Product Description: Chocolate, flowers, poems, gifts—all of these things are readily associated with Valentine’s Day, the most romantic holiday of the year. But how did this day devoted to the celebration of love come to be? How have the traditions associated with February 14th changed over the years, and how do people in different countries around the world mark the occasion?In VALENTINE BE MINE, readers learn all about this special holiday, from its origin in Rome in the first century all the way to the distribution of Valentines among grade school students in classrooms today...read more

Product Description: Tracie Vaughn Zimmer has a long-standing affection for elephants, and it shows. This book is a celebration of these remarkable animals: their huge size, their affectionate parenting, their loyalty to one another and sometimes to humans, their voracious appetites, their amazing trunks, their enjoyment of mud baths...read more

Rhyming text presents the characteristics of various kinds of trains.

Accompanied by clip art, etchings, and original drawings, youngsters can take the driver's seat in this exciting celebration of all kinds of cars, from sedans to SUVs to station wagons!

A companion to Amelia to Zora looks at the lives of twenty-six amazing men and the inspiration that helped each man change their world.

Profiles the extraordinary lives of twenty-six women who, through their acts and deeds, helped shape and change the world during their lifetime, including pilot Amelia Earhart and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston.