Describes a number of inventions and medical discoveries including polymers and plastics, vaccinations and antiseptics, anaesthetics and nerve drugs, genes and DNA, CAT scanner and pacemaker, and much more.
Describes some of the high-tech inventions created since the mid-1900s including the integrated circuit and ENIAC, cell phones and personal computers, DVDs and HMD headsets, and plasma TVs.
Presents an overview of the history of inventors and their inventions, from Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci, to Alexander G. Bell and the Wright Brothers, providing brief profiles of each as well as activities to illustrate their achievements.
Presents information on various tools and inventions throughout history, including eye glasses, the catapult, parachutes, and flush toilets, with activities for children to help explain basic concepts. Includes illustrations and a glossary.
Illustrations accompany the story about a day in the life of an apatosaurus, describing what the dinosaur looked like, where it lived, what it ate, and how it protected itself against enemies.
Presents an introduction money, in simple text with illustrations, explaining its functions, and its importance, including ways it can be saved, shared, and spent.
Illustrations accompany the story about a day in the life of a woolly mammoth, describing what the dinosaur looked like, where it lived, what it ate, and how it protected itself against enemies.
Digby and his sister learn all about the life and works of thirteenth-century explorer, Marco Polo, after they discover his silk purse at an antiques market.
When ten-year-old Digby and his sister Hannah find William Shakespeare's feather quill in a stall belonging to Mr. Rummage at the local antiques market, Mr. Rummage tells the children all about the life and works of William Shakespeare. Includes sidebars with information on Elizabethan times.
