"Saturday night I was downtown, Working for the FBI." -- A. Clarke, R. Cook, R. Greenaway, "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" "FBI agents mastered the art of...

Kids will be spellbound by the amazing math tricks that abound in this magical book. With easy-to-follow directions, colorful illustrations, and helpful charts, numerical concepts and sleight of...

You can only see the planet Mercury during the twilight hours unless, of course, you are looking at this wonderful book by Seymour Simon. Expect the usual fascinating and...

The night before Ted Kerasote and his friends set out on a river rafting trip, a young stray dog shows up in their camp, hungry, friendly, and instantly ready...

When Annette Kellerman was a young girl in Australia, she had a disease that made it hard for her to walk. She had to use braces on her...

"Special animal journeys, called migration, have patterns." A pattern means it's something that happens over and over again. Different kinds of animals migrate differently. Reindeer migrate...

The Cat in the Hat is loading up his Crocodile Car and heading off to find reptiles, 'wherever they are.' What is a reptile? Can you name some? There...

This amazing work, published in association with the Library of Congress and using primary sources from its rich archives, documents in great detail the “Jim Crow” years of the...

So, what would it be like to be a child living in Mongolia? Since most of us won't be visiting there any time soon, how wonderful that the roaming...

Can you imagine finding a giant squid in the ocean whose tentacles stretch 22 feet wide and are "powerful enough to haul a ship out to sea?" Mariners have...