Eight two-page spreads explain basketball terminology ( jump ball, dribbling, passing and stealing, foul, air ball, jump shot, slam dunk, and basketball scoreboard) in three or four sentences with an action basketball photo.
Rules of the game are not covered.
Page 11’s photo is of a wheelchair game of basketball.
Includes: Word Hunt, Your New Words, Four Basketball Greats (two are women), Index, and Find Out More.
Clean sources of energy are briefly introduced using water –dams, wind – wind farms/turbines, and sun – solar panels in 3 or 4 sentences per 2-page spread next to an accompanying photo.
Subtle, factual, and not preachy.
Includes: Word Hunt, Your New Words, The Sun’s Energy at Work, Index, and Find Out More.
Judy Moody’s 2nd grade younger brother, Stink, has earned a $5.00 gift certificate by helping in a college study. After using his gift certificate to buy a Super-Galactic jawbreaker, Stink writes a letter to the jawbreaker company to state, “It did NOT (I repeat NOT) break my jaw.” The company responds by sending Stink a letter accompanied by an assorted box of 21,280 jawbreakers. Stink’s ensuing dilemmas begin.
At the end of each of the nine chapters, there is a child drawn comic explaining an idiom found in this book.
There is a complete list of 30+ idioms, found within this story, at the end of the book.
In this book we find adventure, mystery, and intrigue. All wrapped up with a werewolf, a couple of ghosts and some creatures. It’s a fun book.
The large, up close photographs are a wonderful way to illustrate the measuring concepts presented in this primary text. Will Sue use her foot or her nose to measure how tall her newly sprouted flower is growing? It is obvious by the photo of the foot and the nose, next to the sprout, that one is too big and one too small. Enlarged and bold photos of rulers, yardsticks, and tape measures show the standard tools that are used for measuring. When a ruler is used to measure the height of Sue’s plant, the text says…”The ruler shows that her plant is 5.5 inches (14 centimeters) tall.” First of all, throwing in a decimal into a primary, introductory book just doesn’t make sense…and second, it is obvious from the exquisite close up photo that the plant does not even measure as tall as 5.5 inches. Also, why include the centimeters, when you can not see 14 centimeters on the ruler, due to the fact that you measure inches and centimeters starting from opposite ends of the ruler. This was quite confusing. A few other photos are equally confusing, with respect to the text. Other pages have the visual and concepts work quite well together. The kids will love the “Cool Measuring Facts” in the back, listing things like tallest dog, longest hair, tallest man, etc. (Photos of each of these would have been very “cool”.)
Using animals in the zoo, the author explores the use of different graphs to organize and understand data. Each two page spread explains specific graphs such as pictographs, tallies, bar graphs, pie graphs and line graphs. With clear, uncluttered graphics, the visuals greatly support the text. Yet, the undersized book would be better presented as a larger book or with a document camera, to be shared with the whole class. I’m glad to have this comprehensive introduction to graphs to add to our collection. Other titles in this set include primary books on analyzing data, probability and sorting.
Soo Min, a young Korean girl, is adopted by an American Family where most everything is new and different for her. She makes a friend in the family cat, but her world is turned upside down when the cat goes missing. Although she is comforted by her mother, her world is righted again when the cat returns. Readers will be able to feel with their hearts the story of Soo Min’s intercountry adoption. Korean words are written on each page that say: family, home, mommy, daddy, child, safe, love, and cat. Illustrations are made in paper collage and acrylic and oil paint.
This well loved fable will be loved even more! Although the concept stays true, it is told in rhyme with great modifiers and verb choice! The illustrations are are fun and bright.
Kaycie Shay has a fairy tale childhood. However, her life is about to change when young Kacie Shay is told that her dad will be moving to another neighborhood. The issue of divorce is handled very well with statements of having no one to blame, and even though there was sadness, over time mom and dad got along better. The story is told in rhyme which seems to lighten the weight of this topic. Water color illustrations enhance the story line.
This Garfield graphic novel is based upon the characters created by Jim Davis. It contains 3 stories that are simple and nonviolent. Garfield lovers will appreciate the same humor in these stories as they would find in the comics and the TV series.