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The Great American Dust Bowl, Ariel Woodbury
The Great American Dust Bowl, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
The settlers of the Great Plains replaced the naturally occurring grasses with wheat. When a drought struck the plains the wheat couldn't hold the soil together and it got swept up into great dust storms that darkened the sky, suffocated animals, and even derailed trains.
Search And Spot Animals!, Sydnee Burr
Search And Spot Animals!, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
In this early learning picture book for young children, puzzles meet the reader on every page. The colors and illustrations attract little eyes and fingers, making each page an exciting entrapment. From kittens to hens and puppies to horses, Search and Spot Animals utilizes a variety of shapes, colors, silhouettes, and tasks to keep young readers both entertained and curious.
Huff And Puff Have Too Much Stuff!, Kristie Hickley
Huff And Puff Have Too Much Stuff!, Kristie Hickley
Children's Book and Media Review
Huff and Puff Have Too Much Stuff! is about Huff the engine and Puff the caboose, two train cars. They push and pull train cars full of stuff. Little rabbits help them collect items to fill their train cars with. When Huff and Puff can’t quite make it over a hill, they realize they have too much stuff! They come across Farmer Fluff, who happens to need things for his farm and animals to fill his barn. The trains have each other and that’s enough, so they don’t need stuff!
Duck On A Tractor, Ariel Woodbury
Duck On A Tractor, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Duck has a wild idea. One day he sees a tractor and decides to try and drive it. After looking around a bit, he turns a shiny little piece of metal by the steering wheel and he's off! All the other farm animals join him on a trip through town, right past the diner where everyone is having lunch. Everyone stares as the tractor drives by and then run after it. But when they finally catch up to the tractor all the animals have left and everyone thinks they must've been imagining it.
Treasure Hunts: Pyramid Puzzles, Ariel Woodbury
Treasure Hunts: Pyramid Puzzles, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
While visiting an ancient pyramid in Egypt you are trapped inside by a sand storm! To get out of the pyramid you must avoid booby traps and solve puzzles in order to find your way.
Arcadia Burns, Lisa Packard
Arcadia Burns, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
As Rosa is still trying to get a handle on changing into a snake when her emotions get out of control, which is very hard to do with Alessandro around, she and Alessandro are trying to figure out who TABULA is and what they do. Rosa's family lawyer sends her a tape of who raped her almost two years ago and the discovery is disturbing. Alessandro's cousins raped her under the direction of her father, who is believed to be dead. As Rosa gets to the bottom of the mystery, the Hungry Man, the leader of all the clans, is …
I Used To Be Afraid, Lori Cunningham
I Used To Be Afraid, Lori Cunningham
Children's Book and Media Review
Creepy crawly spiders, shadows in the dark, and moving to a new place can be terrifying. A little girl takes you through some scary situations and turns them around into something less frightening. She shows that sometimes a spider maybe beautiful with its detailed web, or that shadows on the wall can be a silly hand puppet.
Charlie The Ranch Dog: Rock Star, Kristie Hickley
Charlie The Ranch Dog: Rock Star, Kristie Hickley
Children's Book and Media Review
Charlie lives with his family on a ranch. After seeing a rock star dog on TV, Charlie decided he wants the easy life of a rock star dog too. He heads to the closet for some rock star clothes and after putting some clothes and accessories, he looks fabulous! Charlie expects other people to clean up his messes while he neglects his responsibilities on the ranch. However, he realizes that his life is less than glamorous. When Charlie tries to take a nap on some bales of hay but they are too scratchy. Plus, it’s way too noisy outside on …
Elephants Make Fine Friends, Aylea Stephens
Elephants Make Fine Friends, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Ella’s best friend is an elephant. They do everything together until Ella realizes that sometimes her friend being an elephant made things difficult. Suddenly she isn’t so sure that elephants make fine friends after all. Her elephant has all kinds of problems, like eating too much and blocking the view behind them at the movies. Ella tells the elephant that they are just too different to be best friends and sends the elephant away. Soon Ella realizes that she misses her elephant, but when her elephant has made friends with other elephants, it takes some convincing for the elephants to …
Everything, Everything, Lisa Packard
Everything, Everything, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Maddy has a very rare autoimmune disease: if she steps outside her home, she'll die. One day, a boy named Olly moves next door. Communicating only through text and email, Maddy and Olly get to know each other and slowly start to fall in love. Maddy's nurse sneaks Olly into the house on one condition: he cannot touch her. After having a stolen kiss, and Olly telling her she's only living a half life, Maddy runs away from home. She and Olly travel to Hawaii, having the time of her life until she becomes very sick. The doctors tell her …
Elmer And The Flood, Aylea Stephens
Elmer And The Flood, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
It has been raining for days and Elmer, the patchwork elephant, is tired of being stuck inside a cave with the rest of his herd. Many animals suggest to him that he should come inside their caves because of the rain, but Elmer still wants to go for a walk. The jungle is partly flooded, but the crocodiles are excited to swim in new places and the ducks are enjoying the weather. Elmer learns that Young Elephant is missing, so he goes to rescue Young, who is stuck on an island. Elmer gets all of the other elephants to help …
Henry And Mudge And The Bedtime Thumps, Kristie Hickley
Henry And Mudge And The Bedtime Thumps, Kristie Hickley
Children's Book and Media Review
Mudge is Henry’s dog and best friend, which means Henry brings him along wherever he goes, including to his Grandmother’s house for the first time. There are a few things that worry Henry about bringing Mudge along. Henry is worried that Mudge might drool all over Grandmother, that he may eat the coffee table, and that they might make him sleep outside in the dark. Grandmother’s house looks friendly enough and Grandmother doesn’t mind too much when Mudge drools on her, but after Mudge knocks a few things over in her living room he is sent outside for the night. …
Bear In Love, Aylea Stephens
Bear In Love, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Bear usually wakes up every morning and goes to find food, but one day someone has already left him something to eat! As the days go by, more carrots are added to the pile and Bear starts to leave presents of his own. He keeps leaving presents of his own and hoping to stay awake to meet his mysterious friend, but he keeps falling asleep. Finally, he meets the bunny that has been leaving him the presents and they become friends.
