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This accessibly written series is notable for its clean layout, including color photographs, sidebars, and charts. The mostly complimentary narratives are solid overviews of their subjects' early lives, successes, and failures. A "Stop and Think" feature offers discussion questions that can be used for assignments. For the living subjects, the content will soon become outdated. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Newsmakers titles: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Vladimir Putin, Malala Yousafzai, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Nelson Mandela, and Pope Francis.

Large print, fresh layouts, and inviting color photographs welcome readers to these quick overviews of what horses do, covering everything from carriage horses to Lipizzaners to pony clubs to police horses. The brief declarative texts don't flow smoothly, but simple word choices and selection of detail are well pitched for early readers. There are three other spring 2015 titles in this series. Glos., ind. Review covers the following My Favorite Horses titles: Ponies, Show Horses, and Working Horses.

Fuel presents healthy food for athletes' game-day meals plus snacks; Party provides ideas for more festive socializing snacks and nibbles. Clear step-by-step instructions, a glossary of techniques, ingredient and tool lists, and photos of the final products make somewhat complex recipes doable. Sidebars give serving tips and suggest variations. Several recipes require special equipment not listed in the introductory tools section. Reading list. Review covers these Sports Illustrated Kids: Football Cookbooks titles: Football Fuel and Football Party Recipes.

Each book opens with a somewhat off-topic single-spread introduction to a specific color, with emphasis on mixing primary and secondary colors, and then enumerates animals of that color "on land," "in air," and "in water." Superficial facts about each animal accompany a large, bright photo on each spread, giving new readers plenty of resting points. Random additional facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Animal Colors titles: Blue Animals, Green Animals, Orange Animals, Red Animals, White Animals, and Yellow Animals.

A paragraph tells a bit about the art and history of origami and encourages originality and experimentation. Explanations of basic materials, terms, and techniques lead to step-by-step illustrated directions for nine mostly traditional projects, arranged from simple to complex. Full-color photos of the finished projects suggest display methods or uses. Reading list. Review covers the following titles: Origami Palooza and Origami Papertainment.