Product Description: A series aimed at broadening children's understanding and appreciation of the world about them. The book will ask and answer the how, what, why questions that each topic raises, each title opens with a fold-out page and two acetate pages to show something before and after.

Product Description: Can you run from an alligator? Ride a wave? Land an airplane? escape from handcuffs? Avoid a vampire's bite? No? Well now you can learn these tricks and more in Necessary Skills and Then Some. Previously published as This Book Made Me Do It, Necessary Skills and Then Some shows readers step-by-step how to make, explore, and do pretty much everything...read more

Product Description: The first castles were simple walled-in wooden towers on mounds of earth. Learn how such humble structures developed into the magnificent fortresses that dot the British and European countryside to this day. Each castle was home to the rich and powerful through peacetime and war, often enclosing the bustling population of an entire town! Fast Forward: Castle brings alive the whole world of the Middle Ages — how people worked and played, how boys became knights, how armies defended their castles or mounted a siege to capture another...read more

Product Description: The Two-Can Discovery Guides series is a fantastic way to discover the worlds of history, nature and science. The book is filled with activities that challenge kids to try out ideas for themselves. Quiz questions encourage kids to look closely at each page, and this series is perfect for either home or school use...read more

An exploration of ocean habitats covers coral reefs, creatures of the deep, octopuses and squids, sharks, whales, seabirds, and ecology.

Offers information on plants and how they grow, and on the different kinds of plants that live in different environments, along with suggestions for activities and lists of English and Spanish vocabulary words.

Offers information on life in various parts of the ocean and on the different types of creatures that live there, along with suggestions for activities and Spanish and English vocabulary words.

Text, illustrations, and transparent acetate overlays depict life in a castle, and the parts of a castle

Product Description: The Two-Can Discovery Guides series is a fantastic way to discover the worlds of history, nature and science. The book is filled with activities that challenge kids to try out ideas for themselves. Quiz questions encourage kids to look closely at each page, and this series is perfect for either home or school use...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)