Blast Off! Hungry Bugs Snappy Sharks Under the Sea

K-Gr 1—Each of these volumes pairs 100 words—split into header phrases, one or two declarative sentences per page, picture labels, and a glossary spread at the end—with brightly colored photos. Blast Off! and Sharks also feature digitally created images. Brevity notwithstanding, the vocabulary is not necessarily low level, as terms like "larvae," "clownfish," and "spacesuit" attest. Each title covers generous topical territory: several common residents of a coral reef float past in Under the Sea, for instance, and Blast Off! roars past rockets, astronauts, the space shuttle, the Moon, and even the solar system. Though most of the photos in Snappy Sharks are disappointingly non-toothy, Hungry Bugs features plenty of chowing down and crowd-pleasing facts such as, "This dung beetle eats elephant poo!" The content may be vanishingly thin, but the presentations are stimulating.