(4) K-3 I Love Our Earth series. Each book describes a part of the world environment, why it's important, how it's threatened, and what people can do to help save it. Paired with stock color photos, the texts sometimes stray toward sermon (e.g., "People like this should not have pets"), and conservation suggestions are standard fare; however, these may pique budding environmentalists' interests. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these I Love Our Earth titles: I Love Our Air, I Love Our Animals, I Love Our Forests, I Love Our Land, I Love Our People, and I Love Our Water.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) K-3 I Love Our Earth series. Each book describes a part of the world environment, why it's important, how it's threatened, and what people can do to help save it. Paired with stock color photos, the texts sometimes stray toward sermon (e.g., "People like this should not have pets"), and conservation suggestions are standard fare; however, these may pique budding environmentalists' interests. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these I Love Our Earth titles: I Love Our Air, I Love Our Animals, I Love Our Forests, I Love Our Land, I Love Our People, and I Love Our Water.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) K-3 I Love Our Earth series. Each book describes a part of the world environment, why it's important, how it's threatened, and what people can do to help save it. Paired with stock color photos, the texts sometimes stray toward sermon (e.g., "People like this should not have pets"), and conservation suggestions are standard fare; however, these may pique budding environmentalists' interests. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these I Love Our Earth titles: I Love Our Air, I Love Our Animals, I Love Our Forests, I Love Our Land, I Love Our People, and I Love Our Water.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) K-3 I Love Our Earth series. Each book describes a part of the world environment, why it's important, how it's threatened, and what people can do to help save it. Paired with stock color photos, the texts sometimes stray toward sermon (e.g., "People like this should not have pets"), and conservation suggestions are standard fare; however, these may pique budding environmentalists' interests. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these I Love Our Earth titles: I Love Our Air, I Love Our Animals, I Love Our Forests, I Love Our Land, I Love Our People, and I Love Our Water.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) K-3 I Love Our Earth series. Each book describes a part of the world environment, why it's important, how it's threatened, and what people can do to help save it. Paired with stock color photos, the texts sometimes stray toward sermon (e.g., "People like this should not have pets"), and conservation suggestions are standard fare; however, these may pique budding environmentalists' interests. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these I Love Our Earth titles: I Love Our Air, I Love Our Animals, I Love Our Forests, I Love Our Land, I Love Our People, and I Love Our Water.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) K-3 I Love Our Earth series. Each book describes a part of the world environment, why it's important, how it's threatened, and what people can do to help save it. Paired with stock color photos, the texts sometimes stray toward sermon (e.g., "People like this should not have pets"), and conservation suggestions are standard fare; however, these may pique budding environmentalists' interests. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these I Love Our Earth titles: I Love Our Air, I Love Our Animals, I Love Our Forests, I Love Our Land, I Love Our People, and I Love Our Water.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Tim Raglin. In this "Twelve Days of Christmas" takeoff, a ghoulish-looking man and woman in Restoration-era clothes celebrate Halloween with "eight brooms a-flying, seven spiders creeping," etc. The text comes to an abrupt and disappointing ending, though there is some inventiveness to the way each new set of gifts is added to the humorous illustrations. This new edition has been slightly redesigned.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Linda Bronson. This brief history of Halloween from its Celtic origins to the present discusses holiday customs and explains how some have evolved (e.g., begging for currant buns developed into trick-or-treating). Illustrated with stylized, decidedly unspooky color images that seem better suited for the pages of a magazine for adults, the book concludes with suggestions for "pumpkin art" and a handful of riddles.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Tim Raglin. In a takeoff on the traditional "Twelve Days of Christmas," a spooky-looking man and woman in Restoration-era clothes celebrate Halloween with "eight brooms a-flying, seven spiders creeping, six owls a-screeching," and so on. The derivative poem comes to an abrupt and disappointing ending, though there is some inventiveness to the way each new set of gifts is added to the humorous illustrations.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Loretta Krupinski. Miss Perkins puts an ad in the paper in order to find a good home for Fitz, the stray cat she has taken in. But whenever someone comes for him, Fitz cannot be found--except by careful readers, who will spy him hiding among the furniture in Miss Perkins's cheery home. The following page offers a hint, just in case. Illustrations filled with cozy details accompany this warm-hearted story.

Reviewer: Anne St. John

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Leonard Jenkins. Sand and silt gradually build up around a sunken boat, creating an island in a river; then, over time, the island slowly erodes. To successive generations of her family, a woman tells the story of the shipwreck she saw as a girl, marking different stages of the island's life as well as her own. Objects in the illustrations are sometimes unrecognizably abstract, but the text effectively conveys the passage of time.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn