Reviews
Series Made Simple
The authors recount the tragic circumstances of a number of devastating events in simple, straightforward language. Readers learn how the cold weather affected the rockets on the Challenger and that laws requiring more lifeboats were made after the Titanic sank. The books are easy to… View →
Series Made Simple
Step outside and what do you see? This series covers some of the most recognizable elements of the natural world. Throughout the series, full-page stunning photographs are overlaid with colorful text boxes, while simple repetitive sentences maintain the focus on a few key words. Each… View →
Series Made Simple
Step outside and what do you see? This series covers some of the most recognizable elements of the natural world. Throughout the series, full-page stunning photographs are overlaid with colorful text boxes, while simple repetitive sentences maintain the focus on a few key words. Each… View →
Bookworm for Kids Blog Review of Rock Stars: Limpets, Barnacles, and Whelks
This is a great read for all of those, who are curious about the little creatures clinging to rocks by the sea, or fans of sea life and little… With bright and real life photographs, this dives into the world of limpets, barnacles and whelks. These small, subtle creature View →
Bookworm for Kids Blog Review of Blood, Poop, & Dead Skin: The Things Insects Eat
Kids who love the icky, gross and simply can’t get enough of insects and how they eat are in for a huge treat with this… This book is about insects. . .some very rare and some more common. . .and the more disgusting habits several harbor. Disgusting as some of the food s View →
Booklist Review of American Place Puzzlers
I have eight titles and teach youngsters about historic landmarks . . .What am I? The new American Place Puzzlers series, of course! In these View →
School Library Journal Review of Titanica
Young Titanic fans will reach for these six volumes that cover almost every facet of the ship and its sinking. In Last Hours, for example, several diagrams and cutaways illuminate the various inner workings and levels of the boat and how exactly the iceberg damaged the vessel. Kids will… View →
School Library Journal Review of American Place Puzzlers
These attractive volumes introduce young readers to historical sites across the United States. Using simple, easy-to-read text, the authors present modern engineering feats, like the Hoover Dam and the Statue of Liberty, piece by piece. All of the titles follow a similar format: readers… View →
A Book and a Hug Blog Review of Poop Detectives
Want to go on a poop hunt? Grab your coat and let’s go see if we can find some poop. Maybe we’ll get lucky and our scat dog will find tiger poop or rhino poop or even whale… Yes, filled with plenty of pictures of poop ranging from the prehistoric human poop to the View →
Booklist Review of Becoming a Zombie
Walkers, shamblers, revenants—doesn’t really matter what they’re called, since they’re not real, right? Well think again: this entry in the Zombie Zone series (4 titles) wastes no time explaining just how, exactly, zombies could be possible. The book opens with a narrative-style… View →
Booklist Review of Disguises, Explosions, and Boiling Farts: Bizarre Insect Defenses
In riveting close-up photographs, a dozen insects display—or, in stomach-churning detail, actually demonstrate—a range of natural defenses, from mimicry and camouflage to venomous spines, poisonous foam, and squirts of formic acid. The content caters to thrill seekers (the Exploding… View →
Booklist Review of Discovering Titanic's Remains
Searching for the remains of the Titanic in 1985, Robert Ballard and his crew watched their monitors while guiding underwater cameras along the ocean floor almost two-and-a-half miles beneath them. They spotted the ship’s enormous boilers first, then chairs, china, and clothing, and… View →