Looking at nature

Simple text and photographs explore the forms and structures of animals and plants as well as landforms.

Full-color photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the concepts of shapes and colors, lines, patterns, and spirals.

An exploration of the different textures found in nature that discusses how different furs, skins, shells, and other natural objects feel.

Explains what time is and how people tell time, and looks at different segments of time, focusing on a year of seasons.

Uses simple text and photographs to describe various animals behaviors and physical characteristics.

Examines the characteristics that make animals similar and different from one another. Features easy-to-read text and full-color photographs.

Explains and compares terms used to describe size including big and small, huge and tiny, tall and short, wide and narrow, heavy and light, and more and fewer. Features photographs of wild and domestic animals to illustrate the size comparisons.

Details the ways in which various animals move over land, in the air, and through water. Features full-color photographs throughout.

Identifies the various shapes inherent in many common objects, animals, and foods.