reading materials

Up close look at diamondback rattlesnakes, and how they can grow to be a 8 feet long and weigh up to 10 pounds.

When he finds an egg, Daniel and his friends try to guess what is inside.

Scaredy Squirrel is afraid to leave his nut tree because he's afraid of the unknown "out there", but when a bee forces him to leave he realizes that it's not as scary as he thought.

Examines the life of the physicist Albert Einstein, whose work revolutionized scientific thinking, with an emphasis on his early years.

Provides trivia about soccer, discussing such aspects of the game as its origins, the best-paid contemporary soccer player, and the strangest injuries to occur in a game.

Describes the different types of octopuses and how they search for food and defend themselves against predators.

A boy who does not want to go to bed has a series of imaginary encounters with a tiger, soldiers, the moon, and others, all of whom convince him to change his mind.

As her favorite cap blows into the sea on a windy day, a little girl imagines where it might end up.

Everybody is fighting in sixth-grader Maximilian's world as his elderly aunts battle for the Queen Bingo trophy, his masked uncles wrestle for the tag-team title of the world, and his sweetheart and the "new girl" battle for Max's heart.

The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.