Describes the planet Venus's position in the solar system, size, craters, and clouds and what it looks like from Earth.

The Earth celebrates the birth of a newborn baby.

Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.

Boy, Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days. With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. "An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography". (Roald Dahl). This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake. Throughout his young days at school and...

A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Young readers will cheer at the happy outcome of this exciting tale. And they will long remember the heartening message of the tiny seed's steadfast perseverance in the face of many hazards and obstacles...

Describes some of the many different types of instruments made throughout history, and discusses their construction and sound. Includes photographs.

Cartoons and facts combine to describe the Italian city of Pompeii, discussing the 62 AD earthquake, daily life of its people, customs, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and the eighteenth-century excavation of the area.

Retells the story of Goldilocks, set in an Inuit village and featuring a family of polar bears.

Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to a beehive in her magic school bus.

A collection of the author's stories for children, including "Moses the Kitten," "The Market Square Dog," and "Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb."