This book is an elementary look at the life of a penguin. There are funny words that young children would enjoy having written in a story book style from the perspective of a baby penguin.
The authors note at the end of the book covers more of the interesting details about the penguin.
It was an ok book.
This is a cute valentine joke book. Along with the cute jokes are little tidbits and information about Valentin’s day. Fun to read the jokes, riddles, and limericks. Fun to find out more about Valentine’s Day.
A quick mini-bio of the Hulk appears on the back cover for those who are not familiar with the Hulk.
Bold purple text begin each new twist in the story line.
As usual, Bruce Banner wants to be left alone.
As usual, General Ross wants to capture the Hulk – AKA- Bruce Banner.
As usual, S.H.I.E.L.D. wants the Hulk.
As usual, Bruce Banner is struck, then transforms into The Hulk, and the battle is on.
Now the predicable scenario is over, the real story begins with Hulk being captured . There is a double agent at S.H.I.E.L.D. working for the evil HYDRA. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is outwitted by the double agent ” ‘but as far as S.H.I.E.L.D. is concerned, I just took down a traitorous double agent.’ Then she held up the vial of Hulk’s DNA. ‘Hail HYDRA…’ “
A cheery bright orange cover with a happy hatching chick greets the young reader of this seasonal book.
The story begins with Spring arriving outside, at home, and at school, “but who exactly is the Easter Bunny?” Then, we see the Easter Bunny collect eggs, paint the eggs, and hide the eggs for the children to find. Finally, we see him “hop back to his little house in the woods and into his snug, cozy bed for a long, long sleep.”
Chubby smiling children and Easter Bunny are illustrated in large visible child-like strokes of colorful tempera paint.
Noah Webster is best known for writing the first American dictionary but is also very active in helping to unify the country. After the Revolutionary War was over, he thought having consistent spelling and understanding of words was one way to strengthen America. While teaching, he began writing the “blue-backed speller” for his students and the country. He continued to write more books for school children and a DIC-TION-AR-Y [noun: a book listing words in ABC order, telling what they mean and how to spell them] of “American” words. The watercolor and ink illustrations are humorous and portray Webster as an ambitious man who loved words and his country. This fun and informative book would make a great addition to school and classroom libraries.
Choosing the best small animal as a pet for your family is an important decision. This book introduces seven small mammals, how to feed and care for them, individual traits, and if they can be trained. Each animal has a page or two describing the cage, food, and supplies to keep your animal happy and healthy. Enough information is given about each animal for one to decide if a particular pet would be a good fit with one’s family. There are large, colorful photographs of each animal. Text is easy to read, each photo has a cation, and there are many Fast Facts sprinkled among the pages. Glossary, index, internet sites, and other books to read are included. Great resource!
Beginning with the Paleozoic Era, 542 million years ago, one can trace the history of prehistoric life on our planet up to recent discoveries. Many facts include information about where fossils were found, diet, and size of animals living on the planet long before humans. Scientists are able to determine many features, however sometimes a best guess is presented and is indicated with a question mark. Recorded dinosaur discoveries in the United States and around the world began in the 1800s and continue up to the present day. The layout is easy to read and the illustrations are created digitally. Two of the three facthound internet sites were active at the time of this report. Glossary, index, and books to read are included at the back. This is a great resource to help put years when particular dinosaurs lived in perspective.
Flyaway grabbed me from the start and I didn’t stop until the final decision was made. Stevie is a junior in high school with too much on her figurative plat and very little on her real plate. Her mother’s “profession” gets her harrassed at school and her mother’s personal choices keep Stevie’s mind racing as to her mother’s safety. With issues no high school student should have to deal with, but probably too many of our actually do, Flyaway is a fierce account of one girl’s mental fight to do what is right just for her. Helen Landalf does not shy away from any of the issues she brings up. Drugs and alcohol abuse keep this title for the older young adult audience, but I particularly like the brutal honesty that comes from all of Landalf’s characters. Stevie is not an angel herself, but she will make the right choices to lift herself to better places in the end. This is highly recommended for high school libraries.
This is a young child’s board book with lift the flaps and pop-ups. It has bright, colorful illustrations that are well-balanced and visually pleasing. The characters are introduced the very first page, with Mr Croc and five of his friends. On each succeeding page, Mr Croc is invited to come and play and each time he replies he is too busy looking for one of his friends. The reader must then lift up a variety of flaps and find the friend. This activity provides good memory skills for the reader as well as naming skills. Sturdy board pages, but inappropriate for a school library as the flaps always tear.
This book is based on true events in the life of Mark Twain, better known as Samuel Clemens, the writer of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, when he lived in New York City. In an apartment in NYC, Clemens’ wife had died, his older daughter in a home because of severe depression and grief, and his other daughter and housekeeper lived with him. He was having great difficulty coping with the loss of his wife and best friend. His constant companion was Bambino, a black cat belonging to his institutionalized daughter. Then one day, Bambino escaped from the house to chase a squirrel and was gone. Desolate, his grief seemed to worsen. His daughter put up flyers and newspaper advertisements looking for the cat and offering a generous reward. People were so worried about Mr. Clemens that many of them brought their own cats for him to have while the search was on for Bambino. It was this outpouring of love and affection for him which awakened his spirit. He realized he was wasting his life and got on with it. He dressed in his traditional white suit and went out into the public for speaking engagements and such. Life became meaningful again. A lovely book but I’m not sure who the audience is; children will appreciate his fondness for his cat, but will not recognize his name and fame. Most adults are familiar with depression but do you write a book like this about it? Although familiar with Clemens/Twain, I thought it simply to be a book about a man who was grieving and lost his cat and people showed they cared about him. Illustrations were okay, but nothing remarkable.