Book Reviews
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seasby Lynne Cox; illus. by Brian FlocaPreschool, Primary Schwartz & Wade/Random 48 pp.5/14 978-0-375-85888-8 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-375-95888-5 $20.99e-book ed. 978-0-375-98769-4 $10.99Renowned long-distance swimmer Cox here celebrates a swimmer of a different species: a twelve-hundred-pound elephant seal that preferred the warm banks of the Avon River in...
Shout Science! (Scott Dubois, 2013) is a comic-style nonfiction app that tells three stories of figures from the European Scientific Revolution.The first biography follows Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717), a watercolor painter and insect collector in Frankfurt, Germany. Merian observed the life cycle of butterflies, including metamorphosis, and documented it in...
Apps make great companions to museum exhibitions, serving both as supplements to enhance visitors' experiences and as substitutes for those who can't see exhibits in person. (We've reviewed several of this type of app: Color Uncovered and Sound Uncovered by the Exploratorium; Dinosaurs and Creatures of Light by the American...
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and
the Fall of Imperial Russiaby Candace FlemingMiddle School, High School
Schwartz & Wade/Random 287 pp.7/14 978-0-375-86782-8 $18.99Library ed. 978-0-375-96782-5 $21.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-375-89864-8 $10.99Marrying the intimate family portrait of Heiligman’s Charles and Emma (rev. 1/09) with the politics and intrigue of Sheinkin’s Bomb (rev....
Steve Jenkins’s 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest — and Most Surprising — Animals on Earth is available in an enhanced e-book edition (HMH, 2013).An introduction describes the book’s features: Animal Fact Pop-Up Boxes provide more information...
World War I Interactive (2012) is part of Touchzing Media's interactive history app series (other entries cover the American Revolution, the Civil War, WWII, the Vietnam War, general American history, and the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi). Since my own WWI knowledge comes largely from Downton Abbey and...
The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyondby Patrick Dillon;
illus. by Stephen BiestyIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 96 pp.3/14 978-0-7636-6990-4 $19.99Beginning with an ingratiatingly brief historical summary of how the human need for shelter brought us from caves to high-rises, Dillon and Biesty then...
The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy Is Enlighteningby Chris Raschka; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.5/14 978-0-7636-5806-9 $15.99 gJazz pioneer and self-proclaimed space case Sun Ra (born Herman P. Blount) gets a portrait as bemusing and sparkly as the man himself in this fantastical tribute. Raschka...
Leaving China: An Artist Paints His
World War II Childhoodby James McMullan;
illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School Algonquin 113 pp.3/14 978-1-61620-255-2 $19.95McMullan was born in Tsingtao, North China, in 1934 to an Irish-English missionary family. His privileged childhood was disrupted by the 1937 Japanese occupation; by 1941, he...
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