(3) K-3 Cycles series. Illustrated by Gustav Moore. A tree sprouts, grows, ages, dies, and is reclaimed by the forest. A water droplet journeys to a stream, the sea, a cloud, a puddle, and a snowy mountain. Ross's simple, direct text and Moore's realistic illustrations follow these events and provide a clear introduction to water, soil, and compost cycles. Tips for composting are included.

Reviewer: Erin Dionne

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Gustav Moore. Ross describes the life cycles of three living things: a sunflower grows from a seed to maturity and produces new seeds, a mushroom develops from a spore and subsequently produces more spores, and a grasshopper hatches from an egg and grows to lay its own eggs. The color illustrations and straightforward text clearly document the life cycle changes.

Reviewer: Jim St. Claire

(3) K-3 Cycles series. Illustrated by Gustav Moore. Defining cycles as "events that repeat over and over again in the same way," Ross discusses Earth's daily cycle of light and dark, the thirteen lunar cycles, and Earth's yearly trip around the sun. The simple text provides very basic information about periodicity and uses familiar examples to introduce new concepts ("the Earth...goes round and round like a very slow top"). Pleasing watercolors expand the text.

Reviewer: Harry Clement Stubbs