Ants
With nearly 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, kids have likely spotted these little backyard bugs. However, they might be surprised to learn about some of the ant's most fascinating features and behaviors. Readers will discover new facts about these familiar insects, from their amazing teamwork skills to their cool homes. This book takes a microscope to these tiny creatures, giving readers the information they need to identify ants in their own backyard.
Hummingbirds
Have you ever seen a tiny backyard bird that can flap its wings a hundred beats per second? It might be a hummingbird! This book introduces readers to the busy hummingbird. Readers will learn about this feathered friend's features, including its appearance, adaptations, and behaviors. Simple text makes this early elementary book accessible to beginning readers. Readers will get an up-close look at hummingbirds, and the chance to recognize them in their own backyard!
Climate Change and Mitigation
At this point, there is little doubt that climate change has occurred as the result of human activity--over 97 percent of scientific experts agree that this is the case. However, there is debate about the best way to deal with climate change now that its impacts are becoming apparent through issues such as extreme weather and a loss of habitable land. One potential approach is through mitigating climate change, which involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions and stabilizing their levels in the atmosphere. While many support this approach, questions exist about how effective this plan will be at reducing or even reversing the impacts of climate change and who should be responsible for paying for and implementing these efforts. This title examines these pressing questions from a range of perspectives, including those of scientists and experts in global finance and politics.
Paleontologist
We can see the important work of paleontologists every time we go to a natural history museum. These scientists locate the remains of towering T. rexes, huge mammoths, and other prehistoric creatures and figure out how they moved, ate, and even died. This beneficial book explains how paleontologists find and study fossils and how someone can prepare for this fascinating career, which expands our understanding of the evolution of life on our planet. Readers will appreciate this volume's dynamic design and accessible text, including fact boxes and sidebars to further pique their interest in this STEM career.
In the Desert
What is hiding in the sand? It's the same color and laying flat as it can--can you spot it? Readers are engaged from the first page of this colorful book with a question of hide-and-seek! The basics of camouflage--like the cleverly hidden six-eyed spider in the sand--are covered as readers travel around the desert habitat. They learn how animals adapt to their surroundings as well as the defining characteristics of a desert! Accessible language makes this book perfect for young readers. The main content complements elementary science curricula in a unique, fun way.
Fractions
Fractions may seem tough when they are first encountered. But learning about halves, thirds, fourths, and other fractions alongside a cute blue monster makes this crucial curriculum topic much more fun! In this book, readers encounter the basics of fractions, with each chapter building on the previous, beginning with halves and moving on to equivalence and even twelfths! Each chapter includes diagrams to aid readers' understanding and practice problems. An answer key concludes the book so readers can check their work.
Water
Around 71 percent of Earth's surface is covered by water. Water can also be found in the air as water vapor and even under the ground in aquifers. Without water, humans could not survive, and Earth's plants and animals couldn't survive either. Through this book's exploration of water, readers discover all the places where water can be found. With full color photographs paired closely with approachable text, readers also learn about the power of water on Earth and some water safety information.
Earth
The ground beneath our feet, earth is an element that can be easily overlooked. While it doesn't seem as exciting as water or fire, earth is just as important as the other elements! For millennia, earth has been part of building our homes and growing our food. Without earth, we'd have no place to live! Through this book's look at earth, readers discover all the different ways earth impacts our daily lives. Full-color photographs pair closely with at-level text while readers begin understanding of this important element.
Measuring
Even young kids know about measuring as they stand to be measured for height at the doctor's office every year. Some may even have experience using a ruler or measuring tape at home! Still, learning more about units of measurement, time, mass, and more is a necessary part of the elementary math curriculum--why not make it more fun with a cute blue Monster named Mo? Readers learn these basic concepts alongside Mo, practice each concept, and build their knowledge one inch at a time!
Dragonflies
Kids may recognize dragonflies as beautiful backyard bugs that seem to dance in the air. This book introduces readers to some of the dragonfly's most fascinating features and behaviors. Readers will discover new facts about these familiar insects, such as their life cycle and flying abilities. This book takes a microscope to these cool creatures, giving readers the information they need to identify dragonflies in their own backyard.
In the Forest
So many animals can be found in the forest! Some come out at night, others bask in the sun; some are big, others are tiny. What many have in common is that they like to hide! Readers and invited to a game of hide-and-seek with some forest animals in this book. Can they find the camouflaged creature in its habitat? While they learn about blending in and lots of fun animal facts, readers also discover the defining characteristics of a forest habitat.
The Parker Solar Probe
If all goes according to plan, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be the first spacecraft to "touch" the sun. This groundbreaking mission was designed to uncover the mysteries of our local star by traveling closer than any human-made object before. Readers learn about the innovative technology that allows the probe to withstand the sun's intense heat and radiation, and discover the incredible scientific insights it could provide about solar winds, solar flares, and the sun's corona. Stunning full-color photographs and fascinating fact boxes enhance the inspiring story of this daring mission.
The James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the most ambitious scientific endeavors of our time. Since its launch in 2021, astronomers have learned much more about space and our place in it. This volume explores the groundbreaking discoveries JWST is making, from glimpsing the birth of stars and galaxies to searching for signs of life on distant exoplanets. Through vibrant full-color photographs and intriguing fact boxes, students learn how this cutting-edge observatory was designed and built to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before.
Geometry
Geometry is so much more than just naming shapes! It includes understanding 3D, reflection, polygons, and more. What better way to explore this curriculum topic than alongside a cute blue monster? Readers meet Mo who is also just starting to learn geometry. In each chapter, Mo learns about a new concept, and each chapter builds upon the knowledge presented earlier in the book. Diagrams and visual aids help readers--and Mo--through pyramids, patterns, and prisms, as they practice what they've learned in problems. A concluding answer key allows readers to check their work.
The Hidden Wisdom of Animals
Discover life lessons in the secret superpowers of animals, revealed in this enchantingly illustrated children's book by bestselling author Kate Siber. Animals have a lot to teach us, if only we open our eyes. From the slow-moving sloth to the playful dolphin, every living creature has unique skills, strengths, and qualities that we can learn from. The Hidden Wisdom of Animals invites kids ages 8 and up to explore and celebrate over 40 animals from around the world through warm, lyrical 100-500-word reflections, each focusing on a single animal and the outstanding trait it embodies. The book's stirring lessons are enhanced by its stunning design, featuring a foil-accented cover and captivating illustrations by Kaitlynn Copithorne. Within its colorful pages, explore how: Owls listen deeplyJellyfish go with the flowAnts create great communitiesSquirrels plan aheadFireflies shine from withinAnd much moreBlending eye-popping facts, brilliant science, anecdotes, and, where appropriate, myths and legends from cultures across the globe, from American Indigenous traditions to African lore to European folk beliefs, The Hidden Wisdom of Animals inspires a more reflective, personal relationship with wildlife and shows how animals can teach, support, and encourage us in our own lives. Transporting kids from their screen-filled lives to a magical world of natural wonder, this book offers a deeper, more meaningful way to connect with nature.
How to Survive an Apocalypse
Would you know what to do if there was an AI takeover or an asteroid hit Earth? If not, don't worry. In How to Survive an Apocalypse, preppers and podcast hosts Cam and Coby have got your back! In this fun and practical illustrated guide, you'll learn prepping 101, from basic first aid and water purification to packing a useful emergency kit and how to communicate during a tech outage. Then you'll discover how to survive all kinds of disasters, including a zombie apocalypse, a supernatural takeover, and an alien invasion. Packed with useful tips, tricks, and strategies, this laugh-out-loud handbook will have you hoping for the worst!
Factology: Sharks
Factology: Sharks is a fun-filled, fact-packed book where you can learn all about these great ferocious fish.Go deep beneath the waves and meet sharks of all shapes and sizes, from the tiny dwarf lantern to the terrifying great white. Learn how they live, what they eat, the challenges they face and why all 500-plus species are worth saving.Can sharks see in the dark? Which species live for centuries? And what on Earth is a wobbegong? Dive into an amazing underwater adventure with this visually stunning science guide and discover every scaly secret you ever wanted to know about these incredible creatures.Each volume in the Factology series provides a fast-paced and fun introduction to its subject, explaining key concepts and highlighting significant events in a manner that is clear, accessible and entertaining.
Moving to Mars
Moving to Mars is an illustrated book that uses science, technology and imagination to present what the future of space travel to the Red Planet might look like and exploration of the lives of its first settlers.The human race's desire to explore the boundaries of the known world drove our ancestors to climb the tallest mountains, conquer the poles and cross vast uncharted oceans before ultimately reaching out into space in the 1960s. Huge rockets were built to allow our space pioneers to travel beyond Earth's orbit and land on the Moon.But there is another frontier that we have yet to set foot on - Mars. The Red Planet is our next destination; it will be a long process, starting with small scientific bases hidden among craters and ending with enormous self-sustaining cities. But what will the journey from Earth to Mars be like? What will we find when we land? Where will we get oxygen and food? In this book, you will find answers to all these questions about day-to-day life in a Martian city. Mars offers us the opportunity to start anew - are you ready for lift-off?
Why Does the Wind Blow?
Learn why the wind blows with the help of The Very Hungry Caterpillar! In this nonfiction story, young readers will discover what makes the wind whoosh around them. The wonders of nature come to life in this early-learning series centered around weather, featuring simple text and Eric Carle's classic illustrations!
Lift-The-Flap Human Body Adventure
It's time to adventure inside the human body! Follow Dr Dee in her super-shrinking submarine on a journey through the body to learn all about what's inside and how it all works. Lift the flaps to discover tons of interesting facts about bones, organs, and more, in a biology expedition like no other.
We Both Read: Trucks / Camiones (Bilingual in English and Spanish)
The Doomsday Detectives
Father-son scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez piece together one of the greatest mysteries of all time: What really happened to the dinosaurs? Dive into this fun and informative middle grade nonfiction book, which outlines the many important scientific discoveries that aided the Alvarezes in their search for answers.Cretaceous earth was known as the age of dinosaurs. But really, it was the age of LIFE--scaled and feathered, furry and leathered, budding, blooming, roaring, zooming, buzzing, glorious LIFE--until... DOOMSDAY. For 66 million years, the mystery of what happened to the dinosaurs lay hidden under layers of sand and silt, until scientists began to piece together the puzzle of what happened on the last day of the ancient world. Follow the real-life adventures of father-son scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez--along with an army of science detectives--as they unlock the world's most intriguing mystery. Learn how the smallest particles in the universe helped explain what happened to the largest animals that ever walked the planet. Track the timelines of discoveries that had to happen in physics, paleontology, astronomy, and geology, before humans could understand how and why 75 percent of species suddenly went extinct. This is the story of how scientists add to the sum total of human knowledge, one question at a time, and help us understand our beautiful, tragic, and magnificent world.
Set Theory for Smartypants
Are you a Smartypants?Do you ask a lot of questions? Like-- Can a set have a bicycle and a banana?Can there be a set with nothing in it?Do cats like tuna or chicken?If you do, then you just might find the answers in this book.It has gorgeous pictures, simple explanations and a very curious cat!
What's It Made Of?
Unlock the secrets behind everyday items and extraordinary inventions with exploded artworks and photographs that reveal the materials used to create everyday objects. Finding out What's It Made Of? is just the start of an amazing journey into the world of materials science, in this nonfiction book for science enthusiasts aged 9-12. Learn about the surprising properties of materials and how they are used in thousands of different ways, from sneakers to smartphones and game controllers to glue. This fascinating book reveals the secrets of many everyday objects and a few more unusual ones. This science book for curious children offers: A breakdown of everyday and futuristic objects, revealing what goes into a range of common and cutting-edge items-from game controllers to space suits!Hyperrealistic artworks and vivid photos show each component and object up close and in incredible detail.STEM learning that supports classroom material science by showing how the properties of different materials determine what they are used for.This visually striking book is perfect for curious minds and science enthusiasts, providing a deeper understanding of how the world around us is constructed. Each item in the book is shown broken apart or shown in photographic detail to explore the hidden hero materials inside it. Along the way, you will find out about the materials that have made our modern world-where they come from, how they are extracted, and the toll this can take on the environment.
Two Peas in a Pouch
Lush paddocks ... stretch out far ... beyondSight 'n Sea ...'What Bouncey fun we could have'Sagey ... whispers to BBA true story about two special orphanedKangaroo Joeys Bluebelle & Sagey, A beautiful story to encourage and inspire the reader. How amazing, unique, funny, beautiful, emotional & full of personality our Magnificent Kangaroos Are.'May Each One Of Us Be a Beacon ofLight ... Hope for Our Wildlife'Ingrid Lorraine Kangas
Physics Quantum Book for Kids
ive into the invisible world of quantum physics with "Physics Quantum Book for Kids"! This engaging and vibrantly illustrated book transforms complex concepts into an exciting and easy-to-understand journey through the universe's smallest building blocks.Why Quantum Physics Matters for Kids: Explores the Unseen: Discover how particles and energy create the world around us.Fosters Curiosity: Encourages kids to ask big questions about science and the universe.Connects to Everyday Life: Learn how quantum principles power technology like smartphones, lasers, and medical tools.Through simple explanations, colorful visuals, and hands-on activities, this book makes quantum physics fun and accessible for young minds, sparking a lifelong love for science. Perfect for curious kids who love to explore how the universe works!
Lift-The-Flap Dinosaur Adventure
It's time to adventure among the dinosaurs! Follow Dr Gella on a voyage across the prehistoric lands to meet the most exciting creatures that once ruled the world! Lift the flaps to discover tons of interesting facts about how they lived, who they ate, and more, in a prehistoric expedition like no other.
Alpacas Here, Alpacas There
Learn all about alpacas in both North and South America in this rhyming nonfiction picture book full of these darling fluffy friends! Alpacas here, alpacas there depend on people for their care. Thousands of years ago, people living high in the Andes Mountains of South America domesticated alpacas from wild animals. Today, millions of alpacas are still raised in the Andes, but alpaca farming has also spread to North America and around the world. Find out all there is to know about the lives of alpacas, here, there, and everywhere!
