Creating a book: view all photos by events

When building a movie, you click on the camera icon and access all your photos in iPhoto, by event, album, whatever.
Why can't you see them that way when building a book in iPhoto?
The dropdown for photos in your build window not only doesn't show ALL your photos, it is really buggy about what it shows.
It offers All Photos in Project, Placed Photos in Project, Unplaced Photos in Project, Last Import, Last 12 Months, Flagged, and THEN randomly lists ONE event... and even when you click on that event, it doesn't always pull THOSE pix. So, then I started trying to TRICK it to show what I needed. VERY annoying.
And, since the iMovie program already has that set up, WHY can't it be that way in iPhoto.
The presumption seems to be that, if you are building a book in iPhoto that you've already identified all the pix you want and have created a separate folder or something. But, sometimes the book might be a representation of say, 20 years of marriage, or something like that, and you want to be able to peruse all your event folders...
PLEASE can this be considered?
I am going to post this directly to Apple too, but thought I'd vent here.

I may not have been clear in my description.
When building a book, the bottom right corner of the screen shows icons for Add Page, Layout, Options, and Photos. When you click on photos, the ones that are available are as listed in my previous post (All Photos in Project, Placed Photos in Project, Unplaced Photos in Project, Last Import, Last 12 Months, Flagged, and one randomly selected event), but it's not a list of events, albums, etc, like it is in iMovie.
In addition, as noted previously, the actual images that appear when I select that randomly selected event aren't always the ones from that event. That appears to be a bug.
So, the question I posed isn't about how to view photos in the main iPhoto module, but in the BOOK module.
Does that make sense?

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