Reviews
South Sound Book Review Council Review of Spotting Differences – Aardvark or Anteater?
Blastoff! Readers Level 1: Spotting Differences is a twenty book set that delves into the differences between animals. Each book focuses on a pair of animals and details their physical and behavioral traits. Text is accessible to your newest readers and accompanying illustrations are… View →
South Sound Book Review Council Review of Spotting Differences – Crow or Raven?
Blastoff! Reader Level 1: Spotting Differences is a twenty books set that delves in the differences between animals. Each book focuses on a pair of animals and details their physical and behavioral traits. Text is accessible to your newest readers and accompanying illustrations are high… View →
South Sound Book Review Council, Washington Review of Spotting Differences – Dolphin or Porpoise?
Blastoff! Readers Level 1: Spotting Differences is a twenty book set that delves into the differences between animals. Each book focuses on a pair of animals and details their physical and behavioral traits. Text is accessible to your newest readers and accompanying illustrations are… View →
South Sound Book Review Council Review of Spotting Differences – Lizard of Salamander?
Blastoff! Readers Level 1: Spotting Differences series is a twenty book set that delves into the differences between animals. Each book focuses on a pair of animals and details physical and behavioral traits. Text is accessible to your newest readers and accompanying illustrations are… View →
Educator Review of Animals of the Grasslands
The 4 titles in this series introduce prairie dogs, kangaroos, rhinoceroses, and pronghorns of the grassland to readers. The information is chunked into bite-size pieces that are easily digested by young readers. The color photosreinforce the text. Bolded vocabulary words throughout,… View →
Educator Review of Animals of the Mountains
This series explores a variety of mountain animals including: alpine ibex, bearded vultures, brown bears, mountain goats, mountain gorillas, mountain lions, pikas, red pandas, snow leopard, and wild yaks. Geared toward early readers ready for a bit more text and varied sentence… View →
Educator Review of Animals of the Wetlands
This series explores a variety of wetland animals including: alligators, beavers, crocodiles, fishing cats, flamingos, herons, hippopotamuses, platypuses, river otters, and wood ducks. Geared toward early readers ready for a bit more text and varied sentence structure, this series would… View →
Educator Review of Beginning to End
In this series, the reader learns the steps of producing something from the beginning to the end. These non-fiction books are important for readers to better understand how things we have in everyday life are created through processes (i.e. glass, apple juice, electricity, and crayons).… View →
South Sound Book Review Council Review of Animal Battles: Red Fox vs. Fisher
Red Fox vs. Fisher by Nathan Sommer is part of a 40 book Bellwether Torque set of Animal Battles. This set is geared towards third grade through seventh grade, with full color pictures and a reading level of third grade. Perfect for your reluctant readers. Each book is 24 pages and… View →
South Sound Book Review Council Review of Animal Battles: Saltwater Crocodile vs. Great Hammerhead Shark
Saltwater Crocodile vs. Great Hammerhead Shark by Nathan Sommer is part of a 40 book Torque set of Animal Battles. This set is geared towards third grade through seventh grade, with full color pictures and a reading level of third grade. Perfect for your reluctant readers. Each book is… View →
Educator Review of Ocean Animals
This series explores ocean animals for the emerging reader. Each title draws in the reader with a bright cover highlighting a large, clear picture of the animal of focus. The animals explored in this series include crabs, dolphins, jellyfish, octopuses, sea horses, sea stars, sea… View →
Educator Review of World's Smartest Animals
There are 6 titles in this level 3 series. Geared toward more fluent readers, there is plenty of information about some commonly known animals, but that readers may not know much about. Focusing on the animals’ intelligence, even readers who are familiar with these creatures will still… View →