What's Great about Maine

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: July 22, 2015

Review

This is basically about tourist attractions around Maine. The photographs are beautiful, and the places mentioned are worthwhile, but from a school librarian's perspective, it's not a really useful title (or series). Since each write-up in this book is very short, offering snippets rather than depth, readers will need to either have access to the Internet or other books to continue their research. A couple of bugaboos: there is a map in the front and at the end and both show Portsmouth in Maine(!), and the primary photograph of Portland is of the Portland Head Light, which while it has Portland in its name, is actually in Cape Elizabeth. There are other, better, states books and this doesn't add much to the field.

Overall Book Score: fair