The pictures are nice. It moves along quickly, and is an easy read.
I’m certain some people will like it. I don’t really care for it. It seems to deal with a girl moving from being a girl to a teen.
It does have an easy to read rather pretty font.
At the end of the book is a number of questions that address being silly. Reading the book to a group, and then exploring the open ended questions at the end of the book could be a fun and thought provoking experience for a group.
Basic science for young children with fun experiments to help teach the concept. The illustrations are very good and help make the book more enjoyable and fun.
There is a section in the back for parents and teachers to help in using the book for teaching children about physical sciences.
Very nice book
This book has a broad over view of space history and the future. The book stirs up all the excitement about space we had years ago. The pictures are fantastic. Very good book. There is a timeline that is well done. Table of contents in the front and glossary in the back.
This is a fun way to learn about animals. This is the World Animal Games-WAG for short. There are several different categories that have four contestants, each a different animal from around the world. It tells about the animals in a new way. The pictures are good and the Facts are fun. This book makes you think and learn. The elementary students love this book.
This classic tale is often referred to as the first time travel story. Wells describes in the future where the Eloi live an almost Utopian existence; except for their fear of the dark, and the Morlocks who live in the dark. This SF Masterworks addition is bound well, but the quality of the paper is not as good; it feels like a paperback. But it never hurts to have another copy of a classic on hand.
This is an encyclopedia with entries on cat people, dog people, succubus, demons and werewolves from all over the world in life, literature and film. Each entry is followed by a list of sources. There is an entry on Enkidu, the world’s earliest recorded manbeast. There are entries on Bella Legosi’s Dracula and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. There is an entry on Navajo werewolves, or “skin walkers.” Considering the abundance of books and movies about vampires, werewolves and demons in the last several years, this is sure to find an audience in a high school library.
The story of Quincy Moves to the Desert is told from Quincy, the horse’s point of view. His best horse friend, Beau, tells him that they will travel from New York to the desert of New Mexico. Beau is older and more experienced than Quincy, who is also new to the farm. Beau narrates the trip with information about different breeds of horses in different states. They all seem to be doing something different and unique. Luckily a map is included in the story and a wonderful website! http://www.quincythehorse.com/
This book demonstrates how the tongue is not the only tasting organ, but that different species have different ways of tasting. These different ways include feet, tentacles, skin and legs. What is pretty amazing are the numbers of taste receptors different species have, usually many more than humans. The content of this book is fine, but if there had been actual high resolution photographs included, rather than illustrations, this book would have rated a recommend.
Taking a trip to the pumpkin patch? Don’t go without first reading this story-in-rhyme count down book on the whole field trip experience. Start with counting down from 20 name tags…17 orange things on the bus…12 pets in the petting zoo…11 bees are making honey (I’ve never seen a hive that sparse.)… three bites of pumpkin pie…one pumpkin song to sing. And what well known count down song do all adults know?…99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall…of course! (Twenty Pumpkin Pies on the Wall) Bright and lively illustrations complete with corn maize and tractor wagon ride, will appeal to the the kindergarten and first grade crowd.
Aunt Amarga, the last witch on earth, is afraid that some of the secrets of the lives of witches will be lost if she does not hand over the Witches Handbook to to her niece and nephew. “What is a witch or a warlock? begins the handbook, but then the flow quickly shifts from a question format to a rather large section (most of the book) on describing famous witches and warlocks from fairytales (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Merlin) in “tongue in cheek” fashion. Twice as many Unknown Witches and Warlocks are described using sophisticated humor. Switch back to question format for “When were there more witches?” Shift again to a discussion of brooms and flying styles, witches and animals, potions and spells, Halloween and the witches’ sabbat. Back matter includes a a word search, riddles, spot the seven differences, and spell-removing pancakes. I think this book misses its intended audience with it’s more adult word choice, and pages and pages describing unknown witches and warlocks. The lack of flow and odd mixture of content reminds me of what might be thrown into a witches caldron…a little this…”eye of newt”…and a little of that…”toe of frog.” Whimsical and colorful illustrations are charming and kid appealing.