The (Grown-Up) Girl's Guide to a Great Life: Know Yourself - Live Your Life to the Fullest! (Volume 1)

The (Grown-Up) Girl's Guide to a Great Life: Know Yourself - Live Your Life to the Fullest! (Volume 1) Review

An Instructional Guide and Journal on Living Life to the fullest. Combining practicality, philosophy, and whimsy in word and pictures.

The Essential Five: A Grown-Up Girl's Handbook for Everything

The Essential Five: A Grown-Up Girl's Handbook for Everything Review

Bits of wisdom, advice, and must-have information every woman needs for life.

With an ever-widening world and many seasons of influence, women need insight for the countless areas and ways they are called upon to be wise. The five fun sections of The Essential Five are Popular and Pursued, Classy and Fabulous, Domestic Goddess, Fetching and Fit, and Does It All.

Lists include:

• Ways to Make Sure You Don't Ruin a First Date
• Strategies for Surviving Awkward Business Functions
• Ways to Make Your House Look Clean...Fast
• Spas Worth Traveling Around the World For
• Secrets for Eating Out When You're On a Diet
• Annual Appointments You Should Make...and Keep
• Ways to Stay Motivated at the Gym
• Steps of CPR
• Legal Documents You Should Have...Just in Case
• Body Language Signals You Don't Want to Send (or Maybe You Do!)

A Good Little Book for the grown-up boys and girls. All the poetry and the pictures by Squire Tom, jun.

A Good Little Book for the grown-up boys and girls. All the poetry and the pictures by Squire Tom, jun. Review

Title: A Good Little Book for the grown-up boys and girls. All the poetry and the pictures by Squire Tom, jun.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse.

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Gifted Girls: Activities Guide for 365 Days of the Year: Fun Things to Do for Kids and Grown-Ups That'll Develop Creativity, Social Skills and Self-Confidence! (Gifted Girls)

Gifted Girls: Activities Guide for 365 Days of the Year: Fun Things to Do for Kids and Grown-Ups That'll Develop Creativity, Social Skills and Self-Confidence! (Gifted Girls) Review

In this companion to the popular Gifted Girls series, author Kailin Gow offers a host of activities to offset the dreaded call, "Mom, I’m boooored!" No matter what their interests or experience level, girls can open any page of this book to find an activity to stir the imagination. Subjects range from crafts—including instructions for creating a wall mural and making flower-shaped pincushions—to new games. And what girl doesn’t love to eat sweet treats? Gow offers lots of fairly easy recipes for girls to make and share.

As the author states in the book's introduction, starting a new project can be scary. Gow suggests that girls work together with their friends or parents. She also uses the characters from her Gifted Girls series as guides. Because each of Gow’s characters has a unique and prodigious talent, these characters make a handy way of dividing activities—Lucy excels at crafts, Emily art projects, Jackie nature projects, Daniella recipes and cooking, and Rose the performing arts.

While the book is for girls seven and older, seven-year-olds are unlikely to be able to handle the projects alone. Older girls can read and follow the instructions without help, although Gow encourages parents to be involved or supervise activities.

While some of the more complicated projects would benefit from illustrations, the straightforward steps are clearly written and easy to understand. Some activities involve cost—going to a hockey game, for example, or taking tap dancing lessons. Others are low- or no-cost.

Gow’s guide follows nicely in the footsteps of such works as The American Girls Handy Book and complements a long tradition of make-your-own fun. The book is a wonderful antidote for rainy-day boredom, especially for girls who have read the Gifted Girls series.

Kailin Gow also writes under the name Victoria London. Her work includes the Gifted Girls series, the Queen B Superheroine series for teens, and the Tiffany T. series for young readers.

-Bookwire Reviews, March 10, 2006