Stephanie Kwolek grew up during the Great Depression and, as any typical little girl, loved to make dresses for her dolls.  When she was in high school, her passion turned to chemistry.  She felt there was a relationship between the two in comparing the meticulousness of both.  Stephanie later went to an all-women’s college and majored in chemistry.  She thought perhaps she could later go into medicine.  However, with a college degree in hand, she landed a job with DuPont, a chemical engineering pioneer at the time, and stayed with them for over 40 years.  During that time, she was challenged with making a thread that was stronger than steel.  Not such an easy task.  After almost 20 years, she discovered a thread made from polymers that when woven together was strong enough to stop a bullet–kevlar was born.  Needless to say, kevlar has made a huge impact on the world, saving many lives of the military and law enforcement.  It is also used in spacecraft, radial tires, roads, brake pads, plus a multitude of other items.  At the end of the book is a section titled, ‘You Be the Inventor.’  It gives examples of kids who have had an idea, patented it, and built a company from it, all at a very young age.  This book is encouraging for kids to follow their dreams.

This story is written as a rhyme, but does not flow smoothly in places.  In the first half of the book the things the chicks learn at school each day are not correct.  The mother hen ends up reteaching her chicks each night.  It reflects negatively on the school.  Then she talks about negative and posative  attributes in an abstract way.  They seem to solve their problems by changing schools.

I don’t think I like how this story reflects on teachers and schools.  The googly eyed pictures are lots of fun.  I like them far more than the story.

This is a cute story about responsibility and consequences.  The book is a great one for readers who want to start reading chapter books.

The characters are loveable and kind.  They learn to deal with problems in an appropriate way.

The font, words, and spacing are great for early readers.  The pictures are fun too.

At the end of the book is a craft project to help readers create one of the stories characters for themselves.

This book is a nice addition to our library.

This book has fun pictures, but the story line seems to have no real conclusions.  Maybe for kids who like to imagine their own solutions this would be an interesting book.  To me, it just seemed to ramble around.

This book is very eco-friendly, with fun projects young girls would enjoy!  It has clear pictures, with numbered step by step instructions.  Very easy to follow.  The grammar could be improved in some of the instructions.  Page 9, step 4 is particularly poor.  The font used on some of the added tips and cautions is a cursive looking type, and is harder to read.  Young readers may just ignore those reading blocks,  and miss some of the safety precautions in the process.

The recipes for the personal pampering are wonderful!  The end of the book has great basic how-to instructions for skills everyone could use.

In spite of the things I saw as weaknesses in this book I think it is a nice addition to our library.

This book is full of almost tongue twisting rhymes.  It  would be a fun read with a group of young children.  Then you could let them try to repeat the phrase.  The pictures are cute and colorful.  Some of the words are too advanced for early readers.  The rhymes at the bottom of the page are in large bold print; great for a group to see and read together.

A fun quick read.

This is a fun story.  The lesson of how to truly help others is the main theme of the story.  The Magician learns that doing everything for others is not the best way to help. The pictures are full of fun details.  This is a good story for children.

This is book #6 of 6 in the Supergirl graphic novel series. I have read book #2, but not books 3, 4, or 5. My background knowledge from book #2 was helpful, but I needed to have read the previous books in this series to completely understand the twists and turns in the plot.

GRADUATION DAY, Part 2 tops the pictorial list of characters before the story line begins, but I do not understand this title’s significance.

Superman and Supergirl are in the clutches of Lex Luther’s Lexsoar 7 when Comet ( a horse in a cape) smashes the machine freeing them. Back on Earth, Supergirl finds a frozen Belinda. Then Lena arrives ready to take revenge on Supergirl,only to have them both bound up by MXYZPTLK from the 5th Dimension. MXYZPTLK takes credit for all that has happened to Supergirl, so he could collect all her emotions… “to be amplified and processed through a machine built to replicate your Kryptonian biology and my 5th-Dimensional awesomeness…” ( p. 12) A few pages later, MXYZPTLK escapes from Supergirl and returns to the 5th dimension. The 5th dimension inhabitants “banished [him] to the 2nd dimension. Forever.” (p.21) for breaking the rules.  Back in the 3rd dimension, Lex has helped his sister, Lena, recover from the effects of MXYZPTLK’s capture but Lena has lost the memory of Lex as her loving brother.

The artwork ‘s facial expressions, use of size and color, and the scenes from space are outstanding!

There are 5 Visual Questions and Prompts included at the end of the book.

Bugs and insects need police and in this book it is Captain Bob, Bug Patrol. Follow Captain Bob as he cruises around from 9 AM to 10:08 when ants on a donut need some help with their manners, at 11:30 it is beetles in a fender-bender, at 12:33 it is speeding spiders on motorcycles, at 1:35 it is time for lunch and walking the beat, at 3:15 there is a picket line at the roach hotel, at 4:53 there is a missing baby flea emergency, followed by a loud cricket party at 7:48. Then at 8:00,  “Bug patrolling work is done.”

This BIG 9.75 X 10.25 inch book is filled with big plump, bug-eyed critters at each location. Short concise rhyme awaits the reader at each traffic stop.