Reviews
Booklist Reviews "Welcome to America, Champ!"
The luxurious Queen Mary oceanliner once sailed with diapers drying on clotheslines suspended over the ship’s emptied swimming pool. Why? This was part of a unique cargo transported by luxury liners in 1946: tens of thousands of “soldier brides” and their children who immigrated… View →
Reading Today Online Reviews "Welcome to America, Champ!"
As WWII ends Thomas, his mother, and his new baby brother leave their home in England to join his new family in the United States. Thomas’s stepfather is a soldier, and while Thomas looks forward to his new life in Chicago, he is anxious about what things… View →
Kirkus Reviews "Paper Son"
The journey from China to the United States and the experience on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay are fraught with anxiety and peril for 12-year-old Wang… In order to gain admittance, he takes the “paper son” name Fu Lee, taking the place of someone whose records had burnt in View →
Midwest Book Review: "Jasper's Story: Saving Moon Bears"
Jasper’s Story: Saving Moon Bears is a children’s picturebook about the real-life troubles suffered by Asian moon bears. For fifteen long years, Jasper was confined and miserable in a cage, held by bear farmers in rural China. The bear farmers removed bile from Jasper’s View →
Kirkus Reviews "Memoirs of a Hamster"
His hamster-ish outlook is effectively conveyed in his narrative and in Bowers’ low-angle cartoon views of a chubby-cheeked, bright-eyed pet who, though once susceptible to temptation, clearly enjoys the familiar comforts of wheel and water bottle—to which he is returned following a… View →
Booklist -Information Security Analyst
The entry into the Cool STEM Careers series begins with a scene out of a suspense movie: an information security analyst helps track down a corporate spy searching for confidential information about a new product the corporation is developing. From there, Mara… View →
Booklist - "Water Power"
Following the journal entries of a fictional girl named Sophie York as she conducts interviews and research, readers of this title in the Language Arts Explorer: Energy Lab series are given the mission of investigating water power as an energy source. Using water as an alternative power… View →
Kirkus Reviews "No Pirates Allowed Said Library Lou"
A librarian endows a treasure-hunting pirate with reading skills as well as training him to hush up in this bland valentine to… Sending other users fleeing from their computer screens and cozy reading nooks to cower in the stacks, Big Pirate Pete bursts into the Seabreezy View →
Midwest Book Review: "Maestro Stu Saves The Zoo"
To save a zoo, a young boy must unite all the animals who dwell there. “Maestro Stu Saves The Zoo” is a lyrical children’s picturebook beautifully illustrated by Tim Bowers, as author Denise Brennan-Nelson tells a story of how young Stu struggles to save his favorite… View →
Booklist -"Pictographs"
This slim entry in the Making and Using Graphs series offers a three-stage mini course in creating simple graphs with visual markers rather than lines, bars, or points. In an easy text illustrated with brightly colored charts (plus the occasional monkey and photos or cartoons of… View →