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The Folio Books website offers reviews of some of our favourite books. Reviews are written with the mail-order buyer in mind and are done with the specific edition in hand unless otherwise indicated. The range is general interest, with classics, fiction, children's books, science and reference.

Most of the reviews are listed in Bookshelf or Children's Books, with links either to a more in-depth review on this site, or directly to Amazon.com. Additions go in at the top.

Most of the books can be mail-ordered from Amazon.com. You may find additional links below the Folio reviews, e.g. a choice of hardcover or paperback, or more titles by a particular author.

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Recent additions:

Oct 17, 2004: The Art Books page which had been moved has been replaced. Additional art book reviews are at http://maryadamart.com/artbooks.htm
Aug 23, 2004: The Author and Title lists have been updated.

Aug 06, 2004: a few outstanding Videos and DVDs -- Pride and Prejudice, Doctor Zhivago, Out of Africa

Aug 04, 2004: Art books -- Brassai, Conversations with Picasso; Nicolaides, The Natural Way to Draw; and Picasso 1881--1973 by Warncke.
Also, additions to Links: http://maryadamart.com -- Mary Adam's art website.

Jan 20, 1998: Teaching Them To Read by Dolores Durkin, in Bookshelf and Education. A textbook for teachers of reading.

Jan 11, 1998: Collected Poems, and Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith, in Bookshelf. The pleasure of Stevie Smith is in her gift for the bizarre and the absurd.

Jan 04, 1998: The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross, in Bookshelf. One of the more successful recent additions to the Oxford University Press series of anthologies.

Jan 04, 1998: The Borrowers, by Mary Norton, in Children's Books. Pod and Homily and Arrietty are as much real people as any other characters in fiction and readers come to love them dearly.

Dec 29, 1997: Jazz, by Henri Matisse, in Bookshelf. An astonishing distillation of Matisse's ideas and techniques.

Dec 29, 1997: Seven Years in Tibet, by Heinrich Harrer, in Bookshelf. A rare and fascinating record of a now almost extinct culture.

Dec 22, 1997: Middlemarch, by George Eliot, in Bookshelf. No self-respecting bookstore should be without it.

Dec 21, 1997: The Silver Sword, by Ian Serraillier, also titled Escape From Warsaw; in Children's Books. An exceptional novel for readers aged about ten upwards to adult.

Dec 17, 1997: The Enigma of Arrival, by V.S. Naipaul; in Bookshelf. ". . . the fascinating process by which a person leaves one world (in Naipaul's case, childhood in Trinidad) and arrives in another (England) and thereby develops into a different person."

Dec 15, 1997: Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov; in Bookshelf. (Also, additions to Links to other book-related sites.)

Nov 22, 1997: Full House, by Stephen Jay Gould, plus a selection of his other books; in Bookshelf

Oct 15, 1997: How the Amazon referral fee system works (exactly) and the "click-thru" figure for the last quarter.

Oct 14, 1997: Goosebumps No. 57, My Best Friend Is Invisible, by R.L. Stine, in Children's Books; includes a comment on school libraries and Enid Blyton.

Sept 10, 1997: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard, by Isak Dinesen in Bookshelf

Sept 09, 1997: Review of The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind, by Jeanne Chall, Vicki Jacobs and Luke Baldwin, in Education.

August 21, 1997: The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, by Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard in Bookshelf.

August 19, 1997: The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Children's Books.

August 15, 1997: Jurassic Park added to Bookshelf.

August 12, 1997: Addition in Education (Learning to Read: The Great Debate, by Jeanne Chall).

August 9, 1997: Author list updated. Title and Subject lists are still out of date.

August 8, 1997: Addition in Evolution (review of Ruppert and Barnes, Invertebrate Zoology).

August 6, 1997: Agatha Christie to Bookshelf

August 2, 1997: Charlotte's Web in Children's Books. (Note: Author, Title and Subject indexes are incomplete and need to be updated.)

July 28, 1997: Richard Scarry and Dr Seuss in Children's Books and Positive Classroom Discipline in Education (both can be found from anywhere on the site via Subjects).

July 26, 1997: Additions in Bookshelf: Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1997, The Western Canon by Harold Bloom, Writer's Market 1997, and Nicholson Baker.

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