(4) 4-6 Native American Peoples series. Each title in this series gives readers an introduction to a Native American tribe, with chapters covering its origins, history, settlement, culture, and contemporary life. The text is easy to read and useful for reports but full of generalizations. Photographs and historic paintings help make the books approachable. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Native American Peoples titles: Inuit, Creek, Oneida, Blackfoot, Hopi, and Shoshone.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) 4-6 Native American Peoples series. Each title in this series gives readers an introduction to a Native American tribe, with chapters covering its origins, history, settlement, culture, and contemporary life. The text is easy to read and useful for reports but full of generalizations. Photographs and historic paintings help make the books approachable. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Native American Peoples titles: Inuit, Creek, Oneida, Blackfoot, Hopi, and Shoshone.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 Raintree Biographies series. Plentiful reproductions of the work of each subject contribute to the cluttered design of the dryly written profiles. Each two-page section focuses on an aspect of the artist's life, and sidebars provide quotations from the artists themselves as well as cultural and artistic context. Although superficial, these books give readers a basic understanding of these pivotal figures. Timeline, reading list. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Raintree Biographies titles: Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Lange, and Maya Lin.]

Reviewer: Norah Piehl

(4) K-3 Raintree Biographies series. Plentiful reproductions of the work of each subject contribute to the cluttered design of the dryly written profiles. Each two-page section focuses on an aspect of the artist's life, and sidebars provide quotations from the artists themselves as well as cultural and artistic context. Although superficial, these books give readers a basic understanding of these pivotal figures. Timeline, reading list. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Raintree Biographies titles: Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Lange, and Maya Lin.]

Reviewer: Norah Piehl

(4) K-3 Raintree Biographies series. Each of the dryly written books in this series begins with a character-defining event--Roosevelt's driving alone through the Tennessee mountains despite a death threat; Boone's rescue of his daughter from Indians--and then proceeds to briefly summarize their lives. Each double-page spread is broken up by reproductions and photos, as well as quotes and text boxes. A timeline is appended. There are five other fall 2002 books in this series. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Raintree Biographies titles: Crazy Horse, Frederick Douglass, Daniel Boone, Eleanore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson.]

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman