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Water Wise! - Children's Literature
Book eleven in the Crabtree “Connections 2” series, which teaches about history, medicine and environment among other things. This paperback discusses water and the ways we can use it more wisely. For instance, only three % of all water on our planet is drinkable, yet people… 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 →
Rats Around Us - Children's Literature
Rats live everywhere humans do and outnumber us on every continent except Antarctica. They steal food, can gnaw through almost any material, and spread diseases but they can also be trained to perform tricks, make excellent pets, and help in the search to find cures for human diseases.… 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 →
Egypt - the people (revised, ed. 2) - Children's Literature
The best part of this series of small volumes is the scattering of striking photographs—women veiled in the Muslim tradition making political speeches as far back as 1919 or modern high school graduates in cap and gown showing a mixture of headscarves, mortar boards and flowing… View →
Groundhog Day - Children's Literature
With stunning colored photographs of groundhogs and simple text, many facts about Groundhog Day are shared. Groundhog Day is February 2nd in the United States and Canada. If the groundhog sees his shadow on that day, six more weeks of winter weather is predicted. If the groundhog does… View →
Ecological Disasters - Children's Literature
The “Science of Catastrophe” series uses science to explain what happened in different disasters and excels in being accurate and readable. The series also has artistic illustrations and detailed diagrams of the science involved. The books are current and the price is… View →
What is climate? - Children's Literature
In this nonfiction book, primary school aged children can learn about the many causes and impacts of climate. Chapters cover the relationship between weather, climate, and the Earth, including a chapter at the end with practical tips on how we can reduce our carbon footprint. Climate… View →
King Arthur's Tale - School Library Journal
This adventure is filled with magic, wizards, and dragons, and it seems factual when paired with people and places in Arthur’s life. View →
What comes in sets? - School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 1—These titles resemble sections of a textbook, focusing on one concept and offering several approaches to it. In Comparing Fractions, the proverbial pizza is one example used to solve a problem and for sharing. Other examples include peppers, corn, tomatoes, radishes, and eggs.… View →
What is Pollination? - Children's Literature
How flowers and other plants continue to reproduce is clearly explained and illustrated on the opening spreads. The most common pollinators are bees, wasps, butterflies and other animals that visit flowers. There are three types of pollination—cross-pollination, self-pollination and wind View →
What Is Cell Theory? - Children's Literature
It took centuries of work by many collaborators, working together and independently, to identify and understand the basic building block of all life—the cell—and develop a scientific theory to explain its functions. That a unified theory could emerge from such divergent sources and… View →