It Takes a Village, Tenth Anniversary Edition

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The First Lady, a longtime child advocate, expresses her concerns for the children of today's world and offers her ideas for developing our society into one that values children's unique contributions.

Book Description

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of It Takes a Village, this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest -- both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public -- to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults. It Takes a Village is "a textbook for caring.... Filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread" (The Dallas Morning News).

For more than thirty-five years, Senator Clinton has made children her passion and her cause. Her long experience -- not only through her roles as mother, daughter, sister, and wife but also as advocate, legal expert, and public servant -- has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed are inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child.

In her new Introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade -- from the impact of the Internet to new research in early child development and education. She discusses issues of increasing concern -- security, the environment, the national debt -- and looks at where we have made progress and where there is still work to be done.

It Takes a Village has become a classic. As relevant as ever, this anniversary edition makes it abundantly clear that the choices we make today about how we raise our children and how we support families will determine how our nation will face the challenges of this century.

Customer Reviews:

What do you get?.......2007-10-15

What do you get when a village raises a child?

Africa.

Assuming there is such a thing as an "African proverb," can Hillary point to one example of an African society that village-raises its children and is a good model for how she'd like the United States to be? Where in Africa did this village raising (versus family raising) result in something anyone would aspire to?

To tell the truth, her "African proverb" sounds more like one of the principles of Kwanzaa (an American invention that teaches socialism and collectivism to its gullible celebrants) than any authentic translation of something Africans came up with on their own.

And how about that lead-in? Children aren't rugged individualists. Hah! Communists like to demonize rugged individualism, but I doubt that Karl Marx hated children as much as Hillary misunderstands them. For someone who raised a child and presumably was a child once, I don't think Hillary paid that much attention. Did she never listen when the nanny told her about how Chelsea screamed "No, I want to do it myself"?

I'll tell you three things that most healthy children hate: sharing, unwanted assistance, and the teacher telling them to work in groups.

Not rugged individualists? I'll tell you what children are not. Children are not helpless little collectivist communist drones.

I have no specific evidence, but I strongly suspect Hillary relied on Bill Clinton's speech writing staff for her verbal twists. Bill was so fond of corny symmetries in his speeches, and you get them in the first couple of pages of Hillary's putative work: family values/valuing families. Aghhhh!

Decent summary of how the Left is trying to destroy families and give the state more control over our children.

Putting Kids First.......2007-09-29

This abridged CD version of the Hillary's book gives a clear picture of what concerns her - summed up in four words - children are our future. Since she's the reader, and she's recorded a re-introduction, you can hear her as both Senator Clinton the politician and Mrs. Clinton the First Lady. You really get a sense of what's at the core of her beliefs. Like her or not, this book contains some good parenting advice.

Easy Read. . .great reminder..........2007-08-08

This book is an easy read and a good reminder to all of us. Just like Hillary I had a similar experience growing up. It made my life more interesting and contributed a lot to my well being. Those life experiences made me a better person... Just goes to show our constant need for nurturing and with enough support the desired outcome is a possibility...

Judging a Book by its Content.......2007-07-05

Clinton's book is actually about children and raising them. It is not about stealing money, African folklore or turning America communist.

Those who fail to credit society are anxious to condemn Hillary for explaining what taxes do. It should be no mystery that children are cared for through doctors, teachers and the entire village. A child without a village is a child surviving in barbarianism. There is simply no choice to be made.

Hillary can write. Clinton does not hesitate to write about her experiences with daughter Chelsea, and from the experiences heard from others. Hillary describes everything from such experiences as Chelsea's breast-feeding to Chelsea's grape jelly sandwiches at school. I'm glad Chelsea hasn't experienced trauma from having her life documented in such detail as this here. I hear she has also learned to parallel park.

While the first half of the book makes a nice argument for organizing a community, in the latter half Clinton switches to name-dropping key government agencies, and their benefit. The first half of the book held my interest far better.

Judging a book by its cover.......2007-03-21

Other reviewers of this book have suggested one should not review a book without reading the whole thing. I love reading, but was unable to finish this one.

The title and cover actually do give reasonable warning about the contents. The title apparently refers to folk wisdom from the continent with the highest child mortality rate in the world - obviously the best place to emulate! Below the title is a picture of children the author may hope you believe are African, but they do not look like typical Africans to me. The front inside flap lists her professed qualifications, including the amazing fact that she had parents!

That part of the book that I was able to read continued in this pseudo-scientific vein. There are interesting ideas, fragments of apparently rational analysis, all embedded in a matrix of platitudes. Someone who aspires to be President must have an understanding of the potential negative aspects of a proposal, not just the hoped-for positives, and somehow they never make it into this book.

She's obviously a smart lady, quite capable of incisive thinking. Whether such thinking was left out of this book deliberately, or whether her background did not exercise her ability to see more than one side to a situation, I don't know.

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Mother's Day Gift
Loved It
Wonderful beyond wonderful!
I LOVED this book!
If you need to smile...

It Takes a Mother to Raise a Village
Colleen Down
Manufacturer: Lightwave Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0970832303

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While the old African proverb of 'it takes a village to raise a child' sounds appealing, perhaps the realities of life are more accurately conveyed in the story of The Little Red Hen. 'Who will help me potty train my child?' asks the mother, 'Not I,' says the village. 'Who will help me clean up this third glass of spilt milk?' asks the mother. 'Not I,' says the village. 'Who will help put braces on my child's teeth?' asks the mother. 'Not I,' says the village. 'Who wants to use my child to further their own political agendas?' asks the mother. 'WE DO,' says the village.

The irony of motherhood is that there has not been a spokesperson for mothers because those who feel most passionately are simply too busy. They're too busy running the car pools, doing the laundry, shopping for the groceries and the 1,001 other things, which are required to sustain life. Some have tried, but really, when was the last time Oprah plopped down her last ten dollar bill for a bag of Huggies and a gallon of milk?

Full time Mom, Colleen Down, has decided to ignore her buzzing dryer and ringing phone long enough to stand up and defend those whose profession it is to rock the cradle, and to remind them once again that they truly do have the power to change the world.

It Takes a Mother to Raise a Village is a humorous look at the joys and frustrations of being a mother of seven, ranging from preschool to college. It Takes a Mother to Raise a Village also takes a serious look at how important the role of a mother is in dealing with the problems that face us in the new millennium. If it takes a mother to raise the village it is also going to take all of the mothers to save the village.

Customer Reviews:

Mother's Day Gift.......2007-05-19

I received this book as a gift right before Mother's Day, and I believe it was the most appropiate "Mother's Day" gift I have ever received. As a mother of five children, I found this book echoed all the sentiments of my heart as a mother. If any tired, discouraged mother out there needs a confidence boost, this book should do it for you. Thanks Colleen Down!

Loved It.......2007-05-13

This was a book club selection for our church book club. Every time someone starting reading the book they would refer it to someone else and so on. The book is an honest, yet humorous look at motherhood and our expectations versus the realities of this vitally important role. If you are a mother, or a grandmother, this book will resonate with you. I gave the book to several friends, and to my own mother, for Easter and they all loved it too. I also loved the book because it was a quick and easy read (around 150 pages - double spaced). While it is important for the "village" to continue to love and mentor our children this book reminds us that there is no substitution for a good mother.

Wonderful beyond wonderful!.......2005-09-30

Colleen Down has done a great job in reinforcing what our society really needs - Mothers! Mothers who care about their children - and raise them rather than letting day cares raise them. I loved this book and have shared it with many mothers I know. Thank you for giving me hope and support in a society that thinks careers are more important than raising good children!!

I LOVED this book!.......2004-09-15

In a culture that de-values families and puts a small price on motherhood, mothers need a champion to re-affirm the priceless nature of their work. Ms. Down does that beautifully, humorously, upliftingly.

I especially enjoyed her comical and realistic perceptions on raising boys. How reassuring that my three are just normal!

If you are having "one of those days", this can lighten your mood and make you glad, once again, to be a mother.

