Illustration and Fall Nonfiction Series Cover (below) by Jia Liu

This season’s selections for Series Made Simple are a study in scale. Curated and evaluated by a team of expert reviewers, these series will appeal to professionals and patrons looking to explore both the colossal and the microscopic. Whether through titles about giant predators and the vastness of outer space, or the world’s smallest animals and the tiny science of germs, atoms, and nanotechnology, young readers are invited to think of themselves as a big part of their community, or a small but important piece of the larger systems around them. This election year brings several collections that will help readers make sense of our political processes, and there are opportunities to zoom in and pan out across all topics, allowing close-up or big-picture views of the natural, the supernatural, the social, and the historical. Readers might even catch a glimpse of the world’s largest crayon!

There is amazement to be found in the grandest monuments and the cutest baby animals, and these bright and informative explorations of the big and the small, the global and the local, will spark curiosity.

Beth Ellen McIntyre
Series Made Simple Reviews Editor