This fun, fact-filled book allows you to explore the most awesome natural, and man-made, sights and experiences on our planet. You'll find mind-boggling mountains and caves, giant waterfalls, extreme weather, and amazing undersea adventures, as well as the world's tallest towers, biggest bridges, and most awesome machines. Each topic includes an awesomeness rating, indicating its amazingness on a scale of one to five. Side panels, statistics, stunning color photographs, and fascinating facts on every page highlight the most awesome things our world has to offer.
Can you face the most disgusting things the world has to offer? From nauseating foods and revolting habits to jungle crawlers and stomach worms, this is your ultimate guide to maggots, giant cockroaches, and much, much more.
Presents information about scary things and events, both real and imaginary, including alien encounters, deadly creatures, and real-life monsters.
Describes the one hundred most dangerous animals, plants, diseases, and weather on the planet, including scorpions, sharks, wolfsbane, killer bees, smallpox, tsunamis, and earthquakes.
From terrifying natural disasters to dangerous weather, from getting lost in the wild to fighting off ferocious animal attacks, this is your ultimate survival guide to avalanches, killer bees, and much, much more.
A book that contains descriptions of websites you can visit to take you further into the subject in an entertaining and informative way, however you do not have to have a computer to use this book.
Come on an amazing journey round the world, seeking out the weirdest and most wonderful animals!From the heights of the Himalayas to the deepest depths of the Pacific Ocean, explore these 21 exciting places and meet the animals who live in ...
Who fights off killer creatures by spraying acid-filled blood from their eyes? How does the slender deep-sea gulper swallow prey twice its size? Who sucks out body fluids with its short, sharp mouthparts?
... which counted among its earliest membership ranks people like Dewey, Mark Twain, and the publisher Henry Holt.12 Still, “doughnut” remains the preferred spelling. It's used in print nearly two-to-one, even in American publications.
The creators of the award-winning science podcast for kids, Brains On!, take readers on a humorous, highly illustrated, fact- and fun-filled journey through Earth—from the core, to the outer atmosphere, and everywhere in between.
Beloved children's book author Stacy McAnulty helps Earth tell her story, and award-winning illustrator David Litchfield brings the words to life. The book includes back matter with even more interesting tidbits.