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Ground-Zero Dogs
Students can use this book in the Dog Heroes series to debate whether or not animals should be used in dangerous situations to help people. They can cite the facts that the author offers and make additional inferences, again using the information from the book. View →
Ground-Zero Dogs
Students can use this book in the Dog Heroes series to debate whether or not animals should be used in dangerous situations to help people. They can cite the facts that the author offers and make additional inferences, again using the information from the book. View →
My Nose is Long and Fuzzy
The concept of gradually revealing bits of an animal for readers to guess about the whole has gotten a lot of traction in recent years, and this entry in the Zoo Clues series does it as well as anyone. Graphically, the main addition is a jigsaw-puzzle grid overlaying each two-page… View →
Green World, Clean World
These titles will introduce emergent readers to real-world problems. Spectacular photo close-ups with simple captions and labels will be accessible to children. A positive tone runs through the books (through headings such as “Everyone Can Help!”), and the final two chapters… View →
Flood!
With a brevity that conveys urgency, this entry in the It’s a Disaster! series describes the destructive powers of rising floodwaters: “The moving water knocks over trees. It carries away cars!” The message does indeed come across like a warning, with the text on each page placed against View →
With declarative text and glossy, full-bleed photos, the Community Helpers series introduces adult professions to the youngest readers. What sets this package apart from similar series is a particularly clean and stylish design and a willingness to show the unpleasant sides of the job‚… View →
With declarative text and glossy, full-bleed photos, the Community Helpers series introduces adult professions to the youngest readers. What sets this package apart from similar series is a particularly clean and stylish design and a willingness to show the unpleasant sides of the job—an View →
With declarative text and glossy, full-bleed photos, the Community Helpers series introduces adult professions to the youngest readers. What sets this package apart from similar series is a particularly clean and stylish design and a willingness to show the unpleasant sides of the job—an View →
With declarative text and glossy, full-bleed photos, the Community Helpers series introduces adult professions to the youngest readers. What sets this package apart from similar series is a particularly clean and stylish design and a willingness to show the unpleasant sides of the job—an View →
With declarative text and glossy, full-bleed photos, the Community Helpers series introduces adult professions to the youngest readers. What sets this package apart from similar series is a particularly clean and stylish design and a willingness to show the unpleasant sides of the job—an View →
Library Media Connection for Jungle Babies of the Amazon Rain Forest
This is a valuable series for information about adorable Amazon babies. Each book contains fact-filled information with close-up photographic images that cover the books’ content with bubble captions. Bolded vocabulary words are found in each book with pictures in the glossary. Don’t let View →
Abandoned Amusement Parks
Nothing screams creepy as much as a former amusement park, taken over by rush, weeds, and memories, or an old theater, where death-and perhaps a restless spirit-still linger. These entries in the Scary Places series will pique many children’s curiosity with the strange and unknown. Each… View →