This is a book that girls who enjoy creating things would enjoy.  Some of the projects could become rather messy, and some of the crafts seem rather tacky, but younger girls would probably have fun with it, and the book does instruct them in some basic skills, such as hand sewing, sewing on a button, and other very useful skills.  It’s a great book for beginning crafters and sewers.  The instructions are easy to understand and are accompanied with good pictures.  There are clear simple lists of supplies, and good recipes for creating home beauty products.  It is a nice addition to our elementary school library.  I think the girls will like the book.

This is a good positive book to help young children learn to deal with the feelings they have when they are worried.  There is a page at the front of the book for adults that has good advice for teaching children to deal with worry.

The pictures are cute, and the font is large and easily read.  The vocabulary is simple and easy for young children to understand.  They have many ideas in the book for dealing with worry and becoming happy again.

It’s a good book.

This book is very interesting and full of fun facts about sloths and where they live.  The pictures re clear and close up.  The font is very large and bold, making it easy to read.

The book compares two-toed and three-toed sloths.

This book is a great addition to our non-fiction library!  I think this is a book that will be checked out often by our children.

Jared Lee has heavily illustrated this installment of Mike Thaler’s Black Lagoon series in black and white drawings.

Hubie and his class have never celebrated the 100th day of school before. Their teacher, Mrs. Green, wants them to bring 100 of something to school on that day. Hubie begins with 6 complaints about school, but “Mrs. Green says that’s not in the spirit of the day.” (p. 11) What do I have 100 of to bring to school for my homework? What to bring in? Hubie doesn’t have enough baseball cards and grandma is only 81 years old, not 100. all the students are keeping their 100 collection a secret. The other teachers are getting in on the event by having a 100-yd. dash in PE, and counting to 100 by twos, and Mrs. Green “is bringing in a hundred-dollar bill. I’ve never seen one, and whoever can guess who’d on it will get to hold it for a  hundred minutes. Wow! The guesses range from George Washington to Spider-Man.” ( p. 41) When the day arrives one student brings one hundred pennies, another one tries to do one hundred push-ups, “Penny sings a song with one hundred notes– all the wrong ones”, someone else has the class stay quiet for one hundred secrets,  one hundred knock-knock jokes, and then it is Hubie’s turn. He has composed a poem with one hundred words in it.  [I can’t wait for 100 Day next school year, so I can copy and enlarge Hubie’s poem on my library bulletin board.]

Thaler has included at least three idioms in this story: 1) playing cards close to vest, 2) clammed up, and 3) back to square one hundred.

The arctic fox is one of nature’s most adaptable animal.  Everything about this animal enables it to survive nature’s harshest environments.  Their amount of fat, metabolism, even how their blood circulates all help the fox to survive in temperatures of – 60 Fahrenheit.  They know how to store food for those times when fresh food may be scarce–a refrigerated system to keep it well preserved.  The arctic fox differs from other foxes in that it is more squat and close to the ground in order to conserve heat.  In reading this book, what impresses you is how unique nature is to adapt to whatever it needs to in order to survive.  The arctic fox is a very clever animal, indeed.

Come and Play, Mr Croc is a board book for the very young, perhaps one year and up.  Five characters are introduced at the very beginning and page by page, the reader looks for one of the characters hiding.  Very colorful and eye-catching.  Youngsters will enjoy one-on-one storytime with this book.

This five senses book is for toddlers, ages two years and up.  It covers all the five senses and with each one gives a fair amount of examples plus added vocabulary to describe things.  A youngster will be delighted with a one-on-one storytime using this book.

This story is creative and fun.  It teaches a lot about the fun of using your imagination.  I liked the way the boy with the box includes everyone, even the boy who was showing off.  The font changes when the characters are talking, however the choice of font style is somewhat hard to read and fairly small in places.

The pictures are interesting and unique.  This is a good read for children.

The first half of this book seemed quite different from the second half; shorter sentences almost made it seem it was targeting a very young audience.  The information given was common, not exactly riveting.  However, the second half picked up quite substantially.  The writing seemed to evolve from elementary to something more substantive and meaningful.  Comparisons were made but no judgment given.  Illustrations are like caricatures of the people themselves; nicely done.  The end of the book features a list of the presidents, in order, stating the dates served and major events and/or accomplishments during their term(s).

Darwin’s Frog, Rhinoderma darwinii, is a small frog, about one inch in length, indigenous to southern Chile.  This frog is different from other frogs because of mothering of the male frogs.  A female frog will choose a strong frog with which to mate, lays her eggs and is gone.  The male frog sticks around the eggs to watch over them.  Just when the eggs are about to hatch, he scoops them up into his mouth and keeps them in his vocal sacs  for about two months.  When they have developed into mini-frogs, he opens his mouth and they hop out, about as big as your little fingernail.  These frogs are hard to find because their habitat is being destroyed by development.  They are also masters at camouflage and can hide quite easily.  If they fear being caught, they flip over and play dead.  All in all, Darwin’s frogs are quite unique from other frogs.