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This book is appropriate for kindergarten-2nd grade. This is about animals using each letter of the alphabet and facts about them. I would use this book during alphabet learning time so that my students could have an image of each letter when they try to remember their alphabet.

This book is good for third or fourth grade students, it is teaching about animals and follows along the alphabet. This book was an a-z of the worlds incredible animals. Each page had different animals with the letter they were on, and there was a picture of the animal and key informational facts about that animal. In a classroom this would be helpful for teaching about different animals and allow them to place them with alphabet letters as well.

This book has descriptions of many different animals in dictionary format (a-z). Great to have in the classroom for students to look at different animals or research a specific animal. Also great to teach students how to find things in a-z format. Good for a range of ages, probably most helpful in 3rd grade.

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Summary: It gives information about the Earth, how it formed, the different pieces that make up the earth, and significant events and time periods.

Let's start off with the obvious. This is a book from 2004, it's not up to date, it's old, I don't think they still sell this version, but I've seen at least one for sale in the last few years and it's not as informative as you think it is. Pass unless you're getting it for the old info, or for the pictures on the pages.

Out of the dictionaries(bug, endangered animals, etc), this one might be the best. It's 2003, so not a perfect book, but it still holds up well to present. The illustrations are gorgeous, some of the best I've seen, and the snake info is accurate.

Recommending this most out of the dictionary books, because it's still good.

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Many stories are told about Cleopatra and the exciting life she led, but sometimes it is hard to tell fact from fiction. This book is a mix of fictional and nonfictional things about her life. The double spread pages focus on an aspect or event in her life, detailing her birth, childhood, path to becoming a paragraph, falling in love, war, and her final death. Each page also has flaps to include extra details about life in Rome and Egypt at the time of Cleopatra. Each page is covered in illustrations, small paragraphs of text, and usually has a fictional journal entry like what Cleopatra might have written.

In the style of the popular “Ology” series, this is part of a series called Historical Notebooks to give an interesting approach to discussing a particular historical figure. For the most part, it is a good introduction to Cleopatra, Egypt, and Rome. The book is well-organized and makes it easy to follow the known events of her life. It would have been improved, however, with leaving the fictional accounts off or making them a bigger part of the book. As they are, it is confusing for just a small part of the page to be fictional and then have the rest of it be nonfiction because it makes the fiction either seem true or the nonfiction less valid. Some of the flaps are interesting and useful, such as discussions of mummification or Egyptian hairstyles, but others are unnecessary. Either one side is just a pattern, or there are illustrations that could be placed elsewhere or left off, making the time it takes to flip over the flag unnecessary. Although it is a good resource to learn about Cleopatra, some of the execution could have been better.

Through the use of pri - mary source documents and lift-theflaps, the wondrous adventures of Marco Polo come to life. The unique format offers a creative approach for introducing readers to the world-renowned traveler’s experiences along the Silk Road to medi - eval China

This books discusses various sea creatures in alphabetical order. While discussing the different forms of marine life, the eating habits, migration patterns, life spans and special qualities are noted for each animal.

This is a very straight-forward book which displays various uncommon animals. The goal is to show some of Earth's more interesting inhabitants to readers in a swift fashion. Being a short book, it's only natural that pictures are large and descriptions are numerous throughout each page. Much like peacocks showing off their beautiful plumage, this books uses images of interesting creatures to hold the attention of its readers.

Genre: Informational
Review: "The Book of Stars" is an informational book about the different types of stars in space. It includes information about the sun, red dwarfs, giant stars, dying stars, galaxies, and more. Each section has a paragraph describing the star or group of stars, a small section on myths and legends related to the star, and a section that looks closer at an element of the star. It has a glossary at the back defining each of the stars, as well as an index. It also has a lot of pictures that illustrate what each star looks like. I think this is a great informational book because it has a lot of information about stars without being overwhelming. I think students interested in space would appreciate this book because they would be able to understand and learn from it. I would like to include this book in my classroom library.
Uses: This book would be great for students to refer to if they were researching space/stars, or if the class was studying graphic features in a text. It would also be interesting to look at this book if students were learning about Greek or Roman mythology.
Media: Pictures

Those young readers who appreciate graphic photographs and things others might describe as gross will especially enjoy this book. Its layout is both attractive and at times confusing. Some pages make it difficult for readers to see connections between material.½

PSC Review: This scrapbook approach to biography provides interesting reading, even for older readers. I didn’t know that Cleopatra, although born in Egypt considered herself a Ptolemy, Greek-speaking aristocrats from Macedonia. Flaps, foldouts, maps and reproductions of ancient artifacts make this book interactive history reading. I’ve had similar books in the library, and surprisingly they’ve held up well. Their ability to pull kids into the story makes up for the fact their shelf life may be shorter than a traditional library book.

This book has very colorful photographs of the slime producers and their slime, from water, lungfish, hagfish, sea cucumbers, sea slugs, sea hares, frogspawn, slimy stuff on land, poison arrow frogs, and others.

PSC REVIEW: If the title doesn’t attract readers the slimy looking slug on the cover will. There’s a lot of slime out there. Of course, the Pacific Northwest’s banana slug is right up there, getting an 8 on the slime-ometer. Others may be familiar to readers like the sea slug. But the book doesn’t stop with the familiar. There are foam-nest frogs and lung fish. Divided into sections by location of the slime –land, water, and other slime --it includes fungus like the lattice stinkhorn. Photos really do enhance the text in this book. The big wad of phlegm awaiting the reader in the introductory chapter is so realistic you don’t want to put your hand there. Good choice not to touch it. According to this book, phlegm rates the highest of any slime on the slime-ometer. I wish they had been given more information about the California newt. It says that 1 gram of tetrodotoxin (cyanide) in the slime is enough to kill 2,000 adult humans. I found this alarming because California newts are pets as well. Further reading led to the information that this must be ingested to kill, but even so there has to be more to this California newt story.

Little Kid Reaction: My friend’s son found the book interesting although he is not a big fan of ancient history.

Big Kid Reaction: The format is very busy and there’s a lot happening on each page but the information is excellent. The author doesn’t “talk down” to the child. This is a pretty thorough account of the queen’s life for a book of this nature.

Pros: The interactive format is very attractive and should make the reader want to learn even more about this famous queen and her country.

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Want to know when and where the world’s worst earthquake happened? How about what happens to giant squid when they swim too close to sperm whales? Or learn about monkeys hot-tubbing it in natural Japanese hot springs? All this and more is explained in “Extreme Earth: Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” written by Clint Twist, Lisa Regan, and Camilla de la Bedoyere. This particular addition to the Ripley’s series is a “Twists” book, which means that kids reading it will have to twist it left, right, and up-side-down in order to read some of the fascinating facts, lending to the interactive properties of the book. The pages cover a multitude of topics ranging from mountain climbing, volcanic eruptions, ocean life, and man-made islands. There are helpful functions like “Big Word Alert” signs that point out large words used frequently on that page and their definition and “Fascinating Fact!” stickers that direct eyes to areas on the page that feature particularly strange and outrageous facts (i.e. the wandering spider is responsible for more human deaths than any other spider!). The photo collage format of the pages show exact descriptions of the facts and in some cases, give readers an idea about actual size (see giant beetle). Facts are also organized by colorful headers and captions littered with squiggling arrows that point out the corresponding photos. Recommended for grades 4-6.

This book is very informative, and in a unique way. I love the way that the pages add a visual interest by staggering the length of each page, so that the reader can tell where each page tab is. Each page has its own facts and figures as well as myths and legends, I think this is great to have in a nonfiction book. I would use this book at third grade level or higher when teaching lessons on the moon, sun and the solar system. This book also has its own glossary and index which I believe is pertinent to any science book.

This is supposed to be an introduction to geography and it is packaged as if for a small child. It is a snap case enclosing a plastic form that encases six cardboard books vaguely shaped like the continent they are describing.
The print inside the little books is very small and the facts are presented in a dry, encyclopedic style. The last page of each book mentions a famous landmark of the continent, but instead of a picture of the landmark, there is an image of a camera.
I do not think this set, or book, or whatever it is, could be used as intended by a very young child, nor do I think it would be enjoyed by an older child unless an adult is present to help explain the very dry material.

Well researched general overview of the Moon. The author gives a mix of facts about the moon as well as common myths and legends associated with the moon.

The main theme of the book is teaching younger children the scientific forces and motion of objects. The author wrote this book having younger children in mind by using bold printed words to grasp the attention of the readers. The book is also set up as a question and answer book. This book would be a useful tool when teaching about a lesson dealing with motion and force and could be used in grade levels K-2.

Easily one of the best children's books I've ever read. Each interactive, pull-out, colorful page, is loaded with so much aeronautical information, from the cockpit through the fuselage, and all the way back to the tail fin, that I learned as much about airplanes while reading it to my kids as they did! Fun fun fun! And the pages are nice and thick as well, not chintzy and easily tear-apart-able, like so many interactive children's books, which get wrecked the very day you purchase them oftentimes, once your ravenously reading, though rough handed, curious kids have their playful way with them.

Kids will learn the answers to fascinating questions such as...how on earth can a huge piece of machinery weighing over 800,000 pounds - nearly half-a-million tons! - ever get airborne? And what does a jet engine block look like from inside the block? Cool stuff!

The book also features a page on the Past and Future of aeronautics, including interesting tidbits on the Airbus A380, which is over 230 feet long, has three levels and can fly 5,000 miles nonstop without refueling - which is like flying from San Francisco to Tokyo without having a stopover in Honolulu! Holy cow!

Planes and how they work is supposed to be for kids, but I think adults (well, maybe only dorky adults like me) will enjoy it as much, if not more so, than their children. Listen, it sure beats the heck out of reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Dick And Jane over and over anyday, trust me. Reading this book is like watching Finding Nemo or Monster House, you can read it multiple times and yet it remains fresh and fun for both children and adults. I wish all children's books were this interesting.

Discusses all different types of stars from the sun, smaller and larger stars. It also describes how big each is, if you can see it with a naked eye, what it's made from. Continues by explaining star clusters, galaxy, universe, and constellations. Genre: Informational because it is strictly informing the reader about stars and such, without any other opinions or stories included. Point of view: Narrator because it is strictly information being passed along. Because there are no characters there are no voices other than the narrator. Media: computer graphics