Being both a basic need and a pleasure, eating provides many opportunities for some exploration, and the kitchen is well-suited for scientific experiments. This book presents 52 activities and experiments ...

Beginning with inventions from long, long ago (the needle, the wheel, the water pump) moving to those from long ago (the printing press, steel, the telegraph) and ending with innovations from not so long ...

Devin, Nadia and Marcus are on their way to visit their environmentalist parents who are working to stop a logging company from clear-cutting a remote valley. When their plane crashes and the pilot is ...

Icky, sticky, slimy, and smelly—the human body is amazing, but it’s pretty nasty sometimes, too! Find the real answers to your questions about the gross and disgusting things in, on, and coming out ...

I found a dead bird. It made me sad…but I also had a lot of questions, like why did it have to die? How did it die? What would happen to it now that it was dead? This is Jan Thornhill’s jumping-off ...

Winner of the Skipping Stones Honor Award in the Ecology and Nature Books category
The boreal forest is the last great forest wilderness on earth. It drapes across the subarctic right around the world. ...

The world knows Albert Einstein as one of the greatest thinkers and scientists of all time. What’s the Matter with Albert? introduces young readers to the life and character of this famous figure, telling ...