What a beautiful book, The design is perfect
595449
What a beautiful book, The design is perfect. The content the message and Brendon's writing style is fantastic. I read the book in 3 days. #goldenticket #secondchances
449649
I love it.  The book is beautifully designed.  I really enjoyed the layout and photos.  My creative juices are flowing.  So many ideas and unique design tips I never would have thought of.  I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for inspiration or just a beautiful book to enjoy.
938468
Perfectly Done!  Beautifully designed!... Very happy!
4196683
Incredible beauty of highly recommended book, I gave a lot of happiness when arrival, it is very beautiful, is full of images clear, gorgeous, very high quality that is of interest to anyone who bought art books. Is the most beautiful book in my library, the information is also clear and abundant, it would if you could 10 stars. Alejandra Viscarra
4607530
Thank you so much for making this book. I love flowers and these designs are perfect! Nice large size pictures on one side of page. I do love this book. There is alot of space from the spine so you can cut them out or spiral the pages. Paper feels good, though I haven't colored on it yet. Thank you Cynthia. This is my second Cynthia book and I hope to get them all.
959183
First, I love the book's design- the case is an old-fashioned wrap and the matte paper is perfect for the monochromatic palette offset with bright pops of yellow, red, and green. The perspectives vary wonderfully; my favorite is the cross-section of subway or maybe it's the close-up of Blue's face. But most of all, this is such a sweet story of friendship b/t a city kid, Pax, and his friend, Blue, a little blue pigeon. When Blue gets himself into a bit of a situation, Pax, who also knows what it feels like to be little, knows just how to save the day.
2180334
Like almost every single DK book I've ever seen (and I've seen hundreds and own dozens), this book deserves an award for beautiful design and graceful, easy layout. In fact, this may be one of the best-designed DK books I've ever seen and that is saying something because they are all so nice. I just love the look of this book. There are hundreds of great photos and illustrations and all of them are fun and interesting and beautifully reproduced. I am just continually surprised and pleased by what a great job of choosing and reproducing illustrations DK does. Visually this book is a joy to look at.

In terms of content I think DK has also produced a very valuable and useful book. I'm a writer and editor and professionally I try to avoid turning to a thesaurus too often, though there are three generations of Roget's Thesaurus sitting within arm's reach of my computer because sometimes I get bored with the words I'm using. But I've been writing for 40 years so my vocabulary has been growing all of that time. But for kids, knowing there are alternative words is a very important thing. Kids tend to stick with the same words over and over and, especially in their writing, they tend to dig a verbal rut for themselves. But kids' minds are like sponges and if you exposed them to more language, they will assimilate it quickly and keep it for live, which is a good thing.

Each of the entries in this books starts out with a quick definition (example: "Verdict: noun, a decision or opinion on something...") and then is followed by a short list of synonyms. At first I thought the number of synonyms was kind of short, but then began to realize that the book has over 4,000 entries and a whopping 36,000 synonyms and around 250 pages long. If there were many more they'd either have to cut back on the number of entries or make the book longer and this is already a big heavy book (which I loved when I was a kid--I LOVED big books).

One of the things that I like most about this book is that there are a lot of really nice two-page an half-page illustrations that relate to the word. For the word "view," for example, there is a really pretty desert illustration. Also, there are alphabet tabs on each page with the letter of the alphabet that each entry begins with highlighted. And, and this is so cool, each letter of the alphabet has its only color of pages which is a great asset for little eyes and hands. Also, as I said above, the photos (and illustrations) that were selected are very interesting, these are not boring choices. For "peek," for instance, there is a photo of a squirrel peeking out of a hollow tree. For "coating" there is a pretty winter pond scene with a coating of ice.

If I had kids or grand kids in this age range, I'd surely get them this book and I hope that teachers are able to add it to their in-class libraries. If you don't get kids using books as tools at an early age they'll all turn to their phones or computers and it's just not the same.
4275001
Beautifully designed book. Mail art is a joy to me and this book delivered. (Get it?)
254225
Beautifully designed book that is enjoyable to read and also looks great on my coffee table!
1418166
Beautifully photographed, beautifully described, beautiful book.!
790087
Beautiful book, lovely pictures, clear instructions.
2169851
It is so beautifully designed. I love the sculptures on both cups and the saucer. Compared with "add on colors," the sculpture will stay and not were off like colors. It was one of my happiest purchases so far.
3942902
This is such a beautiful book.  The text is perfect ("it smelled of incense, fish and fog") - it has a subtle "go girl" message, and the paintings are breathtaking.  Perfect gift for anyone who loves art, San Francisco, biography, or just appreciates beautiful illustrations.
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This is a beautiful book beautifully illustrated. Anyone interested in design will enjoy this book and spend many hours looking and relooking through this wonderful book. It is not cheap but well worth its weight in gold.
The concept of the layout is also interesting as it is divided into seasons which breaks down the content  enabling the reader to enjoy each section. This is truly a beautiful book to own and enjoy.
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This is a really beautiful book. I love children's books with illustrations that are well-done and this is just perfect. We love the colors, and the paintings are so lovely. This book was purchased as a gift, but I may go back and buy one for our family to keep. I think it would be a great addition to any family library.
12693
Beautifully designed book.

The layout of the texts are perfect for English and Hebrew readers. They split it down the middle so you can pick and choose whether you want to read in the original Hebrew or the English translations. The edges of the pages are infused with a gold adhesive which gives the pages a shine. I'd recommend it to anyone.
4509722
I bought two copies of this book at a recent exhibition of the authors' puzzle collection. The photographs of the puzzles are beautiful, giving a nearly tactile sense of what it would be like to hold the puzzles. I love the descriptions, one of which motivated me to work long enough on the 9-rings puzzle to solve it: "once you learn it, you'll never forget it." The book's design is simple and elegant, making it a pleasure to page through either haphazardly or from cover to cover. I gave one copy to a friend who loves it very much; the other I'll keep forever.