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Illustrator Janet Stevens introduces the processes involved in making a book, from manuscript to finished book.

Describes, in question and answer format, the great migration of immigrants to New York's Ellis Island, from the 1880s to 1914. Features quotes from children and adults who passed through the station.

Presents the backgrounds of such American symbols as Uncle Sam and the Liberty Bell.

Learn facts about numbers, and see one million dots!

Examines the life of Leonardo da Vinci, focusing on his unfinished sculpture of a huge horse he was commissioned to create for the Duke of Milan in the late 1400s, and discusses how the project was taken up by pilot Charlie Dent in 1977 and, after several setbacks, completed and presented as a gift to Milan in 1999.