Reviews
Gross Body Invaders
Disgusting Food Invaders and Gross Body Invaders were named to the Bank Street’s Best Children’s Books of the Year list for 2012.
Basketball Heroes Making a Difference
These consistent titles begin with details of game-winning moments and continue on to introduce the athletes’ childhoods, challenges overcome, and their successful NBA careers. The entries…
The Work of Heroes
This well-organized series explores the education, specialized training, and daily responsibilities of the featured first responders. Photographs capture the action and enhance the accessible
Booklist Review for A Butterfly's Life
Part of the Animal Diaries: Life Cycles series, this book chronicles the mysterious and colorful sequence of a butterfly’s maturation. Formatted as a series of late-summer diary entries…
Weather Wise
This solid series is a commendable approach to weather studies, meeting early elementary standards for science education. The pleasing photos (illustrating the smallest water droplet to the…
Skunk Kits
Discover how baby skunks learn to hunt and what tiger cubs eat. Simple text and vivid photographs and graphics.
The Work of Heroes
This well-organized series explores the education, specialized training, and daily responsibilities of the featured first responders. Photographs capture the action and enhance the accessible
NSTA Recommends Animal Diaries: Life Cycles
Journals and notebooks are an integral part of the educational journey today. Recording information quantitatively as well as qualitatively preserves the event on paper for future reference.…
Horses, Donkeys, and Mules
Really? Horses, donkeys, and mules in the U.S. Marines? But this slim title in the America’s Animal Soldiers series, with its many color photographs, makes it clear that these animals are—and
Horses, Donkeys, and Mules
Really? Horses, donkeys, and mules in the U.S. Marines? But this slim title in the America’s Animal Soldiers series, with its many color photographs, makes it clear that these animals are—and
Weather Wise
This series of five Weather Wise books is designed for the beginning reader, grades 2 and 3. The topics covered in the series are designed to excite young readers and draw them into topics…
Amazing Amusement Park Rides
The first book [Amazing Amusement Park Rides] highlights some of the world’s biggest and fastest (and scariest) amusement-park attractions and how they operate, such as the Steel Dragon 2000…