George gets a chance to experience egg dying, meet a bunny, and rescue the eggs a new man lost. A nice story for anyone who celebrates easter with a bunny.

This is a well done book. It is similar to Opposing viewpoints but for younger children. It takes the subject, in this case, school uniforms, and walks the reader through 4 questions about the topic. For each question they give a yes, and a no answer. At the end of that chapter the author talks about various topics in making an argument, such as authority sources, comparison, etc. This was much better than I was expecting and thing most school libraries if not 2nd grade classrooms should have a copy.

Lanier Phillips grew up in a horrible time in the US. As a child he lived with the KKK on the attack, and as an adult longing to be free, he ended up instead a military serving boy. He had dire hopes for his country or ever doing what he truly wanted to do until a tragic shipwreck that claimed every other POC on board. Being stranded for a bit in Newfoundland made him realize that not everyone was biased against a colored man, and that he could be what he wanted to be, because caring people existed. I really liked this story, but wish it would have gone further to tell how Lanier got into sonar school, instead of ending at Newfoundland island. But the story is still lovely and the illustrations are unique and beautiful.

This is a fun book about a girl, her dog, and the many adventures they take in a day. The book rhymes throughout, but does not really have a cadence. There are many pages where you get a cadence going, to have it fall apart later. But saying that, the story is still enjoyable and the illustrations are bright, colorful and fun.

This book would be better as an audio book. Each page asks “do you hear” a different instrument, and then has an illustrated animal playing that instrument. But the sounds don’t make sense to kids that have never heard of that instrument before. This book includes bassoon, trumpet, flute french horn, etc. It works okay with the ending, but would be better with matching audio.

This book looks at the difference in how something feels to an adult or another person, and how it feels to a person with sensory issues. Like a shirt tag may be itchy to this reader, but to the little boy wearing it, it may feel like porcupine is stuffed in his shirt. It’s an interesting way of looking at things, and a great tool for helping kids with sensor issues.

I made sure to try every project in this book. There are quite a few mistakes. For example the instructions will say to “paint a new sprite” but the graphic to go with it shows “pick a new sprite”. That mistake is repeated every time they have that step. My next problem with this book is that it uses Scratch which is available free from MIT. It’s a very cool program, I just wish the cover said that you needed to use that program. Or reminded people that existing programs like Flash may need to run or be updated. I like the projects and think it is well set up, but it doesn’t really flow as a story, and I think the procedural part, while complete, and interesting, is way beyond what the cover makes someone think they are checking out. Plus, many of the elements they give the reader to do, don't seem like they work exactly right. For example you pick up the basket in the first project, by my character never picked up the basket, it walked past it. I'm an adult who can write code and I found it to be annoying, so I think it will be just as bad for kids. Overall, I like the concept, but the execution could be better.

This was a great “get to know space” guide. The information was kept brief, but reachable, fulfilling, and included many things most space books for this age do not. My only real problem with the book is no real pictures. Everything is illustrations. They are wacky and fun, but unlike other books in this series, real pictures are an advantage. When talking weights and measures, real pictures are not as important, as they are talking about comets and black holes.

A nice solid lesson in a book. It’s not boring, the pictures are great, and the project is fun and easy. Well done all around.

Chadwick likes to play a game of ‘who am I” as he introduces his friends. I like that this book choose animals from a distance location, in this case Chesapeake Bay. So instead of Zebras and elephants, you have herons and osprey. Quite a nice change of pace from standard “who is it” books.