(3) K-3 Photographs by Shmuel Thaler. This bilingual book explains the relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents. In a format particularly useful for visual learners, each well-chosen example faces a large, striking photo of the featured object, bordered by solid color bars. The Spanish translation is adequate, and the vocabulary used is simple enough to learn.

Reviewer: Tim Wadham

(3) K-3 Photographs by Shmuel Thaler. Like the anonymous orange-gloved hands in Pumpkin Circle, here white gloves grow, thresh, and grind the wheat, then mix, knead, and bake it into bread. A clean design and vibrant color photos that accompany the simple rhyming text make this a hearty look at the staff of life. An afterword includes a recipe and explains more about wheat and the baking process.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

(3) K-3 Photographs by Shmuel Thaler. After a compact but clear and thorough explanation of the relationship among fractions, decimals, and percentages, Gifford gives examples: "1/12 of a dozen eggs / .08 / 8%," etc. Each example faces a large, striking photo of the featured object, bordered by solid color bars for a neat graphic effect. The examples ("1/10 of your toes"; "1/3 of a traffic light") are well chosen and original.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

(3) K-3 Translated by Alberto Jiménez Rioja. Photographs by Shmuel Thaler. This Spanish edition of Pumpkin Circle presents factual information about pumpkins in a smoothly translated, lyrical text. The color photos are particularly notable, showing the growth of a pumpkin plant from various unique perspectives. Information on growing pumpkins is also included.

Reviewer: Tim Wadham

(2) K-3 Photographs by Shmuel Thaler. Glorious color photos steal the show in this book on pumpkins in all their sumptuous rotundity. Each skillfully composed picture lures readers into looking more imaginatively, as well as more knowledgeably, at these vegetables. Levenson's text, adequate as an outline of the life cycle and care of pumpkins, is marred by awkward rhyming; still, the book is worth having for the splendid pictures.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1999