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Summary: A Book to Help Make the Next Step - and All the Ones After
Review: As a teacher for more than twenty years, I have watched many seniors prepare for graduation. In my own teaching, I have helped to prepare my own students for this transition through the writing and reading they do. However, I have never found a book that provides that crucial "stepping stone" as well as Selig's does. It's simply terrific. I am especially impressed by the diversity of her sources of inspiration: from the writing of students to those of professional writers, both past and present,this book offers its readers a rich mine of ideas. My only regret is the subtitle which targets this book as a book for graduation. It is certainly that, but it would be a great gift for anyone who is taking a next big step of any kind -- moving on from a death or a divorce,beginning a new career, etc.
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Summary: Terrific Book
Review: Boy, this is a terrific book. I would highly recommend it for all readers young and old... we're all are graduating continuously from one stage or other in our lives, so even those of us who have left school a long time ago can benefit from its wisdom. Kudos to Ms. Selig for an excellent job done.
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Summary: Terrific Book
Review: Boy, this is a terrific book. I would highly recommend it for all readers young and old... we're all are graduating continuously from one stage or other in our lives, so even those of us who have left school a long time ago can benefit from its wisdom. Kudos to Ms. Selig for an excellent job done.
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Summary: The Best Gift Ever!
Review: I purchased this book for each and every one of my cousins that has graduated high school and college since last year, and they all love it. It is one of the most inspirational books I have ever read! I'm truly surprised that its not all over the NY Times bestsellers lists! Thank you so much Jennifer!
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Summary: The Best Gift Ever!
Review: If you could only buy one present for someone graduating this year, this is the book! As a mother, I purchased this book for a graduating student and was compelled to glance through it before wrapping. What an inspiring group of past and present day role models! I think that the graduate will especially love all the up-to-date qoutes, stories, and comics that are true to life today, as we approach the millenium. This is the perfect gift book!
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Summary: This is the one!
Review: If you could only buy one present for someone graduating this year, this is the book! As a mother, I purchased this book for a graduating student and was compelled to glance through it before wrapping. What an inspiring group of past and present day role models! I think that the graduate will especially love all the up-to-date qoutes, stories, and comics that are true to life today, as we approach the millenium. This is the perfect gift book!
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Summary: You can't go wrong with this book for a grad. present.
Review: My mom bought this book for me for my early graduation present. She thought it looked like something I needed to take to college. She was right. This book to me is the best present anyone could have ever given me. It has sooo much in it. The famous pros in this book truly touch ones soul, and warm the heart. There is a passage in there about mothers and daughters that really made me cry. There are other passages that made me laugh, because they related so well to me. I recommend this book for anyone who is looking for a graduation present, it truly is the best!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Inspirational - a must read for everyone
Review: This is not just a book for individuals experienceing graduation from high school or college, but rather for everyone who is on this journy called life. We all graduate from one phase of our life to another, and this book is an execellet compulation of reflective passages of the best words of wisdom written by the greatest people of our present times. This is a must read! Thomas Clyder
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Summary: Inspirational - a must read for everyone
Review: This is not just a book for individuals experienceing graduation from high school or college, but rather for everyone who is on this journy called life. We all graduate from one phase of our life to another, and this book is an execellet compulation of reflective passages of the best words of wisdom written by the greatest people of our present times. This is a must read! Thomas Clyder
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Summary: What makes this book unique. . .
Review: Toni Morrison once wrote, "If there is a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." This is that book--the words I wish I had been handed when I graduated, the words I wish I could hand to the students I teach as they graduate, the words I wish we could hand to all our youth when they graduate. Because really, a diploma only says where you've been. This book says where you can go.So why this book, and not one of the others Amazon sells for graduation? There are several qualities that make this book unique. First of all, it's the only graduation gift book with comics in it! But more importantly, it's the only book with student writing in it, written by recent high school and college graduates. It's also the only one that offers wisdom about letting go of the past, and pays tribute to the teachers and parents who made it all possible. Perhaps most uniquely, this book honors the friends we make while in school, and the sadness that often comes with letting them go. But the book is about much more than the sadness of letting go of the past. There are also many inspirational chapters, like "Dreams of the Future", "Reaching for the Stars", and "The Meaning of Success." Also sprinkled throughout the book are humorous passages by people like Rosie O'Donnell, Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, and Whoopie Goldberg. One last thing that makes this book unique is its variety--the other books have only long speeches, or simply short quotes, but this is the only book that has poems, quotes, comics, shorter and longer speeches, sayings and slogans from people past and present, people as diverse as Jesus, Jesse Jackson's grandmother, Joyce Brothers, Jewel, Jodie Foster, Michael Jordan, Janis Joplin, John Wayne, and John Lennon, just to mention some "J's"! I've been a teacher for 11 years, and have been collecting inspiring words of wisdom for even longer than that. My dream is that this book will touch and inspire everyone who reads it, whether they read it from cover to cover, or simply open it to the first words they see. I believe there's something in this book for every graduate, including those who know the exact answer to the question, "What Now?" There's even a dedication page where you can write your very own words of wisdom or congratulations to your graduate, adding your voice to the multitude of others inside waiting to offer guidance, inspiration, laughter and tears to mark this most special rite of passage and the new life that's now just beginning.
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