Reviews
America's Animal Soldiers
This series gives an overview of the U.S. military’s modern-day use of animals to conduct missions on both land and sea. The brief text is accompanied by captioned photographs and dog-tag-shaped text boxes, which break the information into manageable bits. View →
Acts of Courage
These books identify individuals from the five military service divisions who have been recently honored for heroic deeds. Brief vignettes tell the stories of the recipients’ heroism and identify the medals awarded. Readers will appreciate the photographs of the honorees that… View →
The Horn Book Guide Review for Animal Diaries: Life Cycles
These easy-to-read books discuss the stages of development, dietary habits, and habitat of the [featured animal]. Bright, close-up photographs and kid-friendly text, presented as observations in a child’s notebook, make the information accessible. Text boxes with questions and… View →
What is the Water Cycle?
[Starred review]. What Is the Water Cycle? is a simple, well illustrated guide, with straightforward language and solid information about the visible and invisible stages from clouds to precipitation to surface water to evaporation and back to clouds (note that groundwater is not… View →
What is Weather?
[Starred review]. One of my fondest childhood memories is of sitting on my father’s lap on our front porch during a thunderstorm, watching him draw the clouds and lightning formation while the flashes and booms surrounded us. What Is Weather? would well serve parents or teachers in View →
What is the Water Cycle?
[Starred review]. What Is the Water Cycle? is a simple, well illustrated guide, with straightforward language and solid information about the visible and invisible stages from clouds to precipitation to surface water to evaporation and back to clouds (note that groundwater is not… View →
What is Weather?
[Starred review]. One of my fondest childhood memories is of sitting on my father’s lap on our front porch during a thunderstorm, watching him draw the clouds and lightning formation while the flashes and booms surrounded us. What Is Weather? would well serve parents or teachers in View →
Fox's Den
Did you know that parent foxes bring live mice to their cubs to practice hunting? This nonfiction book will help young children learn more about furry red foxes. The full-page photographs with numerous labels, headings, and captions are informative and interesting. For example, children… View →
Saving Animals from Oil Spills
Biologist Kayla DiBenedetto rescued pelicans that were covered in brown sticky oil off of the coast of Louisiana after the largest oil spill in U.S. Waters in 2010. In colorful photographs, maps and captions this book describes how a pipe on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig cracked. Workers View →
Fox's Den
Did you know that parent foxes bring live mice to their cubs to practice hunting? This nonfiction book will help young children learn more about furry red foxes. The full-page photographs with numerous labels, headings, and captions are informative and interesting. For example, children… View →
Saving Animals from Oil Spills
Biologist Kayla DiBenedetto rescued pelicans that were covered in brown sticky oil off of the coast of Louisiana after the largest oil spill in U.S. Waters in 2010. In colorful photographs, maps and captions this book describes how a pipe on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig cracked. Workers View →
Rescuing Animals from Disasters
Each title looks at the people involved and techniques used to rescue animals from natural and man-made disasters around the world. Specific and recent disasters are highlighted, such as Hurricane Katrina, the Cedar Fire in San Diego, CA, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the 2010 oil… View →