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Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.

Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History, this book explains the physics of the cosmos in terms of familiar principles at work here on earth (e.g., the force of gravity that lands a baseball in the bleachers also keeps the moon in orbit). Sections cover motion, matter, and energy and are beautifully illustrated with photos and diagrams. Concepts of cosmology are...

In prehistoric days there were many different kinds of dinosaurs, big and small, those with spikes and those with long, sharp teeth.

A young boy who wishes for the return of dinosaurs imagines how useful they would be. A small boy imagines a world in which dinosaurs undertake such responsibilities as helping to construct skyscrapers, putting out fires, and giving giraffes someone to look up to

When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.

Photographic guide to the world's most remote continent

A simple presentation of the five senses, demonstrating some ways we use them.

"The culture, arts, crafts and religion of the Plains Indians. Profusely illustrated."--Dust jacket.