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Apatosaurus
Gr 1–3—Falling well below current standards for dino-profiles, these slapdash productions pair standard-issue descriptive texts with illustrations drawn from various sources and done in a variety of styles...
Gorillas
Gr 2–4—These meaty introductions to our closest animal relatives will give young readers a solid grounding in primates' physical features, social habits, mental capabilities, and lives in their wild habitats...
Steve Jobs
Gr 5–7—Standing out from the rush of postmortem profiles, this biography focuses most intently on the entrepreneur and innovator's earliest influences, from his mechanically gifted adoptive father and the electronics enthusiasts who clustered in "Silicon Valley" to his exposure to Zen Buddhism, calligraphy, and the idea that art and engineering are not mutually exclusive pursuits...
Military Airplanes
Gr 1–2—Though some of the full-page photos of military vehicles in the field are dark, making the pictured machines hard to decipher, the color photos, high-interest topics, and large-type texts bedewed with military-style acronyms—particularly in Trucks—may draw reluctant older readers as well as younger browsers...
Ice Cream Before the Store
Gr 2–3—Readers who think that foods and other goods just magically appear on store shelves may have their eyes opened (but not very wide) by the general explanations in these volumes, most of which promise more than they deliver...
Bedbug-Sniffing Beagles and Other Scent Hounds
K-Gr 1—Though formatted for emergent readers—with very simple sentences in large type placed opposite full-page color photos of animals at work—this set offers information that will likely be new even to adults...
Steve Jobs
Gr 4–6—This worshipful entry in the series gives the late, great entrepreneur's career a once-over so shallow that it never even mentions his birth parents, his formative sojourn to India, or Apple's iCloud...
Steve Jobs
Gr 5–7—Drawing on the posthumous "authorized" biography of Jobs as well as an array of older print and online publications, Ziller presents a glowing portrait of the late great entrepreneur as a technological visionary who stood and directed traffic "at the intersection of science and art...
Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes
Gr 9 Up—Aimed more at collectors than general students, this companion to the authors' Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America (Firefly, 2007) fills in some historical background but is largely a set of dryly academic descriptions of characteristic materials, manufacturing methods, and decorative motifs associated with common types of Native North American artifacts...
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