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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAt the Waterworks
Joanna Cole · 39 pages
Facts, fun and wacky humor abound when Senorita Carola takes her students on a field trip to the waterworks in this Spanish language edition of The magic school bus at the waterworks.
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
Jeanette Winter · 32 pages
This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
Here Comes the Garbage Barge!
Jonah Winter
In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the east coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Frances Foster Books)
Claire A. Nivola · 32 pages
One Tiny Turtle
Nicola Davies · 32 pages
This lyrical and informative look at the elusive and endangered loggerhead turtle is sure to delight young nature lovers. Far, far out at sea lives one of the world's most mysterious creatures, the loggerhead turtle. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Until, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs—the very same beach wher
The Magic School Bus Meets The Rot Squad: A Book About Decomposition
Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen · 35 pages
In this simplified series, Ms. Frizzle and her students embark on numerous entertaining scientific journeys. The books are based on the PBS television series.
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
Chris Barton
The story of Joe and Bob Switzer who experimented with ultraviolet lights and fluorescent paints and invented a new kind of color called Day-Glo.
The Cloud Book
Tomie dePaola · 31 pages
Introduces the ten most common types of clouds, the myths that have been inspired by their shapes, and what they can tell about coming weather changes.
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse
Patricia MacLachlan · 40 pages
If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hoope
You Are Stardust
Elin Kelsey · 32 pages
Introduces readers to the extensive and surprising ways in which they are connected to the natural world around them.
Dinosaurs
Robert Sabuda, Matthew Reinhart
"From the world's preeminent paper engineers, a thrilling 3-D look at dinosaurs Open this book and a massive T. REX springs out, flashing a startling jawful of jagged teeth. Turn the next spread and a ravishing raptor unfurls and appears to fly off the edge of the page. Inside the amazing ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA: DINOSAURS are "shield bearers" in full-body armor, creatures with frilly headgear,
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
Jennifer Berne · 56 pages
The Magic School Bus Spins A Web: A Book About Spiders
Tracey West, Joanna Cole · 32 pages
The Magic School Bus Sees Stars: A Book About Stars
Joanna Cole, Nancy White, Bruce Degen, Noel MacNeal · 32 pages
A book about stars, from the animated television series on the Learning Channel.
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow
Bruce Degen · 32 pages
The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains: A Book About Food Chains
Patricia Relf, Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen · 32 pages
A class trip to the beach becomes an underwater lesson about food chains when Arnold and Keesha are challenged to discover what a tuna fish sandwich and some smelly green pond scum have in common.
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France
Mara Rockliff · 48 pages
Discover how Benjamin Franklin s scientific method challenged a certain Dr. Mesmer s mysterious powers in a whimsical look at a true moment in history. Paris had been enamored by Dr. Franz Mesmer's ability to cure ailments by staring into a person's eyes and waving a wand. However, when scientist and politician Ben Franklin came to Paris, he used the scientific method to demonstrate what was happ
The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm: A Book About Weather
Joanna Cole, Nancy White, Bruce Degen · 32 pages
One hot muggy day, a new superhero appears in Ms. Frizzle's classroom-it's Weatherman! Actually, it's only Ralphie pretending he has superpowers and can make a huge thunderstorm that would cool things off fast. The kids think Ralphie has flipped out, but Ms. Frizzle is excited about the idea of making weather. Time for a field trip in the Magic School Bus! The bus becomes a flying weather station
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Mordicai Gerstein · 40 pages
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
A Drop Of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
Walter Wick · 40 pages
Describes the origins, characteristics, and uses of water.
If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
David J. Smith · 40 pages
Compares large, complicated numerical concepts with smaller-scale facsimiles to examine such statistics as the size of the Milky Way, the history of human population, and the history of Earth.
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
Kathryn Gibbs Davis · 40 pages
Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel. Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this biography sheds light on how the American inven
Sarah Morton's Day: A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Girl
Kate Waters · 32 pages