LINDEEN, Mary
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A New Baby
The eye candy may bring emergent readers flocking, but the light informational payload positions this more as a tool for literacy training than a celebration of its ostensible topic.
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A New Home
Moving books that address emotions, real life circumstances, and types of families in more nuanced ways abound, which renders this underwhelming addition useful, perhaps, in reading labs—but not elsewhere.
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Stay Healthy with Sesame Street: Understanding Coronavirus
A highly topical book that may offer families a starting point for discussing COVID-19 with young children.
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A Visit to the Dentist
Written on the simplest level with a variety of uses, these titles are exactly what some families and educators may need to support the burgeoning abilities of their youngest readers.
Digital Safety Smarts: Preventing Cyberbullying
This series would be a useful addition to any public or school library collection to assist with lessons on technology and how to be a good digital citizen.
Each volume addresses middle-grade kids directly, suggesting practical moves (skim websites to determine usefulness), warnings (never plagiarize), and critical thinking (what is the website's purpose: to inform or advertise?). Cautions about personal safety, appropriate language and sites, spam, and other issues are firm but not frightening. Color photos show kids using computers, laptops, and smartphones alone and with adults. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Searchlight Books: What Is Digital Citizenship? titles: Digital Safety Smarts, Smart Internet Surfing, Smart Online Communication, and Smart Online Searching.
Let's Play Basketball
This is an acceptable series, designed with the needs of young readers in mind, though the "I Love Sports" (Jump!) series is a better choice for this audience.
These slight books use high-frequency words to encourage early readers to read independently. The simple layout and bright, colorful images may draw beginning readers in, but the stilted texts aren't engaging. Readers will glean some basic facts about each sport. Reading reinforcement tips are included. Review covers these Beginning to Read Book titles: Let's Play Basketball, Let's Play Football, Let's Play Hockey, and Let's Play Soccer.
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