Sunday, September 27, 2009

My Best Friend is Cinderella (Disney Princess (Random House Hardcover))


My Best Friend is Cinderella (Disney Princess (Random House Hardcover))
Little Emma is awestruck when Cinderella shows up at her school and tells the girls she’s going to throw a party for them at the castle. Emma can hardly wait! In fact, she’s so excited that she sneaks into the castle to get an early peek. The little girl soon learns first-hand that being a princess isn’t as easy as it seems. This full-color storybook features a padded and glittered cover.
Customer Review: My Best Friend is Cinderella
I bought all four princess books for my daughter and she loves them. She keeps reading them over and over. Anything to keep them interested in reading!


Disney Princess Tea Party: Angelina
Personalized for Angelina

Hear the Disney Princesses sing and speak to Angelina over 60 times throughout this one of a kind CD. It will be an instant hit with Angelina that she will listen to over and over. Watch her face light up as she hears her name sung and spoken by the original Disney Princess cast. Angelina will join each of the Disney Princesses as they prepare for a Princess Tea Party. Each princess will personally coach Angelina through getting dressed and using proper etiquette, and Angelina will receive a personal invitation to the castle to join all the Disney Princesses at their Princess Tea Party!


Birnbaum's Walt Disney World Without Kids 2008

In Birnbaum's Walt Disney World Without Kids, the most respected and well-known name in travel guides takes adult readers through the world's most popular tourist attraction. Because our guide is the only guide that's official, this book includes the most accurate information on prices and attractions. None of the other guides have access to the information that our authors do. This book focuses on the resorts, attractions, restaurants, and special places that adults will most enjoy and probably never realized existed. 

This year's edition is packed with information on new attractions and tips and insights especially tailored for the young at heart, plus expanded coverage of Walt Disney World's quartet of spas, the lowdown on Downtown Disney Pleasure Island's ongoing transformation, and News for Night Owls: a listing of spots for those who, unlike Cinderella, can stay out past midnight. Other features include updated sample schedules, info on the newest restaurants, and a streamlined guide to Walt Disney World transportation, with more color photos than ever before.

  
Customer Review: No real substance
Birnbaum's Walt Disney World Without Kids is meant to be a companion to the Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2008 (Birnbaum's Walt Disney World). For a book like this to be useful, it needs to provide extensive information on things that would be of use to adults yet not was deemed unworthy of inclusion in the main guide. After all, if it's in the main guide already why do we need this book? The guide also needs genuine critiques of restaurants and hotels that would be most suitable for romantic (or at least quiet) outings. Detailed reviews of dinner shows would also be a plus. These are just a few examples that single adults and couples might find useful. The key is that readers need good details and honest evaluations for a book of this type to have any value. The only other guide of this type that I have read was The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World for Grown-Ups (Unofficial Guides) and it failed to offer enough of value to justify its purchase. Did Birnbaum's fare better? One undeniable strength is that this book retains the high production values of the Birnbaum's series. It's loaded with very nice photos. The writing is clear and concise making for a quick, easy read. In other words, the form is wonderful. But the substance, that's where we stumble. There are no real critiques or comparisons offered. The coverage is too shallow to allow you to truly discrimiate which places would be best suited to your needs. There is also too little material that isn't available in the standard guidebooks for the area. In the final analysis, there just isn't enough substance here to make it worth buying. If you're looking for a guide to Orlando primarily composed of photos and basic coverage of the area, then the Birnbaum's Walt Disney World 2008 (Birnbaum's Walt Disney World) is by far the better choice. If you want a more substantial book that is packed with detailed information then the The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2008 (Unofficial Guides) is your best bet. If you really want the full picture, buy both of them. But whatever approach you choose, save your money and skip this one.

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