Book Reviews
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéryby Peter Sís; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Foster/Farrar 48 pp.5/14 978-0-374-38069-4 $18.99 gOn glorious blue endpapers, an airplane loops across a map of the world, its contrail made of words that seem to dissolve on the page. The...
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Natureby Sarah C. Campbell; photos
by Sarah C. Campbell and
Richard P. CampbellPrimary Boyds Mills 32 pp.4/14 978-1-62091-627-8 $16.95Bring up the math term fractals in a roomful of adults, and it’s likely quite a few eyes will glaze over. Yet wife-and-husband team Sarah and Richard...
Long-running children's nonfiction magazine Kids Discover has made an admirable jump to digital — twenty-one of their issues on natural and social sciences are currently available as apps. I took a look at the digital version of volume 11: Ancient Egypt (Joe Zeff Design, 2013).The app offers eight content chapters:...
Nonfiction apps and e-books can be excellent tools to supplement classroom learning or independent research. These four interactive offerings — three science, one poetry — engage young users as they educate.Cute kid Sloan Graham, the bear-suit-clad main character of I Love Mountains, has a passionate interest in the titular landforms....
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Bakerby Patricia Hruby Powell;
illus. by Christian RobinsonIntermediate, Middle School Chronicle 104 pp.2/14 978-1-4521-0314-3 $17.99To describe Josephine Baker’s life as “dazzling” is not an exaggeration. In this incomparable biography both Powell and Robinson convey the passion, exuberance, dignity, and eccentricity of their subject through...
Cute kid Sloan Graham, the bear-suit-clad main character of Forest Giant’s nonfiction app I Love Mountains (2012), has a passionate interest in the titular landforms. She shares fun geological facts about mountains through nineteen interactive pages, beginning by describing the three different types of mountains and the plate tectonics that...
Like any good discovery museum exhibit, the San Francisco Exploratorium's Color Uncovered interactive e-book (2011) invites users to experiment for themselves as they learn about color. The relationship between color and light waves, humans' and animals' perception of color, color blending, and complementary colors are just a few of the...
Locomotiveby Brian Floca; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Jackson/Atheneum 64 pp.9/13 978-1-4169-9415-2 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-8522-8 $12.99Talk about a youth librarian’s dream come true: a big new book about those ever-popular trains from a bona fide picture-book-nonfiction all-star. Striking cinematic endpapers lay the groundwork, describing the creation of the Transcontinental...
Danielle J. Ford reviewed Dr. Lee R. Berger and Marc Aronson's nonfiction title The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins (National Geographic) in the November/December 2012 Horn Book Magazine.The conversational text tells how Berger, a paleontologist, used Google...
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