Product Description: Exposing children to a diverse range of literary and informational texts, the Core Concepts program helps develop important literacy and cognitive skills necessary to meet many of the Common Core State Standards. Gold Light and Gold Ray are the only known pair of elephant twins in the world! Photojournalist Richard Sobol has masterfully captured the twins' playfulness, as he shows the twins feeding, bathing, napping, and learning with their trainer Pai...read more

Product Description: What mysteries hide inside this ancient Cambodian temple? When local children lead the author through the ruins, he discovers a little-known secret.In 1100 CE, the mighty Khmer people of Cambodia built the world's largest religious monument: the sprawling stone temple of Angkor Wat...read more

Product Description: "First in a planned Traveling Photographer series, this will delight armchair explorers and animal lovers."—KIRKUS REVIEWSA SMITHSONIAN Notable Book for ChildrenPowerful but shy, the African mountain gorilla struggles for survival in the rainforests of Uganda’s national parks...read more

Hard hats are required on this exciting virtual tour of a busy construction site where hundreds of workers, thousands of trucks and machines, and millions of nails and bolts are part of a great puzzle that once, pieced together perfectly, will become an architectural masterpiece.

Describes how special elephants are in the village of Tha Klang in Thailand and looks at the life of one particular young elephant named Wan Pen.

A ten-year-old girl tells of her observation of and experience with the gray whales who come to the lagoon near her home in Baja California in Mexico during the winter months to give birth to their calves, enhanced with full color photos.

An introduction to mayoral work is based on a day in the life of Norman Rice in Seattle and follows his endeavors to meet the needs of a broad spectrum of people whose lives interact with the structures, institutions, and attractions of the city.

A thoughtful text and striking photographs give a behind-the-scenes look at the life, the career, and the political concerns of a United States senator, following Senator Connie Mack of Florida through his busy daily schedule.

A moving text and evocative photographs eloquently capture the struggle of two brothers, Peter and William Moeller, to save the rapidly diminishing herds of elephants and other wildlife living in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.

A behind-the-scenes look at the day-to-day activities of a state governor follows Texas governor Ann Richards as she makes her way through a hectic and productive schedule.

Stunning color photographs capture the epic story of the harp seals of Eastern Canada, whose pups--whitecoats that were once hunted but are now protected by the government--are born on the ice floes of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.