Clare Hibbert

Mediocre, and hardly a decent introduction to myths, more a list of myths that were used in jla/wonder woman stories. And as usual in popular culture, they use one part of the myth, and present it as the whole story...
The book is okay if you like the DC Universe, not so great if you're looking for a kids intro to myths.

100 Events That Made History is a fun and vibrant accounting of the most important historical events all over the world. I really appreciated the simple structure of the book where four overriding themes (Social Firsts, Battles and Brawls, All Change and Amazing Achievements) made it easily accessible and highly readable. 100 Events That Made History is shaped by pertinent questions asked about each event (one or two pages) the most important being "how it changed the world." This gives show more clarity to each event and how it formed modern history. The lively and beautiful pictures in the book will enable even the youngest readers to connect to the material in a fresh and entertaining way.

Thank you to DK Penguin Random House Publishers and Edelweiss for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion. show less

~borrowed from the Library

BOBA FETT: JEDI HUNTER is from DK's Clone Wars series. This series of books does not have pictures from the movies but animation stills. This book has 817 words (large font) and is at the mid-3rd Grade Reading level.

This book is basically a Baba Fett biography. It tells about his father Jango and about his desire to assassinate the sinister Mace Windu.

I-personally don't find most of the Clone Wars books to be all that intriguing but this one seems particularly well show more written. The author, Clare Hibbert, brings some excitement and intrigue into history.

As with all of the books that I review where I give a grade level, this one has an Accelerated Reader test available for teachers to use. I've personally found that less motivated readers will 'push' themselves so that they can read these Star Wars books. show less

Oh boy, so now I know who the X-Men are and where they come from! My five year old read this to me. He enjoyed it quite a bit and took, I believe, a lot of information away from it. I found it to be rather a tedious and incoherent read, but I'm not the target audience. By design it's anecdotal, listing the different characters and what their story and special powers are. The vocabulary and proper names are slightly challenging at times, good exercise in sounding out long words. These DK show more readers are great for keeping our little emerging readers motivated ... show less