Reviews

“Designed for struggling readers, this series combines accessible writing, dynamic illustrations, and high-interest topics. Snazzy covers and an abundance of glossy, full-color illustrations…

This series tells about the bites and attacks of featured creatures. Each book begins with a true account from a victim. In a conversational style, information about the insect or animal’s…

This series tells about the bites and attacks of featured creatures. Each book begins with a true account from a victim. In a conversational style, information about the insect or animal’s…

Detailed close-up photographs bring shark species to life in this middle grade series. Each book begins with an anecdotal sighting of the featured shark; only one of these includes an avoided

Critical Annotation: Elementary students who enjoy learning about sharks will appreciate this new title on the blue shark. The author provides readers with information on the blue shark’s…

Detailed close-up photographs bring shark species to life in this middle grade series. Each book begins with an anecdotal sighting of the featured shark; only one of these includes an avoided

Exciting introductions like this one, in which a goring is described in vivid detail, entice young readers to turn the pages of nonfiction selections. In this introduction, Lisa Owings…

This series reveals that the Soviet Union heavily influenced its former satellites economically, socially, and politically. It highlights the atrocities that continue to haunt the cultural…

Full-color photographs, except in Dinosaurs Around the World in which the illustrations are full-color artworks set into a background photograph, are numerous in these books. Each two-page…