Book Reviews
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...
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikasby Jim Ottaviani; illus. by Maris WicksMiddle School, High School First Second/Roaring Brook 140 pp.6/13 978-1-59643-865-1 $19.99A graphic format admirably propels this lightly fictionalized group biography of “Leakey’s Angels”: Jane Goodall (chimps in Rwanda), and Biruté Galdikas...
Beautiful nonfiction app Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night (Bookerella and Story Worldwide, 2012) introduces primary and intermediate users to the world's only flying mammal.Author Mary Kay Carson — whose many nonfiction print books for children include 2010 Scientists in the Field title The Bat Scientists — presents accessible information...
Touch Press, developers of The Elements and X is for X-Ray, present a virtual odyssey through the ancient monuments of the Giza Plateau in Pyramids 3D: Wonders of the Old Kingdom (October 2012). 3D imaging and zoom capabilities allow for 360 degree rotation and manipulation of space and objects in...
Touch Press, developers of such apps as The Elements and March of the Dinosaurs, presents X Is for X-Ray (2011), an interactive alphabet book designed to elucidate the ins and outs of everyday objects through x-ray photography. With a series of swipes and pinches (swipe up for natural light, down...
Rounds: Parker Penguin by Barry and Emma Tranter (Nosy Crow, December 2012) is the second entry in this series of nonfiction apps about life cycles for preschool users. The text and interjections from anthropomorphized Parker present information about emperor penguins' physiology and behavior, their Antarctic habitat, and their place in the...
Rounds: Franklin Frog by Barry and Emma Tranter (Nosy Crow, August 2012) is a great interactive nonfiction app for one- to three-year-olds. First in Nosy Crow's new series of nonfiction apps based on life cycles, Franklin Frog presents the life of a frog — including feeding, hibernation, mating, birth, metamorphosis,...
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