Reviews written by Cherokee Crum, Staff Reviewer

The Incredible Octopus is a must have for anyone who loves these intelligent cephalopods! I picked this book for myself, more so than for my kids, as Octopus as a whole are my favorite aquatic creature, maybe even animal in general. Already knowing a bunch...

Let's Learn to Fish was such a fun tutorial of how to freshwater fish, not just for kids, but for all ages. Let's Learn to Fish is broken up into basic categories like The Basics of Tackle, All About Bait, and more, which are...

Before the Seed: How Pollen Moves is written by a biologist who specializes in animal behavior and ecology. Told in a lyrical manner than lends itself to read-alouds and is easy for kids to comprehend. There is a ton of information location in the sidebars and of course, the backmatter....

Seoul Food is delightfully sweet and delicious story of family, love, culture, and food, featuring diverse characters and bringing two very different cultures together to form a happy family. The creativity of this story is excellent. Hana is presented with a tough situation and uses...

Do You Know?: Farm Animals, Work, and Life contains around 80 pages all about farming, detailing different aspects of farming and illustrated with a diverse cast of people and animals! The information provided is great! The author touches on various parts of farm life,...

This Little Kitty in the Garden is an enchanting and adorable children's book featuring several different cats engaging in and resting up after a day of spring gardening, using rhymed verse. While the rhyming verse isn't perfect, it still makes for an easy read for young readers. ...

Mythical Monsters of Greenland: A Survival Guide provides information on creatures and elements from Greenlandic Inuit lore and mythology, in 15 main entries and six "honorable mentions." Unfortunately, this information is just what the stories tell us of their locations, habits and how to out-run them, not the stories themselves....

This large-format encyclopedia is a sequel to or the companion to the Atlas of Extinct Animals and another of Endangered Animals. Featuring around 100 pages, Insectopia: The Wonderful World of Insects has beautiful full-page illustrations, as well as smaller ones throughout. The pages are written with compact text...

A wonderful and informative read, that provides a good amount of information that a younger school audience would want to know about the Arctic fox. Showing where and when the babies are born, what they eat, their predators, etc. Animals Illustrated: Arctic Fox was used for my child's...

How Do You Turn Data Into Drawings?: A Statistics Book About Graphs and Data was a great way to introduce statistics, data, and graphs to my child and a wonderful refresher for myself. There is so much information spread throughout. I had forgotten the...

My children and I absolutely loved Magic Flashlight: Explore the Rain Forest! We join Clara and her pet dog on an adventure to the Amazon, and what excitement there was! The information is clear and fun, even more so when paired with...

The Earth Book is a fun informational text that allows young readers the ability to learn about the science behind our world. From the layers of the atmosphere to Earth's inner core, there is something for everyone interested in Earth Sciences. The Earth Books...

Created with watercolor, gouache, pastels, and digital techniques, the artwork pays tribute to the wonders of nature and those special places that haven't get been spoiled by humans, the are absolutely stunning. My son's favorite part was the illustrations. The plot is cute. Grandfather...

My Body and Me: My First Body Positive Book was an adorable read. The plot is easy for littles to follow along with and not too cumbersome for those learning to read. The book is full of great...

This was another enjoyable interactive read, my children loved spotting their way through The Four Seasons. The plot is based around Talia who is stuck indoors, bored, while there is a rain storm happening out her window, in the spring. Thus we begin our...