This fiction book will appeal primarily  to female readers between the ages of 3rd-5th grade.  Young readers who enjoy books with visuals, such as different font, occassional cartoon picture,  illustration, diagram, etc. will appreciate the format of this book.  The plot of the story is based on friendship and self confidence.  Grace’s best friend Mimi is going to become a big sister.  The girls want to practice being a family helper with caretaking of neighbor children, but the plan backfires as the young charge seemingly prefers Grace over Mimi.  This undermine’s Mimi’s confidence in becoming a good bit sister.  The girls work together for a happy ending to this story.  Blooming chapter book readers might enjoy the format of this book.

This intermediate nonfiction book has great photos depicting how technology has influenced the Olympics.  Humans with artificial limbs, known as paralympics, seconds and milliseconds in events, technology at the Olympics.  Recommended for intermediate aged sport enthusiasts.

This is a super great nonfiction book with great pictures, list of materials, and fun ideas on decorating pens, pencils, notebooks and bookends.  It will appeal to intermediate aged kids.  The ideas and projects would make a fun independent or group project for students and teachers.  Very well done and recommended.

This is a fabulous nonfiction book with very do-able art projects for children.  Step by step instructions, helpful pictures, and materials list.  This is a great book for a teacher’s unit  of study on Mexico.

This nonfiction, primary book explains the basic ideas behind Veteran’s Day.  This history, symbols, people, vocabulary words, interesting facts, and a recommended website www.abdopublishing.com which promises to offer updated websites from their platform.  This is recommended for primary students as a tool for introducing the Veteran’s Day holiday.

This nonfiction book delivers information on Wombats of Australia.  Fantastic pictures on every page add to the visual appeal of this book.  Written on a dual reading level, the narration on a primary level and the captions more on an intermediate level, make this book great for independent readers or teachers or adults to share with a child.    I do like that the book included a map of Australia, but it lacks an insert which demonstrates where the continent is on a world map.  Vocabulary, websites, facts, and index included in the back.  I really like the format of this nonfictional book.  Recommended.

Beautiful illustrations are the most prominent feature of this poetry book featuring endangered animals from all over the world.  The poems are written on a primary level, K-2 would appreciate the language.  However, the illustrations appeal to every age, and will draw the adult reader in with the facts and pictures.  I would have liked the author to include an insert graphic of world map highlighting the region of the animal being featured.  This book has passion and beautiful illustrations while delivering a message about endangered creatures who are facing dwindling time on our planet.

This was originally published in 2005 or 2006.  I have some copies of this in my library, and thought this was a sequel until I examined it more closely.  This is actually the same version which has been republished!  Only in the back are study guide questions, an author interview, and essay questions.

This is a humorous and stylish piece written with a bit of tongue in cheek by MT Anderson.  This tale has something to amuse eveyone.  The trio of middle school friends work together to outwit the evil boss of the girl’s father, who is planning to take over the world with whales!  Quirky, funny, and will appeal to relectant readers, as well as proficient, due to wit and plot.  Recommended.

This nonfiction books has a visually attractive appeal which hails 8 chapters of information about tropical rain forests.  There are some good website recommendations, an index, and glossary in the back.

This Scholastic non-fiction book is as primary as a reading level can get.  One or two sentence pages with pictures.  Very simplistic and will appeal to preschool, K, and 1st grade.  Nice Addition.