Reviews
The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story
“A beautiful take on the water cycle. Waldman traces the journey of a single drop of water throughout the year, with each month receiving its own spread. The real stunners here, though, are the dazzling, cool-tones paintings that convey the wonders of nature with delicate… View →
Sisters Against Slavery: A Story about Sarah and Angelina Grimké
“. . .clearly written dual biography. . . Finely detailed pencil drawings accompany the text. Students will find useful report information here, and there is rich material for class discussions.” —School Library Journal View →
Crafts From Your Favorite Bible Stories
“Clever crafts constructed from common, inexpensive materials. The 27 topics, with Scriptural notations from the Old and New Testaments, include Noah’s ark, Sara and baby Isaac. . . Jesus walking on water, the ascension, and Paul escaping from prison in a basket. . . These View →
Fabulous Frogs
“This picture book has a fun, simple text replete with froggy sounds and a rhythm and rhyme or near-rhyme that give it a pleasant, poetic flavor. The book presents the life (from mating to birth to growth) of a common frog while featuring illustrations of the leopard frog, spring View →
Spectacular Spiders
“A young girl admires the work of a garden spider living in her backyard and describes its physical and behavioral characteristics. Focusing on the arachnid’s use of spider silk, she tells how it constructs a web to catch insects, employs a ‘dragline’ to escape… View →
Dilly's Summer Camp Diary
“This visual and verbal delight brings to life the emotional ups and downs of three weeks at sleep-away camp. Dilly, who was convinced she would love camp, finds that its not exactly as she’d envisioned. Eventually, her interest in frogs helps her to overcome the rough… View →
It's Spring!
“A companion to the author’s It’s Fall (Millbrook, 2001). The excitement of spring is in the air as a boy explores the world around him. Cut-paper illustrations enhanced by hand painting give a three-dimensional look to the scenes. A double-page spread of a torrential View →
Danger at Sand Cave
“Realistic drawings dominated by shades of gray and brown depict the clothing of the period and add clarification to the text for readers unfamiliar with caves, shafts, and lanterns. This adventure will appeal to beginning and reluctant readers.” … View →
The Copper Lady
“. . .A good introduction to historical fiction, offers a story about one of our national symbols from an interesting point-of-view.” —School Library Journal View →
The Fall of Constantinople
“Iranian Revolution is the stronger of these two books. It begins with background on the role of Islam in Iranian history and describes the 20th-century conflict between the Iranian Shahs who wanted to embrace Western culture and the ultraconservative clerics, such as… View →
Great White Sharks
“These titles focus on what makes these amazing animals such skilled predators. In both titles, the full-color photography bedazzles on almost every page, particularly in showing the owl babies. These solid additions are sure to appeal to young naturalists.” … View →
“Both of these small, square volumes feature lots of nice, bright pictures, many taken from unusual angles [Earthmovers and Trains].” —Booklist View →
The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story
“Taylor and Nicola complement this lesser-known survival story with descriptions of their own exploration of the caves and recovered artifacts, interviews with survivors, and a blend of modern-day and period photographs.” —Book Links View →
Wilma Rudolph
“Accessible narratives, including anecdotes chosen for their kid appeal, introduce these important (and classroom-friendly) historical figures to young Spanish-language readers.” —The Horn Book Guide View →
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¿QUÉ hacen los maestros (What DO Teachers Do): [después de que TE VAS de la escuela]? ([after YOU Leave School]?)
“The book’s inspired premise – what teachers do at school after students go home – is enough to draw in readers; exuberant illustrations of teachers run amok seal the deal.” —The Horn Book Guide View →
Will y Orv (Will and Orv)
“These beginning readers offer historical fiction from the point of view of a child observing the events.” —The Horn Book Guide View →
Read Anything Good Lately?
“From ‘an atlas at the airport’ to ‘a yoga book in the yard’ and ‘the zodiac at the zoo,’ a little girl moves playfully along through biography, comics, dictionary, encyclopedia, magazine, poetry, quotations, recipes, and a variety of genres.… View →
“Tense action sequences blossom into a joyous, fulfilling conclusion, but it is the imagery – lyrical, mysterious, haunting – that will linger.” —The Horn Book Guide View →
“Profiles of famous cases (Timothy McVeigh, O.J. Simpson) and descriptions of jobs in the field (forensic entomologists, dentists, anthropologists) will pique readers’ interest.” —The Horn Book Guide View →
A Book about Bupkes
“Thoughtful, tender, and charming. Definitely not bupkes.”―Kirkus Reviews View →
Sammy Spider's First Haggadah
“…this Haggadah shouts out for little hands to hold it and turn its delightful pages.” View →
Sammy Spider's First Purim
“This is a charming book, illustrated in bold, vivid colors that perfectly express the warmth of the story.” View →