Lauber, Patricia

Text and illustrations introduce a variety of eggs and the animals that hatch out of them. Includes ostrich, python, bullfrog, and monarch butterfly eggs among others.

Explains how teeth are clues to what animals eat and how they get their food.

Uses a true-or-false format to teach children about dogs, their natural history, physical characteristics, breeds, behaviors, and relationship with humans.

Through a true-or-false format, presents statements about the history, uses, and behavior of horses and discusses them.

Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners.

Recreates life among the dinosaurs living in North America seventy-five million years ago.

An introduction to one of the curiosities of the sea--the multi-tentacled, highly intelligent octopus.

Describes the varied behaviors, physical characteristics, and abilities animals have developed to enable them to survive in the many different environments found on earth.

Tells how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how they have affected the United States throughout this century.

Describes our planet earth as a spaceship that has everything we need to survive and explains how the planet keeps producing what we need.