Philadelphia Chickens

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What an event! What a show! It's catchy and quirky. Tuneful and toe-tapping. Exuberant, unexpected, and utterly endearing. It's what happens when you take America's beloved illustrator and children's author and combine her buoyant genius with some of the most talented people on the stage—presenting Philadelphia Chickens!

Created by Sandra Boynton, Philadelphia Chickens is a family musical in a book, bringing together a full-color songbook of 17 1/2 illustrated story-poems with a full-length, fully orchestrated CD of original songs performed by the likes of Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, The Bacon Brothers, and Laura Linney, who pleads "Please, Can I Keep It?"—it followed me home. / What exactly it is/ I don't know. Also joining in are Eric Stoltz, Natasha Richardson, Scott Bakula, and two Boyntons, including daughter Caitlin McEwan, who performs a piece that every little listener will relate to—a love song to the chocolate chip cookies that are just out of reach. With the collaboration of composer Michael Ford (known to Boynton fans from Rhinoceros Tap), Philadelphia Chickens is that rarest of kids' musical discs—one whose inimitable lyrics and music make it as sing-along, dance-along, cluck-along for parents as it is for their children.

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Philadelphia Chickens.......2007-10-22

Hilarious! My children are still listening to this CD after many days of non stop listening. Famous singers are always fun for the adults to listen to as well. The lyrics are completly "clean" with nothing to worry about if you are picky about language. Great gifts for all children on your gift lists. It is a huge winner!

good for kids and adults.......2007-10-13

My 3-year-old loves the songs, and her parents enjoy the music as a break from the usual children songs. The lyrics are amusing and we all love them. We have the other Sandra Boynton books (Snuggle Puppy, Pajama Time, Bellybutton book), so it is nice to be able to put the books to music.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-10-04

My daughter loves music and this is a fun, lively, entertaining album that we listen to all the time. Tunes are catchy and I find myself still listening after she goes to bed and am often still singing/humming the songs after I've turned it off.

Utterly Meaningless Fabricated Music For Obnoxious Children.......2007-09-14

My children love music. Our home is basically an opera house with all four of us singing about everything as we go through the day. As a homeschooling mom, I am looking for beautiful, creative, and meaningful music that will inspire us and bring joy to our day. The many good reviews for this book-album had me all happy about it. When I found it at our library, I was so excited!

My elation fell when I heard the opening number, Cows. "It MUST get better," I told myself as the droning/moaning "we're remarkable cows..." continued for nearly 3 minutes. Sadly the remaining 16.5 songs continued with only slight variations of obnoxiousness.

My almost 4-year-old daughter declared the music to be "Creepy," a word which I can't recall her ascribing to anything else in the world. It was like a bunch of automatons singing soullessly about random animal-related topics. I like silly stuff, I like animals, and I even can get along with pop culture to an extent. However, the lack of feeling in the singers' voices, the similarity of the songs to one another, and the overuse of meaninglessness immediately gave me the impression that the music was fabricated for sales, contrived not for love of music and beauty and art and children, but for success.
...And with me, it failed.

I give it 2 stars simply because the idea is good and it COULD have been well executed if the writers and singers were more creatively and passionately inclined.

But don't take my word for it...
Just borrow it from the library before you make the commitment.

A carload full of fun.......2007-09-10

My daughter borrowed this book from the library and didn't want to give it back. We borrowed it twice and then bought our own copy. She loves to dance and sing the songs...especially the one that the lion sings about being very busy! She almost has it memorized! I hope they make a DVD to go along with the songs!!!

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Philadelphia Chickens W/CD
SANDRA & FORD, MICHAEL BOYNTON
Manufacturer: Workman Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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The retail marketing of frying chickens in Philadelphia (Bulletin / University of Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station)
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Face in the Crowd.......2002-11-02

Every age is given sufficient proof that economics makes for poor religion. One can do what is legal, one can do what is profitable, but without a moral sense society crumbles. Ropke spent his career outlining the limitations of freedom, democracy, and market economy rather than worship them as limitless absolutes.

Unlike other economists, he confronted the subjective, human elements and prerequisites which made a free society possible. This meant understanding man as a spiritual being, not as an object or statistic. He knew that life was too messy and too majestic to fit into rows and columns. The social, moral, and political framework that sustained ordered liberty and the good society had to be conserved, even if this meant occasional government intervention, contra Hayek and Mises, and its conservation relied upon the health of human beings. Necessarily, then, there was an interest in oneýs values. If we recall the truism that everything that we do affects someone in some way, we are compelled toward some sense of responsibility. Therefore we ought to keep in mind not merely the freedom to choose but the content and consequences of those choices.

