The Men We Never Knew: How to Deepen Your Relationship With the Man You Love
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Revelation
  • "I love this book"
  • Enormously helpful in understanding both men and women
The Men We Never Knew: How to Deepen Your Relationship With the Man You Love
Daphne Rose Kingma , and John Gray
Manufacturer: Conari Press
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Revelation.......1999-08-28

After reading The Men We Never Knew, I have so much more compassion for men and their dilemma in not being able to express their most tender emotions. I've been aware for quite a long while as to how screwed over men are in our society, and now I know there is a way for men to break free of their emotional constraints. Thanks to this beautiful book, I can open my heart and mind to men's emotions. Further, I can love them as they are and accept their fears, anxiety, anger__and know that beneath the hardness there is softness, tenderness, vulnerabiltiy__much more than we women claim to have. Now I can be strong for my man so that he can open up and be "weak" with me. Thank you, Daphne Rose Klingma, for sharing your compassionate insights with us. I recommend this book for every adult woman who truly wants men to express themselves and to connect with them on a profound level.

5 out of 5 stars "I love this book".......1998-07-09

Daphne Rose Kingma's book, "The Men We Never Knew: How To Deepen Your Relationship With the Man You Love," is a revalation. This book opened my eyes about men and their emotions and the role that women play in creating and encouraging the fears that men have and the inability of men to relinquish those fears. As I read this book, I saw so many of the men that I have known and I was finally able to understand what they were going through. Reading this book is giving me the opportunity to change my thinking about men and my relationships with men, not only the romantic relationships, but all of my relationships with men. I am going to give this book to all of my female friends.

5 out of 5 stars Enormously helpful in understanding both men and women.......1998-03-28

This is a powerhouse of a book which addresses very deep issues in understanding both men's and women's hearts and minds. I found myself repeatedly saying Yes! Yes! on page after page, and noting passages I wanted my partner to read. From this book's title and appearance I expected it to be rather shallow pop psychology, a rehash of what I'd heard elsewhere. I was overjoyed to find that I was completely mistaken on that point, and the author's engaging and graceful writing style is icing on the cake. Everyone who wants to understand men and women better will benefit from reading this book.
Why We Pick the Mates We Do: A Step-by-step Program To Select a Better Partner or Improve the Relationship You're Already In (Psychogenetics System)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • grt but alot of participation required
  • The Psychogenetic System of Couple Counseling
  • A Must Read for all counseling professionals
  • Anne reads excerpts from her book
  • The best book ever on relationships
Why We Pick the Mates We Do: A Step-by-step Program To Select a Better Partner or Improve the Relationship You're Already In (Psychogenetics System)

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ASIN: 1889968536
Release Date: 2003-09-22

Book Description

A Step-by-step program to select a better partner or improve the relationship you are already in. Presents Anne Teachworth's Psychogenetic Theory of Couple Counseling.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars grt but alot of participation required.......2006-10-29

This book is certainly very good and very different then any other self help book on the market. However, to gain from it you must be willing to do it's total workbook component to it which is a lot of the book. I usually like or love books like that if there really good ones however, this one requires you to be able to get assistance from atleast 2 parents and 1 previous or ex husband, wife, or significant other. Not only that but the more group help you get with this very possibly the more this book will likely help you. It also forces you to remember alot of your past so if you don't and don't have relatives to remember it for you I don't recommend this book. The advice in it could be unnusual and right but most of it is given based on your grt workbook participation. There is more then a few inventories/tests in here. Plus, it's pricy. The other good thing is most of the advice you can rarely if ever see elsewhere so the author obviously did her homework and research.So unlike most self help books this book isn't at all simple but that's what makes it so unique and such a benefit to read!

5 out of 5 stars The Psychogenetic System of Couple Counseling.......2004-07-19

Psychogenetics is the science of Genetic Psychology, a study of the DNA inherited personality traits that were handed down from one generation to the other.

