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From pulsars to a new solar-heat method for pasteurizing water (recently developed by a 14-year-old), breakthrough insights recorded by female investigators have illumined our world.
Written in the form of a journal kept by kids during an imaginary expedition to the Amazon, this diary reveals the allure of field science conducted in an imperiled wilderness.
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A Japanese-American agricultural community in the 1920s is the setting for an excursion into tongue-in-cheek adventure.
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Spanning 1,500 years and regions from Eastern Europe to the Middle East, legends rooted in the mystic tradition of Judaism evoke angels, spirits and demons.
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If we imagine the planet as a settlement of 100 inhabitants, "22 speak a Chinese dialect, 20 earn less than a dollar a day, 17 cannot read or write, 60 are always hungry, 24 have a television in their home." The global village, envisioned on a comprehensi
Off the New England coast on midsummer nights, colonies of bioluminescent organisms, commonly known as moonjellies, shine starlike in the sea.
Grab the binoculars: in the company of the renowned naturalist and artist, the secrets of field and forest, wetland and seashore are revealed to anyone who learns to look.
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The spirit of Harlem – "the people, the music, the rooftops and the stoops" – infuses this tribute, in fiction, to the collage artist Romare Bearden
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Everyone's favorite science teacher is back as Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a journey into the Mesozoic Era. The Magic School Bus becomes a time machine, giving the students a first-hand look at many dinosaurs and the eras in which they lived.
The large format of this book is perfect for the theatrical, sometimes spectacular, full color illustrations of the larger-than-life dinosaurs of yesteryear. The brief but informative text adds to the drama.