(3) 4-6 Costume Around the World series. Clothing in most countries is influenced by cultural tradition, practicality, climate, gender, age, and occasion. Photographs and interesting sidebars enhance this accessible series, offering a comprehensive presentation of the origin and function of fashion for each of the featured places. There are five other spring 2008 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Costume Around the World titles: Japan, Mexico, India, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(3) 4-6 Costume Around the World series. Clothing in most countries is influenced by cultural tradition, practicality, climate, gender, age, and occasion. Photographs and interesting sidebars enhance this accessible series, offering a comprehensive presentation of the origin and function of fashion for each of the featured places. There are five other spring 2008 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Costume Around the World titles: Japan, Mexico, India, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) 4-6 New Solar System series. Generally accurate information and numerous captioned photographs and illustrations address the history, geology, and geography of these astronomical subjects. The texts' simple language can lead to confusion rather than clarity about such topics as asteroids and dwarf planets. Several illustrations and some paragraphs appear multiple times across the titles. There are six other spring 2008 books in this series. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these New Solar System titles: Dwarf Planets, Earth, Mars, The Moon, Stars, and The Sun.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) 4-6 New Solar System series. Generally accurate information and numerous captioned photographs and illustrations address the history, geology, and geography of these astronomical subjects. The texts' simple language can lead to confusion rather than clarity about such topics as asteroids and dwarf planets. Several illustrations and some paragraphs appear multiple times across the titles. There are six other spring 2008 books in this series. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these New Solar System titles: Dwarf Planets, Earth, Mars, The Moon, Stars, and The Sun.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) 4-6 New Solar System series. Generally accurate information and numerous captioned photographs and illustrations address the history, geology, and geography of these astronomical subjects. The texts' simple language can lead to confusion rather than clarity about such topics as asteroids and dwarf planets. Several illustrations and some paragraphs appear multiple times across the titles. There are six other spring 2008 books in this series. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these New Solar System titles: Dwarf Planets, Earth, Mars, The Moon, Stars, and The Sun.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) 4-6 New Solar System series. Generally accurate information and numerous captioned photographs and illustrations address the history, geology, and geography of these astronomical subjects. The texts' simple language can lead to confusion rather than clarity about such topics as asteroids and dwarf planets. Several illustrations and some paragraphs appear multiple times across the titles. There are six other spring 2008 books in this series. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these New Solar System titles: Dwarf Planets, Earth, Mars, The Moon, Stars, and The Sun.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) 4-6 New Solar System series. Generally accurate information and numerous captioned photographs and illustrations address the history, geology, and geography of these astronomical subjects. The texts' simple language can lead to confusion rather than clarity about such topics as asteroids and dwarf planets. Several illustrations and some paragraphs appear multiple times across the titles. There are six other spring 2008 books in this series. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these New Solar System titles: Dwarf Planets, Earth, Mars, The Moon, Stars, and The Sun.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) 4-6 New Solar System series. Generally accurate information and numerous captioned photographs and illustrations address the history, geology, and geography of these astronomical subjects. The texts' simple language can lead to confusion rather than clarity about such topics as asteroids and dwarf planets. Several illustrations and some paragraphs appear multiple times across the titles. There are six other spring 2008 books in this series. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these New Solar System titles: Dwarf Planets, Earth, Mars, The Moon, Stars, and The Sun.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

