Reviews
SLJ Review of Bring Science Home
Each of these books offers 10 activities that include clear directions and expectations. Readers might construct an artificial hand, explore surface tension, or create fractal prints. The amount of time needed, a materials list, and the steps for preparation, procedure, and even clean up View →
Booklist Review of Animal Battles
A fun, engaging series. View →
SLJ Review of Lowriders to the Rescue
Cultures, technologies, and families unite in this rallying cry for eco-friendly change. When a forest fire endangers a family of anthropomorphic Arabic monarch butterflies, daughter Sokar escapes to the nearby city to find help. She encounters the Latinx lowriders—an impala, a mosquito, View →
Kirkus Review of AstroNuts Mission Three: The Perfect Planet
Perfectly fun. View →
Booklist Review of Fox & Chick: The Sleepover and Other Stories
The latest book in the Fox & Chick series features three stories designed for beginning readers but equally enjoyable for reading aloud. In the first chapter, Chick invites himself to a sleepover at Fox’s house, but only one of them actually sleeps. In the second chapter, Chick finds View →
SLJ Review of AstroNuts Mission Two: The Water Planet
The ragtag AstroNuts crew continue their mission of finding a Goldilocks planet (not too hot, not too cold, but just right) as a new home as Earth becomes more and more polluted. The AstroNuts—AstroWolf, LaserShark, SmartHawk, and StingBug—take off in their rocket, the sculpted beak of… View →
Booklist Review of Grown-Ups Never Do That
Adults never misbehave. They don’t yell or cry or bump into things or lose their temper. They are never, ever wrong about anything. They’re never messy or late or rude or forgetful. They don’t litter or waste time on their phones or neglect their chores, and they definitely don’t burp.… View →
SLJ Review of Grown-Ups Never Do That
Grown-ups, according to this collection of advice, have impeccable manners and never make mistakes, and children should be just like them. However, the illustrations, featuring children equipped with cameras and boom mics in the periphery, tell a very different story. Cali, author of A… View →
Booklist Review of Three Cheers for Kid McGear!
A flatbed arrives at a construction yard and unloads a tiny but talented truck: “Clean and shiny, all brand-new, / with lots of cool attachments, too!” Eager to help, she introduces herself as Kid McGear and asks to be put to work. The five original trucks ask her to move aside while… View →
SLJ Review of AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet
Here is a wacky tale, heavy with glossy pages of vibrant graphics, that will appeal to “Captain Underpants” and “Geronimo Stilton” devotees. Overrun with pollution, Earth’s atmosphere reaches uninhabitable levels, forcing NNASA (Not the National Aeronautics and… View →
SLJ Review of Three Cheers for Kid McGear!
A skid steer named Kid McGear introduces herself to a group of construction vehicles. She is eager to learn and offers to help them. At first, the vehicles don’t think she is strong enough to lend a hand clearing the construction yard. Kid McGear hears a yelp and notices an excavator in… View →
Booklist Review of AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet
Scieszka joins creative forces with Weinberg to craft a zany new sf series with serious underpinnings. This first adventure is narrated by the planet Earth, who is quickly becoming uninhabitable for humans due to global warming (thanks to humans). The time has come to find a new home for View →