If you need to smile..........2002-04-06

If you are a mother, have a mother or know someone who is a mother, there are elements in this book that you will appreciate. You will appreciate it more if you are a mother. This book talks seriously about the responsibility and the demands of mothers and motherhood but also puts a humorous face on the day to day ins and outs of actually taking care of the business of mothering. This book is an intelligent read, but also very entertaining, and if you are a frustrated mother you will find solace here. I take this book along with me in the car to read while I wait at school, in lines, etc... I have read it twice and I still love it. Word of warning, if you are a democrat, you will not love the political views expressed, but you can still appreciate the rest.

Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World

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great travel writing, especially for the cricket player
Brilliant
If cricket's your game, this may be your book

Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World
Harry Thompson
Manufacturer: John Murray
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great travel writing, especially for the cricket player.......2007-06-12

a great travel & cricket book. I'm recommending this to my cricket team to encourage future tours. This is a quick read, and reads as well as AA Gill, Anthony Bourdain, or Tim Cahill.

Brilliant.......2007-05-14

I have no clue about cricket but I thought this book was great. Funny and pleasant, would recommend

If cricket's your game, this may be your book.......2007-05-05

Wondefully written, funny adventures of a cricket team traveling around the world and losing all but one of their games; HOWEVER, if you don't know much about or care about cricket, you have to skip a lot of pages, which is what I did. Still I enjoyed the book -- and it has a kicker of a conclusion -- but I can't recommend it without the cricket qualifation. P.S. I look forward to reading any other of his books.

It Takes a Dog to Raise a Village: True Stories of Remarkable Canine Vagabonds

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It Takes a Dog to Raise a Village: True Stories of Remarkable Canine Vagabonds
Ruth Gordon
Manufacturer: Willow Creek Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1572233001

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This collection of true stories celebrates the lives of a handful of vagabond dogs who spurned confinement and one-family ownership. Each dog's tale is unique: Boozer had his own bank account and appeared on Good Morning America; Owney spent his life riding U.S. mail trains and can now be seen in the Smithsonian Institute; Greyfriars Bobby snuck into the cemetery every night for 14 years to sleep on his deceased master's grave; Lampo became famous for riding the railways of Italy but always returned to the same station; Tricksey offered companionship to the residents of a nursing home; Patsy Ann watched the shores of Alaska and knew before all others that a ship was arriving even though she was stone deaf. These atypical dogs all share the same independent spirit that inspires human admiration and devotion. It Takes a Dog to Raise a Village is a tribute to their spirit and their unusual bonds with the humans who knew them. The text is highlighted by pen and ink drawings.

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Very Good.......2007-01-17

It is a fun book to read for adults as well as kids.

Chiva: A Village Takes On The Global Heroin Trade

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The Really Big Picture
Well written story
raising the indigenous voice

Chiva: A Village Takes On The Global Heroin Trade
Chellis Glendinning
Manufacturer: New Society Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0865715130

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"Chiva" is street slang for heroin - and heroin is a hot topic.

Its use as a narcotic is on a precipitous rise. Worldwide heroin production has doubled in the last decade, and the United Nations estimates more than fifteen million users are addicted - up to three million in the United States. It's big business, too, with yearly global sales of 0 billion - up to billion in the U.S. Enmeshed with terrorism, crime, government collaboration, corporate globalization, and the spread of HIV, the opiate trade is inextricably entangled with the functioning of global society. Finally, heroin is controversial because of the on-going debates about solutions to the health, social and economic havoc it creates.

Chiva uses creative nonfiction to merge the global epic of heroin trafficking with the human-scale story of its presence in the small desert town that boasts the most per-capita overdose deaths in the U.S. The book interweaves three themes:

The true tale of ChimayÃ³, New Mexico, terrorized by its heroin dealers since the 1970s until, in the late '90s, its citizens rose up to challenge the epidemic in their midst.
The story of the author's relationship with a local dealer, and his involvement with addiction, crime, love, recovery and the judicial system.
The political context behind these stories: the global workings of the heroin production business.

Compelling, disturbing, yet hopeful, Chiva is both personal and political, revealing the relationship between colonization and drug abuse, and the importance of reclaiming sustainable culture as a key to recovery.

Customer Reviews:

The Really Big Picture.......2007-07-17

The bibliography and research notes alone justifies the price of the book. The stories of one small town and of 20th Century Globalism are artfully interwoven. Altogether, it's inspiring in a painful, eye-opening sort of way.

Contrary to "About the Author", Chellis Glendinning is a she, not a he.

Well written story.......2005-05-08

Chiva paints a picture of Chimayó New Mexico, number one per-capita consumer of heroin in the number one per-capita consumer state in the United States. The book also offers a well-researched history of the global heroin trade from past to present. The picture is ugly indeed.

For those advocating legalization (of hard drugs) as the remedy to this problem, I suggest reading this and then asking yourself: is this the kind of country I want to live in? And for those that think the current plan in the war on drugs is working, I have the same suggestion. Quite obviously it is not working and will not cure the problem.

The author points out that at one time heroin was legally introduced to China. The result: over one quarter of the adult population became hopelessly addicted. In Chimayó, the supply was plentiful, with an individual dose costing $15, but anyhing not nailed down was likely to be stolen. Overdoses and shootings were common events. A friend of mine from a barrio full of tecatos in Juarez speaks of the same.

Anywhere heroin has been introduced without control to a population, usage of the drug has increased exponentially. With disastrous consequences.

The writing is good and kept me interested from start to finish. But I think the weakness of the book comes near the end where solutions to the problem are offered. There, you'll find more questions than answers.

I highly recommend Chiva for anyone interested in the drug problem or the region described in the book.

raising the indigenous voice.......2004-12-05

Every now and then somebody comes along who acts as a bridge or emissary between two cultures. Not as a missionary out to "improve," "evolve," or Christianize the natives, or to sell them slicker TV sets; not to study them like infusoria under a microscope; not to turn their gods into meteorology; but to listen, deeply, into the patterns of their life and language, and then--strictly by invitation within that community--to create a thing of beauty that casts a circle of illumination over what had remained hidden in the shadows cast by the mainstream.

In Chimayo, New Mexico, that emissary is Chellis Glendinning.

At one time Chimayo ranked #1 in drug overdoses in a state (New Mexico) that also ranked first in this grim category. This book is a story--personal, cultural, wrenching, hard to read in places because disturbing in its detail--of how the Chicanos and Mexicanos of Chimayo went back to their cultural roots to push the dealers out of their town, then apply the wisdom of those roots to healing the victims of the dragon Chiva, "heroin."

The use of "roots" is deliberate, because as the author makes clear, the drug problem is a product of a long tradition of colonial expansion and devastation in which a land-based people have been globalized, exploited, and thrust into poverty on soils their ancestors once cultivated and loved. From out of that soil came the remedies to combat sniffed, smoked, and injected poisons which users employ to forget for a moment that they are poor; that they have few options and scarce employment; that they are seen by the culture that has alienated them as aliens.

Whence this black-market plague of Thebes? Nations in which the United States Government has intervened to make the world safer for its businessmen: Afghanistan, Columbia, the Asian Golden Triangle, where farmers made poor by either military activity or "free" trade (free for whom?) are forced to grow opiates for sale to Europe and, of course, the United States of the Fifties, where 20,000 users would soon swell into millions.

Their supply? Substances sold by "freedom fighter" drug lords (remember Air America? Burma, now Myanmar? the Afghanistani Northern Alliance?) in the pay of the CIA--even while conservatives sold the sham of a righteous war on drugs. Just say no, except that "like a McDonald's hamburger, heroin can be had just about anywhere in the world."

Chimayo said no and meant it, and although overdoses continue, the last part of this book could be used as a manual for how healing practices implemented locally--NOT from the top down or imposed from outside--successfully grapple on many levels (land, culture, faith, mentoring, and ceremony) with a scourge of the colonialism that continues today transnationally.

