Reviews written by Cherokee Crum, Staff Reviewer

Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet is an incredibly detailed look at trees and life on Earth. It opens up with a poignant line about how the tree pictured doesn’t seem to be doing much. That it is just standing around being...

Just Try It! is a cute and short read about a child who may have some picky tendencies when it comes to food. The plot is one most parents can relate to, in one way or another. Lily is refusing to try any new...

Miss MacDonald Has a Farm is a cute new take on an old classic we all know and love. This time around MacDonald is a female, and instead of animals, she is growing beautiful crops! Children get an introductory look at...

The Other Lola is a continuation of the characters from Missing Clarissa, Cam and Blair, but with a different mystery. I did not read the first book, but easily read The Other Lola as a standalone as Missing Clarissa was summarized well and this new...

How Do Meteorologists Predict the Future? is full of important concepts and factual information about how meteorologists gather and analyze data, the information they need to help predict weather. Reading this book, we learn about the different layers of our atmosphere, the various methods...

How Do You Become an Olympian? teaches kids just about everything they would want to know about becoming an Olympian. We're given information from the first games, long ago, to what they are now in the present. The information isn't as overwhelming as some...

Extreme Survival was an awesome book to read with my kids! The contents page was really fun! I'd never seen a contents map before , it worked perfectly for this type of book. We travel around the world, as well as space, to learn...

Virginia W. Dike and Robin Gowen have created a beautifully illustrated and informative read! We are given a highly education look at different birds found in West Africa, from the Bulbul to the Whydah and everything in between! Information included is your...

Programmed to Paint has a great message directed toward preschoolers, but is helpful for any age, including adults! Pintro is an adorable character, and reading along as he searched for his creativity was endearing and bittersweet, Often we see creativity smashed apart with the need...

P is For Pastrami is both educational and fun! The vibrant colors and silly, yet beautiful, illustrations add to this books allure. The anthropomorphized food stuff was such a fun way to give the book character. My children enjoyed seeing familiar “faces” from Silberberg...

There's quite a bit to unpack in Bisantz's story covering the history of Romeo and Juliet. We receive a history lesson, a biography of William Shakespeare, and coverage of the multiple iterations of Romeo and Juliet that exist, plus additional school-type lessons. I honestly...

The Den That Octopus Built is written in short, rhyming verse, with the pattern, again, being a nod to The House That Jack Built, without the heavy repetition of that classic. Readers of all ages gain insight into this intelligent creature, how their den supports...

The Lodge That Beaver Built is another lovely journey from Sonenshine, this time narrating the ecosystem around a beaver's well-built lodge and all of the wonderous animals there. Once again, written in a lyrical verse akin to The House That Jack Built, we discover...

Written in whimsical verse, The Nest That Wren Built is a lovely journey through the process of building a nest to the protection of the nest, all the way to the hatchings that will leave the nest to start this process elsewhere and a small look at the animals that...

What a fabulously fun activity book based on the ocean and Julia Rothman's Ocean Anatomy! Even without reading its predecessor, this activity book is full of educational content. There is a variety of things to do from mazes to drawing to word games to crafts,...