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Forest Fighter: The Story of Chico Mendes
This stellar biography of a not-often featured environmental activist is a necessary addition to all biography shelves. A first purchase.
Celebrating Birth Around the World
These volumes demonstrate the universality of celebrations, but there are many extant titles about specific countries, cultures, and religions that cover them in a fuller context, making the series a supplemental purchase.
With clear texts and contemporary color photos, the books will generally inform young middle graders about birth and death rituals practiced by varied religious and cultural groups, but there are occasional lapses. Busy layouts include tiny, difficult-to-read maps. Birth features instructions for making tihu dolls, representing katsinas (Hopi spirits); Dead includes directions for Day of the Dead candy skulls. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Cultures and Customs titles: Celebrating Birth Around the World and Remembering the Dead Around the World.
How to Live Like a Medieval Knight
Good supplemental purchases for upper elementary readers.
These books present accounts of selected events that distinguish certain historical periods. Examples include jousting (Knight), battling lions (Gladiator), and training for raiding (Warrior). Each book is narrated by a cocky youth, which adds humor but becomes tiresome. Cartoonlike illustrations and numerous text boxes accompany the main texts. Related facts are appended. Glos., ind. Review covers these How to Live Like... titles: A Medieval Knight, A Roman Gladiator, and A Viking Warrior.
Funny Stories
Gr 2–4—Each volume walks readers through the steps of creating a story in the featured genre...
Hearing
K-Gr 2—A sense-related question draws students into the topic, and a diagram orients them to all five senses at the beginning of each volume in this set...
Action Words
Gr 1–3—Misguided choice of verb in the title notwithstanding, this series delivers a thorough introduction to the major elements and rules of the English language...
King Arthur's Tale
Gr 1–3—This adventure is filled with magic, wizards, and dragons, and it seems factual when paired with people and places in Arthur's life...
Arabian Oryx Fennec Fox Meerkat Scorpion
K-Gr 2—From the scary-looking giant hairy desert scorpion to the "let's get one" baby meerkat, the engaging full-color photographs are key to these well-organized books...
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