Minerva Reviews

After I read this book, partner for a business, never more ! Thank you, Mr. Marins.

This small book is a masterpiece in behavioural sciences dealing with partnership. The humour is totally correct. So small and so complete that I have purchase several copies to give to my friends. What a book!!

How hard was to find this book! Some people have told me about it. It is one of the most interesting book I've read in the past years. It is the most hilarious book on partnership dealing with concrete aspects of the relationship between partners and relatives. Don't miss this book!

This book serves two purposes. Young children love to have it read to them. Older children like the humor of Minerva Louise's judgement errors. It's a very enjoyable book, ages 2 to 10.

I read this to my Kdg students. They noticed there weren't any quotaions marks in the text..yea for them! They wondered why and would like to write to the author! help!! what a great language activity!

Such a simple little story with a winsome little heroine. After meeting her in a bookstore I fell hopelessly in love. I will admit that visually she struck me to the heart and of course there is her name. My granddaughter reads about her adventures every night and she understands that even though she gets to hear the stories the books are still Grandma's. If she is properly respectful of Minerva Louise I will pass her along one day. Not yet. This charming little hen must stay with me for a while

Inside/Out is food for thought. The author captured my attention from the begining of the story.The romance was the part I could relate to the best. I also relate to bieng a working black woman in a man's world. I suggest this novel for everyone but would direct it to all women.Shelley Lenear teaches us how to posses strength and courage.She also teaches us to fight our battles head on. With the knowledge of Gods will and the compassion of a christian heart and hand Shelley survived the trials and tribulations of the police force.Again I encourage this novel to all but direct it toward women, all women as food for the mind, body and soul.

Reading the book made me think alot about life and the things that oontinue to distroy our nation. This book couldn't be fiction cause it so real. I know when the public becomes aware of this great novel they'll demand to hear more from this first time writer. Hats of to you Ms Hawes cause your book has some folks I know reading it two times, it was so good. Yes, its a page turner I found it hard to put down. Thanks for serving on the force. We need more people like you to help keep our streets safe and at the same time comforting the less fortunate. Good Luck! Yvonne,

First of all, Just wanted to let potential readers know that I am a very close friend of the authors daughter. We went to high school together we were best friends. Her mom (the author) was always a very deep, confident,and proud black woman. She supported us as our vocal managers (singing), and was there for every show. I know that this info seems typical coming from her daughters friend but I have to tell you how deep this lady is. Her whole persona exemplifies wholeness. I know that there is nothing less in this work of art. If you have the time/money ...please check her out. pEACE AND LOVE

Yes I beleive the future is already here. We know so many important personalities are freezed waiting to come back. Doctor is known to his love to the humanity encouraging humans to continue on...As science is so advanced, we are very close to happen it. Hope to read his next book soon.

It is incredible how one finds a link to Ufology, Science and Religion in Die, Freeze and Be Back. Is man really in the moment of changing many concepts that once was a dare? We are very close to this moment as Dr.Vidigal shows so well in his book. A fantastic view of a lovely future!!!!!!

Minerva Louise is so wonderfully drawn and cleverly written that I could read this and her other books to my son every night. I absolutely love this chicken, and the myriad adventures she takes. My son and I laugh every time Minerva Louise mistakes a common item for something a chicken might use, and get a kick out of correcting her. Just a great book.

Have read this book to my students and they LOVE Minerva Louise. She is so much like a real child it is uncanny. A must for any child's reading library.

I bought one for my 5 year old niece and she loved it. Kids can have fun AND learn another language. You can't go wrong with coloring books! I plan to buy more!

This book is great. My young niece and nephew and my Italian father are enjoying it so much! It is a clear, concise and exciting way to introduce very young children to the Italian language.

The Moon.

Its magic? Its mystery...Its moments of surreal and ethereal light transform the nighttime sky into a liquid silver of sensation and reflection. The Moon is the ever-present companion of Earth. She is as reliable in her orbiting diligence as she is fickle in her changing face.

Set upon a journey of poetic enchantment and revelation where this pristine world of the moon acts as a primal, integral part of the human psyche and the many layers of emotion. Lover's Moon and Juniper is an evocative collection of two voices and two styles harmoniously converging into one celestial object as a symbol for personal discovery of the heart--exploring the Moon's phases, viewed through lover's eyes.

Authors, Minerva T. Bloom and Michael D. Petti write with a passionate combination of free verse, Shakespearean and Petrarchian sonnets, haiku and villanelle, merging to celebrate the splendor of our moon and it's influence on Earth.

