Political debate about global warming will continue as long as money is involved, but scientific consensus is overwhelming that our planet is heating upand at an alarming rate. In this candid, straightforward book, respected science author Sneed B. Collard III summarizes the data on global warming, explains its causes, and details what individuals and nations must do to begin to set things right.

One spring day in 1851, two women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, NY. Elizabeth, the married mother of four boys from the ages of nine years to three months, was a scintillating writer, speaker, and an organizer of the first woman’s rights convention. Susan, an indefatigable doer and planner extraordinaire, was an unmarried, recently retired school teacher. Immediately drawn to each other, they formed a legendary friendship that fueled and sustained the nineteenth-century fight for woman's rights. Together, they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting condition, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies. Weaving commentary, events, quotations, and personalities into a page-turning narrative, Penny Colman tells this compelling story and vividly portrays the friendship between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony — a friendship that changed the world.

In Ballet for Martha, two-award winning authors team up with an award-winning illustrator to bring to life ― for children ― the collaboration of Martha Graham, the trailblazing choreographer who introduced a new vocabulary of dance; Aaron Copland, the distinguished American Composer; and Isamu Noguchi, an artist, sculptor, and craftsman that created the American masterpiece, Appalachian Spring.

“If Martha Graham’s choreography for ‘Appalachian Spring’ was a ‘valentine’ to the world, as critics wrote in 1944, then this book is a love letter in return…A gem.” —School Library Journal (starred)

”A stunning achievement.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

“Inspired…Capturing the drama of dance, music, and stage design in a two-dimensional format is no easy feat, but this team does it with a noteworthy grace of their own.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)

This series of books shows how animals deal with three situations familiar to every child: eating, bathing, and sleeping. Some creatures make the cut because they are so unusual, such as the dung beetle (the name says it all), the stork that naps while soaring thousands of feet above the ground, or the pangolin, which takes its bath sitting on an ant nest. It’s also possible to see many of the dietary, bathing, and sleeping habits of animals as exaggerated metaphors for the way children engage in these activities. The panda, for example, is a picky eater, consuming only bamboo shoots and leaves (for 12 hours a day). The anaconda swallows everything whole. The emu and the rhinoceros, which take mud baths, enjoy getting dirty when they bathe. And so on…

Wheels of Change explores the far-reaching impact of the bicycle on American culture—and especially on women’s lives—in the closing decade of the nineteenth century. Combining a dynamic narrative with reprints of contemporary newspaper articles and a vast array of archival photographs, advertisements, sheet music covers, and other ephemera, it shows how this “vehicle of change” started women on the road to equality.

Starred review, School Library Journal

Basketball Belles dramatizes the first intercollegiate women’s basketball game, between Stanford and Cal Berkeley in 1896, through the eyes of Stanford guard and future award-winning author Agnes Morley.

Starred review, Booklist

Teaming up once again with William Muñoz, photo-essay veteran Dorothy Hinshaw Patent gives an emotional account of one dog's heartwarming story, showing how Audie, who was only a puppy when he was rescued from dog-fighting, was rehabilitated, adopted, and now enjoys the love he deserves.

Starred review School Library Journal

“This polished photo-essay by frequent collaborators Patent and Muñoz will tug at the heartstrings of readers — especially those sympathetic to the plight of the often-maligned pit bull. In cogent, conversational prose, the author chronicles the rehabilitation journey of one of the dogs rescued in 2007 from NFL quarterback Michael Vick's illegal dogfighting operation.” —Publishers Weekly

Know any kids who don’t like veggies? Here is a book that’s sure to change their hungry minds! With a raucous, rhyming text, Rah, Rah, Radishes! celebrates fresh vegetables, nature’s bright colors, and the joy of healthy eating. The book’s interactive spirit encourages kids to join in on the read-aloud fun, and little ones won’t be able to resist the book’s vibrant photographs—they’re a feast for the eyes!

“Sayre's catchy, rhyming verse has an infectious rhythm that begs to be read aloud...With its upbeat, easy-to-digest text and large, clear images, this book will become a go-to choice in spring-themed preschool storytimes and early elementary health or environmental units.”
—School Library Journal

Starred reviews in Kirkus and School Library Journal

Are you feeling hoppy? Hop hop hop. Like a rabbit? Or a kangaroo? Or a frog? If the answer is YES, this book will make you HAPPY. IF the answer is NO, this book will make you HOPPY and Happy!

“Sure to be a storytime staple, with many requests for repeat performances.” (School Library Journal)

It was January, 1692, and as an icy winter wind shrieked through Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls began to twitch and choke and contort their bodies into strange abnormal shapes and speak in words that made no sense. Their family tried every remedy in the book, but nothing worked. Finally a doctor announced his dire diagnosis: The girls were BEWITCHED! And then the accusations began.

This book tells the gripping true story of the victims, accused witches, scheming officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness afflicting two children into a witch hunt that took 20 lives and ruined hundreds more.

Bug Shots features “rap sheets” and “wanted posters” of the world’s most wanted insects. Mug shots created from scientist Dennis Kunkel’s stunning electron micrographs provide the evidence for this larger than life entomological “case.” Author Alexandra Siy invites readers to join the FBI (by becoming Fellow Bug Investigators) and reach a verdict themselves: good, bad, or just plain bugly? The amazing photomicrographs magnify insect parts from 8 to more than 12,000 times their actual sizes providing close-up views of claws, jaws, eyes, antennae, wings, stingers, and other specialized parts. A detailed glossary and resource section compliment this fascinating book.

This far-out road trip—is the journey of exploration and discovery made by Spirit and Opportunity, NASA’s twin rovers that landed on the Red Planet in January 2004. Built like rugged little cars, the rovers endured temperature extremes, sand traps, mechanical breakdowns, and a global dust storm during a historic road trip that confirmed that Mars was once a lot like Earth: warm and wet. Searching for clues that could help scientists determine if life ever existed on Mars, the rovers drove far beyond their expected warranty. Running on solar power and grit, the aptly named Mars cars have sent home more than 220,000 photo “postcards” of their trip while paving the way for future missions. Also available is extensive back matter, including a comprehensive glossary and reference section.

Starred Reviews: School Library Journal and Booklist

"CARS ON MARS grips the kids with its title, then hauls them into a great story laden with facts that are consistently interesting." --from FUSE # 8, Review of the Day.

Born into a middle class home in England in 1812, Charles Dickens plummeted into the lower classes when his father went to debtors’ prison. Only twelve, Dickens was forced to work in a London factory. Once the family regained its stability, Dickens used his intellectual gifts to pull himself back into respectability and onward to literary fame. He never forgot his experiences as a lower class factory boy or what daily life was like for the poor. Determined to do something to help these people, he skillfully crafted some of his most famous novels to soften the hearts of the well-to-do toward the lower classes and inspire them to work for social justice for all—and especially for children. In the course of writing his masterpieces, Dickens became one of the world’s great reformers.

“Readers will come away with a real sense of Dickens’ immense influence in both literature and society as well as an appreciation for the compassionate, tireless man who championed Victorian England’s most vulnerable citizens.”
—School Library Journal, starred review

See for Yourself includes experiments in the areas of chemistry, earth science, physical science, the human body, and technology, but the experiments all take their inspiration from very familiar places. The materials needed to execute the experiments can all be inexpensively purchased at the supermarket, the toy store, the hardware store, the stationery store, and the drugstore. Some of the experiments are quick and easy, while others are more challenging. Most include additional suggestions so that curious young scientists can keep on investigating.

“…accessible and often intriguing…Purchase this if you missed the first edition.” (School Library Journal)

Step into Reading Level 3
Its tires are over five feet tall. It is as heavy as an elephant. Whether racing over ramps, plowing through mud, or crushing cars, monster trucks are the biggest, baddest trucks out there! This action-packed Step 3 Step into Reading book shows its readers how these beasts work, get ready for a show, and perform exciting tricks that make them the most popular trucks around.

Robin and I keep a file of animal facts and images that catch our attention for one reason or another. At some point we realized that we’d accumulated a lot of information about animal symbiosis, and we thought it would be fun to do a book on the subject. Quite a few children’s books have been written about symbiosis. Once we started really researching the subject, however, we found many fascinating relationships that we’d never come across in a children’s book.

Most of our books about animals have the same basic structure: a portrait and a paragraph or two of explanatory text. In these books a single image represents one moment in time. Many symbiotic relationships, however, are characterized by tit-for-tat, back and forth interaction. This suggested a different approach to the subject — one that could show a series of interactions. We decided that a graphic-novel format would be an interesting way to deal with sequences of images. We also hoped that this approach might appeal to some of those slightly older readers — especially bioys — who’ve (sadly) left picture books behind and moved on to chapter books.

This book is far from skinny—it's the definitive nonfiction title about human and animal bones, delivered with in-your-face accuracy and intrigue. In this visually driven volume, kids come face-to-face with some head-to-toe boney comparisons, many of them shown at actual size. Here you'll find the differences between a man's hand and that of a spider monkey; the great weight of an elephant's leg, paired with the feather-light femur of a stork; and rib-tickling info about snakes and sloths. How many bones are in the whole human body?

Kids find out when they open the three large gatefold spreads that reveal the hard (yet enjoyable) truths about the boney insides of Earth's many creatures.

According to Susy, people were just plain wrong about her papa.  They thought they knew Mark Twain--after all, he was a world-famous author.  But they didn't really know him.  And so, in secret, thirteen-year-old Susy wrote her own biography of Mark Twain--because she was determined to set the record straight!

Summer is here, and Alya, an Israeli Palestinian girl, and Yuval, an Israeli Jewish boy, are off to Peace Camp. They are excited, but their excitement is mixed with apprehension. The area they live in has been fought over by Palestinians and Jews for a hundred years. This photo-essay, which includes a very basic history and context for the Middle East conflict, explores the home lives of both children, and follows them through the camp experience, giving an inside view of how one summer camp is working to create a foundation for peace.

Spend a day with a kindergarten class from New York, USA. Flip the book over and enter a kindergarten classroom in Beijing, China, as a new school day starts. As each hour passes, both classes read stories, make friends, and wonder what happens to kids their age on the other side of the world. The Chinese section includes one Chinese word per page. Kid drawn clocks on each page show the time in both countries, illustrating Marx’s words, “…when the stars are out in the United States, the sun is shining in China. When you are at school in the United States, the children in China are asleep…”

This popular math title, an ALA notable, is now available in big book form. In kindergarten and early elementary, teachers use it to teach odds, evens, base ten, five, six, and to celebrate 100th day. Older grades use it to start algebraic thinking.

From before the time she hatches until she returns to the same beach to lay eggs of her own, a sea turtle is helped to escape from danger many times by different human hands.

Have you ever wondered what creature made that lumpy mound of mud — and why? What is that messy mass of dried leaves? What in the world is the frothy spittle on that plant stem? This is the book that lets you see nature's mysteries, gather clues, and solve them. First you see a picture and read a poem so you can try to guess the creature responsible for each mysterious object. Then you lift the folded page to reveal the answer in glorious photos and captivating text. In this, the third book of the “In the Wild?” series, readers are detectives sleuthing their way through the fascinating, challenging world of nature’s mysteries.

Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America’s first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true adventure tale.

During her unparalleled fifty-year history, Barbie has been the doll that some people love-and some people love to hate. There's no question she's influenced generations, but to what end? Acclaimed nonfiction author Tanya Lee Stone takes an unbiased look at how Barbie became the icon that she is, and at the impact that she's had on our culture (and vice versa). Featuring passionate anecdotes and memories from a range of girls and women, a foreword by Meg Cabot, and original color photographs, this book explores the Barbie phenomenon in a brand-new light.

Starred review in Booklist