Reviews
SLC Review - My World Your World
This photographic collection explores the similarities and differences in how young children live, work, and play around the world. Each selection has colorful layouts with facts and vocabulary, and a map of the world highlighting the locations featured. In addition, there is a learn… View →
SLC Review - Desert Animals
The desert is a harsh and unforgiving environment and home to a collection of unique animals with special characteristics which allow them to live and thrive there. The well-written text explores physical characteristics, diet, predators, and the young. Colorful full-page photographs,… View →
SLC Review - My World Your World
This photographic collection explores the similarities and differences in how young children live, work, and play around the world. Each selection has colorful layouts with facts and vocabulary, and a map of the world highlighting the locations featured. In addition, there is a learn… View →
SLC Review - My World Your World
This photographic collection explores the similarities and differences in how young children live, work, and play around the world. Each selection has colorful layouts with facts and vocabulary, and a map of the world highlighting the locations featured. In addition, there is a learn… View →
School Library Connection Review for Abandoned! Towns Without People
Each title begins with a brief introduction posing how once busy locations became abandoned; each book likewise ends with a comparison of then and now. Split into colorful two-page spreads, this series will appeal to readers who enjoy unsolved mysteries or learning about unusual episodes View →
Booklist Review - What's Soil Made Of?
Dirty is the perfect name for a series that will have kids wanting to head outside and see Though the titles don’t have to be read in any particular order (especially sinc View →
Booklist Review - How Do Animals Help Make Soil?
Dirty is the perfect name for a series that will have kids wanting to head outside and see How Do Animals Help Make Soil? looks at the way creatures, from earthworms to sh View →
Booklist Review for The Doomed Amusement Park
Twelve-year-old Leo Colsen awakes from a frightening dream, where he was walking through a haunted fun house to the sound of a soft voice seeking help and giving him directions. Leo, believing the desperate cry is real, scribbles down the directions and hops on his bike. At the end of a… View →
Booklist Review - Why Do Most Plants Need Soil?
Dirty is the perfect name for a series that will have kids wanting to head outside and see some of the interesting points the books make about soil—what it is, how it’s formed, what it’s good for.Why Do Plants Need Soil? details the nutrients plants get from the earth that allows them to View →
Booklist Review - Is All Soil the Same?
Dirty is the perfect name for a series that will have kids wanting to head outside and see Is All Soil the Same? goes deeper into soil’s composition and explains why soil View →
NSTA Recommends Why Do Most Plants Need Soil?
Part of the series Down & Dirty: The Secrets of Soil, this book explores the importance of soil to most plants. Beginning with a short review of what soil is, this book looks at why soil is important to the survival of most plants. Soil provides an anchor for plants and a… View →
NSTA Recommends What's Soil Made Of?
Part of the series Down & Dirty: The Secrets of Soil, this book introduces young scientists to the components of soil. It starts by explaining clearly that a primary component of soil is the broken up pieces of the underlying rock layer in an area and how that rock is broken… View →