The Children’s Book Review Published: April 3, 2013 Reading level: Ages 6-9 Hardcover: 40 pages
Browsing: Environment & Ecology
It’s a good time to grab a good book that will remind you why the winter season is so wonderful.
In a world without air, what would you do to BREATHE? Three friends risk everything in this novel of danger, longing, and glimmering hope.
The Carpenter’s Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree, by David Rubel, captures the essence of giving and charity, showing the importance of compassion during the holidays.
It’s summertime with its big bowl of a blue sky. Outside becomes another room, with open fields and the whir and buzz of bugs and baseball, and the voice of the water and the touch of sand.
Day One of summer, my son asks, “Now what?” So we ride our bikes to the library and load our backpacks with books about summer. Here’s a list to fill up the baggy pockets of summertime.
After reading so many books with talking bunnies and dogs, of mice that look cuddly and sweet, of mischievous cats and raccoons, it’s a relief, of sorts, to enter the world of realism, especially one that has the stamp of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution. The realism comes if not through the photographs, then through the information.
When it comes to delivering a message of conserving resources for our future, child-centric stories are the perfect antidote. As gentle as a floating cloud overhead, these books give “green” power to the young people!
David A. Carter is the amazingly talented paper engineer behind 75 pop-up books, including the bestselling Bugs in a Box® series that has sold more than six million copies.
Dr. Seuss’s well-known and well-loved The Lorax is as timely now as it was when it was first published in 1971.
By Nina Schuyler, The Children’s Book Review Published: January 27, 2012 Coral Reefs Written and Illustrated by Jason Chin Reading…