Curiosities category: 913 books

Slime flies when you're having fun! It's time for kids to grab their partners in slime and have a goo-reat time. Easy instructions and helpful color photos show how to create glitter, glow-in-the-dark, bubble, neon, chalkboard, stress ball, metallic, and other types of slime. All that's needed are...

A howl in the distance. The biggest footprint you've ever seen. A blurry figure in the distance. These are the clues that lead us to believe there is something out there—Bigfoot. Already a fan of the wildly successful FINDING BIGFOOT television show on Animal Planet? (One of the top-performing...

In Stadiums and Coliseums, readers will explore the use of super structures around the world and how they have shaped future technological advancements. This title is the perfect blend of historical content and STEM engagement, and makes a great addition to library collections at home or at school. The...

When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the giant spreads like wildfire, and well over a thousand people come to view him in the first five days alone!...

In the 1920s, the first passenger airplanes began to fly over the Peruvian mountains. Passengers looking out their windows said they could see lines on the Nazca plateau below. The lines looked like runways where airplanes could land. They could also see animals and other objects. There are birds,...

A picture can tell a thousand words. This book has eight pictures that is repeated twice. It allows the child/children's to store the picture into both their short term and long term memory. This is a child/children's learning book that can be self taught. The child/children's expresses their thoughts...

Every young child loves to look up at the moon in the night sky. Now here’s a Hello, World! board book that can teach toddlers all about the sun, moon, stars, and planets—with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts. Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction...

What is it like to visit the islands of Fiji, the cliffs of Ireland, or the icy desert of Antarctica? EXOTIC! Places explores some of the most remote, beautiful, and unusual places on our planet.The Spectrum® Readers are the perfect Common Core aligned tool to support the development of nonfiction...

Move the Tower of Hanoi The idea of this game is to move the 6 piece Pyramid from A to C. You may only move 1 piece at any one time. You may not put a larger piece on top of a smaller piece, it must always be a smaller piece on top of a larger. Like anything else in life, there is a trick to...

McMurdo Dry Valleys, in Antarctica, is one of the world’s cruelest deserts. You may think that a desert is a hot, dry place, full of sand. Science defines a desert as a place that has less than 10 inches (254 millimetres) of rainfall per year. Antarctica has none. Even if the snow that falls on...

Un libro para jóvenes curiosos dispuestos a desvelar los 22 misterios de la historia sin resolver. ¿Sabes cuántos aviones han desaparecido al sobrevolar el Triángulo de las Bermudas? ¿Existe de verdad el monstruo del lago Ness?, ¿son reales sus fotografías? ¿Sabías que,...

Great mistakes make great reading! No area of human endeavor is immune to human error, as these stories of mistakes throughout history clearly show. Some of these mistakes are foolish or funny. Others are serious, terrifying or disastrous. Some are famous. Others are not well known. All of...

Young children are naturally curious about the world around them. Tell Me Why There is Day and Night offers answers to their most compelling questions about the rotation of the earth. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional...

Este libro te adentra en las andanzas de cuatro hombres que, queriendo transformar el mundo en el que vivían, crearon aparatos, dispositivos, utensilios, que permitieran la difusión del conocimiento, la posibilidad de enviar mensajes o comunicarse a puntos geográficos muy lejanos y de percibir...