Schwartz, David M

Looks at some of the characteristics of various animals, such as a tiger's stripes and an elephant's eyelashes, and explains how those features help the animals in the wild.

Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the outside coverings of iguanas, butterflies, earthworms, snakes, fish and turtles.

Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the feathers or fur of a yellow warbler, porcupine, skunk, white-tailed deer, flying squirrel, owl, and Dalmatian.

A sixty-six-year-old grandfather, barred from entering the 1000-mile Tour of Sweden because of his age, unofficially joins the bicycle race and, to the delight of his countrymen, emerges victorious.

Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.

Photographs and text trace the life cycle of fighting fish, from nest, to egg, to fry, to adulthood.

Photographs and text trace the life cycle of a horse, from birth, to foal, full-grown mare.

Highlights stems and roots, the essential plant parts that give us radishes, blackberries, peas, milkweed, corn, strawberries, and trees.

This photoessay gives young readers a glimpse of the lives of the Yanomami, a people who are vanishing because foreigners are destroying the land and the waters in order to mine gold.

Describes the various forms which money can take, including coins, paper money, and personal checks, and how it can be used to make purchases, pay off loans, or build interest in the bank.