Book Reviews
The Octopus Scientists: Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk [Scientists in the Field]by Sy Montgomery; photos by Keith EllenbogenIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 71 pp.5/15 978-0-544-232-70-9 $18.99The French Polynesian island region of Moorea is home to the Pacific day octopus and to a research center that serves as home...
In these apps for preschool and primary users, interactivity adds an extra-engaging aspect to learning new concepts.The cute monsters from Endless Alphabet, Endless Reader, and Endless Numbers are back to teach basic Spanish vocabulary in Endless Spanish. A sight word beginning with each letter appears on the screen and is...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured
Black and White Americaby Carole Boston Weatherford;
illus. by Jamey ChristophPrimary Whitman 32 pp.3/15 978-0-8075-3017-7 $16.99 gWeatherford (Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood, rev. 5/14; Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane, rev. 5/08) presents the life of groundbreaking African American...
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriageby Selina Alko; illus. by
Sean Qualls and Selina AlkoPrimary Levine/Scholastic 32 pp.1/15 978-0-545-47853-3 $18.99The 1967 Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage throughout the country is here given a picture-book accounting. Richard Loving was white, Mildred Jeter’s skin was a “creamy...
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodallby Anita SilveyIntermediate, Middle School National Geographic
96 pp.6/15 978-1-4263-1518-3 $18.99Library ed. 978-1-4263-1519-0 $28.90 gJane Goodall has spent a lifetime dedicated to understanding and protecting chimpanzees. This accessible account of her life (with a foreword by Goodall herself) emphasizes the qualities that will likely...
A Chicken Followed Me Home: Questions and Answers
About a Familiar Fowlby Robin Page; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 32 pp.3/15 978-1-4814-1028-1 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4814-1029-8 $12.99This straightforward introduction to chickens is a lesson in book design of young informational books. Lots of white space allows the exemplar...
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the
Man Who Sold the Eiffel Towerby Greg Pizzoli; illus. by the authorIntermediate Viking 48 pp.3/15 978-0-670-01652-5 $17.99Amidst the current plethora of picture-book biography role models, it’s nice to see a book about a con artist. “Ah, yes. But an artist all the...
Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycleby Miranda Paul; illus. by Jason ChinPreschool, Primary Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.5/15 978-1-59643-984-9 $17.99An evocative rhyming text and verdant watercolors introduce the water cycle to young readers by linking water’s forms — from water to steam to clouds to fog to rain...
Work your way up the Center for Disease Control's ranks from trainee to master "disease detective" by uncovering the causes of disease outbreaks in Solve the Outbreak (CDC, 2013).Every chapter presents background on a fictionalized outbreak and five clues, each followed by a multiple choice question to narrow down the...
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