Jake's Review: The pictures are hilarious. Everything was educational (Mom's love that stuff) but it was a fun way of learning about things. I think this is a good book to give to my teacher, because when she teaches stuff like this it's really boring. If her classes were like this book I would pay attention more in class. Oh yeah and the pictures and some of the words really made me laugh

Jake's Rating: 9/10

Mom's Review: I love Helaine and I love her books. I don't have to twist Jake's arm to read them and even my book hating hubby likes to look through them. She makes learning fun -- the way it should be. Her style of writing most importantly appeals to boys & we all know how hard it is to get their attention. The illustrations are delightful. I'm not sure if Helaine has any input into the illustrators, but no matter what books we have read by her -- she always gets an illustrator that gets her humor and puts it into pictures. BTW, I learned tons of stuff too and even my know it all hubby learned some things. A must have for every library and middle school classroom.

Mom's Rating: 10/10

I won this (and a whole bunch of other Helaine books) from Owl Kids Twitter contest

It's up for the OLA's Silver Birch: Non-Fiction Award ( )