Review by Booklist Review
With titles on everything from penguins to knights to magnets, the only thing binding together the books in the Why Why Why series is the need-to-know needling of the imagined child leading us through each volume of themed questions. Though most books that truck in fast-and-furious fun facts use photos to dazzle readers (think DK), this series makes the curious but sometimes rewarding choice of using a mix of emotive, detailed drawings and goofy cartoons. The wide cultural approach of Why Why Why Do Tornadoes Spin? pays off with factoids on the goddess Isis, African rain dances, and the fog-rainbow effect known as fogbows have you ever heard of them? Activity sidebars appearing throughout the books are especially fun, if sometimes messy (imitating whale blowholes with a straw, for instance). A quiz and index close each title. Scattershot by nature but undeniably educational.--Kraus, Daniel Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Horn Book Review
Earth explores facts and myths about the planet and its formation. Tornadoes focuses on weather. The texts offer lots of trivia for budding earth scientists, but the information is nearly impossible to navigate on spreads that are poorly organized and overly crowded with paragraphs of text, text boxes (including activities), cartoon drawings, and realistic-looking illustrations. Ind. [Review covers these Why Why Why? titles: Why Why Why Do Tornadoes Spin? and Why Why Why Does the Earth Spin Round?] Copyright 2010 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
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