(4) K-3 Bolt: Gearhead Garage series. Action-packed color photographs, diagrams, and charts are the focus of these minimal-text introductions to different engine-powered racing vehicles. Each book consists of four brief chapters discussing topics such as the vehicle's history, external features, statistics, race venues, safety gear, and projections about the vehicle's future. Oddly, little information is provided about interior features or how the vehicles run. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bolt: Gearhead Garage titles: Dirt Bikes, Funny Cars, Lowriders, Muscle Cars, Top Fuel Dragsters, and Hydroplanes.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) K-3 Bolt: Gearhead Garage series. Action-packed color photographs, diagrams, and charts are the focus of these minimal-text introductions to different engine-powered racing vehicles. Each book consists of four brief chapters discussing topics such as the vehicle's history, external features, statistics, race venues, safety gear, and projections about the vehicle's future. Oddly, little information is provided about interior features or how the vehicles run. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bolt: Gearhead Garage titles: Dirt Bikes, Funny Cars, Lowriders, Muscle Cars, Top Fuel Dragsters, and Hydroplanes.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) K-3 Bolt: Gearhead Garage series. Action-packed color photographs, diagrams, and charts are the focus of these minimal-text introductions to different engine-powered racing vehicles. Each book consists of four brief chapters discussing topics such as the vehicle's history, external features, statistics, race venues, safety gear, and projections about the vehicle's future. Oddly, little information is provided about interior features or how the vehicles run. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bolt: Gearhead Garage titles: Dirt Bikes, Funny Cars, Lowriders, Muscle Cars, Top Fuel Dragsters, and Hydroplanes.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) K-3 Bolt: Gearhead Garage series. Action-packed color photographs, diagrams, and charts are the focus of these minimal-text introductions to different engine-powered racing vehicles. Each book consists of four brief chapters discussing topics such as the vehicle's history, external features, statistics, race venues, safety gear, and projections about the vehicle's future. Oddly, little information is provided about interior features or how the vehicles run. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bolt: Gearhead Garage titles: Dirt Bikes, Funny Cars, Lowriders, Muscle Cars, Top Fuel Dragsters, and Hydroplanes.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(4) K-3 Bolt: Gearhead Garage series. Action-packed color photographs, diagrams, and charts are the focus of these minimal-text introductions to different engine-powered racing vehicles. Each book consists of four brief chapters discussing topics such as the vehicle's history, external features, statistics, race venues, safety gear, and projections about the vehicle's future. Oddly, little information is provided about interior features or how the vehicles run. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bolt: Gearhead Garage titles: Dirt Bikes, Funny Cars, Lowriders, Muscle Cars, Top Fuel Dragsters, and Hydroplanes.

Reviewer: Jack Forman

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Bob Shea. "New day on the farm / muffled mooing announces / a fresh pail of milk" is the first in a series of haiku that offer clues to a familiar animal's identity; the answer is revealed with a page turn. Bright, simple, well-designed illustrations and a repetitive format make this introduction to the five-seven-five form easy to grasp. An appended note offers additional information about haiku and syllables.

Reviewer: Rebecca Reed Whidden

(3) PS Illustrated by Bob Shea. Caswell and Shea return to the format of Guess Who, Haiku and make it spooky. On each spread, a haiku plus spot art hints at a Halloween character. Turn the page for the answer and the next seventeen-syllabled riddle. A brief appended note explains haiku basics. With its cheerful colors, welcoming smiles, and participatory pattern, this ghoulish gathering is more friendly than frightful.

Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2016

(3) PS Illustrated by Amy June Bates. In this dreamlike description of a family's annual summer vacation at a beach house, short, simple rhyming phrases capture the family's feelings and events of the day: "Breathe salt air. / Squint at the sun. / Hot-foot hopping. / Squeal and run." Bates's airy watercolor and pencil illustrations contribute to the carefree, whimsical feeling, leaving readers dreaming about their next beach day.

Reviewer: Lana Barnes

(4) PS Illustrated by Dan Andreasen. A boy travels alone by train to visit his grandmother in the city: "Ticket ready. Tight grip. / To Grandma's house. Train trip!" Spare rhyming text includes sensory details of a train experience. Die-hard locomotive fans will likely notice when the illustrations, starring a smiling pink-cheeked train engine and doll-like human figures, don't match the more concrete words.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Elizabeth Matthews. A five-year-old's first trip to the ballet is described in clipped rhymes: "Murmurs, whispers. Velvet seat. / Clutching program. Swinging feet." The illustrations of the onstage action are somewhat static, but the young theatergoer in her bright red coat is engaging: "Twirling home. Sway and prance. / Captivated by the dance."

Reviewer: Amy Kellman