School Library Journal Review

K-Gr 2-These slight books introduce their topics in the most basic terms. Deserts explains that the name covers both hot and cold areas. Antarctica is identified as the largest, coldest, and driest desert in the world, and the Sahara as the largest hot desert. The second title states that "Mountains are made of rock. Some mountains are rounded and smooth." Full-color, uncaptioned photos with unidentified subjects appear on every page. These "early fluency" books include tools too sophisticated for the content. A table of contents leads to pages with no matching headings, and the Web resources are for much stronger readers than the books' intended audience. These titles have little to offer beginning readers.-Carol S. Surges, McKinley Elementary School, Wauwatosa, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.