Reviews
Booklist Review of El Servicio Secreto (Secret Service)
Designed for primary and middle-grade kids who are learning to read, this brightly illustrated book from the Federal Protectors series (6 titles) provides basic information about the Secret Service. Topics covered include its history and the training of its agents, its special agents,… View →
Booklist Review of El gran tiburón blanco (Great White Sharks)
Chomp! A great white takes out a seal in this book’s dramatic opening, and the exciting (but not sensational) tone keeps right on going. Dynamic, toothy photos make frequent appearances and often poke a fin or nose into the opposing page, where simple but descriptive text reveals facts… View →
Booklist Review of The Navajo
This entry in Bellwether’s Native American Nations series (6 titles) centers on the Navajo. Four-page chapters address topics such as traditional and contemporary lifestyles, contact with Europeans and evolving government relations, artistic traditions, and challenges and hopes for the… View →
Booklist Review of Secret Service
Designed for primary and middle-grade kids who are learning to read, this brightly illustrated book from the Federal Protectors series (6 titles) provides basic information about the Secret Service. Topics covered include its history and the training of its agents, its special agents,… View →
Booklist Review of Coding with Dinosaurs
This workbook in the Adventures in Unplugged Coding series (8 titles) offers pencil-and-paper activities that reinforce basic coding skills. Concepts include sequencing and looping, debugging, and cause-and-effect programming with conditionals. These tasks are presented through… View →
Booklist Review of Great White Sharks
Chomp! A great white takes out a seal in this book’s dramatic opening, and the exciting (but not sensational) tone keeps right on going. Dynamic, toothy photos make frequent appearances and often poke a fin or nose into the opposing page, where simple but descriptive text reveals facts… View →
Booklist Review of Keeping Clean
In this selection from the My Healthy Life series (6 titles), welcoming digital illustrations will keep kids engaged as they learn about hygiene. “Keeping clean is one way of helping your body stay healthy. . . . [I]t helps protect you from germs.” Following this statement, the book… View →
Booklist Review of Sikhism
This entry in the World Religions series (6 titles) provides a succinct overview of Sikhism, one of India’s five main religions. Sikhism is practiced by about 24 million followers, most of whom are located in India or in the Indian diaspora. The book lays out a brief history of the… View →
Booklist Review of Saturno (Saturn)
With just a little help with hard words, beginning readers can dive into this exploration of the sixth planet, part of the Spot Our Solar System series (8 titles). Thielges deliberately uses simple language to encourage early readers, such as “Look! You can see Saturn from Earth!” and… View →
Booklist Review of Saturn
With just a little help with hard words, beginning readers can dive into this exploration of the sixth planet, part of the Spot Our Solar System series (8 titles). Thielges deliberately uses simple language to encourage early readers, such as “Look! You can see Saturn from Earth!” and… View →
Booklist Review of Jobs with Animals
Rather than focus on a particular career, this installment in the Industry Jobs series (6 titles) covers a range of employment opportunities in the field of animal care. An opening chapter follows a woman named Kelsey through a day at work in an animal shelter, setting the scene for… View →
Booklist Review of Polar Bears and Arctic Foxes Team Up!
The Animal Allies series (4 titles) highlights examples of symbiosis within the animal kingdom. While most of the series deals with mutualism, this title examines commensalism, a relationship in which one animal benefits but the other isn’t harmed. Here the arctic fox’s strategy of… View →