Reviews
Booklist Review of Your Brain When You're Sad
Mental health is an important topic to understand, and the Brainpower series (4 titles) helps readers navigate their emotions. Here, three reassuring chapters walk readers through what it means to feel sad and how it affects our brain, differentiating between sadness and… < View →
SLJ Review of Intro to Physics: Need to Know
This series delivers straightforward financial information to readers. Topics covered include credit scores, interest rates, budgeting, and saving. The author relates each subject to a real-life money situation, such as saving for a computer or investing birthday money. The books feature View →
Booklist Review of Eco Journeys
These ecology-minded offerings take everyday objects that young audiences will recognize and tell where they come from and where they end up. Facing spreads featuring full-page photos overlaid with images and word bubbles show how items are made, what they’re made of and how—after just… View →
Arlington I.S.D. Review of Earning Money
This book is in a six book series “Show Me the Money”: “Earning Money”, “How Money is Made”, “Money Now and Then”, “Saving Money”, “Smart Money Choices”, and “Spending… Good early introductor View →
Arlington I.S.D. Review of Medical Detection Dogs
Part of the Heroic Dogs series, Medical Detection Dogs by Megan Peterson explains that these dogs are trained to sniff out disease such as allergies, cancer, epilepsy, and… They let their owners know when problems are about to occur. The title contains large text and vibra View →
Arlington I.S.D. review of Teachers
Part of What Makes a Community? series, Teachers by Ariel Birdoff explains what a teacher doesand some of the different types of… The text is easy-to-understand and told from the viewpoint of students. The photos are vibrant and attractive. Helpful teaching tips, gl View →
Arlington I.S.D. Review of Energy from the Sun
Energy from the Sun gives beginning readers an accessible look at solar panels and how they work. Readers learn that energy comes from the sun in the forms of heat and… They also learn how the basics of how this energy can be collected by solar panels. Positives and negatives View →
SLJ Review of First Routines
From breakfast to bedtime, these daily activities that children go through are explained with easy to understand sentences and photographs of children taking charge of their… For early readers who are starting to develop their vocabulary, the task specific words highlighte View →
SLJ Review of Math Adventures
Everyday family math situations fill this series. Children notice the various shapes among the kites at the park or check the clock while getting ready for a family… Characters have a range of skin tones, hair textures, and culturally diverse names; some also use medical devic View →
SLJ Review of Construction Zone
This addition to the imprint is ideal for readers who love big construction site behemoths. Bright, vivid photos illustrate the basic text, allowing readers to use context clues to decipher more difficult… Images of bright orange mixers pouring concrete and rollers smoothing View →
Booklist Review of Filibuster
This brief book packs in a tremendous amount of straightforward, accessible information about filibusters. Two lines of informational text flow throughout the pages. One offers four or five enlarged-font sentences that explain definitions and basic applications, with vocabulary words… View →
SLJ Review of Regions of the United States
A short series about the various regions of the United States. The books open with ideas for educators and caregivers for before, during, and after reading followed by a table of contents with three to four chapters of varying… Each region’s history, location, geography, wi View →