#GlowInTheDark:voyageThroughSpace #NetGalley

Title: Glow In the Dark: Voyage through Space
Author: Katy Flint
Illustrator: Cornelia Li
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
Publish Day: August 2, 2018
Rating:  🥄🥄🥄🥄

Summary:
See space as you've never seen it before!

 Join one little astronaut and her space dog as they voyage through our solar system. Journey from the Sun, to the planets, asteroids and Kuiper belt, before folding out your glow-in-the-dark poster. Simply turn off the light to bring the incredible glow-in-the-dark ink to life.

Review: 

Downloaded through Netgalley thanks to the publisher, honest review ahead!

This is an informational / nonfiction book with illustrations. Some of the text is over illustrations that can make it hard for readers to read.

This is a partial image just to show the places where I'm talking about in the book:

The text in the sun and the text under the "BE" are over imagery that has a lot going on. This can be a struggle for some kids to read and will miss the information from it. This happens in other places throughout the book. But few have the text over less background stuff so it's easier to read. 

Otherwise, informative and engaging illustrations. This is probably going to be one of those bigger informative books so the font / background may not interfere with reading as much. But still wanted to point out that there are a few spots -- thankfully not every page -- that may be harder for students/ kids to read. 

#NationalParksOfTheUsa #NetGalley

Title: National Parks of the USA
Author: Kate Siber
Illustrator: Chris Turnham

Rating: 5/5

Publish Day: July 3, 2018

Access: downloaded through Netgalley for free in exchange for honest review.

Summary:
Discover the beauty and diversity of America's great outdoors in this tour of its most iconic national parks. Explore Florida's river-laced Everglades, travel down the white water rapids of the Grand Canyon, trek across the deserts of Death Valley and scale the soaring summits of the Rocky Mountains with this book that brings you up close to nature's greatest adventures. Packed with maps and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna unique to each park, this fully-illustrated coast-to-coast journey documents the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places—and shows why they should be preserved for future generations to enjoy.

 Parks include: Acadia, Badlands, Big Bend, Biscayne, Bryce Canyon, Channel Islands, Death Valley, Denali, Everglades, Glacier, Glacier Bay, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky, Mountains, Hawaii volcanoes, Isle Royal, Mesa Verde, Olympic, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Virgin Islands, Yellowstone and Yosemite.

Review:

A great offline Wikipedia pages about each state park with an artistic twist. The illustrations are engaging and fun to look at. The cursive may be hard for students who aren't accustomed to reading / writing in cursive. But it's done well enough that kids should be able to puzzle out what is being said.

This offline Wikipedia pages are styled in a scrap book fashion. Each state park is introduced with a vignette that is colorful and appealing for readers. Usually I prefer books for kids with actual photography but this can slide through as it's super adorable.

Recommend? Yes - definitely good for a classroom setting, road tripping or just for a gift.