As dusk falls, brothers Alex and David forget play to watch the evening insects.

Title: Night Flies Story: 5 stars Highly Recommended The Review As dusk falls, brothers Alex and David forget play to watch the evening insects. Alex most wants to see a night fly. The boys are treated to a variety of nocturnal insects as they come out of their daytime lairs. Writer Sanders has written and illustrated an engaging little 17 page ebook about children and for children. Night Flies should be well received by children in the primary grades. The book has many inviting touches: one I found particularly appealing was the use of ‘june bugs’ as the signals for moving back or forward. Another nice touch was the providing of coloring sheets which can be downloaded to the home printer for children to continue their fun. I would like to see a small note stating the target reading level for vocabulary used in the book. This would be an aid to parents, teachers and especially the media personnel who are the ones who purchase books for school libraries. Vocabulary used is ‘read alone’ for ages 8 and 9, is ‘read to’ for younger children. Detracting from the book’s good points is the format: in order to view this book for review I had to download from the Crossroads site: 23 minutes and was presented with 80 separate files. 69 files are jpg, 21 are HTML, believing that books begin with the cover I clicked cover, and found only cover, no way to continue. Clicked a second cover with the same result. Finally on my third try I found the cover which led to June bug progression. Young children will find this particular format frustrating in that they will not be able to use alone. I prefer the format used by other sites in which the book is self contained and one item only appears on the screen. Author: Terri L Sanders Illustrator: Terri L Sanders Technical Consultant: Cindy Penn Line/Publisher: CrossroadsPub.com Release Date: 2000 ISBN: 1583383972 reviewed by Molly Martin 20+ years classroom teacher