Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world

Have you ever wondered how electricity powers your home or school?

Have you ever wondered how a set of batteries power the remote for your TV?

What do apples, rice, and corn have in common?

This book takes emergent readers on a conceptual walk through a fall setting, looking at basic concepts such as color and shape through a close examination of beautiful fall leaves.

Let's go to the pumpkin patch to find huge pumpkins, tiny pumpkins, and maybe even a blue pumpkin!

In fall animals prepare for a long, cold winter.

What is fall weather like where you live?

Take a trip to the apple orchard to examine basic concepts such as size, shape, and color as they apply to apples.

Perch on top of a skyscraper with the Stickmen, then descend to street level and travel below to see all the layers of a city.

Splash with the Stickmen at the sea's surface, and then dive down through the darkening zones and into the abyss.

Slide down through the layers of planet Earth, from mountaintops to molten core.

Teeter on the edge of outer space with the Stickmen.

Look!

Yikes!

Wow!

Tornado siren!

Ping!

Boom!

In 1846, the eighty-seven members of the Donner Party left Illinois to begin a new life in California.

In 1607, settlers from England established the Jamestown colony in North America.

In August 2005, a massive hurricane hit New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast.

On January 12, 1888, a sudden blizzard barreled across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakota Territory.

On October 8, 1871, a fierce fire broke out in the bustling city of Chicago.

In the mid-1840s, potato blight ruined the crops of impoverished farmers across Ireland.

Around the world, from US coastal towns to island nations of the Pacific and the deserts of Africa, people are in danger of losing their homes.

The deciduous forest biome is filled with leafy trees.

The desert biome can be found all around the world.

Winter lasts a long time in the evergreen forest biome.

The grassland is covered with tall grasses and plants.

There are lakes in each biome on the planet.

The ocean is the largest biome on Earth.

The rain forest biome is filled with many kinds of plants and animals.

The arctic tundra is frozen for most of the year.

Madam How And Lady Why was a classic children's book written by Charles Kingsley, remaining a popular bedtime choice for discerning parents today.

In 2007 only thirty Amur leopards remained in the wild.

Tornado siren!

Boom!

Yikes!

Ping!

Look!

Wow!

March 25, 1913, began as a typical day in Dayton, Ohio.

Have you and your family eaten organic foods?

Have you ever shopped for fruits, vegetables, or meat at a local farmers' market?

Have you seen eggs labeled "e;free-range"e;?

Do you ever worry about the environment?

An ordinary blue thermos holding blood samples from a sick nun in Zaire reached Belgium's Institute of Tropical Medicine in September 1976.

Times are tough for shrimpers and fishers in the Gulf of Mexico.

Do you know what happens to water when it evaporates?

Mr.