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Cultural Traditions in Mexico - School Library Journal
Simple overviews of the holidays, festivals, traditions, and customs of these countries. Each spread contains information and eye-catching, full-color photos depicting the foods and people commemorating events. National and religious holidays are included. Brazil starts with Christmas… View →
Cultural Traditions in Brazil - Children's Literature
More than 200 million people live in Brazil, which is the largest country in South America. This nonfiction book describes the many holidays that are celebrated in Brazil. A few of these celebrations include Christmas, Carnival, Easter, Indian Day, and Feasts Day. In Brazil the weather… View →
Corvette - Children's Literature
In the 1950s America was introduced to its own ?homegrown" sports car. Produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors, the 1953 Corvette was a fiberglass, two-seater designed to show American muscle in the international sports car world. Only three hundred of them were made… View →
What Are Newton‘s Laws of Motion? - Children's Literature
Imagine developing a set of laws that describe motion succinctly, clearly and mathematically. Imagine also that these laws apply equally to motion occurring on Earth and throughout the solar system. This was the contribution to science made by Sir Isaac Newton. But Newton didn’t… View →
Labor Day - Children's Literature
Unions have organized workers to band together to better working conditions and benefits. Facing sixteen hour days, dangerous workplaces and less than fair wages, unions were able to make demands for better conditions by holding strikes and protests. They improved workers lives, their… View →
Teen Pregnancy - Children's Literature
The negative consequences of teen pregnancy are significant, including curtailed education and significantly lower lifetime earnings for the parent; this is also true for their children, who also experience higher incidences of teen pregnancy and incarceration. Puberty, described as the… View →
Line, Bar, and Circle Graphs - Children's Literature
Part of the series “My Path to Math,” this volume is a useful and clear introduction to a practical subject. It begins with charts and pictographs. Children who are part of a summer reading program at a library talk about the children themselves, bookmarks, books, and subject View →
Rain Forest - Children's Literature
Generally rainforests are found in hot climates and they are places where it rains every day. These rainforests are homes to many plants and animals that live on the ground, in trees and at varying levels of the forest. Ants march along the ground and army ants can be quite formidable… View →
The Alps - Children's Literature
The ageless Alps—world’s most famous mountain range—have the greatest population, are the most visited, and have been explored since earliest times. Readers of this “Mountains Around the World” series will discover that the Alps divide Italy from northern Europe and… View →
Lady Gaga - Children's Literature
Performance artist, social activist and fashion icon Lady Gaga has pushed her creativity since she was a student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her life story from a childhood where she was known as Stefani Germanotta to her makeover into the performer Lady Gaga with a… View →
Apatosaurus - Children's Literature
An introductory page contains a diagram of the Mesozoic Era showing the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous Periods. A brief text explains that living things have been around for billions of years and shows the place in time for the Apatosaurus. A twenty-two page story follows… View →
Explore Earth‘s Seven Continents - Children's Literature
Students are provided with an overview of the seven continents and what makes each continent unique. Not only is the book packed concisely with facts relating to continents, students also learn about borders, countries, cities, habitats, rivers and oceans. Kalman does an excellent job of View →
Go Greek! - Children's Literature
This well-illustrated picture book mixes a few facts about ancient Greece with related crafts and activities. The author introduces a few related vocabulary terms, including “battering ram”, “frieze” and “Medusa”; however, I would not recommend this as View →
What Are Minerals? - School Library Journal
Gr 3–5—With rocks and minerals being curriculum topics, libraries are always in need of additional, current resources. These books cover the basic information but they will not engage readers. The reading level is high for the intended age group. The introductions in Crystals, Fossils,… View →
Turning Point Battles of the Civil War - Children's Literature
The Civil War was fought in hundreds of locations, with armies totaling over three million men across the span of the conflict, and in ways that can hardly be understood by modern readers. Yet, despite the multiplicity of persons, places, and material things that made up the American… View →
Baby animals in ocean habitats - Children's Literature
This text is part of a series “The Habitats of Baby Animals” specifically focused on introducing early readers to geographic regions through the use of baby animals, something most young children will respond to with enthusiasm. This particular text, with its focus on ocean… View →
Reports from the Front in WWII - Children's Literature
Poland is being terrorized! Polish citizens hide in their cellars for fourteen hours while the country is being invaded by Germany. This is the beginning of a unique book told from the perspective of those who experienced the war first hand. They include soldiers, Holocaust survivors,… View →
Baby animals in grassland habitats - Children's Literature
If you want a child to read something enjoyable yet educational, Kalman’s “Habitats” series is right up your alley. This title focuses on animals living in a grassland environment and explores common questions including: what is a community and what is a food chain?… View →
Harry and the Horse - Children's Literature
Part of the “Tadpoles” series this Guided Reading Level C book entertains new readers with an amusing tale. Harry has gone to the fair and he is enjoying his ride on the Merry Go Round. It is magical as Harry’s imagination takes him around faster and faster until he and View →
Baby animals in rainforest habitats - Children's Literature
It would be hard not to pick up and look at this book which is part of the “Habitats of Baby Animals” series because the covers are so attractive. Baby animals hold a lot of appeal and not only for young readers. There is a baby orangutan on the cover and title page both of… View →
Baby animals in savanna habitats - Children's Literature
It would be hard not to pick up and look at this book which is part of the “Habitats of Baby Animals” series because the covers are so attractive. Baby animals hold a lot of appeal and not only for young readers. There is a baby cheetah on the cover and title page both of… View →
Percentage - Children's Literature
“My Path to Math” is a multi-volume series of which this title is a part. The book’s purpose is to make math concepts easy to understand and this book has its strong and weak points. The introduction is very well done and there is excellent reinforcement for each… View →
Famous People of the War of 1812 - School Library Journal
Taken collectively, these volumes present an effective, engaging account of the causes, personages, and battles of an all-too-often-forgotten American conflict. Occurring in the early years of the young nation, it tested the Republic’s mettle, fanned the flames of nationalism, and… View →
Meet my neighbor, the News Camera Operator - Children's Literature
The book, a title in the “Meet My Neighbor” series, follows the workday of Kevin Faibish, a news camera operator in Canada. Readers see Faibish packing and unpacking equipment, taping an interview with soccer players, and working in the television studio. Through text and… View →