Text and pop-up illustrations depict capuchins, spider monkeys, and four other types of monkeys engaged in typical behavior in their natural habitats.
This animal stays up at night. Do you know any other animals that stay up at night?
Find out how to look after a dog. See how to feed your dog, play with your dog and keep your dog clean.
The surest way to a cat’s heart is through his stomach. Garfield knows this tasty fact from experience! After all, the only thing bigger than Garfield’s heart (and his latest hearty slab of lasagna) is his darling “little” tummy. But when he’s not eating between meals, America’s favorite feline is dishing out ample helpings of humor. So whether he’s triple-lutzing his way to suppe…
"21st-century science" is a buzz phrase in curriculum development, particularly at KS4/GCSE level. This series, which is also appropriate for KS3, looks at some of the new directions science is taking, at the interface between science and technology, and also discusses the social repercussions involved. GENETICS covers the science of genetics - what it is and how it will impact on our lives in …
These are four new editions in the popular "Discovery" series, which currently contains over 13 titles. Visually exciting and highly informative each book presents its subject in a fun and accessible way. Internet links offer a fascinating selection of recommended web sites - with sound, animation or video clips which provide additional information for projects and homework.
Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young reader…
Based upon, and continuing Enid Blyton's St. Clare's series. New girl, Morag, detests St Clare's. She's only happy when she can escape to the local riding stables. But, now they're in the sixth form, the other girls are sad that it's their final year in their adored school. But what's wrong with Morag? Will they ever be able to understand her?
For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House...until Eleanor Roosevelt. Born in 1884, Eleanor was not satisfied to just be a glorified hostess for her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eleanor had a voice, and she used it to speak up against poverty and racism. She had experience and knowledge of many issues, and fought for laws to hel…