Reviews

“Stella Batts: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow” is a chapter book with immense appeal for kids age 7 and up, second in a series. Life starts out positive for Stella, child of candy store owners who

Gr 4–8 All three books look at the history, associated mythology, and place of these subjects in the modern era. Readers wil enjoy the references to current popular culture such as the…

Gr 4–8 All three books look at the history, associated mythology, and place of these subjects in the modern era. Readers wil enjoy the references to current popular culture such as the…

Gr 4–8 All three books look at the history, associated mythology, and place of these subjects in the modern era. Readers wil enjoy the references to current popular culture such as the…

Gr 4–8 All three books look at the history, associated mythology, and place of these subjects in the modern era. Readers wil enjoy the references to current popular culture such as the…

Paying well-deserved tribute to 100-year-old Fenway Park—the oldest major-league park still in use—Pallotta proffers both soaring (OK, florid) verses (“It isn’t just a ballpark; it’s Boston’s

Part of the “Tales of the World” series, The People of Twelve Thousand Winters is a children’s picturebook in which award-winning author Trinka Hakes Noble portrays the life of a Native…

Gr 4–8 All three books look at the history, associated mythology, and place of these subjects in the modern era. Readers wil enjoy the references to current popular culture such as the…

Gr 4–8 All three books look at the history, associated mythology, and place of these subjects in the modern era. Readers wil enjoy the references to current popular culture such as the…

The series features Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, The Early Middle Ages, The Late Middle Ages, The Holocaust, and The Decade of the 2000s. These titles may serve as a supplement to middle and…

An amusing visual riff on the frequent refrain “nothing ever happens to me.”

Delia recounts the details of her incredibly dull yesterday. While her words describe a pedestrian day from…

When 10-year-old Emmy Blue Hatchett’s father announces that the family will be traveling from their home in Illinois to the frontier town of Golden, Colo., the reaction to the news is as…

Back for her third outing, Stella reports, “If you write at least three books that are all connected then you have a series.”

All is not well for Stella: Her BFF has moved far away,…

Each volume in this series follows a clear, easy-to-read format with sidebars, lists, graphs, and primary source quotes. Each book starts with an overview followed by a set of questions and…

Each of these books covers a comprehensive variety of topics and are nicely organized, with chapters in a chronological sequence from the history of each topic to a chapter dealing with “The…

Each volume in this series follows a clear, easy-to-read format with sidebars, lists, graphs, and primary source quotes. Each book starts with an overview followed by a set of questions and…

Each of these books covers a comprehensive variety of topics and are nicely organized, with chapters in a chronological sequence from the history of each topic to a chapter dealing with “The…

Each volume in this series follows a clear, easy-to-read format with sidebars, lists, graphs, and primary source quotes. Each book starts with an overview followed by a set of questions and…

Each of these books covers a comprehensive variety of topics and are nicely organized, with chapters in a chronological sequence from the history of each topic to a chapter dealing with “The…

Gr 2-4–Walking Turtle and Little Talk are children of the Lenni Lenape, living in an undetermined time in a region now part of New Jersey. They seem wise beyond their years as they convey the

Each volume in this series follows a clear, easy-to-read format with sidebars, lists, graphs, and primary source quotes. Each book starts with an overview followed by a set of questions and…

Stepping in animal poop is rarely cause for celebration, but it is for a girl named Finn in a story that invokes not one, not two, but three meanings of the word “scat.” On a wildlife walk…

In the tradition of Everyone Poops, Pallotta’s gently mischievous story features cute animals that share one thing in common: occasional flatulence. “A flock of birds flew by. OK, who did it?

The Mysterious & Unknown series walks a fine line, presenting information that a student could use to write a report without throwing too much cold water on good old-fashioned, shivery…