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Comment on Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by North America Book Review

North America Book Review — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:33:01 +0000

Review by North America Book Review for Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes Rating: From Nina Simonds, comes an entertaining activity book that combines the enchantment of ancient Chinese tales with lessons of tradition and history. A blending of delightful storytelling and colorful illustration makes this a cultural delight.

Comment on Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by Angela Y. Shew

Angela Y. Shew — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:12:41 +0000

Review by Angela Y. Shew for Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes Rating: This book is absolutely fantastic in it's overall illustrative, watercolor depictions of bringing about the folktales and legends to life that have influenced the Chinese holidays I have come to know and celebrate. There are great craft activities on making dragon boats for the Dragon boat festival, fabulous recipes you can make to enjoy authentic Chinese cuisine, as well reading entertaining stories from which these legends originated from. I have bought this book mainly to gain some insight into the story behind the Spring Festival of the Kitchen God for my Oral Communications Speech, and it's provided me with a recipe along with illustrations which my friend has used for our Power Point presentation. I would recammend this book to anyone looking to explore the history of Chinese culture and cuisine because it has been valuable to me.

Comment on Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:24:03 +0000

Review by for Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes Rating: This is a beautifully executed book. The watercolors alone are worth the purchase, but it also includes very clever, not too difficult activities. How can you not be enthralled by thousands of years-old traditions and folklore??

Comment on Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by Norman D. Levine

Norman D. Levine — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:50:31 +0000

Review by Norman D. Levine for Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes Rating: what a delight for children and their parents and teachers!! in a world consumed by suspicion and fear of "the other" here is a wonderful and friendly guide to a culture teeming with fabulous cuisine and colorful celebrations. this is indeed one world, and introducing young children to each other in this gentle journey through kitchen and holidays has to point to a better world for all children. beautiful, colorful, easy to follow recipes, and wonderfully interesting, this book is a winner! enthusiastically recommended! norman d. levine, md

Comment on Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes by Lola

Lola — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:31:59 +0000

Review by Lola for Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes Rating: ... I was looking for Chinese folk tales. What a great surprise! I am totally envious of kids today who get books like these -- how I wish they had something like this when I was little so that I would have been more familiar with my own cultural background. The book is organized by following the Chinese traditions/festivals/holidays through the course of a year. Stories, recipes, activities are paired with each holiday to give you a full sense of what happens on each one of these special occasions. I recognized bits and pieces of the folklore from the stories that my mom and grandparents told me when I was growing up...so it really feels authentic (not watered down) yet still accessible. The watercolors/illustrations are beautiful to look at too. Highly recommended.

Comment on Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:59:50 +0000

Review by for Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years Rating: My husband (the jazz fan) and I just went to the Monterey Jazz festival for the first time this September. This book captures the essence of the festival and fills me, the novice, in on everything about this incredible event. it's world class and I will try to attend forever -- and this book showed me why.

Comment on Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1977 by Juan N. Montenegro

Juan N. Montenegro — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:29:43 +0000

Review by Juan N. Montenegro for Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1977 Rating: The top NY salsa bands rarely traveled out of town at the beginning of the Salsa craze of the 1970's. The obvious place to go, and a real sign that the music was booming outside New York, was California. Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe, and Eddie Palmieri were the first to go. I was out there for that one, at the Hollywood Palladium one night and at a little Latin club the other night. What was the name? I remember that Palmieri didn't like the way the piano sounded and threatened to walk.

Getting back to this CD, this hidden gem was not released (that I know of) when it was recorded, but hey, who cares! We have it now! An energetic if not frenetic Tito Puente meets and greets his California audience, and this might have been his first big gig out West! The band is great, but as with most old live outdoor recordings, it's gone with the wind.

For a great Puente live recording listen to LIVE AT BIRDLAND from 1999. You won't believe this thing.

But this 1977 Puente live recording is still a nice historical item. I am sure the guys in the band had the time of their lives in that California sun.

Comment on Cannes film Festival Winner by jasc91093

jasc91093 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:28:19 +0000

I started growing my hair long for my brother, the year 1983 I planned to cut it off in December to make him a wig for Christmas and then he passed in August only 4 days before his 19th birthday and we laid him to rest on his birthday. So for that reason I keep my hair long & when I pass on my hair will be donated to the children w/cancer @ MD Anderson Hospital to make wigs for whom ever will need one at that time & your right you will never know how it fills until it hit you in your family

Comment on Cannes film Festival Winner by islamayyad

islamayyad — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:52:39 +0000

wow

Comment on Cannes film Festival Winner by roshinishah

roshinishah — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:05:06 +0000

Hey I am from the Usha Pravin Gandhi College Of Management, Mumbai, India..I think your film is really touching!! We have an international short film making competition in our fest ‘Aahan’ coming up soon..Pls let me know if you are interested to participate..Waitin for your response!!