Spoonface Steinberg, Rebeca Wallin
Spoonface Steinberg, Rebeca Wallin
Children's Book and Media Review
Spoonface is in bed in the last stages of cancer when she explains her life to the audience. Her parents discovered her autism at an early age and later her gift with numbers and dates. The parents go through a rocky divorce leaving Spoonface mostly with her mother with occasional visits from the father. When her cancer is discovered, doctors give little hope but still try grueling treatments which weaken and sicken Spoonface. Through all her descriptions of the tragic life she has lead Spoonface stays optimistic, cheerful, and hopeful. She finds joy in the opera music she loves and …
Wonder Woman, Abigail Packard
Wonder Woman, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Diana is an Amazonian warrior princess living on the secluded and safe island of Themyscira. Her mother refuses to let Diana train as a warrior, but Diana’s aunt insists and teaches Diana despite the queen’s disapproval. Their peaceful lives are interrupted when a WWI pilot crashes into their protected seas. Diana rescues the man, but and a fight breaks out between the Germans pursuing the pilot and the Amazons. The warriors triumph, but learn about the great war in the outside world. Diana is convinced that Ares, the god of war, has returned to destroy humankind. Diana and the pilot, …
Stickmen's Guide To Oceans In Layers, Ariel Woodbury
Stickmen's Guide To Oceans In Layers, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Explore the depths of the ocean through the sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone, black abyss, and the ocean trenches. Each layer of the ocean is explored as readers learn about the life that is found there, each habitat's characteristics, and how humans influence or study each particular area.
Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between, Aylea Stephens
Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
It is their last night before leaving for college, and Clare and Aidan have to figure out if they are going to have a long distance relationship or break up. Clare makes a list of the things and places that have been the most important in their two years of being together. Together they go from place to place, reliving the moments that brought them together. Along the way, they discuss the possibility of staying together and the fear of being apart. They get upset with each other and some of their friends as everyone they know struggles to deal …
Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, Ariel Woodbury
Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
The Confederate Army is on the verge of defeat. Robert E. Lee's army at Petersburg is the only thing keeping the Confederates in the fight. Lee manages to escape with half of his army, but the road to Richmond, their capital, is now undefended. Ulysses S. Grant chases them to their ultimate defeat and the war is effectively over. Back Washington D.C., John Wilkes Booth is planning the kidnapping of Abraham Lincoln for the Confederate government. After the news of the Confederate defeat, he becomes so enraged that his plans change. He and his group of conspirators are now going …
We Are America: A Tribute From The Heart, Kristie Hinckley
We Are America: A Tribute From The Heart, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
After reading powerful notes by the author Walter Dean Myers and illustrator Christopher Myers, the reader embarks on a journey through the history of America. The book begins from the perspective of a Native American before the founding of the nation we now call America. The United States of America has always been a land of hope and possibility and has seen its share of trials, slavery and war being among the most prominent. The book does a wonderful job portraying the great variety of people and nationalities that make up this beautiful country.
Officer Panda: Fingerprint Detective, Aylea Stephens
Officer Panda: Fingerprint Detective, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Officer Panda begins his shift, he notices that there is something unusual going on with the haystacks. He keeps seeing strange prints, so he asks witnesses if they’ve seen anything unusual. He goes through the forest and makes some notes, then comes home to see more prints there too. In the end, he discovers that the mysterious fingerprints belong to the reader of the book.
