The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play with & Print Your Digital Photos

Gr. 7-10. Young people with access to a digital camera will find answers to nearly all their questions in this wide-ranging, nicely designed guide. Beginning chapters address basics, including understanding camera features, using focus and flash functions, capturing motion, and so on. Bidner then delves into picture-editing software and even how to set up a Web site (with parent's permission, of course). Final sections offer ideas for projects, such as handmade stationery and bookplates. With so much material covered, some subjects are glossed over, particularly the explanations of software. But Bidner introduces sophisticated technical material in enthusiastic language that is kid-friendly without being condescending, and older teens who aren't put off by the book's juvenile appearance (models are mostly elementary- and middle-school children) will find much that is useful. A glossary concludes the book, which promises readers will "use terms like jpeg and megapixel with a confidence that will make your parents jealous."^B Gillian Engberg
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