Last week I received a copy of Matt Butcher's "Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery" from Packt Publishing.

The book starts off with a gentle introduction into Drupal modules, Drupal themes and jQuery. These first chapters are pretty boring if you are already familiar with Drupal development but they aid newcomers in getting up to speed.

The next couple of chapters dive into the dark corners of Drupal's JavaScript capabilities. They explain things like Drupal behaviors, the JavaScript translation functions, the JavaScript theming functions and how to use AJAX. Each of these chapters is built around a very practical example that is analyzed thoroughly and each chapter also contains numerous tips about Drupal, JavaScript and jQuery. Good stuff!

I've learned quite a few things while reading this book so if you need to do any JavaScript or jQuery development in Drupal and if the cryptic JavaScript Startup Guide on drupal.org doesn't make a lot of sense to you than this book is definitely for you.