Henry Cicada's Extraordinary Elktonium Escapade, Aylea Stephens
Henry Cicada's Extraordinary Elktonium Escapade, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
All Henry Cicada wants is to be ordinary and unnoticed, but this is hard to do when his dad spends all of his time in the basement trying to discover something useful to do with the odd green material his late wife discovered. Henry gets more than he wanted when he decides to stand up to the school bully, adopts a dog with only three legs, and then accidentally travels across dimensions into the imagination of a girl named Lulu through a doghouse made out of Elktonium. When he discovers that Lulu is in trouble and her aunt Tiffany is …
Giraffes Ruin Everything, Ariel Woodbury
Giraffes Ruin Everything, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Having a long neck and extra long legs can get you into trouble at the movie theater. A little boy and his giraffe spend a frustrating day together until he gets his kite stuck high up in a tree. It turns out that giraffes are good at getting kites out of trees. Maybe giraffes don't ruin everything, but you DEFINITELY don't want to invite an elephant. Elephants ruin everything.
Bob And Joss Get Lost!, Jess Verzello
Bob And Joss Get Lost!, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
When Bob becomes bored, he and Joss decide to jump on a boat and go on an adventure. But when their boat is shipwrecked on a tropical island, Bob finds that survival in the wild isn’t the easiest. They face new monsters, learn to build a shelter, and scavenge for food. Bob can’t help but freak out while Joss seems to keep his cool. When Joss comes back with beach towels, a snorkel, and fins Bob realizes that they crash landed on the other side on the island where the resort is! They make it back home safely, but soon …
I'Ll Wait, Mr. Panda, Ariel Woodbury
I'Ll Wait, Mr. Panda, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Mr. Panda is making a surprise. His friends are very curious about what the surprise is, but waiting is boring and hard. Only Penguin stays to find out. His patience is rewarded with a GIANT doughnut!
Robot Rumpus, Aylea Stephens
Robot Rumpus, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Because Mum and Dad are busy, they decide to buy robots to put their daughter to bed. At first, things work out. One of the robots makes spaghetti and another cleans up after dinner is over. However, when the Wash-bot tries to give her a bath and sees her alligator bath toy, the robot becomes convinced that the girl is in danger and starts a chain reaction of the robots getting confused and causing all kinds of problems. In the end, the girl has to put herself to bed and wait for her parents to come home to deal with …
Wilderness: An Interactive Atlas Of Animals, Ariel Woodbury
Wilderness: An Interactive Atlas Of Animals, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Explore the amazing world of animals with this interactive book. Discover the panther chameleon in the rain forest, the sociable weaver bird of the savanna, and many other animals of the six main habitats. Each habitat introduces a bunch of animals and some little known facts about them.
Chu's Day, Aylea Stephens
Chu's Day, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Chu sneezes, bad things happen. He goes to the library and there is a lot of dust in the air from the books. He manages not to sneeze. He goes to the diner with his father. There is a lot of pepper in the air, but Chu doesn’t sneeze. When he goes with his parents to the circus, however, no one listens to his warning and he sneezes so hard that the circus and everywhere else is nearly blown away!
The Orchestra Pit, Aylea Stephens
The Orchestra Pit, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
A snake is lost. This snake is very sure that it’s in the wrong pit, because instead of a snake pit, it’s found its way into the orchestra pit. The snake explores the orchestra pit for a while, discovering that trumpets are loud, tubs are roomy, and trombones are long. The snake is unaware of what is spooking the orchestra members and keeps looking at the different kinds of instruments. Soon the orchestra begins playing and the snake leaves the wrong pit and finally makes it into the right one.
Splat The Cat: Twice The Mice, Kristie Hinckley
Splat The Cat: Twice The Mice, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
Seymour misses his brother Brice, so Brice is coming for a visit! Splat the Cat tells his mom that there will be twice the mice. Splat’s mother warns him to be extra nice because not all mice think cats are nice. Seymour and Splat work super hard to prepare for Brice’s visit. Splat makes a statue out of ice for Brice, but the ice sculpture starts to melt after they fall asleep. Splat wakes up and runs to greet Brice, but he slips on the ice. He is sad that the ice sculpture is so melted and small, but Brice …
Pinkalicious And The Pink Parakeet, Kristie Hinckley
Pinkalicious And The Pink Parakeet, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
When the class takes a trip to the Zoo, Pinkalicious wants to see the pink parakeet that she read about in her bird book. Her teacher, Ms. Penny, warns her that they are very rare, so she shouldn’t be disappointed if she doesn’t see one. Pinkalicious doesn’t see a pink parakeet and is sad. But soon the class realizes that the pink parakeet is in Ms. Penny’s jacket hood! The pink parakeet escapes and Pinkalicious and her classmates searched for it. Then she remembers that her bird book says pink parakeets like fruit and bird baths. They are able to …