Since the very dawn of life on Earth, the Moon has been a source of natural rhythm; a forceful declaration for oceans, a calendar and guide for voyagers, an inspiration to lovers and poets alike. More than this, the Moon is cut from the vast, cosmological flesh of the universe itself. Her sight to human eyes is a joyous and serene drop of comfort in the enormous sea of the unknown. She comfortably weds our need to know and explore as human beings to the infinity of the unknowable and unreachable.

The Moon is the faithful partner of the Earth, the bearer of the Sun's brilliance, the supreme Siren of the Night. The Moon is the essence of shadow and light; history and myth; reality and dream. The Moon haunts and mesmerizes.

And, of course, the Moon is the sylphid maiden of love. She beckons those who fall beneath her spell of romantic vision. She seduces, a temptress, with the grace of serenity and silence. She sings in harmony with the emotional music of both desire and loneliness. The Moon embraces two loving partners in the same way She and the Earth have embraced for eons...

A highly recommended read, for all poetry lovers!

Two poets here, with rare depth, range and power. These fine poems I've read and re-read. They delight and enlighten me. A wonderful book, vivid, passionate and moving. Both voices merge luminously, evoking the haunted quality of our carnal existence. Highly recommended!

The world looks different when you're a chicken. Your kids might know what a school looks like, even if they haven't spent much time in one, but to Minerva Louise, an inquisitive hen, that big empty building she encounters during her early morning walk is a wonderful, fancy barn. She filters everything she sees through her own experience, so that the custodian raising the flag becomes the farmer hanging his laundry out to dry, and the wastebasket at the side of the teacher's desk becomes a feed bucket. The kids' cubby holes are nesting boxes -- there's even one with an egg in it. To Minerva it's an egg, but your kids will recognize it as a baseball nestled in a ball glove. This is another great book if you need something light-hearted to calm first-day jitters. The illustrations are crisp and bright, and it's hard not to like Minerva Louise, even if she is a silly goose, er, chicken.

My 2.5 year old just loves Minerva Louise. What a funny hen...even the name is very catchy! My daughter delights in telling Minerva Louise how mistaken she is in her "know-it-all" assessments of the world! And Minerva Louise is often listed as one my daughter's "friends" whenever we're going down the list of her good friends! We read this book thru the library, but now I am ordering all 3 books on her. What a funny, silly, and love-able hen!

Minerva is not really good in gym. When she gets her report card, she noticed that her mar k was high. She was called to the principal's office and was to ld that her gym mark had been changed from a 50 to a 70. But Minerva didn't do it. How will she prove her innocence by some help from her two friends and her annoying brothe?

Minerva is very intersted in computers. But she is not very good in gym. When she saw her report card, she realized that she got a very good mark in gym. The principal thinks that Minerva changed her mark somehow on the computer. But Minerva didn't do it. She has to prove it. But how?

This book is written about a real little boy who lived in Covington, Tennessee. It was written in the dialect of the time but can still be read with enjoyment. The writer, Frances Calhoun died after writing the first book. Emma S. Sampson wrote the rest of the series. William Green Hill is buried in Covington, Tennessee. He was a distant relative of mine, making the books that much more interesting to me.

I read all 9 books in this series and enjoyed the humor of Billy's exploits with his Aunt Minerva and the neighborhood children. The children of this era made their own entertainment, played "pretend" and spent a lot of time outdoors-life was rather pastoral. However, Billy managed to keep everyone hopping. I'd describe the book as an early "Little Rascals" of the South. Well written, humorous and filled with the innocence of the era. Billy and his friends seem to have to learn everything the hard way!! Historically, it occurs in an era of segregation; however, it also demonstrates that children accept each other far more easily than adults do.

I remember finding this book when I was visiting my grandmother at age 9, and just came across it unpacking a box of books.
I'd recently read it to my infant, to see if it still had the charm and hilarity that I'd remembered when my grandma had read it to me. So many times children's books fall flat when you read them again as an adult. To my surprise, it was laugh-out-loud funny. Although, the southern drawl written into text can sometimes be difficult, it added to the charm, and I found myself starting to speak in a southern drawl in between reading chapters. Sometimes the language can be a bit un-nerving, seeing as we modern folk don't use racial epithets, the children used them in a loving way, describing people they knew and loved. But in today's world, the text can sometimes be uncomfortable. When I was reading I substitued modern, politically correct terms, and when my husband heard me read, couldn't tell the difference and thought it was a great little book. I don't want to deny the reality and language of the past, only to promote the innocence originally intended by Mrs. Calhoun.
I was amazed and gladened to see that Amazon.com carried the book (printed originally in 1909), and that people still enjoyed it. I highly recommend it.