The food we eat helps our bones and muscles, skin and hair, teeth and toenails grow bigger and bigger and stronger. Inside and outside, we grow and grow without knowing it!
Briefly describes how a cow produces milk, how the milk is processed in a dairy, and how various other dairy products are made from milk.'
Walk, run, skip, march, kick. We use our feet all the time! With her trademark simple words and delightful pictures, Aliki explains the many ways our feet are important to us. Our feet hold us up, help us balance, and most importantly, take us wherever we want to go.
How did those enormous dinosaur skeletons get inside the museum? Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils—bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fra…
How can you tell dinosaurs apart? You can learn a lot about dinosaurs by looking at their bones. Some dinosaurs were very small; others were huge. Some had sharp, pointy teeth for eating meat; most plant-eaters had flat, dull teeth. Some dinosaurs' hipbones pointed forward, while other dinosaurs' hipbones pointed backward. There were dinosaurs with bony armor on their backs and others with d…
Popcorn, corn on the cob, cornbread, tacos, tamales, and tortillas—all of these and many other good things come from one amazing plant. With simple prose and beautiful illustrations, award-winning author-illustrator Aliki tells the story of how Native American farmers thousands of years ago found and nourished a wild grass plant and made corn an important part of their lives. This is a Sta…
Dinosaurs roamed the earth millions of years ago. thn suddenly they all died out. How do we kmow now what they looked like?How do we know that they really existed at all?.'
Have you ever seen.. A leopard Shark? A Wolf Eel? A Longnose Gar? You will in Aliki's There are all kinds of animals here-from tiny anchovies to big beluga whales, from dangerous sharks to friendly sea otters, all in their natural setting and all portrayed in vivid detail. There's so much to see and do that one visit to Aliki's aquarium won't be nearly enough!
A simple presentation of the five senses, demonstrating some ways we use them.'