Newly updated with version 2.0 content, this essential unofficial guide contains everything you need to prepare for your new island life, including tips on how to: - build and design your dream home - gather resources and recipe cards to ...
An epidemic strikes the United States, plunging the country into chaos. New York Times medical reporter Denise Grady uses this terrifying scenario, taken from the pages of a U.S. government...
This book is filled with humorous rhyming text by the award-winning poet Tony Mitton, which perfectly complements Ant Parker's bold, bright illustrations.
Explains what maps are and why they are used, introduces symbols found on maps, and describes how cartographers map the world. Includes related activities.
This absorbing book covers the elements found on maps, including scales, contour lines, and the use of color and symbols.
Each of these guides is full of lively answers to all those tricky questions about how the world works.
Have you ever wondered why beavers have flat tails or how camels survive in the desert? Mammals provides the answers to these and many other fascinating questions.
Question and answer format presents information about the world's oceans and rivers and how they were formed.
"What did people use before they had refrigerators?" and "Where do inventors get their ideas?" are some of the questions answered in this intriguing look at inventions.
Designed both to entertain and to inform, I Wonder Why Soap Makes Bubbles by Barbara Taylor answers all of those tricky questions about science in everyday life and how the world works.
Uses a question and answer format to present information about time and the seasons, such as how to split a second, who invented our calendar, and why the moon changes shapes.
Discover Science: Apes and Monkeys by Barbara Taylor Make science accessible with this essential series that will capture children's imagination while laying the foundation for future learning.
From computer games to ball point pens, Teddy bears to drinking straws, I Wonder Why Zippers Have Teeth clues kids into the behind-the-scenes people and stories behind many objects they use every day.
The world of science has never been so accessible to young readers!
Everything You Need to Know by Deborah Chancellor, Deborah Murrell, Philip Steele, Barbara Taylor This wonderful first encyclopedia is the perfect one-volume book of knowledge for young readers.
Throughout, readers will find callouts, links, and quotes to take their exploration beyond the book. A final chapter covers the things we can all do to save Earth for future generations.
Each of these guides is full of lively answers to all those tricky questions about how the world works.
Filled with information about each element of our changing weather, including what clouds tell us about the weather, why there are different seasons, what causes hurricanes and tornadoes, how to make a sundial, and more.
ABSORBING and powerfully written, this story presents children with a wonderful opportunity to explore one of nature's most fascinating mysteries -- animals' compulsion to migrate over large distances.
Each book introduces a new vehicle and the many jobs it can do. Bright, engaging artwork and simple, rhyming text combine to make these fantastic books for young children.