What is there to say? It is Twilight. The wish fulfillment of many teens. The book begins with background on the author and the next chapter focuses on how the idea for the series came to her in a dream. The remaining chapters are about the actors and their roles, the settings for the movies and how the books were adapted to screenplays. An oversized book filled with glossy photos that fans of the series should love, but I do not think it is a necessary purchase.

Recommended only as additional purchase

This reference on how to get scholarships for college is easily accessible and a guide any graduating senior should be able to read and follow. The book includes chapters like “Find the Best Scholarships You Can Win, Avoid Scholarship Scams, Create Stunning Scholarship Applications, Secrets to Writing Winning Essays,” and more. Each chapter begins with a page that list what you will learn in that chapter. There are lists that have boldface subtitles, sidebars, clipart – lots that will make this book not appear too intimidating to teens. I particularly like the section in Chapter 2 “Find the Best Scholarships You Can Win” that advises student how to choose the right scholarship for them, such as heeding the words of the sponsors and being realistic about how good you are. This practical guide is a book I wish more seniors would read.

Here is a speculative tale of a day in the life of a pterosaur. Ancient life-like dinosaurs are placed (perhaps by photo shop) into photos of lush tropical and evergreen forests, and rocky valley stream beds. Up-close physical appearance of texture on creatures is shown for skin, hair, and feathers. Predators and prey are shown as they co-exist, first hunting and then being hunted themselves.

Most readers will probably skip the last page of author’s notes where it states: “Many pterosaur fossils are found near seacoasts…are also found far away from the sea. They may have lived in inland habitats or migrated or flown great distances, as we show in our story.    The action in this book is inspired by an astonishing fossil discovery in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada.”

When I think of  eggs, I usually start with those of chickens. The same is true in this book, before it branches out to other farm laying fowl: , turkey, ducks, guinea fowl, pigeons, and geese. Then, it branches off to birds in the wild: swallow, robin, crow, black bird, owl, and ostrich. Followed by reptiles in soft leather-like shells: snakes, turtles, and crocodiles. Followed by: dragonfly, lady bug, louse, spider, mosquito, slug, cod, flying fish, ray, oyster, mussel, shrimp, and crab.

BEFORE all of this branching though, through the use of transparent pages, three different cross sectional views of a chick developing and growing inside of the egg will be ooooh and ahhhed over by the young and older reader alike.

The book closes with pictures of eggs prepared to be eaten by people: fried eggs, sturgeon eggs, salmon eggs, hard boiled eggs, and a chocolate Easter egg.

Printed on heavy board pages on a metal spiral binding.