Simple text and photographs introduce young readers to hippos, discussing their physical characteristics, typical behavior, conservation status, diet, habitat, and life cycle. Includes photographs, a list of facts, and a glossary.

Provides information about the physical features, behaviors, diet, and habitat of zebras. Includes color photographs.

Traces the history of the world through a variety of colorful timelines for young readers. Offers facts and photographs for a variety of topics such as the Big Bang, the rise and fall of ancient civilizations and empires, key scientific and technological breakthroughs and inventions, wars, natural disasters, and cultural developments around the world.

Provides a visual guide to Earth's geography and components, with cutaway illustrations, photographs, and text blocks that describe how Earth was formed, what makes it unique, its landforms, its assorted bodies of water, its shifting plates, and ways the core interacts with land surfaces.

Uni is playing sparkle ball with her friends when they see some other unicorns playing soccer, and Uni's friends suggest they join. Uni isn't so sure soccer looks like fun, and there's a lot of unicorns she doesn't know. Then, Uni accidentally kicks the ball to the opposing team, and her friend Pip lets the other team score, but Uni reminds them that they are a team and they can't quit even though they messed up. Uni and her friends learn that it's...

Highlights the geography, plants, and animals that live in the Earth's oceans and explores different facets of the oceans from their currents to their different zones. Features photographs with captions, diagrams with callouts, and maps that explain habitats, migratory patterns, diets, waves, food webs, and animal anatomy. Includes a glossary.

Offers forty different drawing projects and activities for children based on works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Includes descriptions of each piece of art and activity instructions.

"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter-her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call "journalism." As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...

"Weird But True! Know-It-All titles take the same classic branding of Weird But True and dive deeper to provide kids with a comprehensive overview of everything they need to know about a single subject, while packing in all the wacky, weird tidbits! This edition explores a complicated and timely subject: the government of the United States!"--

"Revised and expanded third edition of the essential guide to how typefaces are constructed and how to use them"--