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It Takes A Church To Raise A Village
Realistic and Powerful

It Takes a Church to Raise a Village
Marva Mitchell
Manufacturer: Destiny Image Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0768430356

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If the Church is to 'raise the village,' it must stop having church and start being the Church!"

It Takes a Church to Raise a Village contrasts the pompous splendor of the modern church with the frantic destitution of the village around her. This is not a 'feel good' book. With prophetic prowess Dr. Mitchell confronts the church with her lack of sensitivity to the raging village needs right at her doorsteps.

"We are more concerned with the elegance of our edifices than we are with the plight of the people all around us."

"The church lives in fear of the village surrounding them. They are more concerned about the village breaking in to their beautiful facilities than about breaking out into the neighborhood with the power of the glorious gospel of our Lord."

Dr. Mitchell offers a passionate plea challenging the church to get out of the bleachers and on to the playing field. Dr. Mitchell declares, "We can't affect the outcome of the game if we are not in the game."

Pastor of a 1,000-member congregation in Ohio, Dr. Mitchell doesn't speak from lofty theory, but from years of measurable success in rescuing children from damaged homes and troubled schools....offering literacy programs, rehabilitation for former prisoners, job training for the homeless, adoptions services, unwed pregnancy counseling...and much more. She certainly has proved It Takes a Church to Raise a Village.

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It Takes A Church To Raise A Village.......2002-12-18

I thank God for Dr. Marva Mitchell for her obedience to Him in writing such a powerful book. "It Takes A Church To Raise A Village", is a phenomenal tool on how we, the Body Of Christ must get involved and extend Hope and release love to underprivileged communities.

Realistic and Powerful.......2002-12-13

I enjoyed this book. It's fast, easy, and powerful reading. Most importantly, it made me think about the real purpose of the church in our society and my role in it. Are we just sitting in beautiful edifices week after week or are we here to do a life changing work in the village of our communities? This book's message is beneficial for individuals and the church collectively. Buy it; read it if you want to be influenced to make a difference in your village!

It Takes a Village Idiot : A Memoir of Life After the City

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City folk turned mutant country killers
Hilarious and So True
I live In Delaware County.
Light, fun read for the most part. Inconsistent, I thought.
" REALLY GUARANTEED TO SMILE "

It Takes a Village Idiot : A Memoir of Life After the City
Jim Mullen
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: 0743218795

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FINALIST FOR THE 2001 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR A "ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS" (DENVER) BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Millions of people dream of abandoning the city routine for a simple country life. Jim Mullen was not one of them. He loved his Manhattan existence: parties, openings, movie screenings. He could walk to hundreds of restaurants, waste entire afternoons at the Film Forum, people-watch from his window. Then, one day, calamity. His wife quits smoking and buys a weekend house in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York -- in a tiny town diametrically opposed to Manhattan in every way. Slowly, however, the man who once boasted, "Life is just a cab away," begins to warm to the place -- manure and compost and strangers who wave and all -- and to embrace the kind of life that once gave him the shakes.

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City folk turned mutant country killers .......2007-05-13

I was enjoying It Takes a Village Idiot up until page 183 when suddenly, outta no where, Jim & Sue turn into cruel vicious killers.

"Patrolling the perimeter (of their garden) one day" Sue spotted a woodchuck down by the barn and yelled for me to come help. I grabbed the first thing I could find--my five-iron-and ran down there.
We had him cornered and I started clubbing it. It was like something out of Goodfellas. Each smack made a sickening thump, but the thing wouldn't stop twitching. I didn't want it to suffer (yeah right. can you believe that?), but I couldn't seem to finish it off.
Finally I came down with a mighty stroke right on its head. Woodchuck blood splattered all over me, my shirt, my pants, my face. But it stopped moving."

I don't know about you but that makes me ill. How cold blooded can you be? To physically beat something to death. Woodchucks = Marmots = Groundhogs
All they had to do was lower that fence they put up around the garden (to keep deer out), a foot or two below ground. Where's their brains. That's what I did. It was plain common sense. When you see something digging under your fence--lower it!
Heck! with the money they had they could of poured a two foot concrete wall below their fencing. I used rocks and junked bricks.

Then on page 206 there's this
"On the way to the store, we passed a fly-covered deer carcass on the shoulder of the road. Sue looks at it unsympathetically and says, One down, three hundred thousand to go." " Ouuwee where'd she get all this hate from? What an ugly person she turned out to be.

Then they turned into arrogant rich country snobs, belittling everyone who does not live/think as they now do. What an about face. In the beginning Jim and Sue Mullen seemed like OK people but in the end you see that they really aren't.

Hilarious and So True.......2007-04-06

Jim Mullen has written an hysterically funny, insightful book that is a must read for those wavering between living in the City or living in the country. Mullin is a rare writer who can get humor out of real life -- side-splitting humor at that. This is a great book for anyone interested in big laughs and great insights.

Frank Scoblete: author of Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution! and Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution!

I live In Delaware County........2007-02-09

Like some of the other reviewers said this was a quick read. Not just because it is light. It is also a likeable book. There are some exagerations though (you don't have to drive to Endicott for a the New York Times though who knows maybe you did in 87). It has a cute ending in that he winds up liking Delaware County very much.

Light, fun read for the most part. Inconsistent, I thought........2006-11-23

OK, so, you know before you open the book that city dweller finds peace and happiness in the heartland after many poignant and sweet things happen to him to sway him. So he starts out being the unwilling partner in this move outside of NYC, and gradually he comes to love it in the countryside.

But throughout the book, I felt like every time he was gradually starting to sway toward the country life, he'd then turn around and say something to the effect of how he's only doing this for his wife and that if he had his druthers, he'd live in their Manhattan apt instead. And it wasn't in a sweet sort of way, as though he were battling his own feelings. It was more like the chapters were not in chronological order. That was my beef #1.

Beef #2 was the story about the author's completely gruesome and totally gratuitous, hateful torture of a woodchuck that was a pest in their garden. This, after he went on and on about how he and his wife went to pains to use only cruelty-free traps in their garden. It was just so gross and nasty and it made me feel so sad and dark.

Otherwise, I would say it was a good, very quick read. There were funny parts and it was decent (if a bit snarky) writing. And I love any book that has chucking it all as its main theme.

" REALLY GUARANTEED TO SMILE ".......2006-07-18

DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT . I PICKED THIS BOOK UP AT A SWAP AND IT WAS THE BEST MONEY I NEVER SPENT . THIS BOOK IS SO TONGUE-IN-CHEEK AND AT TIMES LAUGH OUT LOUD IT DESERVES 5 STARS . I WON'T SPOIL IT BY GOING ON & ON AS SOME REVIEWERS. HOWEVER, JUST KNOW, IT'S KIND OF A " FISH OUT OF WATER " REAL LIFE STORY OF CITY DWELLERS MOVE TO THE COUNTRY ! STORIES WHICH ARE ALWAYS FUNNY . SO IF YOU CAN'T BUY IT, THEN AT LEAST GO TO YOUR LIBRARY AND TRY TO GET IT . SO WORTH YOUR WHILE . NOT AS TWISTED AND LAUGH OUT LOUD AS THE DAVID SEDARIS BOOK OF " ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY " , BUT, THIS BOOK IS FUNNY WITHOUT BEING OFFENSIVE . VERY ENTERTAINING. IT WILL FIND A PERMANENT PLACE ON MY SHELVES TO LOAN TO FRIENDS .

Family Guy: It takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One (Family Guy (Harper Entertainment))

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No TV censors allowed !
Bright and witty; just what we expect from the Family Guy writers.
Very funny book

Family Guy: It takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One (Family Guy (Harper Entertainment))
Alex Borstein , and Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
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ASIN: 0061143324
Release Date: 2007-05-08

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In addition to sharing detailed accounts of her highest highs and lowest lows, as well as her scathing views on the state of public affairs today, Mayor Lois Griffin also shares the pages of this book with the people who put her in office. By giving them such a strong voice in this record of history, she not only reveals how Quagmire pimped out the vote, Peter sold out to the media, Meg coped with sudden celebrity through sullen poetry, Stewie mounted yet another terrorist plot against her, disgraced former mayor West recovered from defeat, and she herself succumbed to the temptations of the job, she also reveals just how valuable she holds the ideals of democracy.

Part biography, part town-ography, this no-holds-barred book comes with a strong message for all: It takes a village—and sometimes even a village idiot's wife—to set things right in America again.

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No TV censors allowed !.......2007-06-27

This book has the title of a Family Guy episode which premiered the same week as publication, so I thought it would be a written version of the show. Instead, it is all-new material, presented by Lois Griffin about her term as Mayor of Quahog. Each member of the Griffin family, and all the major cast members of the show, also have their say. It is all very funny and mostly adult humor. This is not a children's book !! The humor is similar to the "Family Guy Live in Vegas" music CD (2005) and more explicit then Alex Borstein's recent DVD 'Drop-Dead Gorgeous in a Down-to-Earth Bombshell Sort of Way'. Both Lois and Meg feel they disappointed their fathers by not being born boys, Mayor West contributes a recipe,Chris designs T-shirts, and Peter lists his top ten TV shows. The least explicit humor is,oddly,from Quagmire !
The extensive artwork in the book exactly matches the show, with a little drop-shadow to make the figures appear to jump off the page. I recommend this book to all fans of Family Guy, or the marvelous Alex Borstein, but you might want to keep it away from the kids !!

Bright and witty; just what we expect from the Family Guy writers........2007-06-08

I found it to be witty and entertaining. Cherry's influence is obvious. There are some serious moments amidst the generally zany telling of the story. Quite a commentary on the shape of modern American Culture.

Very funny book.......2007-05-17

This book is excellent. I had watched the episode of the show with the same title, and expected this purely to be a rehashing of the episode. However it turned out to be something totally different, something of a tribute to the clueless side of politics. Not all the Family Guy books are that good, but this is one of the best of the series. I think even a casual watcher of the show, and not a fan per say, could enjoy it.

It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us

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It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HN6GBW

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Beautifully realistic
Terrific for Teachers!
It takes a village to raise a child
It takes a village to raise a child
True to Life

It Takes a Village
Jane Cowen-Fletcher
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0590465988

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Beautifully realistic.......2007-02-15

I simply adore this book. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo (next door to Benin) and my daughter enjoys hearing my stories about Africa. We both love this book. The illustrations are a beautiful, astoundingly realistic depiction of life "au village". The story is sweet and entirely plausible. The title almost turned me off from the book but I'm sure glad it didn't.

Terrific for Teachers!.......2004-02-22

It Takes a Village is an excellent resource for teachers.
The characters and setting are wonderful, the use of color
and pattern on the characters clothes is fun. I teach kindergarten and substitute K-6. I have yet to teach a class of any age that doesn't enjoy the book.
A must have for the classroom!

It takes a village to raise a child.......2003-06-23

It Takes A Village is the well-crafted story of Yeis who joins her mother for market day. She's been entrusted to watch after her little brother Kokou and is quite proud of her responsibility, so she heads off with her brother. Departing, she shares news that she's watching her brother all alone. Knowingly, her mother smiles...moments later Kokou is separated from Yemi and she searches through the marketplace worrying over his safety.

Not only has Cowen-Fletcher given us a moving story, but it is complemented well by her beautiful colored pencils with watercolor washes. They bring out the importance of community and the saying "it takes a village to raise a child."

Reviewed by Tee C. Royal
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

It takes a village to raise a child.......2003-06-13

Reviewed by Tee C. Royal...

True to Life.......2000-08-22

I lived in Benin for two years and I must say that the drawings in this book are amazingly realistic and incredibly detailed. It is a wonderful story for children and families. I usually give it to first time parents (unique baby shower gift). Regarding the previous review - "Cho" and "Yay Gay" are interjections similar to "Oh No" or "Oh My".

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