In WHY WE PICK THE MATES WE DO, there is an 8 question Selection Test which explores the reader's inherited Inner Adult and Inner Mate personality and behavorial traits, both explains WHY and identifies HOW these imprinted Inner Couple interactional couple patterns were learned from one's parents in the first 10 years of life. Neither these adult traits nor these couple relationship patterns were a conscious choice. They are the results of a Psychogenetic trance.

Most relationships are a result of transgenerational family imprints which is what Psychogenetics is all about. Actually your problems have been around a lot longer than you think. Indeed while your conscious mind was searching for a PERFECT MATE, your unconscious imprint was searching for a PERFECT MATCH. Following its established pre-imprinted imperatives, your unconscious mind rejected some partners and selected others for you, regardless of whether that particular partner could help you live happily ever after or not. You may have gotten involved with the wrong type over and over again, gotten into the same unsolvable revolving arguments and had one relationship after another dissolve without ever knowing what happened or why one or both of you changed so much after you got married or became parents.

WHY WE PICK THE MATES WE DO contains numerous proven exercises to help you, the reader, erase your inherited negative imprints and re-imprint positive attraction, selection and interactional patterns so you can reverse the unhappy relationship pattern you are already in with your current partner or stop repeating the same mistakes in mate selection. The Psychogenetic Sysem in the book will show you how to locate and deactivate the hidden landmines left over from your parents' relationship wars, and stop 'things that go boom in the night.' The approach can also help you change your imprint if you are single now so you will automatically be attracted to the right type of partner next time and be able to interact in more successful ways than before.

One of the best uses of this book is as a pre-marital guide especially for people who are always attracted to the wrong person or whose relationships keep turning out badly. It will explain what 'chemistry' really is and how to change the type of person you are attracted to so that you can fall in love with someone who is good to you and for you, and not the same old type that is bad to and for you.

Now you can find out BEFORE you get involved with a potential partner what your relationship will be like AFTER you two get involved or married. And you can also predict BEFORE you have children if that step will improve or ruin your couple relationship. You can know ahead of time what type of parents each of you will be. Take the guesswork out of it.

If you are already in a relationship or married, WHY WE PICK THE MATES WE DO can not only help you understand the unconscious imperatives in your imprinted Inner Couple relationship pattern that forced you to pick the partner you did, but locate and deactivate the hidden landmines that have caused the trouble between you, and the imprinted trance-ferences that produced the changes in you and your partner's personality AFTER you get married and became PARENTS. The insights are amazing and the instructions on how to reprogram your relationship are specific and effective. Finally, here's a way to SOLVE your relationship problems instead of DISSOLVING one relationship after another.

DON'T JUST GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR PARTNER, GET EVOLVED!

5 out of 5 stars A Must Read for all counseling professionals.......2004-05-01

As a Masters Level trained counselor (Loyola University N.O.), and fifteen years counseling experience: Anne Teachworth's Psychogenetic Theory rocks the world for any professional counselor seeking to increase their effectiveness when providing services to couples, families, young folks just starting out their search for a mate, or divorcees who fear getting into another relationship etc... Anne's theory is truly innovative! From a managed care point of view, Psychogenetic Counseling will cut the amount of time spent in couseling. Professionals would do well to contact Anne and make arrangements to enter her Psychogenetic Training program. To those professionals who draw upon Imago or Family Systems - Anne's Theory is quit a step above!

5 out of 5 stars Anne reads excerpts from her book.......2003-03-30

Take the amazing Selection Test and find out the real subconcious reasons for your attraction, rejection, selection and interactional patterns.....why you pick the mates you do...
and don't....why you are attracted to the wrong type of partners, why you keep having the same problems in relationships, why opposites attract and what happens when they do, how to change that troublesome chemistry so you can live happitly ever after..........

5 out of 5 stars The best book ever on relationships.......2003-03-30

NOTE: Check the other five star reviews on the first book listed on this site.........
I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Fabulous new insights to relationships of all kinds
  • I Only Say This to be Honest
  • Solid Information, but haven't we heard it before?
  • why can't you communicate with so-and-so? find out!
  • Insightful reference on the levels of how we communicate
I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
Deborah Tannen
Manufacturer: Random House
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ASIN: 0679456015
Release Date: 2001-05-08

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"Everything we say to each other echoes with meanings left over from our past experience--both our history talking to the person before us at this moment and our history talking to others," says Deborah Tannen, one of the world's most famous linguists. We react not only to the message, but to the "metamessage": our interpretation of the unstated meaning, based on tone, relationship, and our past associations. Add in the connections and control issues among family members, and it's no wonder families have so much trouble understanding each other!

I Only Say This Because I Love You is aimed mostly at adult family interactions. Professor Deborah Tannen, the popular author of You Just Don't Understand, uses anecdotes filled with dialogues to illustrate why we hear criticism when the other person meant to convey caring, how family members create alignments with secrets and broken confidences, the dynamics of arguments, the power of apologies, gender patterns in family talk, and communication with teens. You're bound to recognize your family members--and yourself!--in Tannen's examples.

You won't find quick, easy answers for improving communication in your family, but you will discover another dimension of understanding what's really going on. Now if you could just get your mother to read the book! --Joan Price

Book Description

Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're all adults. Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism and judgment? In I Only Say This Because I Love You, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages — unstated but powerful meanings that come from the history of our relationships and the way things are said. Presenting real conversations from people's lives, Tannen reveals what is actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control, as we struggle to be close without giving up our freedom.

This eye-opening book explains why grown women so often feel criticized by their mothers; and why mothers feel they can't open their mouths around their grown daughters; why growing up male or female, or as an older or younger sibling, results in different experiences of family that persist throughout our lives; and much, much more. By helping us to understand and redefine family talk, Tannen provides the tools to improve relationships with family members of every age.

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The bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and Talking from 9 to 5 shows how to understand talk in families and how to do it better.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fabulous new insights to relationships of all kinds.......2002-02-13

Chapter 1 of Tannen's latest book provides some fabulous new insights to relationships of all kinds. Her discussions of the connection-control schema and meta-messages concept allow the reader to gain new perspectives on those sometimes frustrating interactions with loved ones (or coworkers, or strangers...). The rest of the book is really just "gravy" on top of the information in Chapter 1. Wow, I loved this book-- a definite recommendation to anyone interested in better understanding relationship communication (I see my mother's "advice," formerly a source of frustration/anger, in a whole new light!).

2 out of 5 stars I Only Say This to be Honest.......2001-08-25

Would that it were true that family relationships came down to the words we use when we talk to one another. Tannen tries to wrestle complex family dynamics into conversational styles, and fails dismally. Much of the "insights" are superficial, suggestions for improving relationships minimal, and the examples provided are tedious and boring. I had high hopes for this book but it provided little that was useful to me.

3 out of 5 stars Solid Information, but haven't we heard it before?.......2001-08-20

I loved Tannen's _You Just Don't Understand_ because of the fresh insights it provided, so I was especially disappointed when _I Only Say This Because I Love You_ failed to provide the same feeling of discovery and excitement.

The book focuses on the frequent difference between the actual words that are spoken, and the meaning behind the words (meta-message), which is often about trying to create more connectedness or to alter the power and control dynamics of the relationship.

I found it interesting, but not revolutionary (and I'd come to expect revolutionary from Dr. Tannen).

By understanding the meta-messages both from ourselves and from others, we should have more power to address the meta-messages directly and not get involved in petty bickering and emotional responses that go nowhere except round-and-round.

Overall, I would say that the book contains useful insights and helpful advice, but for people who have already spent time analyzing their intimate relationships, there's probably not much new.

5 out of 5 stars why can't you communicate with so-and-so? find out!.......2001-08-13

I considered myself a good communicator. Then I read this book. It brought things to my attention that I was unaware of, about how I communicate with those closest to me. I was confronted with my own mistakes, in a way that I could not deny, and it motivated me to work on those areas right away! I also saw everybody else I know in this book--because it is about the mistakes we all make. It encompasses all of the different family relationships there are, goals of communication, why certain communication styles don't work, and suggestions for making it easier. The best chapter of all was called "I'm sorry, I'm not apologizing." It talked about why women apologize more than men, why apologizing is harder for men, power issues involved with apologizing, issues around accepting responsibility, and most importantly, the key components of a good apology. I will definitely have a better marriage as a result of reading this book, and I will be recommending it to everyone I know. It was interesting reading, and for me, hard to put down. It is an accessable and very knowledgable reference.

5 out of 5 stars Insightful reference on the levels of how we communicate.......2001-08-08

Exceptional reference for the verbal and the non verbal communicator. Best analogy "Do you hear what I mean?" As a wife of a non verbal communicator and a mother of three one who masters the english language and has strong communication skills to the youngest who struggle with basic communication, I have personally found this title to be instrumental in navigating through our own family and our verbal form of expression.

When exposed to those that struggle with the command of the english language I have had to learn new ways to communicate. This tile is completely on target and goes to posture, stance, tone and so much more.

How our presentation can make a positive or negative impact on the receiver. Often our intent of caring is misunderstood due to our presentation and/or the preconceived disposition of our intended audience.

After reading I was able to grasp the fact that sometimes no matter what was said it was improperly "processed." Truly it is the processing that counts most. Understanding that not everyone processes the same information in the same fashion can be eye opening and yet become an obvious reality.

The author drives home that we need to educate and understand and to be educated and understanding with our communication skills.
I Love You, but Why Are We So Different?: Making the Most of Personality Differences in Your Marriage
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Wonderful book on marriage!
  • Great
I Love You, but Why Are We So Different?: Making the Most of Personality Differences in Your Marriage
Tim LaHaye
Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
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ASIN: 0736908277

Book Description

Temperaments expert Tim LaHaye delves into the four basic personality types to help couples turn their personal differences into marriage–enriching assets. Biblical principles and practical advice encourage readers to build dynamic, lifelong relationships.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful book on marriage!.......2003-07-20

I've read a lot of books on marriage and I have to say that this is the best! I really appreciate the relevance of this book to married life. It helps you realize that you have no control of other people (namely your spouse) but you do have a say in who has control over you ... and this should be the Holy Spirit. Tim Lahaye shows you how you can live a Spirit filled life and deals with real struggles like fear and anger ... letting emotions control you and hinder the Spirit's work in your life.
A lot of times in dealing with marriage issues we focus on dealing with the issues of our spouse ... Tim shows how we need to deal with ourselves and give our marriages and our spouses to the Lord.
I also appreciate the way he incorporates the personality types in this book. It is important to realize that we all were wonderfully designed by God DIFFERENTLY.
In addition to this book I would highly recommend reading The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. I thought these two books work wonderfully together in teaching about our differences, as well as how to meet our mate's needs, be obedient to God in marriage, and have a more fulfilling marriage relationship.

5 out of 5 stars Great.......1999-12-17

I am a young unmarried Christian, and this book has given me alot of insight on the whole marriage thing.Looking at marriages around me, I see alot of things listed or illustrated in this book and I am very pleased w/ this book. Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down. Great book Tim. May God bless you all and keep you. Robert Wagner
The Work We Were Born to Do: Find the Work You Love, Love the Work You Do
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Where's the Beef?
  • Wordy and scattered
  • Let your soul guide you....
  • Some Good Advice in the Midst of the Book
  • The most comprehensive book on the subject
The Work We Were Born to Do: Find the Work You Love, Love the Work You Do
Nick Williams
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Would you like a more fulfilling work life? Do you want a job that's creative, exciting and rewarding? That allows you to be who you truly are? You need to discover the work you were born to do. Leading work-expert Nick Williams has identified the twelve principles of the work we were born to do. He show how we can activate these principles to amazing effect and utilize our inner power at whatever stage we have reached in our working lives. The Work We Were Born To Do shows how to discover your purpose and reveals how to make money following your heart's desire. It will help undo any conditioning that has held you back, exploring ways to build work from the inside out, using heart, spirit, essence and inspiration. The work you were born to do is your birthright, lay claim to it now!

