Come along on an adventure through the rain forest. Along the way, you'll meet new friends big and small, see amazing sights, and learn all about the creatures that make their home in the rain forest. Told in simple yet lively text built with sight words and using picture icons to aid reading, National Geographic Pre-readers will enchant kids just beginning their journey with books.
Your skeleton helps you leap, somersault, and touch your toes-- without it, you would be as floppy as a beanbag There are over200 bones living and growing inside you that make up your skeleton.There are also ligaments and joints that hold your bones together,and cartilage in your bendable parts like your ears and your nose.Learn all about what a skeleton can do -- because this isn't somemake-believe Halloween skeleton, this is the real skeleton insideyou.
Coral reefs are beautiful underwater cities that bustle withexcitement and activity. From clown fish to spiny lobsters,hundreds of plants and animals live on coral reefs, making them oneof nature's greatest treasures. What happens during a typical dayin these marine metropolises? Read and find out
Bats fly into the spotlight in this exploration of such basics as where the live, how mothers raise their pups, and how they hunt for food. Included as well is a simple plan for a building a backyard bat house.