Gr 3-5–Each book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, diet, predators, and prey of the featured cat, and the effect it has on the environment...
Using historical photographs, film footage, and interviews with people in Europe, the United States, and Ghana, the female narrator takes viewers from the beginning of mass production in the 1920s with Henry Ford’s Model-T to General Motors’ annual car models to Bernard London’s proposal during the New Deal era for compulsory planned obsolescence that he believed would keep people working and create a continuous market demand for consumer goods to the 1950s when designers subscribed to this mantra...
Gary Soto’s delightful road trip (Scholastic, 1995) takes place on bikes as Hector and Mando decide to visit Hector’s relatives across California during summer break...
PreS-K–Like the penguin who searched for a kiss in Walsh’s The Biggest Kiss (S & S, 2011), a young panda also sets out on a journey to find an “exactly right” hug...
Gr 1-3–Two traditional events in the life of the Hindu god Ganesha are imaginatively recast as though happening during his childhood: “he was just like every other kid except that he had an elephant’s head and cruised around on a magical mouse collecting fruit, rice, sweets, and other gifts from the temples in his neighborhood...