Throughout the book, Ropkeýs prescription is decentralism, ýdecongestion and deproletarianisationý in state and society. He rejected ýthe cult of the colossalý for the human scale: small business over large; private property, home ownership, and roots over endless mobility; craftsmanship over cheapness; teamwork, loyalty, and trust over every man for himself competition; dignified work over mechanical labor; human contact and community over bureaucratization and anonymity; and in all a reliance on things local rather than on a distant megalopolis, centralized business concern, or federal government.

Against the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few he placed the mediating institutions of family, church, and local community. As Tocqueville recognized, these institutions provided psychological, spiritual, and social sustenance while putting limits on the power of the state and big business to tyrannize and homogenize society. Ropkeýs interest in the human scale led him also to some prophetic remarks on technology, overpopulation, suburban sprawl, the automobile, and the attraction of rootless individuals toward crime, terror, and mass political movements.

Written in 1944, in the midst of war and other centralizing conditions, Moral Foundations lacks the coherence and the more readable translation of A Humane Economy, written fifteen years later. William Campbellýs introduction pays tribute to Ropke but does not discuss the volume at hand. Readers may also grow impatient with Ropkeýs habit of leaving entire passages of French and German untranslated, as well as his tendency to bury important points in his end notes.

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Not very clever.......2007-05-19

The book was not what I expected. I didn't find the book to be very clever or humorous. It was a disappointment.

A Great Wee Tome to Pick up the Lein.......2006-05-13

I love Allan Morrison's wee little books with Scottish colloquialisms. This one is quite a little gem, especially if you're trying SASL. (Scots As a Second Language ;-)

It's neat, compact, cute, hilarious, easily fits in your pocket and comes complete with a glossary (something curiously lacking in some other Scottish tomes). I'd also like to add that learning even a handful of these little sayings to memory will endear you to any Scot. A couple of favorites:

"De ye think I'm up the Clyde on a bike?"
(Do you think I'm an idiot?)

"Sodgers wi' big guns beat sodgers wi' pretty dresses."
(Being practical is more important than being presentable)

"Som would flay a louse fer it's skin."
(Some people are so mean that they'd skin a flea for it's skin).

A true delight, well worth the money and easy to understand. A charming volume for anyone studying Scots.

nice giftie for your friend.......2005-04-14

More of a humorous look on Scotland and the oddball sayings you heard your Gran pronounce at every turn. Billed as "gannies' common sense", Scottish grannies are known for taking every thing in stride and always have a saying for each situation. The wee look into these staid philosophises that anchored a way of life is a delight. Accompanying the sayings are cute pen and ink cartoons.

This slim book has over 500 sayings and is a great present for that Yank with Scottish roots!

A good overview of the shrewd Scottish outlook on life........1999-02-10

This is one of the smallest books I have ever read, and was amusingly illustrated by Rupert Besley, who has worked on several other Scottish humor books. The book has over 500 sayings in Lollands (Lowland Scots English -- Robert Burn's language) grouped into 34 categories such as Business, Death, Observations on Life, Love, Marriage, Money, and Work. A one-page glossary of a few of the Scots words is included, but readers unfamiliar with Scots English would be advised to also have Collins' "Scots Dictionary" handy for some of the other words not listed. Under each proverb is the author's interpretation of the meaning, usually based on the category it is filed under. I did not always agree with Mr. Morrison's "translation", as I felt many of the sayings had broader applications than he allowed, or the translations could have been phrased differently to better bring out the point of the proverb. But that is minor quibbling over personal taste. The real beauty of the book is that, here in one slim volume, are several generations worth of shrewd comments on life, as seen through the eyes of our Scottish ancestors. I found it interesting that many sayings I have seen elsewhere called "old English proverbs" had a close relative in Scots. It makes one wonder which actually came first, and whether the saying is actually English, or has been misattributed. All-in-all a fun little book, and a great "bathroom reader". If nothing else, it will help you practice sounding like a canny auld Scot! [This review appeared in somewhat different form in the March issue of "The Tartan Tattler", the newsletter of the Scottish Club Of Tulsa.]

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Scottish Proverbs
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Liam Mac Con Iomaire
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Not only a study of language, but a rich source of tradition.......1998-01-14

This book offers a collection of words and photographs to illustrate Irish wisdom as passed from generation to generation. Two sides to every story, every cloud has a silver lining, these are just the "nutshells," that have survived into contempory times. Here one is exposed to the origins. The photographs compliment beautifully the selections and portray a country, and a people that seem only slightly touched by the twentieth century, as we prepare for the twenty-first. The original Gaelic language is not only music for the ears, but in this text provides a feast for the eyes as well. There is much to be learned in this book and I highly recommend it to students of life.

The Irish Spirit: Proverbs, Superstitions, and Fairy tales

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"D'fhear cogaidh comhalltar siochain."

The Irish Spirit: Proverbs, Superstitions, and Fairy tales
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This unique blend of the best of Ireland's oral tradition includes proverbs, folklore, and superstitions of the Emerald Isle. Culled by some of Ireland's most popular writers, it includes proverbs in both English and Gaelic, retellings of beloved Irish fairy tales, and traditions based on local superstitions. Like three volumes in one at an amazingly low price, this original work is infused with the spirit of Irish culture. Includes black-and-white line drawings.

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"D'fhear cogaidh comhalltar siochain.".......2001-10-22

"To a man equipped for war,peace is assured."

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This is the first comprehensive index of subjects, themes, and proverbs in the works of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Designed to enhance comprehension of Soyinka's art, the index shows what ideas and objects are present in the author's works, how frequency of their usage can be used as one indicator of importance, and the relationships of themes, subjects, and proverbs among the characters in his works. Coverage includes all of Soyinka's major books: twelve plays, two autobiographies, two novels, three volumes of poetry, and one philosophical exploration of myth and literature. The compiler's critical introduction places the works in context and offers a valuable interpretation based on the materials contained in the Index.

Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500 (Belknap Press)

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Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500 (Belknap Press)
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This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript. Certain books written later than 1500, usually by authors who were born twenty years or so before the turn of the century, are included, and John Heywood, the first great assembler of English proverbs, is represented by the sayings he compiled.

"No matter how popular a saying may appear," Mr. Whiting points out in his Preface, "it comes to us at one remove or more from popular usage. The medieval proverbs which survive do so only because they were written down by educated men, none of them collectors from the field. In most cases the sayings were incorporated in literary works by authors who did not hesitate to make changes suggested by context, application, and meter. We sometimes forget that Heywood's Dialogue and Epigrams are poems, although Heywood's standards of prosody are such as to let him use proverbs without too drastic changes for rhyme and rhythm's sake. What we have in most quotations is the proverb, not as an author may have heard or read it, but in the form which suited his immediate convenience or whim."

The sayings are alphabetized by key words and the quotations are in chronological order. Cross-references link sayings of similar import, and the index is a guide to important words other than those by which the alphabetical order is established. References are given to the standard collections of English proverbs, so that the user can trace the later history of many of the sayings.

Filling a long-felt gap in the field, this work will be indispensable to students of Old and Middle English literature and of great value to everyone interested in the rich resources of proverb lore.

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Proverbs forged in the hearts of the Scots

Scottish Proverbs
Julie McDonald
Manufacturer: Penfield Press
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Selected Scottish Proverbs calligraphied on archival paper.

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Proverbs forged in the hearts of the Scots.......2000-11-20

Scottish Proverbs contains distillations of the Scottish experience in the form of proverbs that have evolved from that experience. Collected by Julie Jensen McDonald beginning with research for her novel The Heather and the Rose, these bits of folk wisdom are reproduced in hand calligraphy adapted to the styles of the seventh-century Insular Half-Unicals and tenth-century Anglo-Saxon Miniscule, both from the manuscript The Lindisfarne Gospels. Printed single-sided, each page is a work of art worthy of framing. Illustrations include the Scottish Lion, a celtic cross from Iona, a fictional clan badge from the family of Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, and on the cover, a Luckenbooth pin designed to win the heart of Mary Queen of Scots. The cover plaid is Black Stewart.

Julie Jensen McDonald, related by marriage to the great Clan Donald, is the author of more than a dozen published books, including novels, a biography and a volume of regional history. Esther Feske, calligrapher and graphic designer from ALbuquerque, New Mexico, relates to the family of Oglevie and was also the designer for Julie McDonald's prize-winning Scandinavian Proverbs.

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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser- known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.

A dictionary of Lowland Scotch,: With an introductory chapter on the poetry, humour, and literary history of the Scottish language and an appendix of Scottish proverbs, (The elbow series)

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A dictionary of Lowland Scotch,: With an introductory chapter on the poetry, humour, and literary history of the Scottish language and an appendix of Scottish proverbs, (The elbow series)
Charles Mackay
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