Reviews
Booklist Review of Pigeons
The City Critters series (6 titles) surveys common urban wildlife, and young readers will easily recognize this volume’s featured animal. Yes, the handsome (or disgusting, depending on where your loyalties lie) rock pigeon struts, snacks, and poops its way through the city in this View →
SLJ Review of Find it in Nature!
This excellent series is a solid introduction to exploring nature’s wonders while sharpening children’s observational powers and reading, scientific, and critical thinking skills. View →
Booklist Review of Roberto Clemente
Vivid cartoon illustrations and a simple narrative make this entry in the Legendary Lives series (6 titles) a solid introduction to the life of Roberto Clemente. It traces his baseball beginnings as a child in Puerto Rico, using a tree branch for a bat, through his career in the… View →
SLJ Review of Mythical Creatures Set Two
In simple, easy-to-understand prose, with few sentences per page, this well-written series delivers basic information about mythical creatures. The text and images in each volume covers the creatures’ appearance, powers and abilities, diet, personality, habitat, and social group-ing. View →
SLJ Review of Tell Me Why Set Two
Each book in this series groups questions around a common theme. Earth answers why earthquakes happen or if the sea is really salty, while Food explains why some cheese stinks or why different foods are eaten around the world. View →
SLJ Review of Legendary Lives
These attractive volumes will be appreciated by young readers, and selectors should consider View →
Booklist Advance Review of Who's Hoo? Owls!
Informative and supportive of readers transitioning to more challenging texts, these new series installments are solid additions to the animal-science shelves. View →
Librarian Review of Mechanical Engineer
““Meteorologist” by Elizabeth Noll is part of the Careers in Stem collection from the Blastoff Readers series. This series was designed for early-fluent readers to help advance them toward fluency through increased text load, less reliance on photos, advancing concepts, longer… View →
Booklist Review of History of Sports
An attractive series for primary-grade kids as well as somewhat older readers who appreciate short words, helpful illustrations, and sports. View →
Booklist Review of Where You Dare Not Go
While some supernatural series seek to explain the seemingly unexplainable, Where You Dare Not Go unapologetically dishes out the sensational stories of sites haunted by tragedy around the world. Each title holds a thematic collection of 18 tales that takes readers to locations where… View →
Librarian Review of Aerospace Engineer
Aerospace engineers use math and physics to design airplanes and spacecraft. This book is a Blastoff Reader from the Careers in STEM series. There are 2-3 sentences per page and uses many text features such as bold words, table of contents, photographs and… View →
Educator Review of The New Orleans Saints
Dive into the world of the New Orleans Saints with this captivating team profile! View →