Reviews
Gross-Out Defenses
Beginning readers will be enthralled by the freakish defensive capabilities of this wonderfully weird collection of animals. While most students will be familiar with the defenses of the porcupine, Prickly Porcupines explores some of the porcupine’s more unfamiliar defensive… View →
Gross-Out Defenses
With lots of full-color photos of creatures in action, this six-book series on animals’ defensive strategies includes titles on the horned lizard, which can squirt blood from its eyes, and the hagfish, which emits slime to escape from its enemies. Each title includes a map showing… View →
No Backbone! Creepy Crawlers
In the No Backbone! The World of Invertebrates! series, [each] book has what it takes to entice young children in grades K through 2 into the world of life science. The brilliant and sharp images provide the “gross!” factor, and the text provides real content about the… View →
No Backbone! Creepy Crawlers
In the No Backbone! The World of Invertebrates! series, [each] book has what it takes to entice young children in grades K through 2 into the world of life science. The brilliant and sharp images provide the “gross!” factor, and the text provides real content about the… View →
Library Media Connection Review for Uncommon Animals
Most elementary students will find this series intriguing. A wealth of precise and detailed information is presented in a pleasing layout. Each section is well-defined and entitled to entice the reader. Important vocabulary words are highlighted. Geographic locations of each fascinating… View →
Michael Phelps
The life of the multiple gold medal-winning swimmer is covered in simple text with plenty of color photographs in this addition to the Defining Moments: Super Athletes series. Much of the emphasis is on Phelps’ younger days as he struggled in school with View →
No Backbone! Spiders
This series allows readers to come safely eye-to-eye with larger-than-life spiders of all shapes and sizes. The texts, which are occasionally too vague, offer basic and interesting facts about spiders’ body structures, their young, how spiders eat, and where they live. Their many… View →
Booklist Review for Uncommon Animals
Just when you thought every animal had been covered comes a series with volumes on the aye-aye, fossa, and Weddell seal. The explanatory text works splendidly, with large photographs that bring readers as close as they’ll ever get to such beasts. View →
The Midwest Book Review for Super Bowl Superstars
A premier publisher of non-fiction books-in-series for young readers, Bearport Publishing presents Super Bowl Superstars by Michael Sandler, which will have an especial attraction for boys in grades K through 3 and features a text with a second grade reading level. This series of six… View →
Michael Phelps
The life of the multiple gold medal-winning swimmer is covered in simple text with plenty of color photographs in this addition to the Defining Moments: Super Athletes series. Much of the emphasis is on Phelps’ younger days as he struggled in school with View →
Gross-Out Defenses
Each book begins with a predator-versus-prey anecdote describing the featured animal’s means of self-protection. Though defenses are the focus, standard animal facts (habitat, diet, young) are also covered. The short sentences of main text, accompanied by large and vibrant… View →
No Backbone! Spiders
This series allows readers to come safely eye-to-eye with larger-than-life spiders of all shapes and sizes. The texts, which are occasionally too vague, offer basic and interesting facts about spiders’ body structures, their young, how spiders eat, and where they live. Their many… View →