What Do You Believe?

Gr 4—7—The "new DK" style used here is still heavily illustrated, with many small bursts of text and great visual appeal, but with far less white space than the "Eyewitness" series, and it incorporates lots of silhouettes and speech bubbles. All major religions are covered in two-page chapters. Entries on Native and East Asian religions provide too little information due to the constrictions of the layout. Most interesting are the spreads that synthesize information on topics like "What's the point of prayer?" "Why do you wear that?" and "What is God?" Although the material is typically brief, this slim book goes beyond the standard comparative religion format to address questions of philosophy and belief that readers, both those with and without religious identification, will find thought-provoking, such as "How do people make moral decisions?" A good complement to Laura Buller's A Faith Like Mine (DK, 2005)—Rebecca Donnelly, Loma Colorado Public Library, Rio Rancho, NM