(4) 4-6 Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body series. Illustrated by Venitia Dean. These books introduce basic anatomy and the functions and dysfunctions of human body systems through text (in tiny font), illustrations, and schematics. Each volume concludes with a chronology illustrating historical beliefs and scientific discoveries as well as a spread of random facts. Scattered stick figures interacting with the medical illustrations provide the series' gimmick but little else. Ind. Review covers these Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body titles: Stickmen's Guide to Your Beating Heart, Stickmen's Guide to Your Brilliant Brain, Stickmen's Guide to Your Gurgling Guts, and Stickmen's Guide to Your Mighty Muscles and Bones.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) 4-6 Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body series. Illustrated by Venitia Dean. These books introduce basic anatomy and the functions and dysfunctions of human body systems through text (in tiny font), illustrations, and schematics. Each volume concludes with a chronology illustrating historical beliefs and scientific discoveries as well as a spread of random facts. Scattered stick figures interacting with the medical illustrations provide the series' gimmick but little else. Ind. Review covers these Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body titles: Stickmen's Guide to Your Beating Heart, Stickmen's Guide to Your Brilliant Brain, Stickmen's Guide to Your Gurgling Guts, and Stickmen's Guide to Your Mighty Muscles and Bones.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) 4-6 Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body series. Illustrated by Venitia Dean. These books introduce basic anatomy and the functions and dysfunctions of human body systems through text (in tiny font), illustrations, and schematics. Each volume concludes with a chronology illustrating historical beliefs and scientific discoveries as well as a spread of random facts. Scattered stick figures interacting with the medical illustrations provide the series' gimmick but little else. Ind. Review covers these Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body titles: Stickmen's Guide to Your Beating Heart, Stickmen's Guide to Your Brilliant Brain, Stickmen's Guide to Your Gurgling Guts, and Stickmen's Guide to Your Mighty Muscles and Bones.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) 4-6 Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body series. Illustrated by Venitia Dean. These books introduce basic anatomy and the functions and dysfunctions of human body systems through text (in tiny font), illustrations, and schematics. Each volume concludes with a chronology illustrating historical beliefs and scientific discoveries as well as a spread of random facts. Scattered stick figures interacting with the medical illustrations provide the series' gimmick but little else. Ind. Review covers these Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body titles: Stickmen's Guide to Your Beating Heart, Stickmen's Guide to Your Brilliant Brain, Stickmen's Guide to Your Gurgling Guts, and Stickmen's Guide to Your Mighty Muscles and Bones.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) 4-6 Sickening History of Medicine series. Illustrated by Venitia Dean. The emphasis here is on the gross and bizarre in the history of medicine and diseases. In each book, an introduction is followed by twelve sections covering the goriest details of past epidemics, unhygienic practices, ancient medicines (e.g., poisonous hemlock) and treatments (bloodletting), "quacks," and more. Cartoon characters with horrified and disgusted expressions illustrate the brief, engaging texts. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Sickening History of Medicine titles: Plague!, Quacks and Con Artists, Strange Medicine, and Tiny Killers.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) 4-6 Sickening History of Medicine series. Illustrated by Venitia Dean. The emphasis here is on the gross and bizarre in the history of medicine and diseases. In each book, an introduction is followed by twelve sections covering the goriest details of past epidemics, unhygienic practices, ancient medicines (e.g., poisonous hemlock) and treatments (bloodletting), "quacks," and more. Cartoon characters with horrified and disgusted expressions illustrate the brief, engaging texts. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Sickening History of Medicine titles: Plague!, Quacks and Con Artists, Strange Medicine, and Tiny Killers.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) 4-6 Sickening History of Medicine series. Illustrated by Venitia Dean. The emphasis here is on the gross and bizarre in the history of medicine and diseases. In each book, an introduction is followed by twelve sections covering the goriest details of past epidemics, unhygienic practices, ancient medicines (e.g., poisonous hemlock) and treatments (bloodletting), "quacks," and more. Cartoon characters with horrified and disgusted expressions illustrate the brief, engaging texts. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Sickening History of Medicine titles: Plague!, Quacks and Con Artists, Strange Medicine, and Tiny Killers.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) 4-6 Sickening History of Medicine series. Illustrated by Venitia Dean. The emphasis here is on the gross and bizarre in the history of medicine and diseases. In each book, an introduction is followed by twelve sections covering the goriest details of past epidemics, unhygienic practices, ancient medicines (e.g., poisonous hemlock) and treatments (bloodletting), "quacks," and more. Cartoon characters with horrified and disgusted expressions illustrate the brief, engaging texts. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers these Sickening History of Medicine titles: Plague!, Quacks and Con Artists, Strange Medicine, and Tiny Killers.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) 4-6 Megafast series. Illustrated by Mat Edwards & Jeremy Pyke. After an introduction to the kind of vehicle, each book features double-page-spread profiles highlighting stats, physical features, and mechanics of specific models. Color photos are superimposed (sometimes jarringly) on other photos and drawings on each spread, and there's very little transition between the profiles. Still, young middle graders will be attracted to the power and mobility of these cutting-edge "megafast" machines. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Megafast titles: Megafast Cars, Megafast Motorcycles, Megafast Planes, and Megafast Trucks.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Megafast series. Illustrated by Mat Edwards & Jeremy Pyke. After an introduction to the kind of vehicle, each book features double-page-spread profiles highlighting stats, physical features, and mechanics of specific models. Color photos are superimposed (sometimes jarringly) on other photos and drawings on each spread, and there's very little transition between the profiles. Still, young middle graders will be attracted to the power and mobility of these cutting-edge "megafast" machines. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Megafast titles: Megafast Cars, Megafast Motorcycles, Megafast Planes, and Megafast Trucks.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Megafast series. Illustrated by Mat Edwards & Jeremy Pyke. After an introduction to the kind of vehicle, each book features double-page-spread profiles highlighting stats, physical features, and mechanics of specific models. Color photos are superimposed (sometimes jarringly) on other photos and drawings on each spread, and there's very little transition between the profiles. Still, young middle graders will be attracted to the power and mobility of these cutting-edge "megafast" machines. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Megafast titles: Megafast Cars, Megafast Motorcycles, Megafast Planes, and Megafast Trucks.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Megafast series. Illustrated by Mat Edwards & Jeremy Pyke. After an introduction to the kind of vehicle, each book features double-page-spread profiles highlighting stats, physical features, and mechanics of specific models. Color photos are superimposed (sometimes jarringly) on other photos and drawings on each spread, and there's very little transition between the profiles. Still, young middle graders will be attracted to the power and mobility of these cutting-edge "megafast" machines. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Megafast titles: Megafast Cars, Megafast Motorcycles, Megafast Planes, and Megafast Trucks.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) 4-6 Stickmen's Guides to How Everything Works series. Illustrated by John Paul de Quay. With appeal for future engineers, this series looks at the history of selected machines and how they work, from basic design and function to inner workings. Technical drawings, including cross-sections and diagrams, and simple explanatory texts (in tiny font) illustrate, for example, how pistons are used to power engines. Stick figures throughout the books add unneeded but benign-enough novelty. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Stickmen's Guide to How Everything Works titles: Stickmen's Guide to Aircraft, Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines, Stickmen's Guide to Trains and Automobiles, and Stickmen's Guide to Watercraft.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) 4-6 Stickmen's Guides to How Everything Works series. Illustrated by John Paul de Quay. With appeal for future engineers, this series looks at the history of selected machines and how they work, from basic design and function to inner workings. Technical drawings, including cross-sections and diagrams, and simple explanatory texts (in tiny font) illustrate, for example, how pistons are used to power engines. Stick figures throughout the books add unneeded but benign-enough novelty. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Stickmen's Guide to How Everything Works titles: Stickmen's Guide to Aircraft, Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines, Stickmen's Guide to Trains and Automobiles, and Stickmen's Guide to Watercraft.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) 4-6 Stickmen's Guides to How Everything Works series. Illustrated by John Paul de Quay. With appeal for future engineers, this series looks at the history of selected machines and how they work, from basic design and function to inner workings. Technical drawings, including cross-sections and diagrams, and simple explanatory texts (in tiny font) illustrate, for example, how pistons are used to power engines. Stick figures throughout the books add unneeded but benign-enough novelty. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Stickmen's Guide to How Everything Works titles: Stickmen's Guide to Aircraft, Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines, Stickmen's Guide to Trains and Automobiles, and Stickmen's Guide to Watercraft.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) 4-6 Stickmen's Guides to How Everything Works series. Illustrated by John Paul de Quay. With appeal for future engineers, this series looks at the history of selected machines and how they work, from basic design and function to inner workings. Technical drawings, including cross-sections and diagrams, and simple explanatory texts (in tiny font) illustrate, for example, how pistons are used to power engines. Stick figures throughout the books add unneeded but benign-enough novelty. Timeline. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Stickmen's Guide to How Everything Works titles: Stickmen's Guide to Aircraft, Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines, Stickmen's Guide to Trains and Automobiles, and Stickmen's Guide to Watercraft.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) 4-6 How to Live Like... series. Illustrated by Tatio Viana. Each short chapter discusses one particular aspect of pirate life; while a wide variety of topics are touched on, none are covered in great detail. The presentation is colorful, with each page fully illustrated in a cartoony style. An easy-to-read text is narrated by a wise-guy youth, which adds levity but grows rather tiresome. Related facts are appended. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo

(4) 4-6 How to Live Like... series. Illustrated by Amerigo Pinelli. These volumes are divided into short chapters, each of which discusses one particular aspect of life in the historical occupation, none in great detail. The presentation is colorful, with each page fully illustrated in a cartoony style; the easy-to-read texts are each narrated by a wise-guy youth from the era, which adds levity but grows rather tiresome. Related facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following How to Live Like... titles: How to Live like a Samurai Warrior, How to Live like an Aztec Priest, and How to Live like an Egyptian Mummy Maker.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo

(4) 4-6 How to Live Like... series. Illustrated by Giuliano Aloisi. These volumes are divided into short chapters, each of which discusses one particular aspect of life in the historical occupation, none in great detail. The presentation is colorful, with each page fully illustrated in a cartoony style; the easy-to-read texts are each narrated by a wise-guy youth from the era, which adds levity but grows rather tiresome. Related facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following How to Live Like... titles: How to Live like a Samurai Warrior, How to Live like an Aztec Priest, and How to Live like an Egyptian Mummy Maker.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo

(4) 4-6 How to Live Like... series. Illustrated by Maurizio Campidelli. These volumes are divided into short chapters, each of which discusses one particular aspect of life in the historical occupation, none in great detail. The presentation is colorful, with each page fully illustrated in a cartoony style; the easy-to-read texts are each narrated by a wise-guy youth from the era, which adds levity but grows rather tiresome. Related facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers the following How to Live Like... titles: How to Live like a Samurai Warrior, How to Live like an Aztec Priest, and How to Live like an Egyptian Mummy Maker.

Reviewer: Antonio Trujillo