Biggest, Baddest Book Of Monsters (Biggest, Baddest Books For Boys)

Biggest, Baddest Book of Monsters (Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys)

Scamper into the world of frightening fiends! The Biggest, Baddest Book of Monsters will take you on a journey to uncover the most hair-raising, spine-chilling, blood-curdling monsters. Learn about haunted places and infested lakes. Get the dirt on zombies and vampires! Hang on to your hats! Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys are sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.From School Library JournalGr 2-4-The alliterative but audience-limiting series title aside, these melodramatic surveys are well designed to cater to new or reluctant readers. Each one features several rousing illustrations or (less often) photographs, which are paired with brief explanatory comments. Dinosaurs is the weakest link, as it fails to mention dino eggs or that dinosaur bones and other remnants are fossils. In other volumes, the information is accurate for all its brevity, and women do put in at least cameos in Pirates and Warriors. Some volumes end with a conundrum (Monsters with a discussion of "Are They Real?" for instance), game, or jokes, and they all have a set of true-or-false questions.a(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.