It's the Law! is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.8 and Literacy.L.1.1. Large color photographs of law-making institutions such as congress and the Supreme Court-along with narrative nonfiction text and a graph of how laws are made-show readers how the law works, how it is decided, how it protects us, and why it is necessary. This book should be paired with "e;What Are Rules and Laws?"e; (9781448888603) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.