Reviews
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 →
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 appropriate introductions for the targeted age group. Suggested activities in each volume, such… View →
Horses, Donkeys, and Mules
Really? Horses, donkeys, and mules in the U.S. Marines? But this slim title in the America’s Animal Soldiers series, with its many color photographs, makes it clear that these animals are—and have been since 1915—a valued part of the service. The book begins with a vignette about… View →
NSTA Recommends Animal Diaries: Life Cycles
Journals and notebooks are an integral part of the educational journey today. Recording information quantitatively as well as qualitatively preserves the event on paper for future reference. In the Animal Diaries series, Ellen Lawrence models scientific record-keeping through the eyes of View →
Horses, Donkeys, and Mules
Really? Horses, donkeys, and mules in the U.S. Marines? But this slim title in the America’s Animal Soldiers series, with its many color photographs, makes it clear that these animals are—and have been since 1915—a valued part of the service. The book begins with a vignette about… View →
Weather Wise
This series of five Weather Wise books is designed for the beginning reader, grades 2 and 3. The topics covered in the series are designed to excite young readers and draw them into topics that are scientifically accurate and relevant. Each book is short enough (24 pages) to be easily… View →
Amazing Amusement Park Rides
The first book [Amazing Amusement Park Rides] highlights some of the world’s biggest and fastest (and scariest) amusement-park attractions and how they operate, such as the Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan, Insano in Brazil (the tallest water slide in the world), and The Crypt in Virginia.… View →
Amazing Amusement Park Rides
The first book [Amazing Amusement Park Rides] highlights some of the world’s biggest and fastest (and scariest) amusement-park attractions and how they operate, such as the Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan, Insano in Brazil (the tallest water slide in the world), and The Crypt in Virginia.… View →
Eco Dogs
Students may be familiar with the drug dogs that help police or the rescue dogs that search for survivors in natural disasters. This NSTA/CBC Outstanding Trade Book will expand their understanding of the amazing ability of canines to… View →
Eco Dogs
Students may be familiar with the drug dogs that help police or the rescue dogs that search for survivors in natural disasters. This NSTA/CBC Outstanding Trade Book will expand their understanding of the amazing ability of canines to… View →
So Big Compared to What?
Amusement-park rides, buildings, skyscrapers, and sports stadiums. No big deal, right? But the So Big Compared to What? series looks at extreme versions of these commonplace structures. Amazing Amusement Park Rides are not for the weak-stomached; riders of the Steel Dragon 2000 roller… View →
Rescuing Animals from Disasters
After disasters, many animals face certain death unless humans intervene. This series offers true accounts of rescue attempts; some fail, many are successful. Each story is fast-paced and thrilling. The text is in boxes at the tops of the pages, while captioned photos fill the bottoms.… View →