Reviews
Pest Sniffing
It isn’t all fun and games when you’re a dog. Some, like the canines featured in the Dog Heroes series, are trained professionals, using their keen sense of smell to aid military personnel, police officers, and search-and-rescue teams. In Bomb-Sniffing Dogs, readers learn… View →
Bomb-Sniffing
It isn’t all fun and games when you’re a dog. Some, like the canines featured in the Dog Heroes series, are trained professionals, using their keen sense of smell to aid military personnel, police officers, and search-and-rescue teams. In Bomb-Sniffing Dogs, readers learn… View →
Pest Sniffing
It isn’t all fun and games when you’re a dog. Some, like the canines featured in the Dog Heroes series, are trained professionals, using their keen sense of smell to aid military personnel, police officers, and search-and-rescue teams. In Bomb-Sniffing Dogs, readers learn… View →
Basketball Heroes Making a Difference
Even as it celebrates the on-court success of these NBA superstars, this series places equal weight on their charitable works. Each slim volume follows a star from his youth, including the role family played in his life, to the present, with a generous helping… View →
Tiger Cubs
Discover how baby skunks learn to hunt and what tiger cubs eat. Simple text and vivid photographs and graphics. View →
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 York Knicks to an eighth straight victory in 2010. The section ends with Stoudemire telling his… View →
Big Dogs Rule
Each volume begins with a notable member of the title breed (e.g., Saint Bernard Katie, a therapy dog at a public library). The books then give very broad histories of the breeds, with information about physical characteristics, personality, intelligence, and suitability as pets.… View →
Big Dogs Rule
Each volume begins with a notable member of the title breed (e.g., Saint Bernard Katie, a therapy dog at a public library). The books then give very broad histories of the breeds, with information about physical characteristics, personality, intelligence, and suitability as pets.… View →
Skunk Kits
Discover how baby skunks learn to hunt and what tiger cubs eat. Simple text and vivid photographs and graphics. View →
Rescuing Animals from Disasters
This series recounts specific disasters and the rescue efforts made to save the animals affected, using accessible… language, brief personal stories, and evocative (sometimes cute [baby turtles], sometimes disturbing [severely burned cows]) photographs. Though successes are highlighted,… View →
Skunk Kits
Discover how baby skunks learn to hunt and what tiger cubs eat. Simple text and vivid photographs and graphics. View →
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 calls, egg sightings, or other indirect signs of a mating season in progress (“Today I saw… View →