Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590023191
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Describes the origins, characteristics, and uses of water.
A drop of water : a book of science and wonder
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590023191
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Describes the origins, characteristics, and uses of water.
A Ray of Light
Author: Walter WickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780439165877
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nonfiction picture book explains the scientific properties of light, touching on subjects ranging from incandescence and iridescence to light waves and the color spectrum.
Drop
Author: Emily Kate MoonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593112784
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A water ride like you've never experienced before, featuring the cutest drop of water in all of precipitation. Meet Drop. She's water! And she's seen a thing or two. Yep, even dinosaurs; she's four and a half billion years old, after all. Everywhere Drop flows--and she flows everywhere--she keeps things moving, making life on earth possible, and having a great time doing it. (Have you ever plummeted from a rain cloud? Or took a thousand-year nap in a glacier? Drop knows how to live right.) With delightful panache and a steady stream of funny one-liners, Drop takes readers on an adventure through the water cycle and beyond. Filled with irresistible artwork, funny asides, and a steady sprinkle of kid-enticing facts, Drop is the story about water you never knew you were thirsting for. "Splashy and original." —Kirkus "A stand out from others of its type." —SLC “An endearing, conversational introduction to the water cycle.” —PW
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Author: Dr. SeussPublisher: RH Childrens Books
ISBN: 0385379323
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss’s Caldecott Honor–winning picture book about a king’s magical mishap! Bored with rain, sunshine, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green goo called Oobleck—which soon wreaks havock all over his kingdom! But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the stickiest problems.
All the Water in the World
Author: George Ella LyonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442432950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
All the water in the world is all the water in the world. We are all connected by water, and this message is beautifully, lyrically delivered from poet-musician-author George Ella Lyon. Where does water come from? Where does water go? Find out in this exploration of oceans and waterways that highlights an important reality: Our water supply is limited, and it is up to us to protect it. Dynamic, fluid art paired with pitch-perfect verse makes for a wise and remarkable read-aloud that will resonate with any audience.On sale: 03.22.11
All About Light and Sound
Author: Connie JankowskiPublisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 0743905792
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Explains the importance of light and sound in the universe and describes what scientists have found out about them.
Life in a Bucket of Soil
Author: Alvin SilversteinPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320227
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Grade-schoolers learn how ants, snails, slugs, beetles, earthworms, spiders, and other subterranean creatures live, breed, interact, move about, defend themselves, and more.
A World in a Drop of Water
Author: Alvin SilversteinPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320162
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Fascinating introduction to the world of single-celled organisms recounts the feeding, reproductive, and defensive strategies employed by an array of curious creatures: amoeba, paramecium, suctorian, hydra, others. Easy-to-understand language, 37 illustrations.
The Beauty of Chemistry
Author: Philip BallPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262044412
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature. Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images and illuminating text, this book captures chemistry as it unfolds. Using such techniques as microphotography, time-lapse photography, and infrared thermal imaging, The Beauty of Chemistry shows us how chemistry underpins the formation of snowflakes, the science of champagne, the colors of flowers, and other wonders of nature and technology. We see the marvelous configurations of chemical gardens; the amazing transformations of evaporation, distillation, and precipitation; heat made visible; and more.
Pagoo Pa
Author: Holling Clancy HollingPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395539644
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
From the moment of his birth, Pagoo the hermit crab learns to rely on his "instint" in order to survive to adulthood in his tide pool home.