Reviews
A Better Best Friend
“Tallec’s illustrations reflect the quietly amusing quality of the text while giving each character a distinctive look and creating a beautiful forest backdrop with stately trees, filtered light, and seasonal changes of colors. The idea of finding a friend will resonate with… View →
Vultures: Nature's Cleanup Crew
In this chapter of the illustrated “Nature’s Cleanup Crew” series readers will learn about vultures, how they survive, what their typical behaviors are, and how these fascinating creatures assist in maintaining nature’s balance. The primary focus of the text is on View →
Jackals: Nature's Cleanup Crew
In this selection from the illustrated “Nature’s Cleanup Crew” series, readers will meet the black-backed jackal, one of the most effective scavengers living in the grasslands of eastern and southern Africa. These jackals live, on average, eight years and have a sense… View →
Mrs. Maccabee's Miracle
“[A] wonderful book that offers several lessons, including to learn about the Jewish miracle at the heart of Hanukkah and to take care of your belongings. There is a subtle, important message as well: stand for something, take action, and even a few people can make a difference.… View →
Zhen Yu and the Snake
“A sweet story in a little-known Chinese Jewish setting that models community and responsibility for others.” —Children’s Literature View →
The Trouble with Earth
“Children will enjoy this cute U.K. import’s thought-provoking, life-affirming, conservationist premise, expressed with breezy, rhyming verse; they’ll also learn some very basic facts about the planets in the process.”—Kirkus Reviews View →
A Ramadan to Remember
“This lovely picture book shares the specifics of the Ramadan holiday with readers of all backgrounds, while illustrating the very real emotions of one boy who feels alienated from his peers. . . . [A] heartfelt and detailed book to share with all children, whether or not they… View →
Ruth First Never Backed Down
“This book would be an excellent text to teach when middle school children are learning about the Civil Rights Movement in America.” —Children’s Literature View →
Wolverines: Nature's Cleanup Crew
“By book’s end, readers should come away from it with a much deeper understanding of both wolverines and the vital niche they fill in the natural order. Reviewer Rating: 4”—Children’s Literature View →
The Promise
“The unlikely friendship between the two boys goes beyond their religions and culture.” —Children’s Literature View →
Nature Is a Sculptor: Weathering and Erosion
“This eye-opening book will have children examining the world anew, and is a unique addition to the earth science shelves.” —School Library Journal View →
High and Low: A Sesame Street ® Guessing Game
“Besides delivering charm, this series offers plentiful learning opportunities as it helps children explore directionality, spatiality, and opposites. . . Children will come to understand the idea of objects’ and their own relative positions in space—a fundamental math… View →
Counting on Shabbat
“This little book provides an opportunity to reinforce counting skills while learning about another culture and one of its beautiful traditions.” —Children’s Literature View →
You Rock with Ji-Young: A Book about Self-Confidence
“The bright pages are filled with joyful images and thought bubbles asking for readers’ input. . . This series takes vague concepts and makes them concrete for young children.”—School Library Journal View →
Brachiosaurus: A First Look
“An excellent choice that features a high interest topic for children and aids in classroom or story time discussion of the selected dinosaurs.” —School Library Journal View →
The Power of Snow
“A great book for the wintertime that can be used to explain what exponents are in math class as one can challenge the students to calculate each new equation on the page.”—Children’s Literature View →
We Planted a Pumpkin
“[T]he simplicity of two friends planting a seed and having patience to see what comes is an appropriate and pleasant theme. Steer children under six toward this fun, fall themed book.”—School Library Journal View →
Look: A Tummy Time Book
“Young children will be captivated by the faces and objects illustrated in bold colors.”—School Library Journal View →
Eating My Words: And 128 Other Poems
“An astounding work–the crème de la crème from the best of the best!”— Kenn Nesbitt, former US Children’s Poet Laureate View →
Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be
“Ginocchio is here for readers who want to learn more about reproduction and families than the simple birds-and-the-bees, sex-leads-to-babies explanations provide. . . Families come in a variety of arrangements, all of which are worthy of pride. Reviewer Rating: 5”… View →
Nature Is a Sculptor: Weathering and Erosion
“Stunning, color photographs of nature’s work show the dramatic results of weathering and erosion found around the world. Reviewer Rating: 5” –Children’s Literature View →
My Name Is Hamburger
“Jules has created a masterpiece of poetry story-telling genius! Reviewer Rating: 5” —Children’s Literature View →