextricably linked and mutually constituted. In the process of this storytelling, his analysis and emphasis on the power of epistemology in shaping social changes is crucial. It seems we need more studies on how the desires and subjects are constituted in a complex web of socio-historical conjunctures, such as the one exemplified by LiPuma's eloquent work.

This comedic story follows Fluffy, the class guinea pig, who is a stowaway on a field trip to the dinosaur museum. Fluffy creates a bizarre and humorous theory about how T-Rex evolved to eventually look just like a guinea pig. Most of the humor is derived from Fluffy's unique attitude. Fluffy has an ego!

Fluffy(the guinea pig) has another great adventure!!Actually 3 adventures in one book, making for short, easy to read bedtime stories. Appropriately set at a 6-8 year old level with an intriguing plot in each. What new trouble can a small guinea pig get into?? Where will he turn up next?? These questions can only be answered by reading the book,and read they will!!