Reviews

PreS—Each book presents a common childhood experience through a friendly narrator who explains step-by-step what is happening...

PreS-Gr 1—Though the man died in 1955, children are invited to "Meet Albert Einstein...

Gr 9 Up—In this meticulously researched companion to Ann Buermann Wass and Michelle Webb Fandrich's Clothing Through American History: The Federal Era Through Antebellum, 1786–1860 (Greenwood, 2010), Stamper and Condra provide exhaustive coverage of late-19th-century American fashion by analyzing how trends were influenced by age, gender, ethnicity, etc...

Gr 3—5—Layers of the Earth and the common minerals that make up rocks are introduced in the first chapters...

Gr 9 Up—Alex is looking for something real—more real than her distant father, who never speaks in complete sentences, more real than the faded memories of her mother, who died on the night she was leaving her family, even more real than her two best friends and their plan for a graduation trip to Colorado...

Gr 2—5—Each book examines the featured animal's anatomy, senses, mating and family behaviors, communication, diet, and distribution...

PreS-Gr 1—Fuddles is a large and very pampered black-and-white tuxedo cat who yearns for adventure and the great outdoors...

Gr 4—8—This well-written and thoughtfully designed series features engrossing topics, some of which have potential as curriculum tie-ins: a "Great Pyramid Mystery" spread in Ancient Mysteries, for example, discusses the history of the massive structures in Egypt and how nobody knows how they were built, and Disappearances outlines the questions surrounding the Roanoke colony...

K-Gr 1—In the first beginning reader, Goeller asks, "Who says boo?" Photographs of costumed children and animals declare, "Not I...