A simple description of how corn was discovered and used by the Indians and how it came to be an important food throughout the world.

A visit to a museum of natural history provides a little boy with an introduction to the habits, characteristics, and habitats of fourteen kinds of dinosaurs

Pictures, dialogs, poems, and stories portray various emotions we all feel: jealousy, sadness, fear, anger, joy, love, and others.

Briefly introduces various types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossilized dinosaur bones.

Discusses how scientists, studying fossil remains, provide information on how dinosaurs lived millions of years ago.

Brief text and pictures present the life of the man, born a slave, who became a scientist and devoted his entire life to helping the South improve its agriculture.

How can you tell dinosaurs apart?You can learn a lot about dinosaurs by looking at their bones. Some dinosaurs were very small; others were huge. Some had sharp, pointy teeth for eating meat; most plant-eaters had flat, dull teeth. Some dinosaurs' hipbones pointed forward, while other dinosaurs' hipbones pointed backward. There were dinosaurs with bony armor on their backs and others with deadly horns on their heads. Today scientists have divided...

Retells the wandering of John Chapman whose devotion to planting apple trees made him a legendary figure in American history.

During his visit to an aquarium, a boy finds out about the characteristics and environments of many different marine and freshwater creatures.

A young crocodile swallows everything from a can of baby powder to his father's hat until the day he helps his mother tidy up the house with the vacuum cleaner.