Teach kids important engineering principles and useful life lessons such as "safety first" and "measure twice, cut once". With its charming rhyme and colorful characters, your children will learn about tools like a screwdriver, tape measure, level, and stud finder, while reinforcing safety, planning, and teamwork. Even a preschooler can apply Righty Tighty Lefty Loosey when opening containers!
Whether it's "wishes + frosting = birthday" or "birds + buds = spring," each equation is a small delight. This proves that life's total experience is always greater than the sum of its parts. This book can be used to introduce equations or even some basic life lessons. Its warm and amusing tone invites readers to come up with their own life equations Parents will surely appreciate this one: blaming + eye rolling =/sincere apology
A boy must prove he is a genius with numbers before he can study to become the famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Follow along with young Johann as his curiosity with numbers is finally noticed by Schoolmaster Buttner in this delightful and engaging story! The story is fictional but based on real life events. Readers of all ages will enjoy learning a little math and history through fun and informative storytelling.
Plump, juicy oranges are one of the great pleasures of winter—and one that is usually taken for granted. Now here's an eloquent, celebratory picture of how those oranges have found their way to the grocery store shelves, and then into kids—tummies! We follow an orange from blossom to ripe fruit, from tree to truck to market . . . and into the hands of a boy who shares this treat with his friends on the playground, —so that everyone could taste the sweetness of an orange in January.
What kind of poetry best captures special moments, at a length that lets guys get right back to tree-climbing and kite-flying? Why, guyku, of course! The wind and I play tug-of-war with my new kite. The wind is winning
This book is designed to ignite your child's interest in chemistry and other STEM topics, while introducing them to the basics of chemistry in a fun and approachable way. Your child will gain a practical understanding of how the water molecule is formed in the first story and then explore the fascinating world of noble gases and their non-bonding properties including knowing why helium balloons float!
BONK! You may already know the tale of a not-quite-so-bright little chicken whose encounter with an acorn and gravity convinces him the sky is falling. But you've never seen the story told this way. A bold and colorful retelling of the classic tale, as crazy-eyed Chicken and all his panicked friends run away from the sky and right into an eye-catching gatefold surprise.
This book explores the explores the actual science behind touch, including the nerves and electrical signals in the skin. There is also a part regarding hugging and consent. This book though initially for babies, helps explain the science behind touching in a simple way.
The humor in this book can be described as playful exaggeration or situational irony. It uses over-the-top descriptions of everyday family dynamics to present a humorous and lighthearted perspective. Kiely knows she is famous! The paparazzi (her parents) follow her every move, documenting with cameras. It's exhausting being famous, but someone has to do it. She even gets to perform a big song at her grandfather's birthday. When she messes it up, she's worried she's lost her audience forever, but it turns out that no one is as loyal as her fans.
Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. This book features a story about the most famous underwear in the British Empire.
An amazing flap book packed with inventions, machines, gadgets and devices, and facts and information about how they work. Over 90 flaps reveal the insides of car engines, toilets, escalators, submarines and microwaves and many, many other machines.
How to Eat an Airplane, explains: If you want to eat an airplane, there are a few things you should know. The truth is, most airplanes are too large to eat by yourself, so if you want to eat an airplane, you should have a party. It’s fact-based picture book fiction at its most absurd!
In this story, the Elm Street Kids decide to raise money by selling lemonade. At first, business booms, but then it drops off. The Elm Street Kids use a bar graph to plot the number of cups sold on each day of the week and figure out what to do. Young readers may be inspired to start their own lemonade stands—and use a bar graph to plot their progress.
Hypatia of Alexandria was one of the world’s first female mathematicians. Socrates himself claimed that she “far surpassed all the philosophers of her time,”and her inventions and teachings changed life as it was known in the ancient Greco-Roman Empire. Hypatia was an astronomer, scholar, and teacher, but if anyone were to ask her what she loved most, the answer would always be math!
You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF.
Doctors help sick and hurt people feel better. When little brother Jack hurts his foot, the family gets to meet all kinds of doctors.We discover that there isn’t just one general “doctor.” Instead, there are specialists who focus on different parts and systems of the body.
