Children's Literature: Science

The authors discuss cellular functions, including how advances in cell research have led to artificial cloning, and how they are bringing scientists closer to finding cures for serious diseases.

Examines the nature, history, and ethical aspects of cloning, discussing both humans and other animals.

Discusses the sense of hearing and how it expands and contributes to your world.

Presents scientific experiments that appear to be magic tricks.

Experiments with food demonstrate various scientific principles and produce edible results. Includes beef jerky, cottage cheese, synthetic cola, and pudding.

A simple presentation of the five senses, demonstrating some ways we use them.

Describes sixty-five experiments using paper clips and other inexpensive supplies, demonstrating such basic physics and chemistry phenomena as weight, balance, flight, and surface tension.

A collection of poems that describe people, places, and things associated with science, including oxygen, the ocean, and germs.

Gives instructions for science projects and experiments involving an ant colony, a chicken brooder, plant grafting, microphotography, water purification, and other topics.

Simple text and photographs introduce the sense of smell.

Provides a general introduction to the cosmos as well as details about the science of astronomy.

A simple introduction to the sense of taste.

Explores and explains different properties of temperature through simple experiments.

Details the life and work of Thomas Edison, who developed such inventions as the stock ticker, the lightbulb, and the phonograph.

This bright, exciting book responds to the growing emphasis on scientific exploration for young children. It's appealing scientific activities are cleverly designed to help children investigate the intriguing properties of water, light, mirrors and magne

This colorful, exciting book responds to the growing emphasis on scientific exploration for young children. All the activities are safe and easy to do, using ordinary household equipment.

Wind Have you ever felt the wind tickle your face or heard it whistle through your window? Did you know that some wind travels faster than a car? Read inside to find out more about what causes wind, and learn how to make your own weather vane! Have you ever felt the wind tickle your face or heard it whistle through your window? Did you know that some wind travels faster than a car? Air is always moving. We can't see air moving, though we can watch it push clouds across the sky, or shake the leaves of a tree. We call moving air the wind. In this enlarged edition, find out about the wind - what causes it, how it can be used to help us, and how it affects the weather. Arthur Dorros shows you how to make your own weather vane, and in simple terms, with playful illustrations, he explains just what makes the wind that blows all around us.

You've seen your own blood, when you have a cut or a scrape. You can see the veins in your wrist, and you've seen the scab that forms as a cut heals. But do you know what blood does for you? Without blood, you couldn't play, or grow, or learn. That's because just about every part of your body needs blood, from your muscles to your bones to your brain. How does your body use blood? Read and find out! Ages 10 - 14

Sing a song of science! You know the song "Home on the Range." Sing along with new words that explain the basic materials that make up our planet.

A tree is the biggest plant that grows. Trees can live for a very long time, and they are alive all year long, even when they look dead in winter.In this newly illustrated book, you will learn how a tree grows and how it gets food and water. You can also find out what happens to water after it travels through a tree's roots, branches, and leaves, and how to figure out a tree's age.Clyde Robert Bulla's simple and concise text and Stacey Schuett's lush illustrations follow a tree's continuous life cycle through spring, summer, winter, and fall.