Reviews
Arlington I.S.D. Review Easy Grassland Origami
This easy to follow step by step instructional origami book. I was able to create the origami. I also appreciate the book has bolded vocabulary words to go along with the different themes of the units. The book’s grassland theme is broken up into different sections. Each section… View →
Arlington I.S.D. Review of Easy Grassland Origami
This easy to follow step by step instructional origami book. I was able to create the origami. I also appreciate the book has bolded vocabulary words to go along with the different themes of the units. The book’s grassland theme is broken up into different sections. Each section… View →
Booklist Review of Science Behind the Colors
The eye-catching Science behind the Colors series uses pigment and patterns as an inroad into studying some of the animal king- dom’s most curiously colorful creatures. Each title is broken into short chapters, with only a few sentences per page, that explain how each… View →
Arlington I.S.D. Review of Plant Facts
Learning about plants is essential in the lower grades, so the plant information in this book provides lots of information — one fact at a time. It begins talking about plant-life with clear and simple explanations, moving to flowers, trees, grasses, underwater plants, and plants in… View →
Arlington I.S.D. Review of Plant Facts
Learning about plants is essential in the lower grades, so the plant information in this book provides lots of information— one fact at a time. It begins talking about plant-life with clear and simple explanations, moving to flowers, trees, grasses, underwater plants, and plants in other View →
Booklist Review of How to Build Our World
“This cheerful How to Build Our World series helps young readers understand environments, layer by layer. Each title builds a particular setting by adding elements one at a time: foundation, surface details, inhabitants, photographs, captions highlighted in bright blocks of color,… View →
Booklist Review of Whole Wide World
These new books in the Whole Wide World series present exciting destinations around the world to young readers. Each book focuses on one large, famous structure, describing its parts, its construction, and what visitors can see there… Angkor Wat explains how the world’s View →
SLJ Review of Meet the Community Helpers
Early readers will love to learn about how veterinarians, bus drivers, construction workers, and garbage collectors work hard to serve people and animals in their communities. Each book features common situations associated with each job: Dr. Jenny has a busy day treating animals at her… View →
SLJ Review of Science Behind the Colors
Photographs in this series showcase the colors of various animals in beautiful detail. Easily understood text explains the causes of and reasons for the colors, such as camouflage, mating display, or even as a warning to enemies. Nonfiction features include labels on the photos, “Did You View →
SLJ Review of Eye-mazing Illusions
The exciting optical illusions throughout this series explore not only the science of optics, but also interconnected STEAM topics like neurology. Covering both two-dimensional and three-dimensional illusions, there are mathematical, health, and artist… View →
SLJ Review of Let's Look at Body Systems!
Take a look under human skin and explore the fun world of anatomy and physiology with this early chapter series about how systems work in the body. The step-by-step processes take readers through each part of the body and talk about the interconnected aspect of how systems work. The… View →
Booklist Advance Review of Don't Sweat It: How to Navigate Big Emotions
Cute, colorful monsters help kids manage big feelings in this selection from the Life Works! series (4 titles). Adopting a reassuring tone, the conversational text asks readers to think about instances when they’ve experienced strong emotions, and then offers tips for shrinking those… View →