Reviews
Booklist Review of A Look at Money Matters
This volume in the A Look at Money Matters series (6 titles) uses a high/low format to introduce the economic concepts of loans and interest. The simple yet comprehensive text opens with every kid’s question at some point—“Can I have some money?”—and expands on basic explanations of… View →
Booklist Review of Amazing Summer Olympics
Each slender, attractive volume in the Amazing Summer Olympics series (8 titles) presents the basic elements of one sport featured in the Olympics taking place this summer in Paris, beginning in late July. An Olympic sport since 1896, fencing has a history that arose from sword fighting… View →
Booklist Review of Amazing Summer Olympics (Los increíbles Juegos Olímpicos de verano)
Each slender, attractive volume in the Amazing Summer Olympics series (8 titles) presents the basic elements of one sport featured in the Olympics taking place this summer in Paris, beginning in late July. An Olympic sport since 1896, fencing has a history that arose from sword fighting… View →
Booklist Review of Art Styles
Bold shapes and bright colors festoon the pages of this entry in the Art Styles series (6 titles), which aims to introduce basic art movements to newly independent readers. Core components of pop art are described here, such as the inclusion of popular media or advertising and the… View →
Booklist Review of Curious about Robotics
Each book in the Curious about Robotics series (8 titles) takes on a segment of the broad topic, usually indicated by the robots’ function or location of use. Among the subtopics included are robots in medicine, in space, and in fiction. Would young readers like to have robots in their… View →
Booklist Review of Curious about Robotics (Curiosidad por la robótica)
Each book in the Curious about Robotics series (8 titles) takes on a segment of the broad topic, usually indicated by the robots’ function or location of use. Among the subtopics included are robots in medicine, in space, and in fiction. Would young readers like to have robots in their… View →
Booklist Review of Eerie Expeditions Around the World
Welcome to Edinburgh Castle, an ancient fortification rumored to have more than a few ghostly residents. This entry in the Eerie Expeditions around the World (6 titles) series whisks readers to the titular Scottish fortress, dramatically describing it as the “most haunted place in… View →
Booklist Review of Entertainment Encyclopedias
This volume in the Entertainment Encyclopedias series (4 titles) focuses on superheroes and is sure to be a kid magnet. The bright, enticing cover, graphics-rich pages filled with accessible snippets of text, and breezy tone effortlessly combine to introduce 45 super-beings, covering… View →
Booklist Review of Exploring the Occult
Do you believe in angels? If so, you’ve got company: according to this installment in the Exploring the Occult series (5 titles), 70 percent of Americans do—and 60 percent believe in the devil. Kallen invites readers to think of angels as divine superheroes that are all-knowing,… View →
Booklist Review of Fantastic Magic
Budding prestidigitators are privy to a rudimentary look into the art of magic in this selection from the Fantastic Magic series (6 titles). Inside, readers will discover common magical terms introduced throughout in bold (an accompanying glossary and index are appended), a very short… View →
Booklist Review of Intro to Language
The Intro to Language series (6 titles) aims to teach the very young basic vocabulary and phrases in a different language. Clean, airy layouts strike a nice balance between white space, large text, and supportive illustrations, typically arranged into topical double-page spreads. In this View →
Booklist Review of Qianna and the Quantum Train
Qianna and her squad of friends are dropping beats in a music studio when a “time quake” erases subway transit, high-speed trains, roller coasters, and other forms of transport that rely on clean electric propulsion in this STEM-inspired graphic novel, part of… View →