Reviews
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 largest puffy white cloud) and colorful format will hold readers’ interest. The descriptive… View →
Acts of Courage
This series shares the combat stories of individual soldiers from diverse backgrounds and rank. The profiled service members committed outstanding acts of bravery and were decorated accordingly, sometimes making the ultimate sacrifice, a fact that is emphasized throughout. The volumes… View →
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 each conclude with the subject’s charitable work, such as the View →
Tiger Cubs
Discover how baby skunks learn to hunt and what tiger cubs eat. Simple text and vivid photographs and graphics. View →
America's Animal Soldiers
After grabbing readers’ attention with an exciting account of a featured animal’s heroism, Goldish sustains interest with crisp presentations of the work of marine mammals, dogs, and pack animals in the military. From canines that sniff out explosives to sea lions that attach 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 →
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 on the rough courts of his childhood Chicago neighborhood, Rose learned his electrifying… 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 →