Böcker av Lawrence F. Lowery

By showing the same creatures in two different settings, this book brings out the detective in young readers. They can investigate the role of protective coloration for crickets, bumblebees, beavers, spiders, and spotted green frogs. The vivid examples encourage children to closely examine the characteristics of hidden creatures.

What happens when two friends take an interest in an oak tree? They begin to notice more about the world around them, such as the seasons changing and squirrels making homes. As warm and dreamy as a summer day, Our Very Own Tree will inspire readers to seek out their very own places in nature.

Guides children through six types of regions that are shaped by rainfall-or the lack thereof. Readers take a journey that starts with dense tropical rainforests and woodlands, travels through grassy savannahs and prairies, and ends at dry steppes and deserts. Throughout the book, attentive readers can compare how and why each region is alike and different.

Young scientists will get both inspiration and giggles from this humorous but true tale of early experiments with flying. Introducing scientific processes and principles of flight, Up, Up in a Balloon may prompt budding inventors to try, try again-just as the Montgolfier brothers did when they launched the first hot air balloons more than 200 years ago.

In this fairy tale, it takes a village to figure out the height of a friendly giant. The townspeople's earnest, yet humorous, attempts to gauge just how big Milton is convey the importance of standard units of measurement. The story even accounts for the real-life origin of such funny-sounding units as feet.

What can an animal do? All kinds of things! This book encourages children to notice the characteristics and behaviours of a world of different animals: from gnawing, swimming beavers to spinning, climbing spiders to hopping, baby-toting kangaroos. What Can an Animal Do? is a lively introduction to observing, comparing, and describing - all things budding scientists can do, too.