(4) YA Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are the poets represented in this collection. Each poet's section, illustrated by a different artist, begins with a brief biographical overview. Occasional notes help elucidate meaning. This is a handsome and accessible volume, but not the comprehensive compendium the title leads one to expect. Ind.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

(3) 4-6 Civil War series. This series offers readable, factually sound biographies of Civil War-era leaders. Small, gray sidebars pop up occasionally to link the biography to events in the lives of other famous Americans of the period, specifically those featured in other books of the series. Archival photos, engravings, and a few color portraits, without bibliographic citations, serve as illustrations. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Civil War titles: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Andrew Johnson, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln.]

Reviewer: Lauren Aimonette LIang

(3) 4-6 Civil War series. This series offers readable, factually sound biographies of Civil War-era leaders. Small, gray sidebars pop up occasionally to link the biography to events in the lives of other famous Americans of the period, specifically those featured in other books of the series. Archival photos, engravings, and a few color portraits, without bibliographic citations, serve as illustrations. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Civil War titles: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Andrew Johnson, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln.]

Reviewer: Lauren Aimonette LIang

(4) YA Giants of Science series. Beginning with an embellished account of a determining moment in the subject's professional life, the books in this series then include short segments expounding on events before and after. Photos and archival illustrations, as well as sidebar quotations and a time line, extend each text. Not all the subjects are scientists, though, and Gutenberg is really a history of printing. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Giants of Science titles: Guglielmo Marconi, Louis Pasteur, Johann Gutenberg, James Watt.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) YA Giants of Science series. Beginning with an embellished account of a determining moment in the subject's professional life, the books in this series then include short segments expounding on events before and after. Photos and archival illustrations, as well as sidebar quotations and a time line, extend each text. Not all the subjects are scientists, though, and Gutenberg is really a history of printing. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Giants of Science titles: Guglielmo Marconi, Louis Pasteur, Johann Gutenberg, James Watt.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) YA Giants of Art and Culture series. The books in this series competently describe the life and achievements of these notable aritists. Only the chronology appears updated in Angelou; text and a time line bring readers to the late 1990s in Baryshnikov. The black-and-white photos are dark, grainy, and not always appropriately placed in relation to the text. A time line is included in each volume. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Giants of Art and Culture titles:Duke Ellington, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maya Angelou.]

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) YA Amazing Brain series. Highlighting the important difference between sensing (absorbing the world around us) and perceiving (processing and interpreting information), seven chapters cover how humans experience touch, smell, taste, vision, hearing, balance, and motion. Specific examples clarify the concept, including explanations of optical illusions and comparisons of human and animal hearing. Photos, diagrams, graphs, and text boxes add visual interest. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) YA Amazing Brain series. Highlighting the important difference between sensing (absorbing the world around us) and perceiving (processing and interpreting information), seven chapters cover how humans experience touch, smell, taste, vision, hearing, balance, and motion. Specific examples clarify the concept, including explanations of optical illusions and comparisons of human and animal hearing. Photos, diagrams, graphs, and text boxes add visual interest. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) YA Giants of American Industry series. The books in this series cover the lives of individuals who founded vast empires in various fields, including Hearst's groundbreaking newspaper empire and Arden's revolutionary ideas in the beauty industry. The black-and-white photos are too dark and aren't always well reproduced, but the authors don't try to edge around the controversial nature of their subjects. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Giants of American Industry titles: John D. Rockefeller, William Randolph Hearst, John Paul Getty, Elizabeth Arden.]

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman

(3) 4-6 Wild Marine Animals! series. Photographs by Brandon Cole. This book introduces its subject in short sections, including family classification, body characteristics, special features, social life, hunting, mating and rearing behavior, and interactions with humans. The text is accurate and well organized, but the many excellent color photographs, carefully captioned, are the book's best feature. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) 4-6 Wild Marine Animals! series. Photographs by Brandon Cole. The books in this series introduce their subjects in short sections including family classification, body characteristics, special features, social life, food, mating and rearing behavior, and interactions with humans. The text is accurate and well organized, but the excellent color photographs, carefully captioned, are the books' best feature. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Wild Marine Animals! titles: Dolphins, Manatees, Whales.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) 4-6 Wild Marine Animals! series. Photographs by Brandon Cole. The books in this series introduce their subjects in short sections including family classification, body characteristics, special features, social life, food, mating and rearing behavior, and interactions with humans. The text is accurate and well organized, but the excellent color photographs, carefully captioned, are the books' best feature. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Wild Marine Animals! titles: Dolphins, Manatees, Whales.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(3) 4-6 Wild Marine Animals! series. Photographs by Brandon Cole. The books in this series introduce their subjects in short sections including family classification, body characteristics, special features, social life, food, mating and rearing behavior, and interactions with humans. The text is accurate and well organized, but the excellent color photographs, carefully captioned, are the books' best feature. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Wild Marine Animals! titles: Dolphins, Manatees, Whales.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) 4-6 Made in the U.S.A. series. Photographs by Peter Casolino. Although superficial and limited to one company's activities each, the books in this series clearly explain and illustrate a particular manufacturing process. Lots of captioned color photographs dominate short sentences of text; inset pictures and occasional sidebars of information add to the scrapbook-like graphics as details from design to distribution emerge. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Made in the U.S.A. titles: Music CDs, Newspapers, Toothpaste, Kid's Clothes, Pogo Sticks.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) 4-6 Made in the U.S.A. series. Photographs by Jeff Sobiech. Although superficial and limited to one company's activities each, the books in this series clearly explain and illustrate a particular manufacturing process. Lots of captioned color photographs dominate short sentences of text; inset pictures and occasional sidebars of information add to the scrapbook-like graphics as details from design to distribution emerge. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Made in the U.S.A. titles: Music CDs, Newspapers, Toothpaste, Kid's Clothes, Pogo Sticks.]

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) YA Giants of American Industry series. The books in this series cover the lives of individuals who founded vast empires in various fields, including Hearst's groundbreaking newspaper empire and Arden's revolutionary ideas in the beauty industry. The black-and-white photos are too dark and aren't always well reproduced, but the authors don't try to edge around the controversial nature of their subjects. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Giants of American Industry titles: John D. Rockefeller, William Randolph Hearst, John Paul Getty, Elizabeth Arden.]

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman

(4) YA Giants of Art and Culture series. The books in this series competently describe the life and achievements of these notable aritists. Only the chronology appears updated in Angelou; text and a time line bring readers to the late 1990s in Baryshnikov. The black-and-white photos are dark, grainy, and not always appropriately placed in relation to the text. A time line is included in each volume. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Giants of Art and Culture titles:Duke Ellington, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maya Angelou.]

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(4) YA Giants of American Industry series. The books in this series cover the lives of individuals who founded vast empires in various fields, including Hearst's groundbreaking newspaper empire and Arden's revolutionary ideas in the beauty industry. The black-and-white photos are too dark and aren't always well reproduced, but the authors don't try to edge around the controversial nature of their subjects. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Giants of American Industry titles: John D. Rockefeller, William Randolph Hearst, John Paul Getty, Elizabeth Arden.]

Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman

(4) YA Amazing Brain series. Highlighting the important difference between sensing (absorbing the world around us) and perceiving (processing and interpreting information), seven chapters cover how humans experience touch, smell, taste, vision, hearing, balance, and motion. Specific examples clarify the concept, including explanations of optical illusions and comparisons of human and animal hearing. Photos, diagrams, graphs, and text boxes add visual interest. Bib., glos., ind.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) 4-6 Civil War series. This series offers readable, factually sound biographies of Civil War-era leaders. Small, gray sidebars pop up occasionally to link the biography to events in the lives of other famous Americans of the period, specifically those featured in other books of the series. Archival photos, engravings, and a few color portraits, without bibliographic citations, serve as illustrations. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Civil War titles: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Andrew Johnson, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln.]

Reviewer: Lauren Aimonette LIang