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An Apple a Day!/over 20 Apple Projects for Kids
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | A collection of fun and healthful projects using apples includes instructions for creating apple puzzles, wreaths, prints, and apple-head clowns and rules for such apple games as bobbing for apples and apples tosses. Original....more
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Crayola Kids Adventures)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-10-12 Summary: A Toddler Favorite! ... My 3 year old son is fascinated by the Crayola Adventure Series. This book is a great addition to the movie so he can watch the movie and associate it with the book. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-05-08 Summary: A perfect thriller ... This book is as suspenseful as it gets. The story is great, but the psychology of the characters is what makes this an elite work. Every main character: Captain Nemo, Pierre Arronax, Conseil, Ned Land; they are all fascinating and wonderfully written. An excellent book for people who enjoy the complexities of intelligence and human nature. ...more
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The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-11-11 Summary: The Kid of Coney Island - bio of the builder of the NY Hippodrome. ... The book is well researched and written. I would liked to have seen more details on the great Hippodrome, it's stage machinery, rigging, tank for water ballets, lighting, dimensions and so on. The book took far too long to be delivered. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-10-19 Summary: Fred Thompson habitue of Coney Island Restaurants ... As a lifelong resident of Coney Island,and the author of a recently published memoir entitled Remembrance of a Restaurant,or a Decameron of Dining,I share the deserved enthusiasm of all reviews for this life of remarkable showman,Fred Thompson. Unlike other reviews, mine is more intimate. Fred Thompson was an habitue of the finest restaurants of the period like Ravenhall's,Villepique's,Beau Rivage,and my parents notable landmark restaurant called Villa Joe's.A Little Bit of Naples in Coney Island.It was razed by urban ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-09-11 Summary: The Rise of the New Leisure Class ... Fred Thompson was the "kid" (he was in his early twenties when he built Luna Park in Coney Island) who first recognized that the American middle class in the early 20th century was ripe for amusement and fun, ready to embrace consumption, fun and leisure as a moral system. Here he is given his due as a great innovator (inventor of the theme park), and a great showman (Broadway producer of mega-extravaganzas). Woody Register's highly readable and extremely insightful book is not just about Fred Thompson (of which there ...more
[4] Rating: 4 Date: 2001-09-07 Summary: From Side Show to Broadway ... The mysterious Fredrick Thompson left little biographical information in his wake, but Woody Register has taken the scant evidence and woven it into a revealing narritive of the man who made Coney Island famous. This book cchronicles an even more important story as well, the concepts of leisure and amusements in the 20th century. The theme park, theatrical spectacular, Vegas showroom and Broadway all own a debt to Fred Thompson's inner child. This book is a must for anyone serious about the business of fun. ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, Woody Register tells Thompson's remarkable story and examines the transformation of commerce and entertainment as American society moved into an era of mass marketing and large-scale corporate enterprise. Getting...more
[2] ... Review | Fred Thompson (1873-1919) was a pioneering entrepreneur who encouraged Americans, especially American men, to have fun and stop feeling guilty about it. He designed and built Luna Park, which in 1903 transformed Coney Island from an area so tawdry it was known as "Sodom by the Sea" into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation. He created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, and filled it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. He moved on to become...more