(4) K-3 Pebble Books: Business Leaders series. Designed to introduce new readers to business leaders' contributions and to meet Common Core requirements, these slight books meet minimum standards with simple sentences, limited vocabulary, many photos, a running timeline, and a clear trajectory. But they falter somewhat when photos don't align with text and content is more complicated than writing restrictions can encompass. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Pebble Books: Business Leaders titles: Bill Gates and Milton Hershey.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) K-3 A+ Books: Spot It, Learn It! series. In Letters, readers hunt for letters and words in photographs of busy staged scenes (e.g., "Movies" shows tickets, unspooled film, and small toys strewn across a riot of popcorn). Shapes follows an identical format. This series may not unseat I Spy as the king of interactive seek-and-find books, but it has some inspired themes (e.g., "S'mores"). Reading list. Review covers these A+ Books: Spot It, Learn It! titles: Loads of Letters! and So Many Shapes!.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(3) K-3 A+ Books: Spot It, Learn It! series. In Letters, readers hunt for letters and words in photographs of busy staged scenes (e.g., "Movies" shows tickets, unspooled film, and small toys strewn across a riot of popcorn). Shapes follows an identical format. This series may not unseat I Spy as the king of interactive seek-and-find books, but it has some inspired themes (e.g., "S'mores"). Reading list. Review covers these A+ Books: Spot It, Learn It! titles: Loads of Letters! and So Many Shapes!.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) K-3 Pebble Books: People series. This compact book, revised and updated, begins: "Families are people related to one another. There are all kinds of families." It then describes activities enjoyed by family members ("Art and his father look for bugs...Grace and her uncle play golf"). Though the vocabulary is easy to read, the text is very bland. The many photos show smiling kids and adults. Reading list. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz