人们是怎么知道地球是圆的的？你也许会说是哥伦布航海发现的，但其实远在古希腊时期就有了地球是圆的的理论。 从船上的?t望台能看到在甲板上看不到的远方，月相变化，时差的产生，不同地方的人能看到不同的星空等等，这些都表明地球是圆的。 这本英语原版科普绘本提供了丰富有趣的知识，穿越历史，进入太空，启发孩子观察、思考有关地球形状的现象与知识，培养孩子独立思考的精神。 书后有简单的小实验，引导孩子自己动手、观察。
本书用诗歌一般的语言和真实精彩的画面描述了大自然中动物的伪装术以及如何发现这些伪装…… Ten creatures await, camouflaged in artful, full-pagephotographs, while playful poems offer clues about each animal'sidentity and whereabouts. Think you've spotted one? Lift one of tengatefolds to find out. A full page of fascinating informationaccompanies each animal so readers can learn how nature'scamouflage serves hunter and hunted alike. Why do fawns have spotsduring their first year of life? How did killdeer birds get theirname? What makes a crab spider so good at ambushing its prey?
Ever wondered how bubbles get into fizzy drinks? Or how weknow what the dinosaurs looked like? And just how many ants can ananteater eat? This book answers a wide range of 'how' questions andprovides further information with fun-filled facts. Appealingartworks help explain the answers, allowing children to build uptheir knowledge on a variety of subjects.
Bee hummingbirds, ostriches, flycatchers, chickadees, and bald eagles! Dick and Sally find themselves on a bird-watching tour led by the Cat in the Hat. After a quick lesson on just exactly what a bird is , they go motoring around the world to observe our fine feathered friends in their natural habitats. Time flies, and soon it's late, but the Cat saves the day by shifting his vehicle into Fine Feather All-Weather Flying Machine mode and winging Dick and Sally back home.
Earle takes children on an undersea journey to explore anamazing "underwater city." She explains the formation of coralreefs and provides information about the conditions needed forsurvival. In addition, the author introduces other animals thatlive in and near the reef and stresses the importance of protectingcorals from pollution. Matthews's ink-and-gouache paintings bringthe colors and variety of this habitat to life. The book alsoincludes a simple experiment that demonstrates how "filter feeders"strain food from the water.
The best-selling hardcover is now available in paperback! Readers will be entranced by the simple, poetic text and the spectacular illustrations, which follow the restless Gray Wolf as he wanders through a winter night.
Where do stars go in the daytime? How far away are stars? Whatstories can they tell us? Marvel at the mythic stories of theconstellations and try finding your own patterns in the sky. Thinkbeyond our sun and wonder what other planets might be circlingother stars and what, or who, might be on them. Open the book andblast off to the stars "A sure winner for future astronomers andtheir stargazing parents. Tomecek and newcomer Yoshikawa make anexcellent duo in rendering concepts understandable to readers.""--Kirkus Reviews"
Remember Hong Kong for ever with this exquisite cut-papersouvenir. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, this stunning mementofeatures twelve of Hong Kong and neigbouring Macau's most famoussites: Peninsula Hotel, Tai O, Tian Tan Buddha, The Peak, Chi LinNunnery, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, AberdeenHarbour, Happy Valley Race Course, Kowloon, Statue Square, theruins of St Paul's (Macau) and Guia Fortress (Macau). Stylishlyillustrated and folding out to a length of 150 cm, this is aperfect souvenir for anyone visiting China's bustling cities. Greatthings come in small packages, and buyers will be amazed at howmuch of Hong Kong is folded into this petite box. Printed front andback, twelve famous sites are featured along with briefde*ions/histories in a concertina. Fully extended, thecityscape is almost 5 feet long! It is an impulse buy; great forcounter displays or baskets. It can be sold in travel, novelty andgift sections. It is a nice alternative to a postcard.
Step inside the world of x-rays where you can see behind walls, inside objects, and even through skin! Ever wonder what you would like? What about a laptop computer or cell phone? A spider or a fish? Each page features an x-ray photo of a person or object in nature, sports, or technology with de*ions and fun facts about the images themselves, along with a brief explanation of how x-rays work.
Do you smell smoke? Young apprentice Lemony Snicket is investigating a case of arson but soon finds himself enveloped in the ever-increasing mystery that haunts the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Who is setting the fires? What secrets are hidden in the Department of Education? Why are so many schoolchildren in danger? Is it all the work of the notorious villain Hangfire? How could you even ask that? What kind of education have you had?
An eccentric teacher takes her class on an adventure through the city waterworks and teaches science painlessly. Ages 6-9. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal Grade 2-4A remarkable meshing of text and illustration make this an outstand ing, lively treatment of a subject for which there is very little written for this age group. Ms. Frizzle has assigned her class a month-long investigation of how their city gets its water supply, to be followed by a field trip to the water works. With ``The Friz'' as driver, the children encounter surprise after sur prise, as they are magically clad in scu ba gear while in a tunnel, then slowly ascend to a cloud, where each child dis embarks; falls as a drop of water into a mountain stream; flows into a reser voir; and bounces through the purifica tion system, pipes, and water mains un der the city streets. The trip ends with all arriving, drop by drop, in the girls' bathroom in their school as a seventh grader turns on the water
Filled with gorgeous photographs inspired by National Geographic Little Kids magazine, curious children are introduced to adorable baby animals,
Ms. Frizzle shepherds her reluctant students through the humanbody in a book that is as fancifully conceived as it iseducational. Ages 6-9. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Grade 1-4-- Time to board the Magic School Bus again with thatwild, wacky, and wonderful teacher, Ms. Frizzle. After she teachesher class about the human body and they visit the science museum,Mrs. Frizzle shrinks the bus and the class--except Arnold, whoswallows them. This gives Cole and Degen the chance for twoparallel stories, inside and outside of Arnold. With the businside, Cole explains digestion from the stomach into the smallintestines. Then the bus enters a blood vessel where readers cansee the plasma, red and white blood cells, and the flow into theheart. From there the class, now out of the bus and garbed inoperating room smocks and masks, flows with the blood cells, nowwith fresh oxygen, to the brain. They climb down the bones of thespine, follow nerves to see muscles work, and then finally catch upwith the
What purrrfect timing! Fall 2010 marks the launch of the new PBS Kids television show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!—an animated preschool science program based on the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library book series—and to celebrate, we’re coating the cover of our new Learning Library book Ice Is Nice! with a shimmery finish! In this latest installment of the bestselling series, the Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick to visit the North and South Poles, where they mingle with native animals—reindeer, musk oxen, polar bears, caribou, and all sorts of penguins. They discover how the animals stay warm in the freezing cold, learn why it’s colder at the South Pole than at the North Pole, find out that one pole is located on land and the other isn’t, and learn that scientists are studying climate change to keep both poles icy cold. This is the perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter’s day—made even more perfect with a glistening cover!
