Product Description: The youngest astronomers can go forth and journey into outer space in this fun, basic introduction to the solar system. The unique format presents our sun and each planet in order with graduated flaps—turn each flap to reveal fascinating facts on each celestial body, and even the Milky Way...read more

Product Description: When spring comes, a baby calf gray whale and his mother head north to find food-all the way from Mexico to Alaska! Every gray whale makes the trip, but it's a long way for a young calf to swim. Follow mother and baby on their four-month journey, as they jump, roll, pop up to see what's on the water's surface, and even confront a killer orca!A biography on the last page introduces Nancy Simmons, curator of the Department of Mammology at the American Museum of Natural History and the expert who vetted the book...read more

Product Description: What birds have wings but can't fly? Penguins! Instead, these adorable animals use their flippers to swim in the deep, cold water.  Meet the different species, from the Little Blue to the Emperor, and find out about their feathers, their coloring, and their habitat-as well as how they build their nests and raise their young...read more

Product Description: This clever counting book from the award-winning authors of Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, combines rhyme with a fun exploration of Maine sea life. Children will be singing it to themselves and asking for it to be read to them again and again.

Product Description: What does a Vietnamese taxi look like? Which fields do farmers want to be flooded? What is special about Vietnamese puppet shows? Why dont you take A Visit to Vietnam? See the famous sites, travel over the land and join in the celebrations...read more

Product Description: What is the best way to travel through the thick Amazon Rainforest? Who were the first people living in Brazil? What language do Brazilians speak? Learn answers to these questions and more when you read this newly revised and updated book...read more

Product Description: What do you do at a souk? Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids? What is Egypt's most famous short cut? Read this newly revised and updated book and find out! See the famous sites, travel over the land and join in the celebrations...read more

Product Description: What is Japan's most famous mountain called? When do the Japanese add one year to their age? What is Japan's national sport? Learn answers to these questions and more when you read this newly revised and updated book. See the famous sites...read more

Product Description: Where will you find the highest mountain in the world? How long is the Great Wall of China? How many different languages are spoken in China? Learn answers to these questions and more when you read this newly revised and updated book...read more

Product Description: In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000. The purchase made President Jefferson's dream of extending the U.S. west of the Mississippi River come true.  Now the much larger United States had difficult questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided into states? Would those states be free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Americans? It would take over one hundred years, a war over slavery, and the creation of thirteen new states before these questions could be answered...read more

Describes what life was like for a Cherokee family in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century