shades and shadows

Young readers will learn about shadow facts.

Introduces readers to shadows and reflections. Its vibrant, hands-on examples help explain what shadows and reflection are, how they work, and how they can be used for communication.

Conduct your own experiments to discover more about the properties of light and how it works.

"Join Bluey and her friends for a game of Shadowlands. Can they reach the cupcakes without breaking the rules?"--Provided by publisher.

"Suee and the Zero Detective Club are back and ready to unravel some mysteries! However, other than a bunch of missing cat cases, there really isn't too much to solve. . .That is, until Smartie--Suee's nemesis from her old school--goes missing, leaving only one clue: Newtown. Nemesis or not, it's up to Suee to find Smartie. But Smartie's disappearance isn't the only weird thing going on in this part of town. There's an army of workers in white uniforms installing strange devices, and all the adults have started acting bizarrely and ignoring their kids. With all these odd occurrences, it's up to the Zero Detective Club of Outskirtsville to find out what's going on!"--Back cover.

Jack has fun playing with his shadow.

Nature presents us with some awesome, powerful, earth-shaking events. Many people suffer with phobias related to Earth's wonders, such as astraphobia, which is the fear of thunder and lightning. While being scared of thunderous sounds is natural, phobias tip the scale because now your heart is pounding, your body is shaking, and you're so overwhelmed by your feelings that it is extreme or irrational. This book takes a voyage through the phobias we encounter in nature. Through vivid descriptions of what a person goes through when they fear waves, bright light, shadows, and other natural phenomena, inquisitive readers investigate how fear has evolved over time. Sidebars and vibrant photographs highlight each phobia.

Optical illusions happen when we perceive something that?s not there or that appears to differ from reality. Scientists divide them into three different categories: optical, perceptual, and cognitive. Readers will be delighted to learn how all kinds of optical illusions work and how they can amaze their friends with the experiments in this entertaining volume. They?ll learn how to make a sequence of drawings seem to come to life, how to make a drawing appear 3D, how to draw the ?impossible? Penrose triangle, and much, much more. All activities and experiments are explained step by step through comprehensible and accessible text.

"When Little Cheetah and Little Shadow decide to trade places, they get a chance to see the world through each other's eyes"--OCLC.

"Every object has a shadow. Unless, of course, it's dark. Are you good at guessing? Let's see!"--Back cover.