(4) K-3 Illustrated by Loreen Leedy. Facts about Mars are relayed through e-mails sent home by children on a fictional space field trip. The information is accurate and includes some good details, if readers can get past the awkward attempts at kidlike language and humor. The overly busy layouts contain crude cartoon illustrations that distract from good photographs and diagrams. Glos.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Loreen Leedy. This lively language arts lesson loosely organizes chosen idioms by such topics as "Around the House" and "On the Wing." Leedy and Street pack each double-page spread with twenty-odd turns of phrase, defining each briefly and furthering the definitions with an illustrative array of portraits, scenes, and mini-dramas that also provide textual and graphic cohesion. An index of the animals metaphor-ized is appended.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2003