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.
Tiger Cubs
Discover how baby skunks learn to hunt and what tiger cubs eat. Simple text and vivid photographs and graphics.
Derrick Rose
This entry in the Basketball Heroes Making a Difference series profiles one of the NBA’s brightest young stars. The quick biographical section talks about how, as one of the smaller players…
School Library Journal Review for Animal Diaries: Life Cycles
With an unusual format but conventional content, these volumes are framed as animal-observation journals from children. Several clear, bright color photos enhance each spread. Beginning with…
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…
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
Skunk Kits
Discover how baby skunks learn to hunt and what tiger cubs eat. Simple text and vivid photographs and graphics.
Signs of the Season
This series highlights salient aspects of each season with descriptive text and a pleasant array of photos: colorful leaves, animals in snow, green buds, and bright blue skies… the books are…
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…
Amar'e Stoudemire
Stoudemire fits neatly into the Basketball Heroes Making a Difference series. His good works match his excellent on-court performance. Sandler begins with the power forward leading the New…