(4) K-3 Dinosaur World series. Each revised edition introduces beginning readers to a dinosaur (or relative) grouping, explains the featured characteristic and how scientists learn from fossils, and then follows with five examples. For each species, the simple text emphasizes structure-function relationships using photographs of fossils, comparisons to modern-day animals, mediocre illustrations, and to-scale comparisons of dinosaur and human silhouettes. Glos., ind. Review covers these Dinosaur World titles: Bird-footed Dinosaurs, Bony-skinned Dinosaurs, Hard-headed Dinosaurs, Long-necked Dinosaurs, Meat-eating Dinosaurs, and Relatives of Dinosaurs.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) K-3 Dinosaur World series. Each revised edition introduces beginning readers to a dinosaur (or relative) grouping, explains the featured characteristic and how scientists learn from fossils, and then follows with five examples. For each species, the simple text emphasizes structure-function relationships using photographs of fossils, comparisons to modern-day animals, mediocre illustrations, and to-scale comparisons of dinosaur and human silhouettes. Glos., ind. Review covers these Dinosaur World titles: Bird-footed Dinosaurs, Bony-skinned Dinosaurs, Hard-headed Dinosaurs, Long-necked Dinosaurs, Meat-eating Dinosaurs, and Relatives of Dinosaurs.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) K-3 Dinosaur World series. Each revised edition introduces beginning readers to a dinosaur (or relative) grouping, explains the featured characteristic and how scientists learn from fossils, and then follows with five examples. For each species, the simple text emphasizes structure-function relationships using photographs of fossils, comparisons to modern-day animals, mediocre illustrations, and to-scale comparisons of dinosaur and human silhouettes. Glos., ind. Review covers these Dinosaur World titles: Bird-footed Dinosaurs, Bony-skinned Dinosaurs, Hard-headed Dinosaurs, Long-necked Dinosaurs, Meat-eating Dinosaurs, and Relatives of Dinosaurs.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) K-3 Dinosaur World series. Each revised edition introduces beginning readers to a dinosaur (or relative) grouping, explains the featured characteristic and how scientists learn from fossils, and then follows with five examples. For each species, the simple text emphasizes structure-function relationships using photographs of fossils, comparisons to modern-day animals, mediocre illustrations, and to-scale comparisons of dinosaur and human silhouettes. Glos., ind. Review covers these Dinosaur World titles: Bird-footed Dinosaurs, Bony-skinned Dinosaurs, Hard-headed Dinosaurs, Long-necked Dinosaurs, Meat-eating Dinosaurs, and Relatives of Dinosaurs.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) K-3 Dinosaur World series. Each revised edition introduces beginning readers to a dinosaur (or relative) grouping, explains the featured characteristic and how scientists learn from fossils, and then follows with five examples. For each species, the simple text emphasizes structure-function relationships using photographs of fossils, comparisons to modern-day animals, mediocre illustrations, and to-scale comparisons of dinosaur and human silhouettes. Glos., ind. Review covers these Dinosaur World titles: Bird-footed Dinosaurs, Bony-skinned Dinosaurs, Hard-headed Dinosaurs, Long-necked Dinosaurs, Meat-eating Dinosaurs, and Relatives of Dinosaurs.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(4) K-3 Dinosaur World series. Each revised edition introduces beginning readers to a dinosaur (or relative) grouping, explains the featured characteristic and how scientists learn from fossils, and then follows with five examples. For each species, the simple text emphasizes structure-function relationships using photographs of fossils, comparisons to modern-day animals, mediocre illustrations, and to-scale comparisons of dinosaur and human silhouettes. Glos., ind. Review covers these Dinosaur World titles: Bird-footed Dinosaurs, Bony-skinned Dinosaurs, Hard-headed Dinosaurs, Long-necked Dinosaurs, Meat-eating Dinosaurs, and Relatives of Dinosaurs.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford

(3) 4-6 Costume Around the World series. Clothing in most countries is influenced by cultural tradition, practicality, climate, gender, age, and occasion. Photographs and interesting sidebars enhance this accessible series, offering a comprehensive presentation of the origin and function of fashion for each of the featured places. There are five other spring 2008 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Costume Around the World titles: Japan, Mexico, India, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(3) 4-6 Costume Around the World series. Clothing in most countries is influenced by cultural tradition, practicality, climate, gender, age, and occasion. Photographs and interesting sidebars enhance this accessible series, offering a comprehensive presentation of the origin and function of fashion for each of the featured places. There are five other spring 2008 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Costume Around the World titles: Japan, Mexico, India, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) 4-6 Festive Foods! series. Each book provides a rich cultural and geographic sampling of a country and its native foods, in addition to ten inviting recipes. An introduction about how to follow recipes, also describing special tools and techniques, is included in each book. There are many photographs and sidebars that, though informative, make the pages crowded and the recipes hard to follow. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Festive Foods! titles: China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and United States.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

(4) 4-6 Festive Foods! series. Each book provides a rich cultural and geographic sampling of a country and its native foods, in addition to ten inviting recipes. An introduction about how to follow recipes, also describing special tools and techniques, is included in each book. There are many photographs and sidebars that, though informative, make the pages crowded and the recipes hard to follow. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Festive Foods! titles: China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and United States.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

(4) 4-6 Festive Foods! series. Each book provides a rich cultural and geographic sampling of a country and its native foods, in addition to ten inviting recipes. An introduction about how to follow recipes, also describing special tools and techniques, is included in each book. There are many photographs and sidebars that, though informative, make the pages crowded and the recipes hard to follow. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Festive Foods! titles: China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and United States.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

(4) 4-6 Festive Foods! series. Each book provides a rich cultural and geographic sampling of a country and its native foods, in addition to ten inviting recipes. An introduction about how to follow recipes, also describing special tools and techniques, is included in each book. There are many photographs and sidebars that, though informative, make the pages crowded and the recipes hard to follow. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Festive Foods! titles: China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and United States.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo