Eye-popping illustrations show just how big a crocodile's jaw really is or the size of a tooth of a great white shark. Or how small a dwarf goby fish is. Compare your foot with the foot of an African elephant. Additional interesting facts about the animals are at the back of the book.

Reviewed by: hap

Date read: 10/13/2010

ISBN-10: 0618375945

ISBN-13: 9780618375943

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Join a princess, knight, dragon, and an elf in a humorous adventure as the Magic Elf uses their cartoon to show them about cartooning basics from panels to word balloons to thought balloons and more. 'Can you draw simple things like trees, fish, and candy?... Then you can be a cartoonist!!! This book will help show you how!!!' After reading the book, cartooning seems very easy. Now if only I could draw...

Awards nominated: 2012 Bluestem Award Nominee

Reviewed by: mec

Date read: 3/25/2009

ISBN-13: 9781596433694

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Alice Paul spent her whole life working for women's rights. She was born in 1885, when women could not vote, and most girls did not go to college. However, her parents thought education was important. Alice got a college degree in social work, and eventually went back to college for two law degrees. While Alice was studying in England, she started working with the suffragists, women who were fighting for a woman's right to vote. She continued her work for voting rights after she returned home to the United States. She was put in jail several times while marching for voting rights. Finally, in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was passed! After 1920, Alice worked for equal rights for all women around the world. She made sure that the charter for the United Nations included equal rights for all people. Part of the American Lives series.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/14/2009

ISBN-10: 1403457034

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Aliens from Earth, When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems by Mary Batten is a beautifully illustrated book explaining the dangers of introducing animals, plants, and insects into ecosystems that are 'alien' to them. The reader learns how well-meaning scientists, farmers, and nature lovers have destroyed the sensitive balance that exists in nature by importing non-indigenous creatures into an existing ecosystem with catastrophic results.

Similar authors: David T. Suzuki; Greg Pyers; Suzanne Slade

Similar books: Topical rainforests by Seymour Simon; You are the Earht by David T. Suzuki; River Food Chains by Rachel Lynette

Reviewed by: mb

Date read: 6/18/2012

ISBN-10: 156145236X

ISBN-13: 9781561452361

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This book begins with a brief biography of Helen Keller, who lost both hearing and sight due to illness as a little girl. Helen did well because she could read and write. She was able to learn that by using Braille. Braille is a writing system that uses raised bumps on a page so that people can read by touch. The book includes the Braille alphabet, numbers, and punctuation symbols and challenges the reader to write their own name in Braille. A short biography of Louis Braille, the inventor of the Braille alphabet, is also included. This book also gives examples of well-known people who are blind and tools that help blind people be independent.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/13/2009

ISBN-10: 076602184X

ISBN-13: 9780766021846

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