(4) K-3 Ready-to-Read: Childhood of Famous Americans series. Illustrated by Elaine Garvin. After seven-year-old George (later known as Babe) Ruth loses the neighborhood's only baseball by hitting it through someone's window, he tries to make it up to his friends by buying everyone a rare ice-cream treat with a dollar bill he takes from the family tavern. As with other books in this series, this easy-to-read morality tale fictionalizes a childhood episode. Timeline.

Reviewer: Susan Halperin

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Elaine Garvin. Young doll owners will be pleased with this portfolio of instructions to make accessories and very simple no-sew doll clothes. The twenty projects (adaptable for any size doll) include jewelry, a bathing suit made from a sock, and clothes hangers. The book is liberally illustrated with color drawings that give no realistic idea of what a finished product will look like; photos would have been a better choice.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Elaine Garvin. Few of these craft projects will be manageable by young children without a tremendous amount of adult help. Rather, teachers and librarians will find directions here for story-time props. Directions for projects such as the "Little Bo Peep Sleeve Puppet" and the "Egg-Laying Black Hen" are clearly explained and illustrated with cheery art.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Elaine Garvin. Simple drawings illustrate step-by-step directions for twenty craft projects made from easily found materials. Motifs from each story border the pertinent craft, for example, the Little Red Hen is shown performing every possible domestic task around the instructions for the Little Red Hen recipe holder. Many of the crafts are small in size, which could be difficult for small hands.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges