Reviews
SLJ Review of Minecraft 101
These “Minecraft 101” books are ideal for young fans who are just learning about the bestselling game of all time. Mine- craft Crafting will teach them how to build the crafting table to help them make all the other tools necessary for survival. In Mine- craft Farming, they’ll get tips… View →
Booklist Review of Your Brain When You're Sad
Mental health is an important topic to understand, and the Brainpower series (4 titles) helps readers navigate their emotions. Here, three reassuring chapters walk readers through what it means to feel sad and how it affects our brain, differentiating between sadness and depression.… View →
Gateway Biographies - School Library Journal
The lives of an eclectic mix of famous people and one environmental movement are chronicled in these six titles. Readers learn about King Charles’s life including his difficult childhood, Dwayne Johnson’s success as a wrestler and actor, Adele’s astronomical rise to stardom as a singer,… View →
SLJ Review of I See Animal Textures!
Different animal textures, such as fur, scales, and shells, are described in this series for early readers. Written with a controlled vocabulary, each title begins with a visual glossary that shares the important terms used throughout the book. The books emphasize the animals’ physical… View →
SLJ Review of Mission Survival: Saving Earth's Endangered Animals
Finding endangered animal books as attractive as those in this series will be difficult. The color photographs, bright backgrounds, popping images, and text boxes are expertly arranged to make each page extraordinarily enticing. The writing is broken up into short paragraphs within text… View →
SLJ Review of My World
“My World” is an early reader series that dives into different features of day-to-day life. Each book takes a broad approach to exploring one aspect of a child’s world, from holidays to clothes to food. Using common sight words, the books feature one or two simple sentences per page and… View →
SLJ Review of STEM Career Choices
This series is packed with up-to-date and relevant information in a variety of traditional and outside-the-box STEM fields. In five different volumes, covering business, computer science, engineering, healthcare, math, and science, myriad career paths are… View →
Booklist Review of Inside the Bermuda Triangle
The Top Secret series (6 titles) provides readers with all the right questions about the most questionable oddities. Here, the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle are relayed through an introduction and three chapters, cleverly presented with file-like imagery, paper-clipped photos, and… View →
SLJ Review of How Things Grow
Using illustrations that connect to picture book styles, young readers can get excited by the life cycles of animals and plants around them. Sentences are short and simple, keeping reading levels in line with the expectations from the vibrant art. In a lovely yet light touch, there are… View →
SLJ Review of Little Citizens
Be respectful, be honest, listen well, and be courteous. Children learn these staples of good citizenship, but what do they look like in action? This series defines each trait and describes situations where children were respectful by being fair or brave by telling the truth. The author… View →
SLJ Review of Early Coding Concepts
Cheerful, diverse cartoon children play, create, and perform their daily tasks in this adorable series. When Gus comes home from school, he takes care of his dog by performing the same steps every day. Min builds a train track and explores how it affects the train and the rest of the… View →
SLJ Review of Origami on the Farm
A version of origami is introduced for making different animals that can be found on a farm in this series. As stated in the introduction, not all crafts made are true origami because scissors, glue, and markers are used, e.g., for the legs of the spider in Origami in the Field. The… View →