S?s, Peter

A little girl puts on costumes of different colors and imagines herself dancing on stage.

With the help of Eskimos, Jan Welzl survives a perilous journey from central Europe to the Arctic regions in the late 1800s.

Describes the life and work of Galileo who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

Madlenka plays soccer in her city neighborhood--with the mailbox, a dog, a parking meter, and some cats.

Looks at the early life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in simple text with illustrations. Includes biographical information.

Matt, who loves fire trucks, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a fire truck, with one driver, two ladders, three hoses, and ten boots. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.

The author relates his father's experiences while lost in Tibet during the mid-1950s.

A child who loves dragons goes to the Indonesian island of Komodo in hopes of seeing a real dragon. Includes factual information about the Komodo dragon.

Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.