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Where's the Beef?.......2006-02-25

You have to wade through this monstrosity of a book to get to the gems. I found myself skipping paragraphs through mumble jumble before I could get to the meat of the book. There are other books out there that will give you food for thought without a lot of new age catch phrases and self important pondering. Greg Levoy's Callings or Barbara Winter's Making a LIving Without a Job are more concise and informative choices. You don't want to spend your time reading--you want to spend your time doing!

1 out of 5 stars Wordy and scattered.......2006-02-21

There are many books out there on Finding work that you love. If you really want to discover what you want to do and start an action plan to acheive your dreams, I would instead recommend Making a Living Without a Job by Barbara Winter or anything by Barbara Sher. Nick's book will keep you busy reading, not achieving.

3 out of 5 stars Let your soul guide you...........2005-08-22

Nick's passion for his subject certainly comes through in this book, but I cannot escape the feeling that it was written over quite a period of time. Initially his thinking starts out as practical and is based on what I'd call 'popular psychology', and most readers will readily understand and identify with the 'truths' of the earlier chapters. Increasingly Nick seems to grow in his own spiritual confidence, and taking great care not to upset the sensitivities of any specific religious doctrine his connection with the less spiritually inclined reader falters. Anecdotal support from many named friends does little to convince me of the truth of the experiences and a frequent tendency to delve into the etymology of words becomes a tad irritating. The exercises suggested by Nick certainly help crystalise the reader's thinking on particular topics, but could not dispel the ambiguity I felt about some of Nick's ideas. There is no doubt that this book is about the path of a very personal journey that Nick has been on. Whether or not one is able to join him there in total trust and faith will differ for each of us. But we can only be better in many ways for having stayed the course.

3 out of 5 stars Some Good Advice in the Midst of the Book.......2002-01-05

'The Work We Were Born To Do' offers some very helpful information for those seeking to discover or rediscover the type of work that should motivate and inspire. Williams is full of positive thinking and offers many practical and helpful exercises, first for unlearning the things that keep our vision limited and small. Then he teaches how to reprogram your thoughts so that you can follow your passion, whatever it may be. Some great examples, stories, and exercises are included.

I'd give the book 3.5 stars if I could. My complaint is that a lot of the theological thinking in the book is (to me) really far out in some cases and offensive in others. Christians reading this book should read with a close eye.

5 out of 5 stars The most comprehensive book on the subject.......2000-10-03

As the instructor of a course related to this subject, I read everything out there on finding your "true vocation." I have found Nick Williams' approach to be the most comprehensive and heart-centered of all that are currently published. Nick approaches finding the work you were born to do as a task not separated from the rest of life, but rightly so, a question of "living" rather than "working." As his many practical exercises convey, our culture needs to change the way we think about work; the way we've confronted this problem in the past has not brought about joyful results. Nick's suggestions for self-discovery allow for the possibility of work being a joy rather than a job. If you choose one book on this subject, I would definitely go for this one.
Why Are We Still Fighting?: How to End Your Schema Wars and Start Connecting with the People You Love
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    Why Are We Still Fighting?: How to End Your Schema Wars and Start Connecting with the People You Love
    Maureen Kirby Lassen
    Manufacturer: New Harbinger Publications
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    Why are satisfying relationships so elusive? And why do so many couples fall into patterns of repetitive conflict?

