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Heroes of Medicine and their Discoveries - Children's Literature
Starting with the 1628 discovery that the heart pumps blood through the body and ending with today’s advances in cardiovascular medicine, this nonfiction selection highlights many major medical breakthroughs. Each page is dedicated to a new discovery, including period… View →
Volcano Alert! (revised, ed. 2) - Children's Literature
Some people spend their whole lives keeping an eye on the “sleeping giant” hovering over their land. Some volcanoes erupt with regularity, flinging molten rock high in the air or oozing a steady stream down the mountain side. Others, like Mount St. Helen in Oregon, slumber… View →
Knight Survival Guide - Children's Literature
Knights had a difficult and often dangerous life beginning at a very young age. This entry in the “Crabtree Connections” series gives second grade readers a fairly superficial overview of what young boys and men went through as a page, a squire and finally a knight. The… View →
Meet my neighbor, the Police Officer - Children's Literature
A police officer provides important services in the community. To help keep a neighborhood safe, a police officer has more than one responsibility. These responsibilities include monitoring how fast people drive, directing traffic when lights at an intersection are not working, and… View →
I like to play - Children's Literature
Think of games using a ball. Baseball, basketball, golf, soccer, and catch make up more than half of the six words introduced in this beginning reader with a predictable text pattern. Part of the “My World” Leveled Reader series written in eight guided reading levels A-H, the View →
Speak Up! Communicating Confidently - Children's Literature
The book opens with a scenario that many will recognize: a friend is talked into loaning a piece of sports equipment and he knows that the person borrowing will probably never return it. The question posed is how one feels after being a part of such a situation—crummy is certainly a good View →
Environmental Chemistry - Children's Literature
As this title of the “Chemtastrophe!” series suggests, environmental occurrences, from how much rain falls to how long it takes garbage to break down in landfills, all happen because of chemistry. A brief overview of science in general and specifically chemistry prepares… View →
Backyard Bugs - Children's Literature
Part of the “Crabtree Connections” series, this title is categorized as an information book and it introduces a variety of critters that one could find in their backyard. Most bugs are not really pretty so the question posed early on “Aren’t I pretty?” is… View →
What is it? - Children's Literature
“Words to Know” is the first section in this early reader and it is really a picture glossary of nine words. The pictures are set on crisp white pages and fill the page. First readers see a cat and on the opposing page there is a hat and readers are asked what they see. The… View →
Regrouping - Children's Literature
“My Path to Math” is a multi-volume series of which this title is a part. The book’s purpose is to make math concepts easy to understand, and this book does a superb job. Every activity is introduced accurately and succinctly and is based on a real-world situation to… View →
Using a Calculator - Children's Literature
Today, it seems like all the kids are using calculators at school and at home. In this title which is part of the “My Path to Math” series, a basic calculator is introduced. What makes the book more valuable to those of us who did not have calculators in school is the… View →
Spotlight on Brazil - Children's Literature
Brazil is the biggest country in South America in regards to area. People speak Portuguese and Brazilia, the capital, is a modern city located in the interior. Brazilia was planned in the shape of an airplane with the government buildings in the body and the city squares in the wings.… View →