Reviews
Booklist Review for Traveling Green
Up-to-date statistics drive the urgent arguments in this lively photo-essay in the Going Green series. Bright, full-color pictures support the facts and the call to readers to walk, cycle, and use public transport to cut down on greenhouse gases, which can increase global warming. New… View →
Disgusting Hagfish
Bearport Publishing brings us more jaw-dropping photos in its “Gross-Out Defenses” series. Meish Goldish’s Disgusting Hagfish (2008) showcases the creature also known as the slime hag, which doesn’t have eyes and feels its way through the ocean, hunting for recent View →
Combat-Wounded
Military dogs that have been injured in combat are true heroes! Here readers will learn the dogs’ role and how they are treated medically after being hurt. Colorful photos and fact boxes enhance the layout. A glossary, bibliography, web sites, and index are included. View →
Combat-Wounded
Military dogs that have been injured in combat are true heroes! Here readers will learn the dogs’ role and how they are treated medically after being hurt. Colorful photos and fact boxes enhance the layout. A glossary, bibliography, web sites, and index are included. View →
Disgusting Hagfish
Bearport Publishing brings us more jaw-dropping photos in its “Gross-Out Defenses” series. Meish Goldish’s Disgusting Hagfish (2008) showcases the creature also known as the slime hag, which doesn’t have eyes and feels its way through the ocean, hunting for recent View →
The Amazing Structures series is a quality primer on the basics of reading nonfiction texts, with big, bold headings and labels, captioned maps and diagrams, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and sidebars filled with added facts. This edition deals with the basic physics that power the… View →
NSTA Recommends Spectacular Animal Towns
The vibrant photography is captivating and will entice the most reluctant reader to turn the page. This is a good reference for lessons on behavior and adaptations. View →
Going Green
This series discusses five different issues related to the topic of green living. Each book explains how a specific environmental problem affects the world and gives examples of things society and individuals are doing or could do to reduce human impact on the environment. Page spreads… View →
World's Biggest
Colorful, close-up photos of the featured machine or structure will draw readers to this attractive series. Titles include nine chapter spreads, each of which has a full-page photo that slightly spills over onto the opposite page, where one or two paragraphs are printed over a fluffy… View →
Peculiar Pets
Before Lunis delves into introductory facts and care requirements for these atypical companions, she employs anticipatory storytelling, discussing the antics of a particular pet. The language in these charming books is lively, describing, for example, how ferrets “pounce on loose… View →
Seizure Alert
For anyone already in love with pooches, the titles in the Dog Heroes series will only increase the certainty that dogs are the greatest things on the planet. The series is a surprising 17 titles deep and touches on everything from sled dogs to the Dog Scouts of America. Combat-Wounded… View →
X-Moves
Readers may not have tried, or even witnessed, many of these sports in person. Nonetheless, they will welcome these overviews that feature short sentences coupled with colorful action photographs, and that all include at least one famous female competitor. History, basics, and important… View →