Reviews
Travel to Italy
“This book will be an excellent addition to a world countries collection for use in social studies lessons. Reviewer Rating: 5” –Children’s Literature View →
Travel to Germany
“This book will be an excellent addition to a world countries collection for use in social studies lessons. Reviewer Rating: 5” —Children’s Literature View →
Cinco de Mayo: A First Look
“The books provide early learners with information that builds knowledge about holidays around the world. Reviewer Rating: 5” —Children’s Literature View →
Travel to Brazil
“This book will be an excellent addition to a world countries collection for use in social studies lessons. Reviewer Rating: 5” –Children’s Literature View →
Bo and the Community Garden
“[A] strong choice for the elementary classroom or school library. Reviewer Rating: 4” –Children’s Literature View →
Khalil's Clothes
“[A]n enjoyable little book for a beginning reader, providing content that is easy and engaging.Reviewer Rating: 5” —Children’s Literature View →
Abby Wambach: Super Striker
“Readers with an interest in soccer, women’s athletics, and sports in general will enjoy learning more about Abby Wambach and her stellar contributions. Reviewer Rating: 4” —Children’s Literature View →
Meet Cooper Kupp: Los Angeles Rams Superstar
“Young football fans will appreciate the story of Cooper Kupp as well as the information, photographs, and statistics that are included in this sports biography. Reviewer Rating: 4” –Children’s Literature View →
Super Potato's Middle Ages Adventure: Book 10
“This journey will entertain and amuse readers interested in the graphic novel genre. Written with a humorous bent, this chapter in the Super Potato saga will entertain readers and leave them wanting to know more about Super Potato, a very unlikely hero. Reviewer… View →
Adele: Music Megastar
“This is a wonderful, hardcover book, celebrating the life and numerous accomplishments of the singer, Adele. The songstress, known for her emotional songs and larger than life voice, has won 15 Grammy awards, met with English royalty, and sung with many celebrities. This book… View →
Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be
“Within each chapter, Ginocchio tells engaging, lengthy stories, based on interviews, of several racially and ethnically diverse parents, from same-sex relationships to individuals who wanted to be parents to heterosexual couples struggling with infertility, and how they brought… View →
The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology
“Readers will be amazed by Villepreux-Power and the interesting journey she made from seamstress to self-taught scientist, credited with creating the first aquariums and studying live aquatic animals in the process of discovery.” –Children’s Literature View →
Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport
“Stelson masterfully provides background context for today’s young readers, while keeping the focus of the story on the children’s experience. Rating: OUTSTANDING”— BayViews View →
Perfect Presents!
“With its moment of dark humor, this picture book may appeal to school-age children more than preschoolers. Fun for reading aloud.”—Booklist View →
Perfect Presents!
“This short comic, told in very spare language, conveys a sweet, simple message that children should easily comprehend and, hopefully, emulate: Kindness begets kindness. The lively, humorous illustrations . . . are endearingly expressive. . . . This cute story is like a present and View →
The Bear and the Wildcat
“[A] forward-looking book for children who have loved and lost.”—Wall Street Journal View →
Arctic Ice Loss
“This book could be an eye-opening one for children . . . we must continue to do what we can, both for our own future and that of all the animals that depend on it.” –Children’s Literature View →
Super Potato's All-Night Dinosaur Fight: Book 9
“[A] playful book that combines action and adventure with a few laughs.”—Children’s Literature View →
Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport
“In a collective voice . . . Stelson describes rising tides of anti-Semitism, tearful partings, scary journeys by train and boat, meetings with British foster families, and then a return to Prague at war’s end to search out the scanty remnants of families and, long after, to… View →
Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport
“A necessary and inspirational book about a little-known light amid a dark period of history, this book should find a home in all libraries.”—starred, School Library Journal View →
Yuck, You Suck!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck
“The colorful, comical illustrations bring about a lively scene and show animals with highly expressive facial features. Teachers may want to add this title as a literature connection to a study on animals or animal features.” –Children’s Literature View →
The Little Island
“The lesson that the geese learn is both important and impactful, and will definitely resonate with young audiences.”—Children’s Literature View →
Buildings That Breathe: Greening the World's Cities
“[A] highly recommended book that will enrich readers’ knowledge of our planet Earth while inspiring creatively beautiful change.” –Children’s Literature View →