from the back cover: Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald city,…
What does it feel like to be achild? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path through life's traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes small, and sometimes an …
from the back cover: At first, no one is concerned about what seem to be meteors or falling stars dropping from the sky--until they are revealed to be fleet of alien spaceships carrying Martians determined to overtake the Earth. Humankind's most advanced technology is old-fashioned by Martian standards. Can the aliens' death march be stopped? Find out in this electrifying science fiction mast…
A science picture-book about different way things can move.
You will discover: how to change the shape of a solid; what the hardest natural solid is; how chocolate is made
Understand and enjoy Shakespeare with Jennifer Mulherin lively introduction. Follow the story of each play, get to know the characters, find out about the background, read the quotations and look at the superb pictures
A fire alarm's wail. A cat's quiet purr Your ears let you hear all kinds of sounds, both loud and soft. But how do your ears work? And how does your sense of hearing help you? Read this book to find out! Learn all about your five senses in the Your Amazing Senses series - part of the Lightning Bolt Books(tm) collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Boo…