Hooper, Meredith

Though everyone in Egypt claims to have built the pyramid, people from every class and profession played an important role.

Presents profiles of ten real castles, each with a cross-section illustration that reveals the interior of the building, and a description of one special day in the castle's history.

An illustrated biography of Nebamun, an official and nobleman who lived in ancient Egypt during the eighteenth dynasty, that examines various paintings from his tomb that were removed in ancient times.

When a town's cats do not find any paintings of cats in their town's art gallery, a cat named Felissima finds a way to solve the problem.

When Ben learns how to make honey cookies with his grandmother, he doesn't just find out how to bake cookies; he also discovers where all the ingredients come from and whose help he really needs.

A young boy's grandmother explains how nature provides the different ingredients they need to make some cookies. Includes recipe.

Follows an imaginary island on a journey through millions of years to introduce the science of plate tectonics.

Presents the history of thirty-three inventions such as the zipper, typewriter, and barbed wire that have had great impact on the world.

Draws upon letters and journals of the members of Robert Scott's second expedition to Antarctica to examine the story of how Scott and five other explorers survived stranded in the winter cold of the South Pole.

On their annual Dogs' Night, all the dogs depicted in an art gallery leave their paintings to play, but four of them create a sensation by going back into the wrong paintings. Includes information about the real paintings shown.