    Psychologist Maureen Kirby Lassen approaches the problem in a radically new way by explaining how our mental models about the world, or schemas, can short-circuit our relationships-and how understanding and challenging your own schemas can become the essential step in a healing process. Lassen teaches you how to become your own "relationship expert" by recognizing the influence of early parent-child schemas, assessing the accuracy of your own models, analyzing how schemas influence your own and your partner's "bonding style," and developing strategies for effective long-term change.
    I Only Say This Because I Love You: How The Way We Talk Can Make Or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
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      I Only Say This Because I Love You: How The Way We Talk Can Make Or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
      Deborah Tannen
      Manufacturer: Sound Ideas
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      Book Description

      Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? Linguist Deborah Tannen reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic -- even when we're all adults.

      Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism and judgment? In I Only Say This Because I Love You, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages -- unstated but powerful meanings that come from the history of our relationships and the way things are said.

      Presenting real conversations from people's lives, Tannen explores what is actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control, as we struggle to be close without giving up our freedom.

      This eye-opening audiobook explains why grown women so often feel criticized by their mothers -- and why mothers feel they can't open their mouths around their grown daughters, why growing up male or female, or as an older or younger sibling, results in different experiences of family that persist throughout our lives. BY helping us to understand and redefine family talk, Tannen provides the tools to improve relationships with family members of every age.
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        Dr. Seuss We Love You (Reaching Your Goal Series)
        Patricia Stone Martin
        Manufacturer: Rourke Pub Group
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        Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You
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          Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You
          Ann Fienup-Riordan
          Manufacturer: Bison Books
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          Binding: Paperback

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          Book Description

          The Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska were some of the last Arctic peoples to come into contact with non-Natives, and as a result, Yup’ik language and many traditions remain vital into the twenty-first century. Wise Words of the Yup’ik People documents their qanruyutet (adages, words of wisdom, and oral instructions) regarding the proper living of life. Throughout history, these distinctive wise words have guided the relations between men and women, parents and children, siblings and cousins, fellow villagers, visitors, strangers, and even with non-Natives. Yup’ik elders have chosen to share these wise words during Calista Elders Council gatherings and conventions since 1998 for instrumental reasons—because of their continued relevance and power to change lives.
          The Calista Elders Council, which represents some thirteen hundred Yup'ik elders, recently spearheaded efforts at cultural revitalization through gatherings with younger community members. In describing the content of traditional instruction as well as its central motivation—“We talk to you because we love you”—elders not only educate Yup’ik young people but also open a window into their view of the world for all of us.
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          Clifford, We Love You (Clifford)
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          • Clifford we love you
          • Clifford We Love You
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          • We Love Clifford
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          Norman Bridwell
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          3 out of 5 stars Clifford we love you.......2006-12-06

          Clifford the big red dog. In this book clifford is very sad. They try many thing to make him feel better. Noting works. All the neighbor kid tryed to help cheer him but i never worked. So Emily thought of somthing after a while and it worked. It mad Clifford happy again. This book kind of backflashes about all the times Cliffod and Emily spent together.
          This book is a easier read for younger childern. Older kids will like it too.
          The pictures in this book are colorful. The show Clifford the big red dog and how he feels. This was a good book.

          4 out of 5 stars Clifford We Love You.......2003-09-28

          The Book Clifford We Love You is about Clifford and how he was feeling down in the dumps and all the kids in the neighborhood tryed to cheer him up by feeding him his favorite food, by playing ball with him, Alison gave him flowers, and the kids put on a parade for him but nothing worked. Emily Elizabeth had a wonderful idea by having all the kids sign clifford a happy song!! Will the song work?? This book was a really good book and i would recremend this book for kids all ages and their parents too!!

          3 out of 5 stars chearful.......2002-12-11

          ok i really like the book it is about a girl who is trying to chear up clifford and nothing works so finally she sings to him!!!

          5 out of 5 stars We Love Clifford.......2000-04-15

          Clifford is such a big hit with my first grade students! They love his adventures with Emily Elizabeth and the song and beat presented in this book are catchy and fun. I feel this book is appropriate for read aloud to young children, and for independent reading by children up to age 8.

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